Alberto Manguel’s Reading List
Blue = Read (110)
- Aeschylus – The Orestaeia
- Akhmatova, Anna – The Complete Poems
- Albee, Edward – A Delicate Balance
- Andalusian Poems (Middleton & Garza-Falcon, eds.)
- Arciniegas, Germán – Biography of the Caribbean
- Ariès, Philippe – The Hour of Our Death
- Asimov, Isaac – I, Robot
- Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Aubrey, John – Brief Lives
- Auden, W. H. – Collected Poems
- Augustine, The Confessions
- Barker, Pat – The Regeneration Trilogy
- Baum, L. Frank – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Beckett, Samuel, Happy Days
- Beckford, William – Vathek
- Biedma, Jaime Gil de – Longing: Selected Poems
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo – The Dream of Heroes
- Blake,Nicholas – The Beast Must Die
- Blake, William – The Complete Poems
- Bonnefoy, Yves – New and Selected Poems
- Borges, Jorge – Fictions
- Bouvier, Nicholas – The Scorpion-Fish
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles
- Breton, Andre – Nadja
- Brown, Sir Thomas – Urn Burial
- Buchan, James – Frozen Desire: The History of Money
- Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
- Bunyan, John – Pilgrim’s Progress
- Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, William – Naked Lunch
- Byron, George Gordon – Don Juan
- Byron, Robert – The Road to Oxiana
- Calasso, Roberto – The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
- Calvino, Italo – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
- Camus, Albert – The Outsider
- Carpentier, Alejo – Kingdom of This World
- Carr, J. L. – A Month in the Country
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland & Throught the Looking-Glass
- Carson, Anne – The Beauty of the Husband
- Cary, Joyce – The Horse’s Mouth
- Catullus – The Complete Poems
- Celan, Paul – Selected Poems and Prose
- Celine, Louis Ferdinand – Voyage to the End of the Night
- Cercas, Javier – Soldiers of Solamis
- Cernuda, Luis – Selected Poems
- Cervantes, Miguel de – Don Quixote
- Chateaubriand, François René de – Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
- Chesterton, G. K. – The Man Who Was Thursday
- Collodi, Carlo – The Adventures of Pinocchio
- Conrad, Joseph – Victory
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Denevi, Marco – Rose at Ten
- Dickens, Charles – Our Mutual Friend
- Dickson Carr, John – The Black Spectacles
- Diderot, Denis – Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
- Dinesen, Isak – Seven Gothic Tales
- Döblin, Alfred – Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Donne, John – The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Eliot, T. S. – Four Quartets
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays
- Fanon, Franz – The Wretched of the Earth
- Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
- Findley, Timothy – The Wars
- Fitzgerald, Penelope – The Blue Flower
- Flaubert, Gustave – Bouvard an Pécuchet
- Ford, Richard – Wildlife
- Forster, E. M. – A Passage to India
- Fuentes, Carlos – The Death of Artemio Cruz
- Gallant, Mavis – From the Fourteenth District
- García Lorca, Federico – Poet in New York
- García Lorca, Federico – The House of Bernarda Alba
- Garner, Alan – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Genet, Jean – Our Lady of the Flowers
- Gibbon, Edward – The History of the Decline an Fall of the Roman Empire
- Gibson, William – Necromancer
- Goethe, J. W. von – Faust
- Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
- Gombrowicz, Witold – Ferdydurke
- Gosse, Edmund – Father and Son
- Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
- Greene, Graham – The Power and the Glory
- Grimm, Wilhelm and Jakob – Household Tales
- Hawkes, john – Second Skin
- Hedayat, Sadegh – The Blind Owl
- Heine, Heinrich – Germany, A Fairy Tale
- Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and the Sea
- Hernández, Miguel – Selected Poems
- Hersey, John – Hiroshima
- Hsueh-Chin, Tsao – The Dream of the Red Chamber
- Huggan, Isabel – The Elizabethan Stories
- Hughes, Robert – A High Wind in Jamaica
- Ibn Hazm – The Ring of the Dove
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
- Joyce, James – Ulysses
- Kadare, Ismail – The File on H.
- Kafka, Franz – the Trial
- Kawabata, Yunishiro – The House of Sleeping Beauties
- Kinglake, A. W. – Eothen
- Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
- Labé, Louise – Complete Poetry and Prose
- Lagerkvist, Pár – The Dwarf
- Lampedusa, Giuseppe di, The Leopard
- Larkin, Philip – Collected Poems
- Las Casas, Bartolomé de – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Lawrence, D. H. – Women In Love
- Lazarillo of Tormes
- Le Carré, John – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Le Guinn, Ursula K. – The Word for World Is Forest
- Lear, Edward – The Complete Nonsense Book
- Lem, Stanislaw – Solaris
- Lessing, Doris – Briefing for a Descent into Hell
- Levi, Primo – The Periodic Table
- Lopez, Barry – Arctic Dreams
- Maalouf, Amin – The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
- Machado de Assis, J. M. – Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
- Magris, Claudio – The Danube
- Malouf, David – An Imaginary Life
- Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
- Marai, Sandor – Embers
- Matthiessen, Peter – The Snow Leopard
- Maugham, Somerset – Cakes and Ale
- McEwan, Ian – Enduring Love
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick
- Menocal, Maria Rosa – The Ornaments of the World
- Miles, Rosalind – The Woman’s History of the World
- Mishima, Yukio – The Sea of Fertility
- Mistry, Rohinton – A Fine Balance
- Montaigne, Michel de – The Essays
- Moore, Brian – Cold Heaven
- Morris, Jan – Venice
- Munro, Alice – The Progress of Love
- Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale Fire
- Nooteboom, Cees – In the Mountains of the Netherlands
- Novalis – Fragments
- Nuwas, Abu – Diwan al gazal: Love Poems
- O’Brien, Flann – The Third Policeman
- O’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Orwell, George – 1984
- Orwell, George – Down and Out in Paris and London
- Outram, Richard – Selected Poems, 1960-1980
- Ovid – Metamorphoses
- Oz, Amos – A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Ozick, Cynthia – The Messiah of Stockholm
- Pavese, Cesare – Disaffection: Complete Poems
- Pessoa, Fernando – The Book of Disquiet
- Petronius – Satyricon
- Pirenne, Henri – Medieval Cities
- Plato – Timaeus
- Pliny the Younger – Letters
- Plutarch – Parallel Lives
- Pogue Harrison, Robert – The Dominion of the Dead
- Pound, Ezra – The Cantos
- Powys, T. F. – Mr. Weston’s Good Wine
- Prescott, Willian H. – History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru
- Proust, Marcel – In Search of Lost Time
- Purdy, James – The Nephew
- Quevedo, Francisco de – Selected Poetry
- Racine, Jean – Phèdre
- Rankin, Nicholas – Dead Man’s Chest
- Read, Herbert – The Green Child
- Rendell, Ruth – A Judgement in Stone
- Richler, Mordecai – Barney’s Version
- Rilke, Rainer Maria – The Selected Poetry of
- Rimbaud, Arthur – Complete Works
- Rolfe, Frederick – Hadrian the Seventh
- Roth, Joseph – The Radetzky March
- Rulfo, Juan – Pedro Páramo
- Saki – Short Stories
- Salinger, J. D. – the Catcher in the Rye
- Saroyan, William – The Human Comedy
- Schama, Simon – Citizens
- Schulz, Bruno – Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass
- Schwob, Marcel – Imaginary Lives
- Sebald, W. G. – Austerlitz
- Shakespeare, William – King Lear
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
- Simenon, Georges – The Wedding of Monsieur Hire
- Skvorechy, Josef – The Engineer of Human Souls
- Sophocles – Antigone
- Spark, Muriel – Momento Mori
- St. John of the Cross – Collected Works of
- Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
- Steiner, George – After Babel
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stone, I. F. – the Trial of Socrates
- Stoppard, Tom – The Invention of Love
- Sturgeon, Theodore – More Than Human
- Svevo, Italo – The Conscience of Zeno
- Szabo, Magda – Katarina Street
- Tabucchi, Antonio – Declares Pereira
- Thomas, Dylan – The Poems of
- Thoreau, Henry David – walden
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Toibin, Colm – The Master
- Tranströmer, Tomas – New Collected Poems
- Trevor, William – Collected Stories
- Tuchman, Barbara – A Distant Mirror
- Tunstrom, Goran – The Christmas Oratorio
- Tutuola, Amos – The Palm-Wine Drinkard
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Vargas Llosa, Mario – The Time of the Hero
- Verlaine, Paul – One Hundred and One Poems
- Verne, Jules – Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Warner, Marina – Alone for All Her Sex
- Wells, H. G. – The Island of Dr. Moreau
- White, Patrick – Voss
- Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
- Wilbur, Richard – Collected Poems
- Wilde, Oscar – The Happy Prince and Other Stories
- Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Ernest
- Williams, Tennessee – Suddenly, Last Summer
- Yourcenar, Marguerite – Memoirs of Hadrian
- Zola, Émile – L’Assomoir
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