3 Books You Must Have In Your Library

Here are three books that I own which bear the tattered pages of numerous readings.
A yellow raft in blue water-Michael Dorris
Love Medicine-Louise Erdrich
Sun Dancer-David London

Not absolute favourites, nor in any particular order, but three very highly recommended specimens:

One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon,

Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley

A Glastonbury Romance, John Cowper Powys

Wolf Solent (much shorter and easier to handle than a G R) JCPowys

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse, and, number three

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (both trilogies) , Stephen Donaldson,

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett,

Victory, Lord Jim, Chance, or An Outcast of The Islands, Joseph Conrad.

How to lose friends and alienate people - authors too numerous to mention.

The Sunday Times (oh come on, it IS a book, each week!)

Winnie Il Poo. It took me into Latin and that is SO useful for medication and gravestones. t x

The following are my (3) three all time favorites:

(1) Pregnancy In Men…., Doctor Ruth.
(2) The Mafioso’s Bible…, Don Cordlesscellphona.
(3) UFO Abducts God…..., Bart Cropcircle.

Carpet Fitting
by Walter Wall

Continental Breakfasts
by Roland Butter
And
The Hurricane
by Rufus Blownoff

Just three, huh? Well, the first two are easy - I'll offer, without hesitation, the following:

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa (edited/translated by Richard Zenith)
The UNABRIDGED Journals of Sylvia Plath (edited by Karen Kukil)

and... I would be utterly remiss if I did not also note that the above two would be of even greater enjoyment/purpose/context/understanding if coupled with (perhaps among others as well) , the following:

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa (edited/translated by Richard Zenith)
The RESTORED edition of Sylvia Plath's Ariel (w/ foreward by Frieda Hughes)

Technically now, I suppose, I've exceeded 'three' must haves and recognizing the same, I'll stop here. Frankly, I'm happy to do so actually... deciding a third poet's work to recommend would mean having consciously decided not to mention a myriad of others and I just can't bring myself to do that.

Believing it simply impossible to ever have too many books,
Christine

1) Immortal Poems of the English Language - intro by Oscar Williams - ISBN-0-671-49610-7
2) Small Dreams of a Scorpion - Spike Milligan - 1972 - ISBN 0-7181-1049-8
3) INCITE ALOUD, INSIGHT ALLOWED - Ronberge -2008 - ISBN-978-0-9809863-0-3

; -)
Have a nice day
Amicalement vôtre
Ronberge

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft - Gothic Horror at its' finest.
True At First Light by Ernest Hemingway - A fictional memoir.
The Bachman Books - Stephen King.

I cannot limit it to three. So I have selected 12
books to have in your library. It was difficult to
limit it to these, but I thought a variety would be
best. I would narrow it much more but I thought it
best to include something for everyone.

1. Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville
2. Blood, Money, and Power by Barr McClellan
3. The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
4. Sexual Personna by Camille Paglia
5. The Secret Teachings Of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
6. Wellsprings Of Wisdom by Ralph L. Woods
7. Varieties Of Religious Experience by William James
8. Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
9. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
10. The Encyclopedia Of Witchcraft And Demonology by Russell Hope Robbins
11. Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain
12. Eighteenth Century English Drama by Joseph Wood Krutch


These ought to keep the fires of life burning.

Greenwolfe 1962

The Collected Poetry of T.S. Eliot
Sweet Thursday, by John Steinbeck
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig.

Happy motoring,
G