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BEAUTY AND TERROR
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ABOUT THE BLOGGER
Brian A. Oard, a long time ago
Brian A. Oard today
Sacred Space: The round Reading Room at the British Museum
The old library at Trinity College, Dublin
ABOUT THE TITLE
MY TOP SHELF: BEST OF THE BEST NOVELS
- ULYSSES by James Joyce
- THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
- TRISTRAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne
- THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov
- ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
- IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust
- ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
- WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
- SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION by Gustave Flaubert
- NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
- BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
- THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera
- THE GHOST WRITER by Philip Roth
- AUSTERLITZ by W. G. Sebald
- THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
- AGAINST THE DAY by Thomas Pynchon
SOME GREAT BOOKS MOST PEOPLE HAVEN'T READ
- A COOL MILLION by Nathanael West
- AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- CAMERA LUCIDA by Roland Barthes
- CENTURY OF THE WIND by Eduardo Galeano
- DOWNRIVER by Iain Sinclair
- HUNGER by Knut Hamsun
- INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino
- JACQUES THE FATALIST by Denis Diderot
- L'ASSOMMOIR by Emile Zola
- MAN IN THE HOLOCENE by Max Frisch
- ON THE YARD by Malcolm Braly
- POEMS OF PAUL CELAN (trans. by Michael Hamburger)
- PUDD'NHEAD WILSON by Mark Twain
- SELECTED ESSAYS by John Berger
- THE ASPERN PAPERS by Henry James
- THE ATLAS by William T. Vollmann
- THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY by Edmund White
- THE LOSER by Thomas Bernhard
FAVORITE POETS
- Ovid
- Dante
- Shakespeare
- John Donne
- John Milton
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Baudelaire
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- W. B. Yeats
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- T. S. Eliot
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- William Carlos Williams
- Hart Crane
- Wallace Stevens
- W. H. Auden
- Dylan Thomas
- Allen Ginsberg
- Philip Larkin
- Robert Lowell
- Anne Sexton
- Pablo Neruda
- Paul Celan
- Seamus Heaney
- John Ashbery
SOME FAVORITE NONFICTION BOOKS
- A HISTORY OF NARRATIVE FILM by David A. Cook
- A LIFE OF PICASSO by John Richardson
- A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn
- AGAINST INTERPRETATION by Susan Sontag
- BASIC WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM by Edward Said
- DISPATCHES by Michael Herr
- EXISTENTIALISM FROM DOSTOYEVSKY TO SARTRE edited by Walter Kaufmann
- FICTION AND THE FIGURES OF LIFE by William H. Gass
- FOOTSTEPS: ADVENTURES OF A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHER by Richard Holmes
- IMPRESSIONISM: ART, LEISURE AND PARISIAN SOCIETY by Robert L. Herbert
- INWARDNESS AND EXISTENCE by Walter A. Davis
- LIGHTS OUT FOR THE TERRITORY by Iain Sinclair
- MANUFACTURING CONSENT by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
- OUT OF SHEER RAGE: WRESTLING WITH D.H. LAWRENCE by Geoff Dyer
- POSTWAR: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945 by Tony Judt
- REMBRANDT'S EYES by Simon Schama
- SEXUAL PERSONAE by Camille Paglia
- STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE by D.H. Lawrence
- THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE by Harold Bloom
- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE by Edward Gibbon
- THE GAY SCIENCE by Friedrich Nietzsche
- THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins
- THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussell
- THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS by Sigmund Freud
- THE RENAISSANCE by Walter Pater
- THE SHOCK DOCTRINE by Naomi Klein
- THE SHOCK OF THE NEW by Robert Hughes
- THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
- UNITED STATES: ESSAYS 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
- VOLTAIRE'S BASTARDS by John Ralston Saul
Recommended Sites (alphabetical)
- Archer's Books
- Arts Journal
- Bookworm - KCRW
- Guardian (UK) books page
- London Review of Books
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- New York Times Sunday Book Review
- Roger Ebert's website and blog
- Tate Museums website
- The Louvre
- The Nation
- The National Gallery, London
- The New York Review of Books
- The Paris Review
- Times Literary Supplement
- Vertigo: Collecting and Reading W.G. Sebald
- Walter A. Davis website
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