What's on my shelf, close at hand

What can you tell from a writer's nearest book shelf; I mean, what's closest at hand?

Besides the dictionary and thesaurus, I have, in order:

-The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
-The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran)
-The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
-Al-Quaran (Ali)
-Holy Bible (NIV)
-The Poems of Dylan Thomas
-There are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes (my own, yes)
-Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
-The Complete Book of Bible Knowledge
-The Road by Cormac McCarthy
-Lie Down in Darkness by Styron
-On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
-The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
-Selected Writings, Hazlitt
-Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein
-Nobel Lecture, Solzhentsyn
-Revising Fiction by Madden
-Lolita by Nabokov
-The Craft of Writing by Sloane
-Kierkegaard, A Very Short Introduction
-Schopenhauer, A Very Short Introduction
-The Naked and the Dead, Mailer
-The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
-Poetry and Prose, Gerard Manley Hopkins
-The Tao of Pooh, Hoff
-Naked Lunch, Burroughs
-Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
-The Best American Poetry, 2007
-Blood Meridian, McCarthy
-The House of Breath, Goyen
-White Noise, DeLillo
-Aspects of the Novel, Forster
-The Corrections, Franzen

What's in your wallet?
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Published on November 01, 2012 16:27
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message 1: by Paddy (new)

Paddy O'callaghan Awesome selection.

You need to invest in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations though.


message 2: by Robert (new)

Robert Jacoby Of course!


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