Thread by @SCyFlynn, 1. FAV BOOKS THREADI will start a periodic list of favs in [...]

1. FAV BOOKS THREAD
I will start a periodic list of favs in the major categories in my library: novels, short fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry. Novels lists are fairly common, so let& #39;s start with:
POETRY

2. No order, just as they appear on my handwritten list.
POETRY FAVS:
Beowulf
100 Poets (Japan)
Szymborska
Machado
Faerie Queene...

3. Poetry favs continued (no parricular order):
Roethke
Saba
Milton - Paradise Lost
Plath
Eliot

4. Poetry favs from my library continued:
Rumi
Heine
Lucan - Pharsalia
Camoes - Lusiads
Seferis

5. More poetry favs from the self-isolated library:
Eluard
Tasso - Gerusalemme Liberata
Ovid - Heroides
Ungaretti
Mandelstam

6. The world is melting down, so what better time to share some more favourite poetry:
Dante - Divine Comedy (ovviamente!)
Wordsworth
Byron
Wallace Stevens
Boiardo - Orlando Innamorato (ma certo!)

7. I am separated by pandemic from my library in Italy (the empty space in this old photo was filled long ago), but here are some more poetry favs contained in it:

Juvenal
Trakl
Neruda
Yeats
Donne

8. Some more fav poets that you might want to check out in this time of siege and exile:

Akhmatova
Gottfried von Strassburg - Tristan
Lucretius
Vicente Aleixandre
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival

9. More great poetry from my library for @lhommielette
and everyone:
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso
Tennyson
Cummings
Celan
MacNeice
Clare

10. Last poetry favs:
Iliad (of course)
Martial
Langston Hughes
Pulci - Morgante
Lorca
Shakespeare& #39;s sonnets (because of course)

I have almost recovered from the underwhelming response to my previous list of favourite poetry, so my next futile endeavour:
DRAMA

I read quite a lot of drama, although I know not many people do. You have to get used to it, but I really like to get the essence of a story in play form. And when the best drama economically communicates the subtext between characters, it is magical.

Favourite drama (no particular order:

Euripides - Oresteia
Sophocles - Oedipus plays
Jonson - Volpone
Osborne - Look Back in Anger (I once did the music for a production of this one, featuring future star Frances O& #39;Connor)...

Fav drama 2:

Pirandello - Six Characters
O& #39;Neill - The Iceman Cometh
Buchner - Woyzeck
Shaffer - Equus
Chekhov - Seagull
Noh dramas (too many to list)
Moliere - Misanthrope
Wilde - Earnest
Shakespeare (yeah, yeah)...

Capek - RUR
Kraus - Last Days of Mankind (long ago, when I could still read German, I was so desperate to read this that I ordered and read it in German - ALL THOUSAND PAGES OF IT. Ah, youthful madness and energy, in lockdown for years now).

Ionesco - Chairs
Dorfman - Death and Maiden
Beckett - Godot
Lorca
O& #39;Casey - Juno
Sartre - No Exit (the perfect lockdown play)
Brecht - Mother Courage
Williams - Streetcar
Strindberg - Dance of Death (saw Ian McKellen in this long ago in London)

Ibsen (saw a production directed by Ingmar Bergman in London not long before he died)
Chikamatsu
Miller - View from a Bridge
Lessing - Nathan the Wise
Bennett - Talking Heads
Yeats (his plays on Irish mythological themes are great)

Last drama favs:

Wilson - Ma Rainey
Caryl Churchill - Top Girls

That& #39;s all, folks. When I am sufficiently recovered, I will be back with another category.

Given that some kind souls were nice enough to humour me last time, I am back with a treat for the kids:
SHORT FICTION

As usual, there will be a mix of the predictable and the slightly less predictable. So get comfortable and ready to snooze...

Short fiction favs 1

Akutagawa
Andersen - Snow Queen
RL Stevenson
Hemingway (yeah, yeah)
Flaubert - Three Tales
Faulkner (more famous as a novelist, but very strong in short fiction as well)
Tolstoy (yeah, yeah)
Balzac (another famous novelist strong in short fiction)...

Fav short fiction 2

London - Klondike stories
CP Gilman
Kipling -Jungle Books
Flannery O& #39;Connor
Turgenev
Fitzgerald (I did not claim to be solely daringly original in this list)
Melville (his "Piazza Tales" must be one of the greatest collections ever)
Hardy -Wessex Tales

Fav short fiction 3 (no order here, btw - just as they appear on the list I compiled)

Maupassant
Dickens - Commercial Traveller (another novelist who wrote great short fiction)
Poe
Pu Songling- Tales from a Chinese Studio
Mansfield
Lucian

Fav short fiction 4

Bulgakov - Doctor& #39;s Notebook
Akinari - Ugetsu
Dostoevsky - Gambler
T Mann
Hawthorne
CS Lewis - Screwtape Letters
Sillitoe - Long Distance Runner
Anderson - Winesburg
Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
Wilde - Fairy Tales

Fav short fiction 5

Hugo - Condemned Man
Buchner
Chekhov (OK, OK)
Runyon - Guys and Dolls
Twain
Machiavelli - Belfagor
Leskov - Lady Macbeth

That& #39;s all, folks...

Has been precisely two months since I added to this thread, so let& #39;s go on with my 100 favourite non-fiction books (ten at a time, no particular order):

1. Augustine - Confessions
2. Goethe - Italian Journey
3. Dinesen - Out of Africa
4. Graves - Goodbye to All That
5. Douglass - Narrative
6. Stendhal - Henri Brulard
7. London - John Barleycorn
8. Thoreau - Walden
9. Asser - Alfred the Great
10. Vasari - Lives of Artists...

More non-fiction:
11. Diogenes Laertius - Philosophers.
12. Shackleton - South.
13. Xenophon - Anabasis.
14. Sturluson - Heimskringla.
15. Orwell - Catalonia.
16. Behan - Borstal Boy.
17. Darwin - Beagle.
18. Philostratus - Apollonius.
19. Gaskell -
Bronte.
20. C. Levi - Eboli.

....21. Little Flowers of St Francis.
22. Einhard - Charlemagne.
23. Suetonius - Caesars.
24. Rousseau - Solitary Walker.
25. Jung - Memories, Dreams.
26. Tibetan Book of the Dead.
27. Montaigne - Essays.
28. Didion - Bethlehem.
29. Pico - Dignity of Man.
30. Weber - Protestant

Some more non-fiction favs:
31. Henry of Huntingdon.
32. Bauman - Retrotopia.
33. Plato.
34. Arendt - Origins.
35. Tacitus - Germania.
36. Eagleton - Culture.
37. Spengler - Decline.
38. Brecht on Theatre.
39. Searle - Mind.
40. Lenin - State and Revolution.

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