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The Books in My Life. Henry Miller Makes a List of "The 100 Books That Influenced Me Most.
- 1 Ancient Greek Dramatists
- 2 Arabian Nights (for children)
- 3 Elizabethan Playwrights (excepting Shakespeare)
- 4 European Playwrights of 19th Century
- 5 Greek Myths and Legends
- 6 Knights of King Arthur's Court
- 7 Abèlard, Pierre, The Story of My Misfortunes
- 8 Alain-Fournier, The Wanderer
- 9 Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy Tales
- 10 Anonymous, Diary of a Lost One
- 11 Balzac, Honoré de, Seraphita
- 12 Balzac, Honoré de, Louis Lambert
- 13 Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward
- 14 Belloc, Hilaire, The Path to Rome
- 15 Blavatsky, Mme. H. P., The Secret Doctrine
- 16 Boccaccio, Giovanni, The Decameron
- 17 Breton, André, Nadja
- 18 Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
- 19 Bulwyer-Lytton, Edward, Last Days of Pompeii
- 20 Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
- 21 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Journey to the End of the Night
- 22 Cellini, Benvenuto, Autobiography
- 23 Cendrars, Blaise, Virtually the complete works
- 24 Chesterton, G.K., Saint Francis of Assisi
- 25 Conrad, Joseph, His works in general
- 26 Cooper James Fenimore, Leatherstocking Tales
- 27 Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
- 28 De Nerval, Gérard, His works in general
- 29 Dostoievsky, Feodor, His works in general
- 30 Dreiser, Theodore, His works in general
- 31 Duhamel, Geoges, Salavin Series
- 32 Du Maurier, George, Trilby
- 33 Dumas, Alexander, The Three Musketeers
- 34 Eckermann, Johann, Conversations with Goethe
- 35 Eltzbacher, Paul, Anarchism
- 36 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Representative Men
- 37 Fabre, Henri, His works in general
- 38 Faure, Elie, The History of Art
- 39 Fenollosa, Ernest, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
- 40 Gide, André, Dostoievski
- 41 Giono, Jean, Refus d'Obéissance
- 42 Giono, Jean, Que ma joie domeure
- 43 Giono, Jean, Jean le Bleu
- 44 Grimm Brothers, Fairy Tales
- 45 Gutkind, Erich, The Absolute Collective
- 46 Haggard, Rider, She
- 47 Hamsun, Knut, His works in general
- 48 Henty, G. A., His works in general
- 49 Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha
- 50 Hudson, W. H., His works in general
- 51 Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
- 52 Huysmans, Joris Karl, Against the Grain
- 53 Joyce, James, Ulysses
- 54 Keyserling, Hermann, South American Meditations
- 55 Kropotkin, Peter, Mutual Aid
- 56 Lao-tse, Tao Teh Ch'ing
- 57 Latzko, Andreas, Men in War
- 58 Long, Haniel, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca
- 59 M, Gospel of Ramakrishna
- 60 Machen, Arthur, The Hill of Dreams
- 61 Maeterlinck, Maurice, His works in general
- 62 Mann, Thomas, The Magic Mountain
- 63 Mencken, H. L., Prejudices
- 64 Nietzsche, His works in general
- 65 Nijinsky, Diary
- 66 Nordhoff & Hall, Pitcairn Island
- 67 Nostradamus, The Centuries
- 68 Peck, George Wilbur, Peck's Bad Boy
- 69 Percival, W. O., William Blake's Circle of Destiny
- 70 Petronius, The Satyricon
- 71 Plutarch, Lives
- 72 Powys, John Cowper, Visions and Revisions
- 73 Prescott, William H., Conquest of Mexico
- 74 Prescott, William H., Conquest of Peru
- 75 Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past
- 76 Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- 77 Rimbaud, Jean-Arthur, His works in general
- 78 Rolland, Romain, Jean-Christophe
- 79 Rolland, Romain, Prophets of the New India
- 80 Rudhyar, Dane, Astrology of Personality
- 81 Saltus, Edgar, The Imperial Purple
- 82 Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
- 83 Sienkiewicz, Henry, Quo Vadis
- 84 Sikelianos, Anghelos, Proanakrousma
- 85 Sinnett, A. P., Esoteric Buddhism
- 86 Spencer, Herbert, Autobiography
- 87 Spengler, Oswald, The Decline of the West
- 88 Strindberg, August, The Inferno
- 89 Suarès, Carlo, Krishnamurti
- 90 Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, Zen Buddhism
- 91 Swift, Jonathan, Guilliver's Travels
- 92 Tennyson, Alfred, Idylls of the King
- 93 Thoreau, Henry David, Civil Disobedience & Other Essays
- 94 Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 95 Van Gogh, Vincent, Letters to Theo
- 96 Wassermann, Jacob, The Maurizius Case (Trilogy)
- 97 Weigall, Arthur, Akhnaton
- 98 Welch, Galbraith, The Unveiling of Timbuctoo
- 99 Werfel, Franz, Star of the Unborn
- 100 Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass