Henry Miller: Books I Still Intend to Read

Henry Miller
The Books in My Life
W. W. Norton & Co., 1969, ISBN: 0811201082

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“What makes a book live? The answer, in my opinion, is simple. A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.” — Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 22

# Books I Still Intend to Read

1 Anonymous, My Secret Life

2 Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica

3 Aragon, Louis, Le Paysan de Paris

4 Bonaparte, Napoleon, Memoirs

5 Calas, Nicholas, Foyers d'Incendie

6 Casanova, Giacomo Giralamo, Memoirs

7 Chestov, Léon, Athènes et Jérusalem

8 Cleland, John, Memoirs of Fanny Hill

9 De Gourmont, Rémy, Le Latin Mystique

10 De la Bretonne, Restif, Monsieur Nicholas

11 De la Bretonne, Restif, Les Nuits de Paris

12 De Laclos, Choderlos, Dangerous Acquaintances

13 De Lafayette, Madame, The Princess of Clèves

14 De Sade, Marquis, The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom

15 Dickens, Charles, Pickwick Papers

16 Doughty, Charles, Arabia Deserta

17 Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones

18 Flaubert, Gustave, Sentimental Education

19 Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

20 Harrison, Jane, The Orphic Myths

21 Harrison, Jane, Prolegomena

22 Hugo, Victor, Toilers of the Sea

23 Huizinga, H., The Waning of the Middle Ages

24 James, Henry, The Golden Bowl

25 Maturin, Charles, Melmoth the Wanderer

26 Michelet, Jules, History of the French Revolution

27 Multatuli, Max Havelaar

28 Radcliffe, Ann Ward, The Mysteries of Udolpho

29 Rivière, Jacques & Alain-Fourniers, Correspondence

30 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, Emile

31 Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme

32 Sullivan, Louis, Autobiography of an Idea

33 Swift, Jonathan, Letters to Stella

34 Vaché, Jacques, Lettres de Guerre

And the works of the following authors: Jean-Paul Richter, Novalis, Croce,
Arnold Toynbee, Léon Bloy, A. R. Orage, Federov, Léon Daudet,
Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. F. Powys, Saint Thérèse, St. John of the Cross.
Here are a few more books and authors I intend to dwell on in the future:
Algernon Blackwood, author of The Bright Messenger, Hilaire Belloc's
The Path to Rome, Marie Corelli. And Nostradamus, Janko Lavrin,
Paul Brunton, Charles Péguy, Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous,
Fechner's Life After Death, Claude Houghton's metaphysical novels,
Cyril Connolly's Enemies of Promise, Donald Keyhoe on flying saucers
and cybernetics, and Carlo Suarès's Le Mythe Judéo-Chrétien. (p. 16)

#	Books I Still Intend to Read
1	Anonymous, My Secret Life
2	Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica
3	Aragon, Louis, Le Paysan de Paris
4	Bonaparte, Napoleon, Memoirs
5	Calas, Nicholas, Foyers d'Incendie
6	Casanova, Giacomo Giralamo, Memoirs
7	Chestov, Léon, Athènes et Jérusalem
8	Cleland, John, Memoirs of Fanny Hill
9	De Gourmont, Rémy, Le Latin Mystique
10	De la Bretonne, Restif, Monsieur Nicholas
11	De la Bretonne, Restif, Les Nuits de Paris
12	De Laclos, Choderlos, Dangerous Acquaintances
13	De Lafayette, Madame, The Princess of Clèves
14	De Sade, Marquis, The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom
15	Dickens, Charles, Pickwick Papers
16	Doughty, Charles, Arabia Deserta
17	Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones
18	Flaubert, Gustave, Sentimental Education
19	Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
20	Harrison, Jane, The Orphic Myths
21	Harrison, Jane, Prolegomena
22	Hugo, Victor, Toilers of the Sea
23	Huizinga, H., The Waning of the Middle Ages
24	James, Henry, The Golden Bowl
25	Maturin, Charles, Melmoth the Wanderer
26	Michelet, Jules, History of the French Revolution
27	Multatuli, Max Havelaar
28	Radcliffe, Ann Ward, The Mysteries of Udolpho
29	Rivière, Jacques & Alain-Fourniers, Correspondence
30	Rousseau, Jean Jacques, Emile
31	Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme
32	Sullivan, Louis, Autobiography of an Idea
33	Swift, Jonathan, Letters to Stella
34	Vaché, Jacques, Lettres de Guerre
And the works of the following authors: Jean-Paul Richter, Novalis, Croce, Arnold Toynbee, Léon Bloy, A. R. Orage, Federov, Léon Daudet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. F. Powys, Saint Thérèse, St. John of the Cross. Here are a few more books and authors I intend to dwell on in the future: Algernon Blackwood, author of The Bright Messenger, Hilaire Belloc's The Path to Rome, Marie Corelli. And Nostradamus, Janko Lavrin, Paul Brunton, Charles Péguy, Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, Fechner's Life After Death, Claude Houghton's metaphysical novels, Cyril Connolly's Enemies of Promise, Donald Keyhoe on flying saucers and cybernetics, and Carlo Suarès's Le Mythe Judéo-Chrétien. (p. 16)

Source: Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, New Directions, NY, 1969,
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