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Vollmann's Favourite Books

These are the favourite books of William T. Vollmann, who is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Europe Central.

Go to the source article for his more provocative comments about his list. Below are some of the milder comments:
"The beauty in these books would flourish more widely if the following social changes were made:
1. Abolish television, because it has no reverence for time.
2. Abolish the automobile, because it has no reverence for space.
3. Make citizenship contingent on literacy in every sense. Thus, politicians who do not write every word of their speeches should be thrown out of office in disgrace. Writers who require editors to make their books "good" should be depublished.
4. Teach reverence for all beauty, including that of the word."
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A Dreambook for Our Time (Tadeusz Konwicki)
A Dreambook for Our Time
1
Tadeusz Konwicki
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
2
Murasaki Shikibu
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
3
Cormac McCarthy
Maldoror (Comte De Lautréamont)
Maldoror
4
Comte De Lautréamont
Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman, Trans. Robert Chandler)
Life and Fate
5
Vasily Grossman, Trans. Robert Chandler
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
6
Leo Tolstoy
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
Snow Country
7
Yasunari Kawabata
Islands in the Stream (Ernest Hemingway)
Islands in the Stream
8
Ernest Hemingway
The Poetic Edda (Jeramy Dodds (Translator))
The Poetic Edda
9
Jeramy Dodds (Translator)
The Tales of Chekhov
The Tales of Chekhov
10
Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
11
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
12
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
Kristin Lavransdatter
13
Sigrid Undset
The Piazza Tales (Herman Melville)
The Piazza Tales
14
Herman Melville
Martin Eden (Jack Lonon)
Martin Eden
15
Jack Lonon
Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
Hopscotch
16
Julio Cortazar
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
17
Emily Dickinson
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
18
William Faulkner
Pylon
Pylon
19
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
20
Homer
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
21
Homer
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
22
Being and Time (Martin Heidigger)
Being and Time
23
Martin Heidigger
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
24
Edgar Allen Poe
Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin
25
Aleksandr Pushkin
The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe)
The Woman in the Dunes
26
Kobo Abe
Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and Experience
27
William Blake
The Loser (George Konrad)
The Loser
28
George Konrad
The Family Moskat (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
The Family Moskat
29
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
The Street of Crocodiles
30
Bruno Schulz
Anti-Memoirs (André Malraux)
Anti-Memoirs
31
André Malraux
Poems of Federico García Lorca by Federico García Lorca (Federico García Lorca)
Poems of Federico García Lorca by Federico García Lorca
32
Federico García Lorca
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Osip Mandelstam)
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
33
Osip Mandelstam
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
34
Ovid
The Tales of D.H. Lawrence (D.H. Lawrence)
The Tales of D.H. Lawrence
35
D.H. Lawrence
Tools for Conviviality (Ivan Illich)
Tools for Conviviality
36
Ivan Illich
The Sea of Fertility Tetraology (Yukio Mishima)
The Sea of Fertility Tetraology
37
Yukio Mishima
The Natural Way to Draw (Kimon Nicolaides)
The Natural Way to Draw
38
Kimon Nicolaides
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
39
The Greenlanders (Jane Smiley)
The Greenlanders
40
Jane Smiley
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