Henry Miller: the 100 Books that influenced me most
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Books that influenced me the 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
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Books that influenced me the most
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
"To have undertaken the thankless task of listing all the books I can recall ever reading gives me extreme pleasure and satisfaction.
I know of no other author who has been mad enough to attempt this."
Source:
Henry Miller, 'The Books in My Life', New Directions, NY, 1969,
Appendix I: 'The Hundred Books That Influenced Me Most' (pages 317-318)
This list appeared in: 'Pour Une Bibliothèque Idéale', Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1951.



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