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The English Teacher's Bookshelves Part 5 - Favorite Writers

This installment : 250 books sitting in my home library, all by authors I return to again and again. I'm proud of the fact that so many of them are not part of the teacher's canon; I've been at war with that particular academic snobbery my entire career. I've also tried not to duplicate books that have appeared on my other lists; hence James Ellroy and Robert Heinlein, as much as I admire their work, do not appear here. The same holds true for a lot of works by John Brunner and Joe Haldeman, who are also well represented on my other lists. Those duplications that do appear are often the result of my having different editions in different places. Sometimes, the obsession gets the better of me.
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The Prodigal Spy
Judgment on Deltchev (Eric Ambler)
The Squares of the City (John Brunner)
The Light of Day (Eric Ambler)
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imagina...
B Is for Beer (Tom Robbins)
Muddle Earth (John Brunner)
The Productions of Time (John Brunner)
State of Siege (Ambler)
Skipped Parts (Sandlin)
Phantom of the Open Hearth (Shepherd)
Stardust (Joseph Kanon)
Sorrow Floats (Sandlin)
The Whole Man (John Brunner)
Wild Ducks Flying Backwards (Tom Robbins)
The Collected Stories (Bõll)
Sex and Sunsets (Sandlin)
Lydia (Sandlin)
The Key to the Name of the Rose (Haft)
Postscript to the Name of the Rose (Eco)
Brothers in Arms (Kirst)
No Fatherland (Kirst)
Last Stop Camp 7 (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
The Shift Key (Brunner)
Summer Sketches (Simmons)
Work Done for Hire (Haldeman)
Quicksand (John Brunner)
Children of the Thunder (John Brunner)
Distrust That Particular Flavor (William Gibson)
Give Warning to the World (Brunner)
The Officer Factory (Kirst)
The Return of Gunner Asch (Kirst)
Forward, Gunner Asch (Kirst)
The Wolves (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
Party Games (Kirst)
Damned to Success (Kirst)
A Time for Truth (Kirst)
Everything Has Its Price (Kirst)
The Nights of the Long Knives (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
Social Blunders (Tim Sandlin)
Excelsior, You Fatheads (Bergmann)
November 1916 (Solzhenitsyn)
The Revolt of Gunner Asch (Kirst)
The Ferrari in the Bedroom (Shepherd)
A Fistful of Fig Newtons (Shepherd)
What Became of Gunner Asch (Kirst)
March 1917 (Solzenhitsyn)
Hard Freeze (Simmons)
The Stone That Never Came Down (Brunner)
Last Exit to Babylon (Roger Zelazny)
This Mortal Mountain (Roger Zelazny)
Power and Light (Roger Zelazny)
The Foreign Correspondent (Furst)
Dark Voyage (Furst)
Kingdom of Shadows (Furst)
Red Gold (Furst)
Typhoon and Other Stories (Signet)
Phases of Gravity (Simmons)
The Knowledge Web (James Burke)
Twin Tracks (James Burke)
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (James R...
Defectors (Joseph Kanon)
The Pinball Effect (James Burke)
Circles (James Burke)
American Connections (Burke)
A Soldier's Legacy (Bõll)
The Train Was on Time (Bõll)
Villa Incognito (Tom Robbins)
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Tom Robbins)
The Hero of France (Alan Furst)
Hardcase (Dan Simmons)
Prayers to Broken Stones (Dan Simmons)
The Island of the Day Before (Umberto Eco)
The World at Night (Alan Furst)
Darwin's Blade (Simmons)
One Last Thing Before I Go (Tropper)
Leaving Berlin (Joseph Kanon)
The Good German (Joseph Kanon)
Midnight in Europe (Furst)
By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Fo...
Threshold (Roger Zelazny)
The Road to Amber (Roger Zelazny)
Nine Black Doves (Roger Zelazny)
The Polish Officer (Furst)
The Coming (Joe Haldeman)
Background to Danger (Eric Ambler)
Noir (Matheson)
Seven Steps to Midnight (Matheson)
The Schirmer Inheritance (Eric Ambler)
The Shockwave Rider
How to Talk to a Widower
Plan B
Everything Changes
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
The Griff
The Prague Cemetery
Bid Time Return
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco)
Cause for Alarm
Night Soldiers
Epitaph for a Spy
Book of Joe
Jack of Shadows (Roger Zelazny)
Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
The Beardless Warriors (Richard Matheson)
Dark Star (Alan Furst)
Earthbound (Matheson)
Collected Stories (Matheson)
Paingod and Other Delusions (Ellison)
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (Jean S...
Los Alamos (Joseph Kanon)
The Fifth Heart (Dan Simmons)
The Crook Factory (Simmons)
Blood of Victory (Alan Furst)
Mission to Paris (Alan Furst)
Black Hills (Dan Simmons)
The Peripheral (William Gibson)
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
Connections (Burke)
The Day the Universe Changed (Burke)
Soldiers' Revolt (Kirst)
The Spies of the Balkans (Furst)
Now You See It... (Richard Matheson)
Duel (Richard Mathison)
The Hollow Man (Simmons)
The Abominable (Simmons)
Hunted Past Reason (Richard Matheson)
The Night of the Generals (Kirst)
Istanbul Passage (Joseph Kanon)
Fires of Eden (Simmons)
Lovedeath (Simmons)
Prince of Chaos (Roger Zelazny)
Blood of Amber (Roger Zelazny)
Angry Candy (Harlan Ellison)
Sign of Chaos (Roger Zelazny)
Forever Peace (Joe Haldeman)
Zero History (William Gibson)
Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
Trumps of Doom (Roger Zelazny)
Skinny Legs and All (Tom Robbins)
Strange Wine (Harlan Ellison)
The Shrinking Man (Richard Matheson)
Knight of Shadows (Roger Zelazny)
Other Kingdoms (Richard Matheson)
Flashback (Dan Simmons)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Spook Country
Nightmare at 20000 Feet
Virtual Light
Journey Into Fear
Another Roadside Attraction
All Tomorrow's Parties
A Winter Haunting (Dan Simmons)
The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective ...
Count Zero (William Gibson)
Noir (Christopher Moore)
A Stir of Echoes (Richard Matheson)
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn)
In the First Circle (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Made in America (Bill Bryson)
The Grove Centenary Editions of Samuel Beckett ...
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
Drood (Simmons)
Baudolino (Umberto Eco)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson)
Children of the Night
Deathbird Stories
Shatterday
This Is Where I Leave You
Idoru
What Dreams May Come
Sign of the Unicorn (Roger Zelazny)
The Courts of Chaos (Roger Zelazny)
Song of Kali
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (Jean Shep...
Summer of Night (Dan Simmons)
Passages (Willis)
Blackout (Connie Willis)
Nostromo (Signet)
All Clear (Connie Willis)
Coyote Blue (Christopher Moore)
Secondhand Souls (Christopher Moore)
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the...
Carrion Comfort
A Night in the Lonesome October
The Hand of Oberon (Roger Zelazny)
The Guns of Avalon (Roger Zelazny)
Still Life With Woodpecker
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Islands in the Stream (Ernest Hemingway)
Neither Here nor There (Bryson)
Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
Bellwether (Connie Willis)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (Bryson)
Cancer Ward (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Eric Ambler)
Fluke (Christopher Moore)
The Road to Little Dribbling (Bill Bryson)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, by Harlan El...
Sacre Bleu
Jitterbug Perfume
The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Christopher...
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Bill...
The Terror
Fool
In a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson)
The Fall of Hyperion
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Bloodsucking Fiends
Bite Me
You Suck
Nine Princes in Amber
The Lost Continent (Bryson)
The Serpent of Venice (Christopher Moore)
The Stupidest Angel (Christopher Moore)
Lord Jim (Signet)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
Practical Demonkeeping (Christopher Moore)
A Dirty Job (Christopher Moore)
The Mother Tongue
Hell House
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Doomsday Book (Willis)
Hyperion
Lamb (Christopher Moore)
Bag of Bones (Stephen King)
A Walk in the Woods
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
Danse Macabre
On Writing
A Moveable Feast (Hemingway)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Notes From a Small Island (Bryson)
The Snows of Killamanjaro and Other Stories (He...
Dubliners
I Am Legend
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksan...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
Heart of Darkness (Signet)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Hardcover)
The Shining (Stephen King)
The Name of the Rose (Eco)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
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