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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
Tadeusz Konwicki
2
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
3
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
4
Maldoror (Comte De Lautréamont)
Maldoror
Comte De Lautréamont
5
Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman, Trans. Robert Chandler)
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman, Trans. Robert Chandler
6
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
7
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
8
Islands in the Stream (Ernest Hemingway)
Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway
9
The Poetic Edda (Jeramy Dodds (Translator))
The Poetic Edda
Jeramy Dodds (Translator)
10
The Tales of Chekhov
The Tales of Chekhov
11
Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
12
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
13
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
14
The Piazza Tales (Herman Melville)
The Piazza Tales
Herman Melville
15
Martin Eden (Jack Lonon)
Martin Eden
Jack Lonon
16
Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar)
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar
17
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
18
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
19
Pylon
Pylon
20
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
Homer
21
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
Homer
22
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
23
Being and Time (Martin Heidigger)
Being and Time
Martin Heidigger
24
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allen Poe
25
Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin
Aleksandr Pushkin
26
The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe)
The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe
27
Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake
28
The Loser (George Konrad)
The Loser
George Konrad
29
The Family Moskat (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
The Family Moskat
Isaac Bashevis Singer
30
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz
31
Anti-Memoirs (André Malraux)
Anti-Memoirs
André Malraux
32
Poems of Federico García Lorca by Federico García Lorca (Federico García Lorca)
Poems of Federico García Lorca by Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
33
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Osip Mandelstam)
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
34
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
Ovid
35
The Tales of D.H. Lawrence (D.H. Lawrence)
The Tales of D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
36
Tools for Conviviality (Ivan Illich)
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
37
The Sea of Fertility Tetraology (Yukio Mishima)
The Sea of Fertility Tetraology
Yukio Mishima
38
The Natural Way to Draw (Kimon Nicolaides)
The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaides
39
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
40
The Greenlanders (Jane Smiley)
The Greenlanders
Jane Smiley
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