FAVORITE SELECTIONS FROM MY PERSONAL LIBRARY

Clifton Boudman, Belief and Desire.  (available for purchase)

William Manchester, A World Lit only by Fire.

Philip Larkin, Required Writing.

Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere.

Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.

Luis Bunuel, My Last Breath.

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities.

Thierry de Duve, Kant after Duchamp.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past.

Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building.

Salima Ikram, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt, Equipping the Dead for Eternity.

Mary Bittner Wiseman, The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes.

Gavin Menzies, 1421.

Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art.

Neal Benezera and Olga M. Viso, Regarding Beauty.

Jennifer Mundy, Surrealism, Desire Unbound.

Max Rodenbeck, Cairo.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The Deathbed Edition.

E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World.

Linda Weintraub, Art on the Edge and Over.

Robert M. Quest, Pyramid Egypt.

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams.

Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia and Vita Nuova.

Okakura Kakuro, The Book of Tea.

B.H. Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War.

Pietro C. Marani, Leonardo da Vinci.

Danny Danziger, 1215 and The Year 1000.

Alec Guinness, My Name Escapes Me.

Tom Harrison, Living Through the Blitz.

Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague.

Jonathan Raban, Bad Land, An American Romance.

Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists.

Mark Musa, The Portable Dante.

Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae.

Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods.

Cynthia Freeland, But is it Art?

Robert Fagles, The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others.

Bill Beckley, Uncontrollable Beauty and Sticky Sublime.

Simon Schama, Citizens and Rembrandt's Eyes.

H. Allen Brooks, Le Corbusier.

C. W. Ceram, Gods, Graves and Scholars.

Elias Canetti, The Human Province.

John G. Cawelti, The Six-Gun Mystique.

Andrew Harvey, Mystics.

William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain.

Iain Crichton Smith, Consider the Lilies.

Colin Wilson, Dreaming to Some Purpose.

Barry Green, The Inner Game of Music.

Norman Sherry, Graham Greene, 1, 2 and 3.

Irene annd Alan Taylor, The Assassin's Cloak.

Edwin Williamson, Borges.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince.

Jill Lloyd and Michael Peppiatt, Christian Schad.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard.

Accademia Valentino, Roma, Omaggio a Balthus.

Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street.

Barbara Rieti, Strange Terrain.

James Buchan, Crowded with Genius.

Germano Celant, Joel Peter Witkin.

Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish.

Richard Adams, Watership Down.

Steven Jay Schneider, Movies You Must See Before You Die.

Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Buiding.