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Favorite authorsAbigail Adams, Douglas Adams, Richard Adams, Aeschylus, James Agee, Anna Akhmatova, Edward Albee, Louisa May Alcott, Sherman Alexie, Dante Alighieri, H.C. Andersen, Lou Andreas-Salome, Guillaume Apollinaire, Apuleius, Ludovico Ariosto, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Djuna Barnes, Charles Baudelaire, Peter S. Beagle, Ann Beattie, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Aphra Behn, Saul Bellow, Ambrose Bierce, Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth Bishop, Algernon Blackwood, William Blake, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Blok, Giovanni Boccaccio, Louise Bogan, Eavan Boland, Heinrich Böll, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Bowen, Ray Bradbury, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Brodsky, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Martin Buber, Anthony Burgess, Octavia E. Butler, Samuel Butler, A. S. Byatt, Lord Byron, Italo Calvino, Thomas Campion, Albert Camus, Thomas Carew, Emily Carr, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Joyce Cary, Willa Cather, Catullus, Constantine Cavafy, Paul Celan, Raymond Chandler, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Colette, Wilkie Collins, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Cyril Connolly, Noël Coward, Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Robertson Davies, Pamela Dean, E. M. Delafield, Samuel R. Delany, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Philip K. Dick, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Karen Blixen, Thomas M. Disch, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Frederick Douglass, John Dowland, Margaret Drabble, John Dryden, Andre Dubus, Marguerite Duras, Gerald Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Bob Dylan, Umberto Eco, E.R. Eddison, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Harlan Ellison, Euclid, Euripides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Louise Fitzhugh, Janet Flanner, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Janet Frame, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, John Gardner, Théophile Gautier, John Gay, Martha Gellhorn, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Louise Glück, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Edward Gorey, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Harry Harrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.D., Anthony Hecht, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Heraclitus, George Herbert, George Herriman, Hesiod, Patricia Highsmith, Russell Hoban, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Horace, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Eugène Ionesco, Laura Riding, Shirley Jackson, Alice James, Henry James, P. D. James, William James, Randall Jarrell, Diana Wynne Jones, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, Carl Jung, Juvenal, Pauline Kael, Franz Kafka, Anna Kavan, John Keats, Carolyn Keene, Jane Kenyon, Jack Kerouac, Imre Kertész, Søren Kierkegaard, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Lamott, Andrew Lang, Ring Lardner, Philip Larkin, Margaret Laurence, D. H. Lawrence, Hermione Lee, Rosamond Lehmann, Fritz Leiber, Madeleine L'Engle, John Lennon, Doris Lessing, Denise Levertov, Primo Levi, C. S. Lewis, M. G. Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Mario Vargas Llosa, David Lodge, Jack London, Federico García Lorca, Audre Lorde, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Mina Loy, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Nancy Mairs, Sir Thomas Malory, Osip Mandelštam, Olivia Manning, Katherine Mansfield, Beryl Markham, Christopher Marlowe, Gabriel García Márquez, Martial, Andrew Marvell, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Robin McKinley, Thomas Merton, W. S. Merwin, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Middleton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Miller, Kate Millett, Czesław Miłosz, John Milton, N. Scott Momaday, Michel de Montaigne, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Moore, Jim Morrison, Toni Morrison, William Morris, Walter Mosley, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Iris Murdoch, Thomas Nashe, Pablo Neruda, Isaac Newton, John Nichols, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anaïs Nin, Julian of Norwich, Flannery O'Connor, Sharon Olds, Tillie Olsen, Eugene O'Neill, Oliver Onions, George Orwell, Ovid, Wilfred Owen, Orhan Pamuk, Breece D'J Pancake, Dorothy Parker, Blaise Pascal, Cesare Pavese, Thomas Love Peacock, Mervyn Peake, Michael Pennington, S. J. Perlman, Fernando Pessoa, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Christine de Pizan, Sylvia Plath, Plato, Alexander Pope, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Manuel Puig, Lexandr Sergejevič Puškin, Barbara Pym, Thomas De Quincey, Lou Reed, Mary Renault, Jean Rhys, Adrienne Rich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Theodore Roethke, Christina Rossetti, Tadeusz Różewicz, Joanna Russ, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Saki, J.D. Salinger, Georges Sand, Sappho, May Sarton, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy L. Sayers, Friedrich Schiller, Paul Scott, Sei Shonagon, Vikram Seth, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Murasaki Shikibu, Sir Philip Sidney, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Smart, Clark Ashton Smith, Patti Smith, Stevie Smith, Tobias Smollett, Aleksandr Soljenitsin, Susan Sontag, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Edmund Spenser, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Steinbeck, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wallace Stevens, Bram Stoker, Tom Stoppard, Mark Strand, August Strindberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, J. M. Synge, Wislawa Szymborska, Cornelius Tacitus, Rabindranath Tagore, Elizabeth Tallent, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dylan Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Thucydides, James Thurber, Judith Thurman, James Tiptree, Jr., J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Laozi, Lope de Vega, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, Virgil, Derek Walcott, David Foster Wallace, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Evelyn Waugh, John Webster, H. G. Wells, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, E. B. White, T. H. White, Elie Wiesel, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Connie Willis, Jeanette Winterson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gene Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wyatt, Elinor Wylie, W. B. Yeats, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAbraxus Books, Arundel Books, Bailey-Coy Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Downtown Seattle, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - University Village, Birdsong Used Books, Borders - Seattle, Collected Works Bookstore, Couth Buzard, Dumont Maps and Books of the West, Elliott Bay Bookstore, Flora and Fauna Books, Half Price Books - Capitol Hill, Half Price Books - University District, Horizon Books, Left Bank Books, Library Cafe, Magus Books (Seattle), Nicholas Potter, Bookseller, Prairie Lights Books, Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Secret Garden Books, Spine and Crown Books, St. John's College - Santa Fe Bookstore, St. John's College Bookstore, The Bookcase, The Cathedral Shop at St. Mark's, The Twelve Step Shop, Twice Sold Tales (Capitol Hill), Twice Sold Tales (University District), University Book Store, University Bookstore, Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers

Favorite librariesMain Library, Meem Library, Seattle Public Library (Capitol Hill Branch), Seattle Public Library (Green Lake Branch), Seattle Public Library (Greenwood Branch), St. John's College - Greenfield Library, The Seattle Public Library, Central Library, University of Washington - Suzzallo Library

Other favoritesFrye Art Museum, Richard Hugo House

About me"....one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or something -- because few of the English ones have the exact feeling I mean. And you read one page of it or even one phrase of it, and then you gobble up all the rest and go about in a dream for weeks afterwards, for months afterwards -- perhaps all your life, who knows? -- surrounded by those six hundred and fifty pages, the houses, the streets, the snow, the river, the roses, the girls, the sun, the ladies' dresses and the gentlemen's voices, the old, wicked, hard-hearted women and the old, sad women, the waltz music -- everything. What is not there you put in afterwards, for it is alive, this book, and it grows in your head. 'The house I was living in when I read that book,' you think, or 'This colour reminds me of that book.'"

-- Jean Rhys, "Til September Petronella"

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