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In particular, I thank David R. Godine and I’m more grateful than I can say for the dedica- A Miscellany of Lists Herman Graf, titans of the trade, for the years tion she brought to the task. And that a manu- of kinship we’ve shared. Two other giants in my script of nearly half-a-million words has been book, J. P. Leventhal and Paul Feldstein (now turned into a book of such graphic delight and Read in a Sitting • The Tale of Genji, Lady • A Bullet in the Ballet, Caryl my agent), have been the best of friends both visual allure is due to the consummate gifts and • Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Murasaki Shikibu[JT1], Brahms and S. J. Simon, personally and professionally. extraordinary devotion of Janet Vicario: Thank Ilene Beckerman, page62 page 575 page 92 Which brings me to Workman, publishers you, thank you, thank you. • On Growth and Form, • A Walk in the Woods, of the book you are holding. I am grateful to the Carolan and Peter Workman have been • The Uncommon Reader, D. W. Thompson, page 782 Bill Bryson, page 104 entire Workman team for its patience through stalwart friends to the Mustich family for many Alan Bennett, page 67 the many years of composition, and their pro- years. My appreciation for their generosity • Memorial, Ferdinando Camon, • War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, • The Decline and Fall of Practically fessionalism in this last one, as the enormous and warmth extends far beyond the margins page 120 page 797 Everybody, Will Cuppy, page 190 manuscript made its way to press. Pride of of these pages or the dimensions of this proj- • A Month in the Country, • Kristin Lavransdatter, place goes to my editor, Margot Herrera, whose ect. I am glad Carolan can celebrate the occa- J. L. Carr, page 132 Sigrid Undset, page 817 • Cold Comfort Farm, forbearance through nearly a decade and a half sion of its completion with us, and I am deeply Stella Gibbons, page 313 • The Chemical History of a • Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, has been appreciated, as has her line-by-line sorry Peter has not lived to see 1,000 Books make Candle, Michael Faraday, Rebecca West, page 843 • Life Among the Savages, persistence in untangling convoluted think- its way into the world: Like the books he pub- page 264 Shirley Jackson, page 404 ing and knotty expression; equally persistent lished with such success, Peter was innovative, 12 Books to Read Before the lives and times of archy has been her unfailing good cheer in the face quirky, one-of-a-kind. His approach to books • The Little Virtues, Natalia • You’re 12 and mehitabel, Don Marquis, of authorial crankiness. I’m especially pleased I was the epitome of a passion that many of us Ginzburg, page 316 • Skellig, David Almond, page 16 page 526 got to work with Alison Humes—called in from share. He took pleasure in the traffic in books • The Third Man, Graham the bullpen like an editorial Mariano Rivera to and everything that fueled it: from an idea and Greene, page 335 • Tuck Everlasting, • At Swim-Two-Birds, Natalie Babbitt, page 37 Flann O’Brien, page 595 safeguard the game—whose acuity was bracing, the author who could deliver it through the • The All of It, Jeannette Haien, fortifying every passage she touched. Laurel design and art direction, from controlling the page 344 • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, • The Portable Dorothy Parker, Robinson provided precise and perspicacious costs of paper, printing, and binding to setting L. Frank Baum, page 56 page 615 • 84, Charing Cross Road, copy editing. the press runs, from the in-house sales con- Helene Hanff, page 350 • Matilda, Roald Dahl, page 193 • The Bogey Man, Publisher and editorial director Susan ferences with his merry band of reps to sales George Plimpton, page 629 Bolotin should run for office; the republic calls on key accounts. There is no part of the • Ill Met by Moonlight, W. Stanley • Harriet the Spy, Louise could use her good sense, sagacity, and prag- whole complicated equation that Peter did not Moss, page 570 Fitzhugh, page 280 • Pigs Have Wings, P. G. Wodehouse, page 864 matic effectiveness. I’d vote for her for any- embrace with energy, expertise, and exuber- • Within the Context of No Context, • The Wind in the Willows, thing. Dan Reynolds, Page Edmunds, David ance. His inspiration was endless, and relent- George W. S. Trow, page 807 Kenneth Grahame, page 328 Cities in Fact and Fiction Schiller, and James Wehrle have been ardent : It let no detail go by. You could almost call • , Voltaire, page 824 • The Mouse and His Child, and creative supporters of this project; I am his method an ethic, one built on the collabora- Russell Hoban, page 378 • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, glad to have the benefit of their care, skill, and tion of good people, smart products, and, not page 120 A Long Climb, • From the Mixed-Up Files o ingenuity—likewise Lathea Williams and Moira least, a pride in commerce. But What a View f Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, • The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, Kerrigan. Quite simply, Peter knew better than any E. L. Konigsburg, page 452 Thad Carhart, page 128 Production of a book of this length and other publisher I’ve ever met how to make a • The Civil War, Shelby Foote, • The Power Broker, complexity is an enormous project, which book take on a life of its own—thereby enrich- page 286 • Anne of Green Gables, Robert A. Caro, page 130 Kim Daly has managed with grit and grace. ing the lives of everyone who touched it along • Les Misérables, Victor Hugo, L. M. Montgomery, page 564 Doug Wolff has adeptly arranged every ele- the way to the reader. He delighted in his page 394 • Abel’s Island, William Steig, • Rome and a Villa, Eleanor Clark, page 160 ment of the book’s manufacture, while Aaron books, and sharing that delight—whether it was • Zibaldone, Giacomo Leopardi, page 750 Clendening artfully researched and—abetted in Oh, Yuck! or The French Laundry Cookbook—was page 475 • The Great Good Thing, • Bleak House, Charles Dickens, by an expert photo department—summoned for him the ultimate joy of the work. No one page 220 • The Golden Notebook, Roderick Townley, page 802 hundreds of images across time, space, and ever walked out of Peter’s office without being Doris Lessing, page 477 • Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White, • The Death and Life of Great style to enliven our pages. Most especially: No handed a book to take home, and I regret that I American Cities, Jane Jacobs, • The Magic Mountain, page 845 project was ever better served by a typesetter can only imagine, but not witness, the joy with page 405 than this one has been by Barbara Peragine; which he would have passed along this one. Thomas Mann, page 521 LOL • Ulysses, James Joyce, page 422 • The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, page 578 • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the • Venice for Pleasure, J. G. Links, Galaxy, Douglas Adams, page 6 page 492 • In Search of Time, Marcel Proust, page 644 • The Ascent of Rum Doodle, • Life: A User’s Manual, W. E. Bowman, page 90 Georges Perec, page 623

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• , , • The Portrait of a Lady, • Swallows and Amazons, • Autobiography of John Stuart • I Was a Stranger, Sir John • The Underground Railroad, page 677 Henry James (read by Arthur Ransome, page 660 Mill, page 548 Winthrop Hackett, page 343 , page 849 • The Stones of Venice, Juliet Stevenson), page 409 • The Little Prince, Antoine de • Speak, Memory, Vladimir • Dispatches, Michael Herr, John Ruskin, page 684 • Dubliners, James Joyce Saint-Exupéry, page 693 Nabokov, page 580 page 369 Soul Food • The Bonfire of the Vanities, (read by Frank McCourt • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under • Hunger of Memory, Richard • We Die Alone, David Howarth, • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, Tom Wolfe, page 866 and others), page 420 the Sea, Jules Verne, page 821 Rodriguez, page 671 page 391 page 31 • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville • Little House in the Big Woods, • The Confessions, Jean-Jacques • The Face of Battle, John Keegan, • Journal of a Disappointed Man, A Garden of Verse (read by Frank Muller), Laura Ingalls Wilder, page 435 Rousseau, page 679 page 433 W. N. P. Barbellion, page 50 page 542 • The Flowers of Evil, Charles • Aké: The Years of Childhood, • Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte, • The Diary of a Country Priest, Baudelaire, page 55 • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Off-Beat Escapes Wole Soyinka, page 742 page 515 Georges Bernanos, page 72 (read by Jeremy Irons), • The Complete Poems, 1927-1979, • Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich, • The Autobiography of Malcolm • Goodbye, Darkness, William • The Long Loneliness, page 579 , page 80 page 51 X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley, Manchester, page 519 Dorothy Day, page 31? • The Little Red Chairs, • The Poems of Catullus, page 139 • No Picnic on Mount Kenya, page 876 • War in Val d’Orcia, Iris Origo, • Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot, Edna O’Brien (read by • Sailing Alone Around the Room, Felice Benuzzi, page 68 page 605 page 249? Juliet Stevenson), page 595 Novel Pleasures , page 166 • The Outermost House, • The Walls Came Tumbling Down, • Time and the Art of Living, • The Golden Compass, Philip • Poems, Emily Dickinson, Henry Beston, page 74 • Half of a Yellow Sun, Henriette Roosenburg, Robert Grudin, page 339 Pullman (read by the author page 222? • The Wilder Shores of Love, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, page 673 • The Seven Storey Mountain, and a full cast), page 647 page 8? • The of , Lesley Blanch, page 83 • The Killer Angels, Michael Thomas Merton, p. 547 • , page 301 • Tracks, Robyn Davidson, • Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood, Shaara, page 704 • Dakota, Kathleen Norris, (read by Tim Jerome), page 198 page 28 page 591? • Howl and Other Poems, page 670 Allen Ginsberg, page 315 • The Auberge of the Flowering • The Sweet Hereafter, The 21st Century • The Book of Tea, Kakuzo • American Pastoral, Philip Roth Hearth, Roy Andries de Groot, Russell Banks, page 49 • Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, Okakura, page 601 • Selected Poetry, Rainer Maria (read by Ron Silver), page 677 Rilke, page 667 page 202 • The Feast of Love, page 61 • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle • Treasure Island, • Brazilian Adventure, Charles Baxter, page 58 • Can’t We Talk About Something Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig • A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson Peter Fleming, page 285 • Possession, A. S. Byatt, page 118 More Pleasant?, Roz Chast, Robert Louis Stevenson, (read by Alfred Molina), • Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, page 148 page 760 page 758 • West with the Night, • Spartina, John Casey, page 136 page 670 • Map: Collected and Last Poems, Beryl Markham, page 525 • Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai, • Between the World and Me, • Artful, Ali Smith, page 728 Wisława Szymborska, Family Read-Alouds • A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, page 210 Ta-Nehisi Coates, page 162 page 769 • Peter and Wendy, J. M. Barrie, Eric Newby, page 585 • The Game of Kings, • Those Who Leave and Those Who Mysterious Matters • Collected Poems 1943-2004, page • 53 • The Valleys of the Assassins, Dorothy Dunnett, page 240 Stay, Elena Ferrante, page • The Big Sleep, Raymond 270? Richard Wilbur, page 853 • The Secret Garden, Frances Freya Stark, page 746 • A Visit from the Goon Squad, Chandler, page 147 • The Prelude and Other Poetry, Hodgson Burnett, page 112 • The Sea and the Jungle, , page 245 • Ten Years in the Tub, • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Nick Hornby, page 210? William Wordsworth, • The Phantom Tollbooth, H. M. Tomlinson, page 801 • An Infamous Army, Georgette Agatha Christie, page 159 page 871 Norton Juster, page 424 Heyer, page 373 • 11/22/63, Stephen King, • The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, Singular Self-Portraits page 448 • Talking Like the Rain, X. J. and • Epitaph of a Small Winner, page 168 Listen Up! 12 Terrific D. M. Kennedy, page 440 • The Education of Henry Adams, Joaquim María Machado de • The Story of My Teeth, • The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Audiobooks page 6 Valeria Luiselli, page 509 • Just So Stories for Little Children, Assis, page 508 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, • Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Rudyard Kipling, page 449 • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, • The Wicked Pavilion, • Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso, page 171 Card (read by Stefan Rudnicki Simone de Beauvoir, page 60 Dawn Powell, page 638 page 521? • The Moving Toyshop, and others), page 126 • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis, • Earthly Paradise, Colette, • Citizen, Claudia Rankine, Edmund Crispin, page 186 • Great Expectations, Charles page 485 page 165 War Stories page 659 • The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Dickens (read by Martin • The Diary of a Young Girl, • Slightly Out of Focus, • This One Summer, Jillian Hammett, page 346 Jarvis), page 221 • The Votages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting, page 494 Anne Frank, page 295 Robert Capa, page 124 Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, • A Taste for Death, P. D. James, • The Iliad, Homer  • If This Is a Man, Primo Levi, • The Red Badge of Courage, page 772 page 411 (Fagles translation read • Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart page 481 Stephen Crane, page 184 • Life in Code, Ellen Ullman, by Derek Jacobi), page 385 Lovelace, page 436 • Death of My Aunt, • Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi- • Good-bye to All That, page 816 C. H. B. Kitchin, page 451 Strauss, page 482 Robert Graves, page 332

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• Friends in High Places, • The Gentleman in Trollope, • The Wind in the Willows, General Index Donna Leon, page 474 Shirley Robin Letwin, Kenneth Grahame, page 328 • Maigret and the Man on the page 479 • All Creatures Great and Small, Bench, Georges Simenon, • Complete Stories, Clarice James Herriot, page 371 Note: Items in Small Caps refer to “Acquainted with the Night” entry titles. Page references in bold (Robert Frost), 301–2 (), 410, 800, page 724 Lispector, page 493 The Call of the Wild, Jack • refer to full entries on topic. Act One: An Autobiography 844–45 • Fer-de-Lance, Rex Stout, • The Roots of Civilization, London, page 495 (Moss Hart), 354–55, 462 Age of Spiritual Machines page 763 Alexander Marshack, • Man Meets Dog, Konrad The 9/11 Commission Report, 589 Aczel, Amir D., 735 (Ray Kurzweil), 242 • The Daughter of Time, page 527 Lorenz, page 498 11/23/63 (Stephen King), 447, 448 Ada, or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov), The Age of Wonder (Richard Holmes), 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel 579 272, 455, 736, 874 Josephine Tey, page 776 • The Man Who Mistook His Wife • Ring of Bright Water, Gavin (), 817 Adair, Gilbert, 623 Agee, James, 10–11, 866 for a Hat, Oliver Sacks, Maxwell, page 533 “24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Adam Bede (George Eliot), 353, 807 Agincourt (Christopher Hibbert), Mind-Expanding page 689 Hokusai” (Roger Zelazny), 383 Adams, Douglas, 6, 864, 865 433 • The World of Peter Rabbit, • The Second Sex, Simone de • Corinne, or Italy, Madame de The 42nd Parallel (John Dos Passos), Adams, Henry, 6–7, 413, 549 Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Beatrix Potter, page 637 229–30 Adams, Richard, 7–8, 329, 794 Made England (Juliet Barker), Beauvoir, page 59 Staël, page 745 • Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White, 52 Loaves (William Alexander), 290 Adam’s Task (Vicki Hearne), 359, 713–14 • How Buildings Learn, • Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson, page 845 84, Charing Cross Road (Helene 498, 885 Aickman, Robert, 411 Stewart Brand, page 95 page 755? Hanff), 350–51, 883 Adamson, Joy, 533 Aiken, Joan, 473 • Tarka the Otter, Henry 88 Keys (Miles Chapin), 129 Addison, Joseph, 496 The Air-Conditioned Nightmare • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Williamson, page 858 102 Minutes (Jim Dwyer and Kevin Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 8–9, (Henry Miller), 753 Annie Dillard, page 224 Creatures Flynn), 589 885 Aitken, Robert, 355 • The Zoom Trilogy, Tim Wynne- • My Dog Tulip, J. R. Ackerley, 109 East Palace (Jennet Conant), 79 Adolphe (Benjamin Constant), 745 A.J.A. Symons: His Life and Speculations • Darwin Among the Machines, Jones, page 875 page 5 1776 (David McCullough), 251 Adorno, Theodor, 331 (Julian Symons), 768 George Dyson, page 242 1876 (Gore Vidal), 822 The Adventurer (Paul Zweig), 136 Ake: The Years of Childhood • Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by • Watership Down, Richard 1919 (John Dos Passos), 229–30 The Adventures of Augie (Wole Soyinka), 603, 742–43 Name, Vicki Hearne, page 359 Adams, page 7 1984 (George Orwell), 110, 606–8 (), 66–67, 675, 677, Akenfield: Portrait of an English 2666 (Roberto Bolaño), 86 812 Village (Ronald Blythe), 84–85, • The Origin of Consciousness in • My Family and Other Animals, The Adventures of Huckleberry 317, 471, 790 the Breakdown of the Bicameral Gerald Durrell, page 240 Finn (Mark Twain), 695, 811–12 Akhmatova, Anna, 520, 572 Mind, Julian Jaynes, page 414 A The Adventures of Ibn Battuta Alan Turing: The Enigma Abbey, Edward, 2, 497, 571 (Ross E. Dunn), 239, 506, 636 (Andrew Hodges), 379 Abbott, Edwin A., 3–4 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Albaret, Céleste, 646 Abbott, Shirley, 204 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 169 Albee, Edward, 12, 604, 698 ABC: The Alphabetization of the The Adventures of the Woman Albert Camus: A Life (Olivier Todd), Popular Mind (Illich and Barry Homesteader (Susanne George 124 Sanders), 400 Bloomfield), 761 Alcestis (Euripedes), 259–60 Abducting a General (Patrick Leigh The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Alcott, Louisa May, 12–13 Fermor), 570 (Mark Twain), 810–11, 812 Aldiss, Brian, 162, 622, 875 Abel’s Island (William Steig), Adventures on the Wine Route Aleichem, Sholem, 726 750, 884 (Kermit Lynch), 502 Alexander, Caroline, 386, 464, 591 Abinger Harvest (E. M. Forster), 39 Advertisements for Myself (Norman Alexander, Joseph H., 520 Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Mailer), 514 Alexander, Lloyd, 795–96 Writings (Abraham Lincoln), 861 The Aeneid (Virgil), 71, 196, 385–86, Alexander, Michelle, 163 Abraham Lincoln and the Second 554, 823–24, 885 Alexander, William, 290 American Revolution Aeschylus, 9–10, 154, 259, 261, 269, Alexander Hamilton (Ron (James M. McPherson), 861 386, 739, 740, 741, 742, 885 Chernow), 155, 251 The Abruzzo Trilogy The Aesop for Children (Milo Winter), Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in (Ignazio Silone), 565 450 His Life (D. M. Thomas), 738 Absalom, Absalom! After Babel (George Steiner), The Alexandria Quartet (), 754 (Lawrence Durrell), 241–42 268–69 After Ovid (Michael Hofmann and Alexie, Sherman, 14, 884 Absolutely Normal Chaos James Lasdun), 610 Alexievich, Svetlana, 15–16, 343, 666 (Sharon Creech), 281 Against Interpretation (Susan Sontag), Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (Hugh The Absolutely True Diary 483 Brogan), 792 of a Part-Time Indian Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 9 Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and (Sherman Alexie), 14, 884 Agatha Christie: An English Mystery the Schism in the American Soul Abulafia, David, 97 (Laura Thompson), 159 (Patrick A. Swan), 439 Achebe, Chinua, 4–5, 9 An Age Like This, 1920–1940 Algren, Nelson, 366 Ackerley, J. R., 5, 67 (George Orwell), 608 Ali, Monica, 733 Ackerman, Diane, 134, 225 The Age of Conversation The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Ackroyd, Peter, 82, 216 (Benedetta Craveri), 749 (Alice B. Toklas), 751

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