Joan Didion’s Handwritten List Of Her Favourite Books

My favourite author's list of her all-time favourite books.

1. A Farewell to Arms (public library) by Ernest Hemingway
2. Victory (public library) by Joseph Conrad
3. Guerrillas (public library) by V.S. Naipaul
4. Down and Out in Paris and London (public library) by George Orwell
5. Wonderland (public library) by Joyce Carol Oates
6. Wuthering Heights (public library) by Emily Brontë
7. The Good Soldier (public library) by Ford Madox Ford
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude (public library) by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
9. Crime and Punishment (public library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. Appointment in Samarra (public library) by John O’Hara
11. The Executioner’s Song (public library) by Norman Mailer
12. The Novels of Henry James (public library): Washington Square, Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw
13. Speedboat (public library) by Renata Adler
14. Go Tell It on the Mountain (public library) by James Baldwin
15. Notes of a Native Son (public library) by James Baldwin
16. The Berlin Stories (public library) by Christopher Isherwood
17. Collected Poems (public library) by Robert Lowell
18. Collected Poems (public library) by W.H. Auden
19. The Collected Poems (public library) by Wallace Stevens

Read more about Didion at this post by Brain Pickings