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thisglimpse's "Flannery O'Connor's reading list"

These are books praised by Flannery O’Connor, as found in "The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor".

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1. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
  
2.
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 A sea change;
by Nigel Forbes Dennis
  
3. The Pillar of Fire
by Karl Stern
  
4. The Catcher in the Rye  
5. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
  
6.
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 Disguises of Love (Signet Classical Books)
by Robbie Macauley
  
7.
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 Man Who Invented Sin And Other Stories
by Sean O'faolain
  
8. The Mystery of Being, Volume I: Reflection and Mystery (Gifford Lectures, 1949-1950)
by Gabriel Marcel
  
9.
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 The Reformation in England Revised Edition Three Volumes in One
by Philip Hughes
  
10. Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad
  
11. Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions)
by Henry James
  
12. The Widows of Thornton (Voices of the South)
by Peter Hillsman Taylor
  
13.
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 The Lord
by Roman Guardini
  
14. Understanding Fiction
by Cleanth Brooks
  
15. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
16.
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 Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)  
17.
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 God and the Unconscious (Jungian Classics Series)
by Victor White
  
18. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by C.G.Jung
  
19.
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 Third Revolution: A Study of Psychiatry and Religion
by Karl Stern
  
20. Waiting for God (Perennial Classics)
by Simone Weil
  
21.
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 History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages.
by Etienne Henry, Gilson
  
22.
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 The Unity of Philosophical Experience
by Gilson, Etienne
  
23.
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 The structure of poetry
by Elizabeth Sewell
  
24. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
by Russell Kirk
  
25.
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 The treatise of S. Catherine of Genoa on Pugatory
by Catherine
  
26. Mysticism
by Evelyn Underhill
  
27.
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 Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
  
28.
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 A long Fourth,: And other stories
by Peter Hillsman Taylor
  
29.
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 Prince of Darkness, and other stories
by J. F Powers
  
30.
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 The Presence of Grace
by J. F Powers
  
31. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
  
32. Collected Stories
by Frank O'Connor
  
33.
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 The Malefactors
by Caroline Gordon Tate
  
34.
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 A Seed Upon the Wind
by William Michelfelder
  
35. The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
by St. Catherine of Siena
  
36.
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 The man of letters in the modern world: Selected essays, 1928-1955
by Allen Tate
  
37. Proust: Swann's Way (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Sheila Stern
  
38. Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Critic
by Russell Kirk
  
39.
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 A Long Way Down
by Elizabeth Fenwick
  
40.
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 Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a niece (A Thomas More book to live)
by Friedrich von Hügel
  
41. The Interior Castle
by Teresa of Avila
  
42.
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 How to Read a Novel
by Caroline Gordon
  
43. The Mystical Element of Religion (Milestones in the Study of Mysticism and Spirituality)
by Freidrich von Hugel
  
44.
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 The Virgin Mary
by Jean Marie Pierre Guitton
  
45. Three Mystics: El Greco, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila
by O.D.C. Father Bruno de J.M.
  
46. The Craft of Fiction
by Percy Lubbock
  
47.
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 The Simple Truth (Virago Modern Classics)
by Elizabeth Hardwick
  
48. A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
by Morris Dickstein
  
49. The Innocent (Southern Classics)
by Madison Jones
  
50. Painting and reality (Meridian books)
by Etienne Gilson
  
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