Lists of Bests: thisglimpse's "Flannery O'Connor's reading list" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/22804 These are books praised by Flannery O'Connor, as found in "The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor". Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:37:55 GMT en-us 0 50 56 50 0 The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451523482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> A sea change; http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2567109 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nigel Forbes Dennis</div> The Pillar of Fire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1763821 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1763821"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1884660126.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1095444542_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Stern</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92952 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92952"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BR53YU.01-A2Z42QK87EYWUN._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45526875_.jpg" /></a></div> Dead Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> Disguises of Love (Signet Classical Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2578104 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robbie Macauley</div> Man Who Invented Sin And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2578113 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean O'faolain</div> The Mystery of Being, Volume I: Reflection and Mystery (Gifford Lectures, 1949-1950) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1389132 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1389132"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/189031885X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057199354_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Marcel</div> The Reformation in England Revised Edition Three Volumes in One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595023 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Hughes</div> Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1892295490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240950 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240950"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393977102.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> The Widows of Thornton (Voices of the South) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174237 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080711930X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057195272_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hillsman Taylor</div> The Lord http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595054 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roman Guardini</div> Understanding Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595061 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595061"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GTHA4O.01-A3J68X6R80LW3J._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63032468_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cleanth Brooks</div> Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</div> Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2375270 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> God and the Unconscious (Jungian Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/989232 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor White</div> Modern Man in Search of a Soul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1962906 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1962906"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FJ7IZG.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45348219_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.G.Jung</div> Third Revolution: A Study of Psychiatry and Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595143 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Stern</div> Waiting for God (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/555247 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/555247"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060959703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone Weil</div> History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358655 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Etienne Henry, Gilson</div> The Unity of Philosophical Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595183 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gilson, Etienne</div> The structure of poetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595186 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Sewell</div> The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27641 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0895261715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Kirk</div> The treatise of S. Catherine of Genoa on Pugatory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595216 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Catherine</div> Mysticism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016315 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119399262_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Underhill</div> Kristin Lavransdatter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919579 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigrid Undset</div> A long Fourth,: And other stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2595352 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hillsman Taylor</div> Prince of Darkness, and other stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2346374 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. F Powers</div> The Presence of Grace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1928739 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. F Powers</div> The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4095 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4095"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156189216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eudora Welty</div> Collected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/732709 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/732709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394710487.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113605568_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank O'Connor</div> The Malefactors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624087 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Gordon Tate</div> A Seed Upon the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624093 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Michelfelder</div> The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624098 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1905574231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by St. Catherine of Siena</div> The man of letters in the modern world: Selected essays, 1928-1955 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624111 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Tate</div> Proust: Swann's Way (Landmarks of World Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611322 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521328160.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sheila Stern</div> Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Critic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035071 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035071"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0893850403.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056505773_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Kirk</div> A Long Way Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1831656 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Fenwick</div> Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a niece (A Thomas More book to live) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624129 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich von Hügel</div> The Interior Castle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641034 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1641034"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594480052.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124157564_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Teresa of Avila</div> How to Read a Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624144 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Gordon</div> The Mystical Element of Religion (Milestones in the Study of Mysticism and Spirituality) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624146 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624146"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0824517903.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130205549_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Freidrich von Hugel</div> The Virgin Mary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624165 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Marie Pierre Guitton</div> Three Mystics: El Greco, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624170 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624170"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GLQ7H8.01-A27MUO3QP7QZ7O._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62589466_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by O.D.C. Father Bruno de J.M.</div> The Craft of Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624178 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1428049754.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V49493958_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Percy Lubbock</div> The Simple Truth (Virago Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547812 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Hardwick</div> A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624193 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624193"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691130337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34330875_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Morris Dickstein</div> The Innocent (Southern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624198 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2624198"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/187994118X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110869998_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madison Jones</div> Painting and reality (Meridian books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380898 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380898"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007EGJEA.01-AX4OIACNZHRZR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37595544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Etienne Gilson</div>