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Novels I recognize through my art or something that’s happened to me or have seen in film…
…I have read only a few of the many listed below…
1945 Novels
A Arcadia A Inconfidencia (Mr. Arkadan film) , The Curse Of The Bronze Lamp, At Mrs. Lippincote’s (Walter Lippman),
The Black Rose,
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, Cannery Row, Cass Timberlane, Caucasian Days, The Clue And The Crumbling Walls, Coming Home, Eve, Bedelia, Big Red, The Egyptian, Five Characters Smuggler Stopped, Focus, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, Have And To Betsy, The Berlin Stories, The Hides That Buried Belt, A Murderer Is A Fox, The Naughtiest Girl Is A Monitor, Orpheus Emerged, Pippi Longstocking, The Pursuit Of Love, The Shortwave Mystery, Two Solitudes, Stuart Little, Sparkling Cyanide, The Commodore, If He Hollers Let Him Go, The Indigo Necklace, The Long Ships, Loving, The Lurker At The Threshold ( my poem, eyes darting left and right lurking in the dark), The White Tower, Witch House
1952 Novels
Behind The Crimson Blind, The Blue Star, The Borrowers, The Bridge Over The River Kwai, The Gentle Falcon, Go (Holmes Novel), Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Hidden in a Dream, Player Piano (this plagued my parents in 1967, just before my father tried to cut my mother’s throat) Prisoners Base, The Queen Elizabeth Story, Red Sails To Capri, Rocket Jockey, Charlotte’s Web, The Chocolate Touch, City, Coins In The Fountain, The Crystal Horde, A Daughter’s A Daughter, The Deceivers, Double Jeopardy, East Of Eden, Invisible Man, The Killer Inside Me, Last Seen Wearing, Leaves For Burning, The Life Of Arseniev, The Long Loud Silence, A Many Splendored Thing, The Rolling Stones, Secret Of The Andes, , Shiloh, The Sound Of His Horn, South Sea Adventure, Spend The Glass Web, Spirit Of Punch Bowl Farm, Spring Fire, The Star Men, The Sundowners, They Do It With Mirrors, Five Against Venus, Five Have A Wonderful Time, Martha Quest, Men at Arms, Mists Of Dawn, Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, The Mystery At The Ski Jump, The Natural (have seen it), Old Man And The Sea, To Catch A Thief, Unto A Good Land, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, The Weapon Makers,
1953 Novels
Fahrenheit 451 (have seen it) , The Abyss Of Wonders (The Abyss, have seen it), After The Funeral, The Alcoholics, All Alone, And Never Said A Word, Heartsnatcher, Hingede Oo, Hurry Home Candy, The Present and The Past, Atta, Bill Ferguson And The White Rose Rescue, The Bridges At Toko Ri, Burning Valley, A Case Of Conscience, Casino Royale, Children Of The Atom, The Clue of The Velvet Mask, Cotillion, Iceworld, A Kid For Two Farthings,
A Kiss Before Dying
, The Legion Of The Damned, The Long Goodbye, Love Among The Ruins, Love For Lydia, The Sensitive Man, Shadrach, The Southpaw (tried this beer), Starman Jones, The Sword Of Rhiannon, Cry Slaughter, The Deep Six, The Demolished Man, Red Lights (Harry Connick Jr tape), Five Go Down To The Sea, Go Tell It On The Mountain, Goldsborough (my sister and I lived there) , Magic Maize, Man Of Many Minds, More Than Human, Mr. Pye, La Vallee Infeinale, The Wanderer, Watt, One (Bee Gees song), Otis Spoffered, The Outsider,
1954 Novels
A Mirror For Observers, The Bad Seed (seen it), The Black Mountain, The Black Swan, Brainwave (Galleria, London Ontario), Katherine, The Lake (ended up in it face down), Leaven of Malice, Lord Of The Flies (seen it), Robinson Caruso Island, Sayonara, Secret Of Saturn’s Rings, The Sky Is Falling, The Caves Of Steel, Confessions Of Felix Krull (Albrecht Durer Subject?), The Courage Of Sarah Noble, The Desperate Hours, The Eagle Of The Ninth, Five Go to Mystery Moor, Madam Will You Talk, The Mandarins, Mary Anne (my sister), Mel Oliver And Space Rover On Mars, Night Walker (have seen it), My Brother’s Keeper, The Sound Of The Mountain, The Sound Waves, A Spy In The House Of Love, Story Of O, They’d Rather Be Right, The Tollgate, The Two Towers, Undersea Quest, The Glass Village, Christ Recrucified, The Yellow Feather Mystery,
1960 Novels
To Kill A Mockingbird (seen it), The Adventures of Werner Holt, All Fall Down (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, seen it), God’s Bits Of Wood, The Picture Goers, For Bill Badger and The Pirates, Book Of Dreams (I have a several dream journals), The Bronze God Of Rhodes (King Nebuchadnezzar post), A Burnt Out Case, Cain’s Book, Calculated Risk, A Canticle For Leibovitz, Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, The Centurions, The Child Buyer, Chronopolis (Chronos), Clea (Feasibility Study, OL- have seen it), Journey To a Woman, The L- Shaped Room (had a dream about an L Shaped Room), The Satanist, Set This House On Fire (my mother’s house caught on fire), Take A Girl Like You, 10:30 On A Summer Night, The Tomorrow People, Too Many Clients, Flesh, The Last Temptation Of Christ (seen it), Marianne And Mark, My Memories Of Old Beijing, The Nightingale (Carol King Song, I have), North, The Violent Bear It Away, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane (have seen it) off, Ohvrilaev
1973 Novels
Augustus, Burr, The Hermit, The House With The Clock In Its Walls (The Form of Things Unknown – have seen it), I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Rachel Papers, Ransom, The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud, Ruby Fruit Jungle (read it), Seven Days To A Killing, Shattered (have seen it), The Castle Of Crossed Destinies, Child Of God, Collision Course, Cop Killer, Le Corps Lesbien, Crash, Daughter Of Darkness, The Infinite Man, Joshua Son Of None, Just A Matter Of Time, Kill Me Quick, Magnus,
The Man Who Folded Himself – July 2002
Sign Of The Chrysanthemum, Sleeping Beauty, Socks (given as a gift), Some Lie And Some Died, The Story Of The Phantom The Ghost who Walks, The Suns Of Scorpio, Sweet Dreams, Swordships Of Scorpio, The Taking Of Pelham 123 (have seen it), Theophilus North, The Tightrope Men, The Dressmaker, Excalibur, The Fallible Fiend, For Want Of A Nail, The Matlock Paper (have seen Matlock), Memoirs Found In Bathtub (Painted Lady, Marat scene), My Brother My Executioner (The Game – have seen it), Once Is Not Enough (seen it), The Other Log Of Phileas Fogg, Traitor To The Living (Corruptors), The Turquoise Lament, The Unsleeping Eye (Cover of my dream Journal, Lucid Dreaming Book), Going Home, Port Of Saints, Year Of The Intern, Hellstrom's Hive, Please Pass The Guilt.
