Just an offering for anyone who needs some good author recommendations. These are some of the authors who have touched me. When I love an author I often try to read all their work. Blessings, and may the word live:
Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, Virginia Woolf, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vladimir Nabokov, Patti Smith, Pablo Neruda, John O’Donahue, Herman Melville, Rabindranath Tagore, William Blake, Fernando Pessoa, Joseph Campbell, Samuel Sagan, Italio Calvino, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Angela Carter, Michael Ondaatje, Craig Thompson, Ovid, Homer, Alita: Yukito Kishiro, J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan).
“In attachment there is pain, and in pain deliverance, so that at this point attachment itself offers no obstacle, and the liberated one is at last free to love with all his might and to suffer with all his heart.”
Alan Watts
Marcel Proust, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Robin Hobb, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ayn Rand, Ursula K Le Guin, Mervyn Peak (Gormangast), John Steinbeck, Louise Gluck, Henry Miller, Cormac McCarthy, Giacamo Casanova, Mary Shelley, Isaac Asimov, Michael Christie (Greenwood), Nathaniel Mackey (Double Trio) Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Walter Moers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Powers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Keri Hulme (The Bone People), Edgar Allan Poe
“And just as this conscious mind can put the question, ‘Why is there this frightful conflict between good and evil?’ so the unconscious can reply, ‘Look closer!’ Each needs the other. The best, just because it is the best, holds the seed of evil, and there is nothing so bad but good can come of it.”
Carl Jung
Jersey Kozenski, Andy Weir, Truman Capote, Anthony Doerr, Carl Sandberg, Iain Pears, Reid Larsen, Michael Faber, Madeline Miller, Neal Gaiman, Paul Auster, Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon), Roberto Bolaño, Nick Touches, Chuck Wendig, Erin Morganstern, Michael Chabon, Ruth Ozeki.
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Edgar Degas
Glenn David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil), Jonathan Franzen, Nnedi Okorafor, Tom Robbins, Sigurd Olsen, Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Alexander Dumas, Tom Woolfe, Toni Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Alan Moore, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Percy Bysshe Shelley, W.B. Yeats, Daniel Quinn, John Muir, R.D. Laing, Colette, Sylvia Plath, Kahil Gibran, Baudelaire, Antonin Artaud, ee cummings, Basho, Milorad Pavic, Langston Hughes, Robert Henri, Marina Abramovic, Donna Tartt,
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lief Enger, Jules, Verne, William Henry Hudson (Green Mansions), John Williams (Stoner), Yoko Ogawa, Victor Pelevin, Jacqueline Suzanne, Norman Mailer, Margaret George, Cixin Liu, Daniel Mason, James Frey, Dave Eggers, Maya Angelou, Herman Hesse, Oscar Wilde, Rachel Cusk, Emmanuel Carrera, Anne Rice, Thomas Hardy, Aldo Leopold, Arthur Rimbaud, Yukio Mishma, William Shakespeare, Jon Fosse, B. Catling, Louis Carroll, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Pablo Naruda, Jack London.
“Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell you ought to do it.”
Andre Gide
Terry Goodkind (Wizard’s First Rule) Leonard Shlain (Art and Physics), P.D. Wodehoyuse (so funny!), China Millville, Philip K. Dick, Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, W Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neill Gear (People of the Wolf) Jean Auel, Suzanna Clarke, Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun), Jack Vance, Bill Watterson, Philip Pullman, Katherine Dunn (Geek Love), Jeanette Winterson, Rumi, Aldous Huxley, Aurobindo, B.K.S. Iyengar, Marion Woodman, Swami Vivekananda, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ram Dass, Veronique Vienne, Michael Tsarion
“We writers are in some sort trustees for human nature; if we are narrow and prejudiced we harm the human race. And the better we know each other…the greater the chance of human happiness in a world not, as yet, too happy.”
John Galsworthy
Special mentions:,
The Color Master by Aimee Bender
The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky
Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith
Escape From Freedom by Eric Fromm
“The grandeur of real art…is to rediscover, grasp again, and lay before us that reality from which we live so far removed and from which we become more and more separated as the formal knowledge which we substitute for it grows in thickness and imperviousness-that reality- which there is great danger we might die without ever having known and which is simply our life.”
Marcel Proust
I love you.