about norma jeane (whom i wrongly judged), mostly about my m.ysterious m.adam

john waters was rightly quoted as saying we need to make books cool again
if you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!

1. to the one i love best by ludwig bemelmans
2. let’s make love by matthew andrews
3. on the road by jack kerouac
4. how to travel incognito by ludwig bemelmans
5. thurber country by james thurber
6. the fall by albert camus
7. marilyn monroe by george carpozi
8. camille by alexander dumas
9. invisible man by ralph ellison
10. the boston cooking-school cook book by fannie merritt-farmer
11. the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
12. from russia with love by ian fleming
13. the art of loving by erich fromm
14. the prophet by kahlil gilbran
15. ulysses by james joyce
16. stoned like a statue: a complete survey of drinking cliches, primitive, classical & modern by howard kandel & don safran
17. the last temptation of christ by nikos kazantzakis
18. selected poems by d.h. lawrence
19. sons and lovers by d.h. lawrence (first edition)
20. sons and lovers by d.h. lawrence (second edition)
21. the portable d.h. lawrence
22. etruscan places by d.h. lawrence
23. d.h. lawrence: a basic study of his ideas by mary freeman
24. the assistant by bernard malamud
25. the magic barrel by bernard malamud
26. death in venice & seven other stories by thomas mann
27. last essays by thomas mann
28. the thomas mann reader
29. hawaii by james michener
30. red roses for me by sean o’casey
31. i knock at the door by sean o’casey
32. selected plays by sean o’casey
33. the green crow by sean o’casey
34. golden boy by clifford odets
35. clash by night by clifford odets
36. the country girl by clifford odets
37. six plays of clifford odets
38. the cat with two faces by gordon young
39. long day’s journey into night by eugene o’neill
40. part of a long story: eugene o’neill as a young man in love by agnes boulton
41. the little engine that could by piper watty
42. the new joy of cooking by irma s. rombauer & marion rombauer-becker
43. selected plays of george bernard shaw
44. ellen terry and bernard shaw – a correspondence
45. bernard shaw & mrs patrick campbell – their correspondence
46. the short reigh of pippin iv by john steinbeck
47. once there was a war by john steinbeck
48. set this house on fire by william styron
49. lie down in darkness by william styron
50. the roman spring of mrs stone by tennessee williams
51. camino real by tennessee williams
52. a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams
53. the flower in drama and glamour by stark young
54. tender is the night by f. scott fitzgerald
55. the story of a novel by thomas wolfe
56. look homeward angel by thomas wolfe
57. a stone, a leaf, a door by thomas wolfe
58. thomas wolfe’s letters to his mother by john skally terry
59. a farewell to arms by ernest hemingway
60. the sun also rises by ernest hemingway
61. winesburg, ohio by sherwood anderson
62. sister carrie by theodore dreiser
63. tortilla flat by john steinbeck
64. the american claimant & other stories & sketches by mark twain
65. in defense of harriet shelley & other essays by mark twain
66. the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain
67. roughing it by mark twain
68. the magic christian by terry southern
69. a death in the family by james agee
70. the war lover by john hersey
71. don’t call me by my right name & other stories by james purdy
72. malcolm by james purdy
73. the portable irish reader
74. the portable poe
75. the portable walt whitman
76. this week’s short stories (new york, 1953)
77. bedside book of famous short stories
78. short novels of colette
79. short story masterpieces (new york, 1960)
80. the passionate playgoer by george oppenheimer
81. fancies and goodnights by john collier
82. evergreen review, vol. two, no. six
83. the medal & other stories by luigi pirandello
84. max weber
85. renoir by albert skira
86. max by giovannetti pericle
87. the family of man by carl sandburg
88. horizon, a magazine of the arts (nov. 1959, jan. 1960, mar. 1960)
89. jean dubuffet by daniel cordier
90. the summing up by w. somerset maugham
91. close to colette by maurice goudeket
92. this demi-paradise by margaret halsey
93. god protect me from my friends by gavin maxwell
94. minister of death: the adolf eichmann story by quentin reynolds, ephraim katz and zwy aldouby
95. dance to the piper by agnes demille
96. goodness had nothing to do with it by mae west
97. act one by moss hart
98. science and health with key to the scriptures by mary baker eddy
99. poems, including christ and christmas by mary baker eddy
100. two plays: peace and lysistrata by aristophanes
101. of the nature of things by lucretius
102. the philosophy of plato
103. mythology by edith hamilton
104. theory of poetry and fine art by aristotle
105. metaphysics by aristotle
106. plutarch’s lives (volumes three to six only, of six) by william and john langhorne
107. bound for glory by woody guthrie
108. the support of the mysteries by paul breslow
109. paris blues by harold flender
110. the shook-up generation by harrison e. salisbury
111. an mands ansigt by arthur miller
112. independent people by halldor laxness
113. mujer by lina rolan
114. the havamal by d.e. martin clarke
115. yuan mei: 18th century chinese poet by arthur waley
116. almanach: das 73 jahr by s. fischer verlag
117. madame bovary by gustave flaubert
118. the works of rabelais
119. the guermantes way by marcel proust
120. cities of the plain by marcel proust
121. within a budding grove by marcel proust
122. the sweet cheat gone by marcel proust
123. the captive by marcel proust
124. nana by emile zola
125. plays by moliere
126. the life and work of sigmund freud by ernest jones
127. letters of sigmund freud by ernest l. freud
128. glory reflected by martin freud
129. moses and monotheism by sigmund freud
130. conditioned reflex therapy by andrew salter
131. the wise garden encyclopedia by e.l.d. seymour (two editions)
132. landscaping your own home by alice dustan
133. outpost nurseries – publicity brochure
134. the forest and the sea by marston bates
135. pet turtles by julien bronson
136. a book about bees by edwin way teale
137. codfish, cats & civilisation by gary webster
138. how to do it, or, the art of lively entertaining by elsa maxwell
139. wake up, stupid by mark harris
140. merry christmas, happy new year by phyllis mcginley
141. the hero maker by akbar del piombo & norman rubington
142. how to talk at gin by ernie kovacs
143. vip tosses a party by virgil partch
144. who blowed up the house & other ozark folk tales by randolph vance
145. snobs by russell lynes
146. the form of daily prayers
147. sephath emeth (speech of truth): order of prayers for the wholes year in jewish and english
148. the holy scriptures according to the masoretic text
149. the law by roger vailland
150. the building by peter martin
151. the mermaids by boros
152. they came to cordura by glendon swarthout
153. the seventh cross by anna seghers
154. a european education by romain gary
155. strike for a kingdom by menna gallie
156. the slide area by gavin lambert
157. the woman who was poor by leon bloy
158. green mansions by w.h. hudson
159. the contenders by john wain
160. the best of all worlds, or, what voltaire never knew by hans jorgen lembourn
161. the story of esther costello by nicholas montsarrat
162. oh careless love by maurice zolotow
163. add a dash of pity by peter ustinov
164. an american tragedy by theodore dreiser
165. the mark of the warrior by paul scott
166. the dancing bear by edzard schaper
167. miracle in the rain by ben hecht
168. the guide by r.k. narayan
169. blow up a storm by garson kanin
170. jonathan by russell o’neill
171. fowlers end by gerald kersh
172. hurricane season by ralph winnett
173. the un-americans by alvah bessie
174. the devil’s advocate by morris l. west
175. on such a night by anthony quayle
176. say you never saw me by arthur nesbitt
177. all the naked heroes by alan kapener
178. jeremy todd by hamilton maule
179. miss america by daniel stren
180. fever in the blood by william pearson
181. spartacus by howard fast
182. venetian red by l.m. pasinetti
183. a cup of tea for mr. thorgill by storm jameson
184. six o’clock casual by henry w. cune
185. mischief by charlotte armstrong
186. the gingko tree by sheelagh burns
187. the mountain road by theodore h. white
188. three circles of light by pietro di donato
189. the day the money stopped by brendan gill
190. the carpetbaggers by harold robbins
191. justine by lawrence durrell (two editions)
192. balthazar by lawrence durrell
193. brighton rock by graham greene
194. the secret agent by joseph conrad
195. the unnamable by samuel beckett
196. portrait of the artist as a young dog by dylan thomas
197. hear us o lord from heaven thy dwelling place by malcolm lowry
198. the sound and the fury/as i lay dying by william faulkner
199. god’s little acre by erskine caldwell
200. anna christie/the emperor jones/the hairy ape by eugene o’neill
201. the philosophy of schopenhauer by irwin edman
202. the philosophy of spinoza by joseph ratner
203. the dubliners by james joyce
204. selected poems by emily dickinson
205. the collected short stories by dorothy parker
206. selected works by alexander pope
207. the red and the black by stendhal
208. the life of michelangelo by john addington
209. of human bondage by w. somerset maugham
210. three famous french romances
211. napoleon by emil ludwig
212. madame bovary by gustave flaubert (second copy)
213. the poems and fairy-tales by oscar wilde
214. alice’s adventures in wonderland/through the looking glass/the hunting of the snark by lewis carroll
215. a high wind in jamaica by richard hughes
216. an anthology of american negro literature by sylvestre c. watkins
217. beethoven: his spiritual development by j.w.n. sullivan
218. music for the millions by david ewen
219. schubert by ralph bates
220. men of music by wallace brockaway and herbert weinstock
221. the potting shed by graham greene
222. politics in the american drama by caspar nannes
223. sons of men by herschel steinhardt
224. born yesterday by garson kanin
225. untitled & other radio drams by norman corwin
226. thirteen by corwin by norman corwin
227. more by corwin by norman corwin
228. long day’s journey into night by eugene o’neill (second copy)
229. best american plays: third series, 1945 to 1951
230. theatre ’52 by john chapman
231. sixteen famous european plays by bennett cerf and van h. cartmell
232. the complete plays of henry james
233. twenty best plays of the modern american theatre by john glassner
234. elizabethan plays by hazelton spencer
235. critics’ choice by jack gaver
236. modern american dramas by harlan hatcher
237. the album of the cambridge garrick club
238. a shropshire lad by a.e. houseman
239. the poetry & prose of heinrich heine by frederich ewen
240. the poetical works of john milton by h.c. beeching
241. the poetical works of robert browning by h.c. beeching
242. wordsworth by richard wilbur
243. the poetical works of shelley by richard wilbur
244. the portable blake
245. william shakespeare: sonnets by mary jane gorton
246. poems of robert burns by henry meikle & william beattie
247. the penguin book of english verse by john hayward
248. aragon: poet of the french resistance by hannah josephson & malcolm cowley
249. star crossed by margaret tilden
250. collected sonnets by edna st vincent millay (two editions)
251. robert frost’s poems by louis untermeyer
252. poe: complete poems by richard wilbur (second copy)
253. the life and times of archy and mehitabel by don marquis
254. the pocketbook of modern verse by oscar williams
255. poems by john tagliabue
256. selected poems by rafael alberti
257. selected poetry by robinson jeffers
258. the american puritans: their prose & poetry by perry miller
259. selected poems by rainer maria rilke
260. poet in new york by federico garcia lorca
261. the vapor trail by ivan lawrence becker
262. love poems & love letters for all the year
263. hundred modern poems by selden rodman
264. the sweeniad by myra buttle
265. poetry: a magazine of verse, vol. seventy, no. six
266. the wall between by anne braden
267. the roots of american communism by theodore draper
268. a view of the nation – an anthology : 1955 – 1959 by henry christian
269. a socialist’s faith by norman thomas
270. rededication to freedom by benjamin ginzburg (first copy)
271. rededication to freedom by benjamin ginzburg (second copy)
272. the ignorant armies by e.m. halliday
273. commonwealth vs sacco & vanzetti by robert p. weeks
274. journey to the beginning by edgar snow
275. das kapital by karl marx
276. lidice by eleanor wheeler
277. the study of history by arnold toynbee
278. america the invincible by emmet john hughes
279. the unfinished country by max lerner
280. red mirage by john o’kearney
281. background & foreground – the new york times magazine: an anthology by lester markel
282. the failure of success by esther milner
283. a piece of my mind by edmund wilson
284. the truth about the munich crisis by viscount maugham
285. the alienation of modern man by fritz pappenheim
286. a train of powder by rebecca west
287. report from palermo by danilo dolci
288. the devil in massachusetts by marion starkey
289. american rights: the constitution in action by walter gellhorn
290. night by francis pollini
291. the right of the people by william douglas
292. the jury is still out by irwin davidson and richard gehman
293. first degree by william kunstler
294. democracy in america by alexis de tocqueville
295. world underworld by andrew varna
296. catechism for young children
297. prayer changes things
298. the prophet by kahlil gibran (second copy)
299. the magic word l.i.d.g.t.t.f.t.a.t.i.m. by robert collier
300. the prophet by kahlil gibran (third copy)
301. his brother’s keeper by milton gross
302. christliches ergissmeinnicht by k. ehmann
303. and it was told of a certain potter by walter c. lanyon
304. baha’i prayers
305. man against himself by karl a. menninger
306. the tower and the abyss by erich kahler
307. something to live by by dorothea s. kopplin
308. man’s supreme inheritance by alexander f. matthias
309. the miracles of your mind by joseph murphy
310. the wisdom of the sands by antoine de saint-exupery
311. a prison, a paradise by loran hurnscot
312. the magic of believing by claude m. bristol
313. peace of mind by joshua loth liebman
314. the use of the self by alexander f. matthias
315. the power within you by claude m. bristol
316. the call girl by harold greenwald
317. troubled women by lucy freeman
318. relax and live by joseph a. kennedy
319. forever young, forever healthy by indra devi
320. the open self by charles morris
321. hypnotism today by leslie lecron & jean bordeaux
322. the masks of god: primitive mythology by joseph campbell
323. some characteristics of today by rudolph steiner
324. baby & child care by dr benjamin spock
325. flower arranging for fun by hazel peckinpaugh dunlop
326. hugo’s pocket dictionary: french-english and english-french
327. spoken french for travellers and tourists by charles kany & mathurin dondo
328. roget’s pocket thesaurus by c.o. mawson & k.a. whiting
329. what is a jew? by morris kertzer
330. a partisan guide to the jewish problem by milton steinberg
331. the tales of rabbi nachman by martin buber
332. the saviours of god: spiritual exercises by nikos kazantzakis
333. the prophet by kahlil gilbran (fourth copy)
334. the dead sea scrolls by millar burrows
335. the secret books of the egyptian gnostics by jean doresse
336. jesus by kahlil gilbran
337. memories of a catholic girlhood by mary mccarthy
338. why i am not a christian by bertrand russell
339. redemption & other plays by leo tolstoy
340. the viking library portable anton chekhov
341. the house of the dead by fyodor dostoevsky
342. crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
343. best russian stories: an anthology by thomas seltzer
344. the plays of anton chekhov
345. smoke by ivan turgenev
346. the poems, prose & plays of alexander pushkin
347. the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky
348. our knowledge of the external world by bertrand russell
349. common sense and nuclear warfare by bertrand russell
350. out of my later years by albert einstein
351. men and atoms by william laurence
352. man alive by daniel colin munro
353. doctor pygmalion by maxwell maltz
354. panorama: a new review by r.f. tannenbaum
355. everyman’s search by rebecca beard
356. of stars and men by harlow shapley
357. from hiroshima to the moon by daniel lang
358. the open mind by j. robert oppenheimer
359. sexual impotence in the male by leonard paul wershub
360. medea by jeffers robinson
361. antigone by jean anouilh
362. bell, book and candle by john van druten
363. the women by clare boothe
364. jean of lorraine by maxwell anderson
365. the sawbwa and his secretary by c.y. lee
366. the twain shall meet by christopher rand
367. kingdom of the rocks by consuelo de saint-exupery
368. the heart of india by alexander campbell
369. man-eaters of india by jim corbett
370. jungle lore by jim corbett
371. my india by jim corbett
372. a time in rome by elizabeth bowen
373. london by jacques boussard
374. new york state vacationlands
375. russian journey by william o. douglas
376. the golden bough by james g. frazer
377. the portable dorothy parker
378. my antonia by willa cather
379. lucy gayheart by willa cather
380. the ballad of the sad cafe by carson mccullers
381. the short novels of colette (second copy)
382. the little disturbances of man by grace paley
383. the autobiography of lincoln steffens
384. twelve-volume biography of abraham lincoln by carl sandburg
385. the little prince by antoine de saint-exupery
386. poems by w.b. yeats
387. mr roberts by joyce cary
388. the thinking body by mabel elsworth todd
389. the actor prepares by konstantin stanislavsky
390. the bible
391. the biography of eleanora duse by william weaver
392. de humani corporis fabrica by andreas vesalius
393. essays by ralph waldo emerson
394. gertrude lawrence as mrs a by richard aldrich
395. goodnight sweet prince by gene fowler
396. greek mythology by edith hamilton
397. how stanislavsky directs by mikhail gorchakov
398. i married adventure by olso johnson
399. the importance of living by lin yutang
400. letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke
401. psychology of everyday life by sigmund freud
402. the rains came by louis broomfield
403. the rights of man by thomas paine
404. swann’s way by marcel proust
405. to the actor by michael chekhov
406. dr newman, m.d. by leo rosten
407. songs for patricia by norman rosten
408. a lost lady by willa cather
409. lust for life by irving stone
410. the deer park by norman mailer
411. focus by arthur miller
412. plays by arthur miller
413. poetry by e.e.cummings
414. leaves of grass by walt whitman
415. under milk wood by dylan thomas
416. the collected lakeland poets

mahatma gandhi was wrongly quoted as saying i like your christ
i do not like your christians. your christians are so unlike your christ