Favorite Books: John Ellis

Fiction

1. Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
2. Jane Austen: Emma
3. Honoré de Balzac: Old Goriot
4. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
5. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
6. E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Devil’s Elixir
7. Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas
8. John Le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
9. Richard Llewellyn: How Green Was My Valley
10. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
11. Anon: The Nibelungenlied

Non-fiction

12. Alexander Alekhine: My Best Games of Chess (2 volumes)
13. Robert Edgerton: Sick Societies
14. David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature
15. Paul Johnson: Churchill
16. Myron Magnet: The Dream and the Nightmare
17. Robert Massie: Peter the Great
18. Tom Sowell: A Conflict of Visions
19. E.M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby: Goethe, Poet and Thinker
20. William K Wimsatt: The Verbal Icon
21. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations

John M. Ellis is professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and president of the California Association of Scholars. He is a founder and former governing council member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.