David Foster Wallace's library

The books from David Foster Wallace's home that went to the Harry Ransom Center with his papers, most of them marked up in his hand.

314 books

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The best-known books on these shelves

All 314 books, by author

AThe Mystery of the Aleph · Amir D Aczel
Critical theory since Plato · Hazard Adams
Speedboat · Renata Adler
Success · Martin Amis
Winesburg, Ohio · Sherwood Anderson
BRoom Temperature · Nicholson Baker
Giovanni's Room · James Baldwin
The fire next time · James Baldwin
Crash · J. G Ballard
War fever · J. G Ballard
The great American tax dodge · Donald L Barlett
Nightwood · Djuna Barnes
Lost in the funhouse · John Barth
The end of the road · John Barth
A history of the English language · Albert C Baugh
Molloy · Samuel Beckett
Beyond success and failure · Willard Beecher
About Schmidt · Louis Begley
Seize the Day · Saul Bellow
Woody Allen · Giannalberto Bendazzi
Recombinant do re mi · Billy Bergman
A tour of the calculus · David Berlinski
Coming to Our Senses · Morris Berman
What if? · Anne Bernays
What we should have known · Ilya Bernstein
Against the gods · Peter L Bernstein
Amazons · Cleo Birdwell
Seeing is believing · Peter Biskind
Chasing the Sea · Tom Bissell
How to write poetry · Nancy Bogen
Labyrinths · Jorge Luis Borges
Bradshaw On · John Bradshaw
Selected poems · Bertolt Brecht
The melodramatic imagination · Peter Brooks
Granta 19 · Bill Buford
Mathematical fallacies and paradoxes · Bryan H Bunch
Nonverbal communication · Judee K Burgoon
The rise of the computer state · David Burnham
Writing Fiction · Janet Burroway
CMyths to live by · Joseph Campbell
The hero with a thousand faces · Joseph Campbell
The Tao of Physics · Fritjof Capra
Bliss · Peter Carey
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver
In Quest of the Ordinary · Stanley Cavell
Pursuits of happiness · Stanley Cavell
Infini et inconscient · Nathalie Charraud
Ywain, the knight of the lion · de Troyes Chrétien
Where Are the Children? · Mary Higgins Clark
Disgrace · J. M Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country · J. M Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians · J. M Coetzee
Teaching what we do · Amherst College
Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad
The Cinema Book · Pam Cook
Todos los fuegos el fuego · Julio Cortázar
constitution of the united states of america analysis and interpretation · Edward S Corwin
Big if · Mark Costello
Inside out · Larry Crabb
The Red Badge of Courage · Stephen Crane
Instructor's manual for the Random House handbook · Frederick C Crews
The ultimate rip-off · D. Larry Crumbley
The last good kiss · James Crumley
Flow · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
DGeorg Cantor · Joseph W Dauben
The Universal Computer · Martin Davis
Unbridled power · Shelley L Davis
The Long Loneliness · Dorothy Day
Essays on the theory of numbers · Richard Dedekind
Americana · Don DeLillo
End Zone · Don DeLillo
Great Jones Street · Don DeLillo
Libra · Don DeLillo
Mao II · Don DeLillo
Pafko at the wall · Don DeLillo
Players · Don DeLillo
Ratner's Star · Don DeLillo
Running Dog · Don DeLillo
The Body Artist · Don DeLillo
The Names · Don DeLillo
White Noise · Don DeLillo
Play It as It Lays · Joan Didion
For the Time Being · Annie Dillard
The April Game · Diogenes
The Idiot · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A reader's companion to Infinite jest · William C Dowling
Ho theios Petros kai hē eikasia tou gkolntmpach · Apostolos K Doxiadēs
The Black Brook · Tom Drury
L'Amant · Marguerite Duras
EThe Norton Reader · Arthur M Eastman
The Mill on the Floss · George Eliot
Four quartets · T. S Eliot
The Big Nowhere · James Ellroy
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse · Louise Erdrich
Insect biology · Howard Ensign Evans
FStiffed · Susan Faludi
Laura's skin · Jürg Federspiel
The now habit · Neil A Fiore
The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy · Philippa Foot
Rock Springs · Richard Ford
The Sermon on the Mount · Emmet Fox
Desperate Characters · Paula Fox
Dostoevsky · Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky the Seeds of Revolt · Joseph Frank
Commodify your dissent · Thomas Frank
Strong Motion · Jonathan Franzen
Three Case Histories · Sigmund Freud
Writing past dark · Bonnie Friedman
An adult child's guide to what is "normal" · John C Friel
Stiller · Max Frisch
Muscle · Samuel Wilson Fussell
GOn moral fiction · John Gardner
The Colossal Book of Mathematics · Martin Gardner
A dictionary of modern American usage · Bryan A Garner
Habitations of the Word · William H Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Other Stories · William H Gass
Omensetter's Luck · William H Gass
Pattern Recognition · William Gibson
The Immoralist · André Gide
Life after television · George F Gilder
Blink · Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point · Malcolm Gladwell
Goethe's Faust · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Diary of a Madman · Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Recovering from a broken heart · Philip Golabuk
Deep Survival · Laurence Gonzales
Erotic communications · George N Gordon
The U.S. Income Tax · Michael J Graetz
On Killing · Dave Grossman
The insanity of normality · Arno Gruen
HMarijuana · Brent Q Hafen
Sacred violence · Wade Hall
Black Sunday · Thomas Harris
Hannibal · Thomas Harris
Hannibal Rising · Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs · Thomas Harris
Bodies electric · Colin Harrison
Saving Daylight · Jim Harrison
Warlock · Jim Harrison
Wolf · Jim Harrison
Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form · Matthea Harvey
Something Happened · Joseph Heller
In our time · Ernest Hemingway
Imposters · George V Higgins
Morte d'author · H. L Hix
What Narcissism Means to Me · Tony Hoagland
Entertaining America · J Hoberman
West's Federal Taxation · William H Hoffman
The Middle Passage · James Hollis
The safety of objects · A. M Homes
The Sixties · Gerald Howard
Classics of modern fiction · Irving Howe
Metalogic · Geoffrey Hunter
Phenomenology and the crisis of philosophy · Edmund Husserl
The Gift · Lewis Hyde
ITres tristes tigres · G Cabrera Infante
The world according to Garp · John Irving
JPoetry and the age · Randall Jarrell
Christie Malry's own double-entry · B. S Johnson
Angels · Denis Johnson
Name of the World · Denis Johnson
The stars at noon · Denis Johnson
The best of the prose poem · Peter Johnson
The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones
Stephen Hero · James Joyce
KAmerika · Franz Kafka
Complete stories and parables · Franz Kafka
PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies · Ken Kalfus
Foundations of the metaphysics of morals and, What is enlightenment · Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant's Critique of pure reason · Immanuel Kant
What the IRS Doesn't Want You to Know · Marty Kaplan
Ironweed · William Kennedy
An introduction to fiction · X. J Kennedy
Literature · X. J Kennedy
Carrie · Stephen King
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times · Morris Kline
Rhetorical grammar · Martha Kolln
Žert · Milan Kundera
Shame and Guilt · Ernest Kurtz
The spirituality of imperfection · Ernest Kurtz
When bad things happen to good people · Harold S Kushner
LElements of acoustic phonetics · Peter Ladefoged
The Divided Self · R. D Laing
High Windows · Philip Larkin
The Whitsun weddings · Philip Larkin
The Culture of Narcissism · Christopher Lasch
Understanding the Infinite · Shaughan Lavine
In the loop · Tom LeClair
Introducing Don DeLillo · Frank Lentricchia
Witness to the Fire · Linda Schierse Leonard
Briefing for a Descent into Hell · Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook · Doris Lessing
Freakonomics · Steven D Levitt
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe · C. S Lewis
Et tu, babe · Mark Leyner
My cousin, my gastroenterologist · Mark Leyner
The Anchor Essay Annual · Phillip Lopate
Quirky qwerty · Torbjörn Lundmark
MEthics · J. L Mackie
The Naked and the Dead · Norman Mailer
Blindness and insight · Paul De Man
Dead Elvis · Greil Marcus
Going down · David Markson
Springer's progress · David Markson
Of Love and Other Demons · Gabriel García Márquez
Hostage to the Devil · Malachi Martin
A Place of sense · Michael Martone
Keys to mathematics · John E Maxfield
Crossing & cruising · John Maxtone-Graham
All the Pretty Horses · Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian · Cormac McCarthy
Suttree · Cormac McCarthy
Something to be desired · Thomas McGuane
Levels of the Game · John McPhee
Thinking in Writing · Donald McQuade
Federal taxation · Robert E Meldman
Awareness · Anthony De Mello
Marxism · Alfred G Meyer
The drama of the gifted child and the search for the true self · Alice Miller
The anatomy of disgust · William Ian Miller
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea · Yukio Mishima
The Diviners · Rick Moody
The American heritage dictionary of the English language · William Morris
The Bluest Eye · Toni Morrison
Trinity Fields · Bradford Morrow
NA Beautiful Mind · Sylvia Nasar
Money and the Meaning of Life · Jacob Needleman
On Writer's Block · Victoria Nelson
The construction and operation of clandestine drug laboratories · Jack B Nimble
The Following Story · Cees Nooteboom
The Psychology of Everyday Things · Donald A Norman
The user illusion · Tor Nørretranders
OCollected works · Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories · Flannery O'Connor
Satan says · Sharon Olds
Live from earth · Lance Olsen
The Puttermesser Papers · Cynthia Ozick
PA Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation · Paramananda
The Road Less Traveled · M. Scott Peck
The Moviegoer · Walker Percy
Fiction 100 · James H Pickering
Gain · Richard Powers
Galatea 2.2 · Richard Powers
Operation wandering soul · Richard Powers
RThe Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. · François Rabelais
The reluctant taxpayer · William L Raby
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. · Burton Raffel
Rhetoric · John D Ramage
A public records primer and investigator's handbook · Don Ray
Barbed Wire · Olivier Razac
Story first · Kit Reed
The philosophy of rhetoric · I. A Richards
How to disappear completely and never be found · Doug Richmond
Everything Belongs · Richard Rohr
Compassion and self-hate · Theodore Isaac Rubin
Infinity and the mind · Rudy v. B Rucker
The principles of mathematics · Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy · Bertrand Russell
SParadoxes · R. M Sainsbury
The hunters · James Salter
Alienation · Richard Schacht
Animal portraits · Walter Schels
The Wild Numbers · Philibert Schogt
Nobrow · John Seabrook
Zero · Charles Seife
Notes on Blood meridian · John Sepich
Stories of faith · John Shea
Bill W. and Dr. Bob · Samuel Shem
Quo Vadis · Henryk Sienkiewicz
Moo · Jane Smiley
The World's Religions · Huston Smith
The Best American Short Stories 1978 · Ted Solotaroff
Against Interpretation and other Essays · Susan Sontag
Complete Internal Revenue Code of 1986, February 1989 (Complete Internal Revenue Code January) · United States
The man who loved children · Christina Stead
Scarlet and Black · Stendhal
Anti-story · Philip Stevick
The American Short Story 1900-1945 · Philip Stevick
A flag for sunrise · Robert Stone
Bear and His Daughter · Robert Stone
Dog Soldiers · Robert Stone
The symbolist movement in literature · Arthur Symons
TDarconville's cat · Alexander Theroux
Journey into madness · Gordon Thomas
What is art? and essays on art · Leo Tolstoy
Trinities · Nick Tosches
Writing with style · John R Trimble
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mark Twain
UMarry Me · John Updike
Of The Farm · John Updike
Rabbit, Run · John Updike
The Poorhouse Fair · John Updike
Toward the end of time · John Updike
WPractically painless English · Sally Foster Wallace
After Math · Miriam Webster
The natural mind · Andrew Weil
Anarcho-Hindu · Curtis White
IRS · Yvonne Wiley-Webb
Borges, a life · Edwin Williamson
West's Federal Taxation · Eugene Willis
The triple thinkers · Edmund Wilson
The man in the gray flannel suit · Sloan Wilson
Strangers to Ourselves · Timothy D Wilson
Philosophical investigations · Ludwig Wittgenstein
Taking the Quantum Leap · Fred Alan Wolf
The Bonfire of the Vanities · Tom Wolfe
Entry in an Unknown Hand · Franz Wright
Introduction to computer data processing · Margaret Schlosser Wu
Generation of vipers · Philip Wylie
YRevolutionary road · Richard Yates
Techniques of burglar alarm bypassing · Wayne B Yeager
ZUses of infinity · Leo Zippin

Titles we couldn't find (3)

The catalogue lists these, but they have no page here: some are rare or long out of print, and some are pamphlets or magazine issues.

American short stories · Eugene Current-García · 1990
Instructor's manual to accompany Literature, an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama, fifth edition · X. J Kennedy · 1990 · no copy found online
The review of contemporary fiction. Vol. 13, no. 2, Young writers issue, William, T. Vollmann, Susan Daitch, David Foster Wallace · 1993 · Internet Archive (index only)

Source: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin