Library

Welcome to My Library

This is the place I come to when I am looking for knowledge, wisdom, or wonder. . .

Writing and Editing Material

  • Developmental Editing by Scott Norton, 2009
  • Style, The Basics of Clarity and Grace by J. Williams and J. Bizup, 5th Ed.
  • The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Ed.
  • Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.; M-W online edition
  • The American Heritage Dictionary; AH online edition
  • Diccionario de la Lengua Española; RAE online
  • Cambridge Dictionary; Cambridge Dictionary
  • A Writer’s Reference by Hacker and Sommers, 8th Ed.
  • The Copyeditor’s Handbook by Einsohn and Schwartz, 4th Ed.
  • Garner’s Modern English Usage, 4th Ed.
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser, 7th Ed.
  • Revising Business Prose By Richard Lanham, 4th Ed.
  • Woe Is I by Patricia O’Conner, 4th Ed.
  • Writing That Works by Roman and Raphaelson, 3rd Ed.
  • The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams, 3rd Ed.
  • The Associated Press Stylebook, 2018
  • Spring into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists by Barry Rosenberg, 2005
  • How to Communicate Technical Information by J. Price and H. Korman, 1993
  • Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury, 1995
  • On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner, 1983
  • Writing Fiction by Gotham Writer’s Workshop, 2003
  • Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov, 1983
  • Cartas a un joven novelista de Mario Vargas Llosa, 1997
  • Escribir, Manual de técnicas narrativas de Enrique Páez, 2009
  • Intriga y suspense, El gancho invisible de María José Codes, 2013

Websites and Magazines

Fiction and Nonfiction in English

  • Factfulness by Hans Roling, 2019
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama, 2018
  • The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate, 1995
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
  • Educated by Tara Westover, 2018
  • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995
  • The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, 2015
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, 2007
  • The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, 2017
  • The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2016
  • In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2013
  • In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977
  • Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
  • Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
  • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Lonesome Dove Series by Larry McMurtry
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi
  • Canada by Richard Ford
  • Seeing by José Saramago
  • Totto-chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
  • Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
  • World Without End by Ken Follett
  • Winter of the World by Ken Follett
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • Love by Toni Morrison
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  • Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • Mark Twain: The Complete Novels
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Tokio Blues (Norwegian Wood) by Haruki Murakami
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
  • The Iron Age by J. M. Coetzee
  • Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
  • Youth by J. M. Coetzee
  • The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
  • Elegy by Phillip Roth
  • Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
  • The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
  • Leviathan by Paul Auster
  • On Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Perfume by Patrick Süskind

  • Classical Russian Short Stories
  • My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
  • Snow by Orhan Pamuk
  • Estambul by Orhan Pamuk
  • Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
  • The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
  • Carol by Patricia Highsmith
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Fiction in Spanish or Translated to Spanish

  • Ensayo sobre la ceguera de José Saramago
  • Todos los nombres de José Saramago
  • Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez
  • El amor en los tiempos del cólera de Gabriel García Márquez
  • Crónica de una muerte anunciada de Gabriel García Márquez
  • La Hojarasca de Gabriel García Márquez
  • Ojos de perro azul de Gabriel García Márquez
  • Memoria de mis putas tristes de Gabriel García Márquez
  • La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada de Gabriel García Márquez
  • Todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez
  • La fiesta del chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Travesuras de la niña mala de Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Conversación en La Catedral de Mario Vargas Llosa
  • La ciudad y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa
  • El sueño del celta de Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Inés del alma mía de Isabel allende
  • Paula de Isabel Allende
  • La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende
  • El Aleph de Jorge Luis Borges
  • El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo
  • Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo
  • Historias de cronopios y de famas de Julio Cortázar
  • El cementerio de Praga de Umberto Eco
  • El obsceno pájaro de la noche de José Donoso
  • Correr el tupido velo de Pilar Donoso
  • El asedio de Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Hbíamos ganado la guerra de Esther Tusquets
  • La sonrisa etrusca de José Luis Sampedro
  • La vieja sirena de José Luis Sampedro
  • Adiós al Séptimo de Línea de Jorge Inostrosa
  • Se las echó el Buin de Jorge Inostrosa
  • El corazón es un cazador solitario de Carson McCullers
  • Baruc en el río de Rubén Abella

  • La soledad de los números primos de Paolo Giordano
  • El resto es silencio de Carla Guelfenbein
  • La mujer de mi vida de Carla Guelfenbein
  • El corazón helado de Almudena Grandes
  • Castillos de cartón de Almudena Grandes
  • Obras completas de María Luisa Bombal
  • El clan del oso cavernario de Jean M. Auel
  • La colmena de Camilo José Cela
  • La borra del café de Mario Benedetti
  • El profeta de Gibrán Jalil Gibrán
  • Mi oído en su corazón de Hanif Kureishi
  • El buda de los suburbios de Hanif Kureishi
  • Mala índole de Javier Marías
  • Historia de amor con hombre bailando de Hernán Rivera Letelier
  • El escritor de epitafios de Hernán Rivera Letelier
  • Anhelo de vivir by Irving Stone
  • Ochenta y seis cuentos de Quim Monzó
  • La despedida de Milan Kundera
  • La broma de Milan Kundera
  • No decir de Andrea Maturana
  • Cuentos completos de José Miguel Varas
  • Diez mujeres de Marcela Serrano
  • Africanus de Santiago Posteguillo
  • Crematorio de Rafael Chirbes

  • La herencia de Eszter de Sándor Márai
  • La mujer justa de Sándor Márai
  • Divorcio en Buda de Sándor Márai
  • El último encuentro de Sándor Márai
  • Brida de Paulo Coelho
  • Veronika decide morir de Paulo Coelho
  • El peregrino de Compostela de Paulo Coelho
  • El demonio y la señorita Prym de Paulo Coelho
  • Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres de Stieg Larsson
  • Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño
  • La música para Clara de Elizabeth Subercaseux
  • La delicadeza de David Foenkinos
  • Los recuerdos de David Foenkinos
  • Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov
  • Estupor y temblores de Amelie Nothomb
  • Los círculos morados de Jorge Edwards
  • El inútil de la familia de Jorge Edwards
  • El tiempo entre costuras de María Dueñas
  • Sin sangre de Alessandro Baricco
  • Amor perdurable de Ian McEwan
  • Hambre de Knut Hamsun
  • El pabellón número 6 de Anton Chéjov
  • El gran cuaderno de Agota Kristoff
  • Memorias de Adriano de Marguerite Yourcenar

Well-being

  • Tao Te Ching, The Book of The Way by Lao-Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
  • The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
  • The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle
  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
  • Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
  • Conversations with God, Book One by Neale Donald Walsch
  • Conversations with God, Book Two by Neale Donald Walsch
  • Conversations with God, Book Three by Neale Donald Walsch
  • A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman
  • Feeling Is the Secret by Neville Goddard
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield
  • After the Ecstasy, The Laundry by Jack Kornfield
  • The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks
  • The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Esther and Jerry Hicks
  • Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
  • The Vortex by Esther and Jerry Hicks
  • The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
  • Metahuman by Deepak Chopra
  • Between Death and Life by Dolores Canon
  • Jesus and the Essenes by Dolores Canon
  • Why Walk When You Can Fly by Isha
  • The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

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