Hal’s Quotes & Notes: My Personal Favorites

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I have read each of these multiple times, spread over a period of years, and in my opinion they still hold up to re-reading. They’re all quoted extensively.

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A	Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
A	Chester Anderson	The Butterfly Kid

B	Peter S. Beagle	The Last Unicorn
B	Alfred Bester	Disappearing Act

D	Lord Dunsany	The Sword of Welleran

E	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose translated by William Weaver

G	Neil Gaiman (with Terry Pratchett)	Good Omens
G	William Goldman	The Princess Bride

H	Robert A. Heinlein	The Man Who Traveled in Elephants The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

K top of page	Walt Kelly	Ten Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo
	Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon
	Rudyard Kipling	Just So Stories

L	C. S. Lewis	The Great Divorce

M top of page	Colin McEvedy	The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History
M top of page	Shepherd Mead	The Big Ball of Wax

N	Larry Niven	Death by Ecstasy

P top of page	Terry Pratchett	Hogfather
	Terry Pratchett	Small Gods
	(with Neil Gaiman)	Good Omens

R	Edmond Rostand	Cyrano de Bergerac translated by Brian Hooker

S	Tom Stoppard	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
S	Theodore Sturgeon	Need

T	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings
T	Mark Twain	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

U	Miguel de Unamuno	Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr translated by Harriet de Onís

V	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Mother Night

W top of page	Dale Wasserman	Man of La Mancha
	T. H. White	the “Pendragon”: The Sword in the Stone The Once and Future King The Book of Merlyn
	Charles Williams	Descent of the Dove A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church

Z	Roger Zelazny	The Last Defender of Camelot
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