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Name: The books in my life
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Author: Henry Miller

In *The Books in My Life*, Henry Miller gives an unflinching, autobiographical account of the reading that influenced his thinking during his youth. He celebrates the literary giants he admired—Dostoyevsky, Boccaccio, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Lao Tse—and offers fresh insights into their work, while also recognizing lesser‑known figures such as Krishnamurti, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Giono, Richard Jeffrey, and John Cowper Powys. Miller weaves personal anecdotes, describing his Brooklyn childhood, his encounters with “living books” like W. E. B. DuBois and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and his memories of early‑20th‑century New York theatre. He even adds a humorous chapter on bathroom reading. The book concludes with an appendix listing the hundred books that most shaped Miller’s intellectual landscape.

First publish date: 1950

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography

Authors: Henry Miller

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