The Beach Book: A Literary Companion
810.8032 BEA 1999
Poetry, stories, essays for reading at the beach.
The Walker's Literary Companion
808.8035 WAL
A variety of literary pieces by authors from Proust to Ginsburg.
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories
808.83 OXF
Anthony Trollope, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, Jack Kerouac, William Trevor and others.
The Mountain World: A Literary Journey
808.8032 MOU
Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, Bertolt Brecht, Abu El Fadel, Russian folk poems, Japanese and Hawaiian myths and more.
The Book of Surprises: An Anthology of the Unusual
808.8 Fle
Early and middle 20th century, American and European writings.
The literary Insomniac: Stories and Essays for Sleepless Nights
808.8035 LIT
Writing related to sleep and the lack of it. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Quentin Crisp, Anton Chekov, E. Annie Proulx, Tim Cahill and others.
The Dream Adventure
808.83 CAI
Stories on dreams from ancient Chinese to Marco Polo, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and others.
The Practical Cogitator: Or the Thinker's Anthology
808.8 Cur
For the philosophical-minded reader.
The Idler's Companion: An Anthology of Lazy Literature
808.8035 IDL
Poems, essays, fiction for idle moments.
