Consultant Dan
28 June 2010
My collection of desire
When the City of Melbourne set up the City Library in Flinders Lane, I was asked to nominate 50 books for a Collection of Desire which was purchased by the Library.
I was happy to contribute a list because I love books and support the idea of free lending libraries. The Melbourne Library Service has Libraries in the CBD, North Melbourne, East Melbourne and Docklands as well as a home service for people who cannot commute easily.
For my Collection of Desire, I tried to select 50 books that I thought people would enjoy borrowing and which convey something of my values. The collection also has a proudly Melbourne flavour.
What would you add (or subtract) to the list?
Fiction
- Jorge Louis Borges Labyrinths
- Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
- Peter Carey Illywhacker
- Arthur C Clarke Islands in the Sky
- Douglas Coupland Generation X
- Simon Crump My Elvis Blackout
- Louis De Bernieres Senor Vivo and The Coca Lord
- Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before
- Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Ben Elton Stark
- Richard Flanagan Death of a River Guide
- Adam Ford Man Bites Dog
- Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
- Rene De Goscinny Asterix at The Olympic Games
- Herge Destination Moon
- Melissa Lucashenko Steam Pigs
- Shane Maloney The Brush Off
- Mervyn Peake Gormenghast
- Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are
- Zadie Smith The Burned Children of America
- Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Non-Fiction
- Douglas Strong Dreamers and Defenders
- Ulrich Beck Risk Society
- Jorge Louis Borges & Eliot Weinberger (ed) Selected Non-fictions
- Michael Cathcart Manning Clark’s History of Australia
- Noam Chomsky Deterring Democracy
- John Clarke The Great Interviews
- Groff Conklin The Omnibus of Science Fiction
- Peter Dombrovskis Wild Rivers
- Farallones Institute The Integral Urban House
- Hamdan Fouad Greenpeace: Changing the World
- David Goldblatt Social Theory & the Environment
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