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BOOKS AND AUTHORS FROM THE LIBRARY AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

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Hanna Casey’s love affair with reading began in a public library, where she first found a world of possibilities in a book. Like all the best experiences in life, it was personal, empowering, and just a little wacky . . . and it led to a lifetime’s exploration of all that libraries have to offer.

Here—gleaned from The Library at the Edge of the World—are some titles and authors that you yourself might like to explore and enjoy.

(By the by, you won’t find God’s Garden, A Long Way to LA, or Helpful Hints for Home Owners, though! Like Hanna, Lissbeg Library, Finfarran, and all its inhabitants, they are imaginary. As, of course, is The Carrick Psalter.)

Books

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Beowulf

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

The Canterbury Tales

Charlotte’s Web

The Charwoman’s Daughter

Circle of Friends

The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Cranford

The Dance Music of Ireland

Early Irish History and Mythology

Elizabethan Lyrics

The Female Eunuch

The Gruffalo

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Heart of Darkness

A House Divided

The Hunting of the Snark

Ice Man

The Life of Emily Dickinson

Little Dorrit

Little Women

Maigret

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Plague Dogs

The Secret Garden

Shoeless Joe

The Stones of Venice

The Story of the GAA

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Ulysses

What Katy Did

The Wouldbegoods

Authors

Maeve Binchy

Barbara Cartland

Agatha Christie

Maria Edgeworth

Goethe

Homer

P. D. James

Rudyard Kipling

John McGahern

Saki (H. H. Munro)

Petrarch

Proust

Barbara Pym

Schiller

Stendhal