William S. Burroughs' "Recommended books for Naropa students" (1983)

Boulder, Colorado, US: William S. Burroughs (list, handout), 1983.
11" x 8.5", four sheets, stapled, printed on the recto only, with hand annotations by Richard Dillon.

Recommended books for Naropa students, a class handout by William S. Burroughs for his August 1983 writing class at Naropa Institute. This is four sheets, stapled, printed on the front only.  

This copy formerly belonged to poet and Naropa student Richard Dillon, who annotated the list extensively with information from the class discussion.  This was acquired from Common Crow Books (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US).

Books Listed: 

• Brion Gysin: The Process
• Betty Bouthoueil [sic, Bouthoul]: La [sic, Le] Vieux de la Montagne 
• Joseph Conrad:
• The Inheritors
• Romance
• An Outcast of the Islands
• Under Western Eyes
• Almayer's Folly
• Denton Welch:
• Maiden Voyage
• In Youth is Pleasure
• Brave and Cruel
• A Voice through a Cloud
• A Last Sheaf
• The Denton Welch Journals
• Paul Bowles:
• The Sheltering Sky
• Let It Come Down
• Jane Bowles: My Sister's Hand in Mine
• Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline:
• Journey to the End of the Night
• Death on the Installment Plan
• Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller
• Carson McCullers:
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Reflections in a Golden Eye
• Samuel Beckett:
• Watt
• Murphy
• Malone
• Malone Dies
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: all works
• Jean Genet: all works
• Julien Green: 
• The Other Sleep
• The Pilgrim on the Earth
• The Closed Garden
• Leviathan
• If I Were You
• Joseph Hergesheimer: Cytheria
• Michael Arlen: The Green Hat
• Alexander Trocchi: Cain's Book
• James Coco (?) [sic, James Moncure March]:
• The Wild Party
• The Set Up
• Graham Greene: 
• The Power and the Glory
• The Heart of the Matter
• Our Man in Havana
• The Quiet American 
• Evelyn Waugh:
• Vile Bodies
• A Handful of Dust
• Brideshead Revisited 
• Petronius: The Satyricon 
• William Faulkner: Sanctuary 
• Lawrence Durrell:
• Justine
• Cleo
• Bathazar
• Mountolive 
• Jean Cocteau:
• Opium
• Les Enfants Terrible [sic, Terribles]
• Le Grande Écarte 
• Colette:
• Chéri
• Le fin de Chéri 
• Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano 
• W. B. Yeats: A Vision 
• B. Traven: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 
• Isabelle Eberhardt: The Oblivion Seekers 
• St.-John Perse: Anabasis 
• Go Yim [sic, William Goyen]: The House of Breath 
• Franz Kafka: all works
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: "A Short Trip Home"
• Bulwer Lytton: "The House and the Brain"
• Henry James: "The Turn of the Screw"
• Richard Blum: "The Firmin Child"
• Flannery O'Connor: "The Misfit" (and other stories)
• Tennessee Williams: short stories 
• Ernest Hemingway: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
• H. G. Wells: The Time Machine 
• Conrad Aiken: Silent Snow Secret Snow
• Thomas DeQuincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater 
• Jack Black: You Can't Win 
• David Rorvik: In His Image 
• E. Wallis Budge: Egyptian Language 
• Carlos Baker: Hemingway 
• John Horne Burns: The Gallery 
• Norman Mailer: Ancient Evenings 
• Julian Jaynes: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 
• John Le Carré: 
• The Looking Glass War
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Frederick Prokosch: 
• The Asiatics
• The Seven Who Fled 
• Ted Morgan: Maugham 
• Millicent Dillon:  A Little Original Sin 
• Duncan Fallowell: April Ashley's Odyssey 
• Brion Gysin with Terry Wilson: Here to Go: Planet R-101 
• William Nolan, M.D.: The Making of a Surgeon 
• Steven Horowitz, M.D.: Calling Doctor Horowitz 
• Doctor X: Intern 
• Jack Henry Abbott: In the Belly of the Beast 
• Stephen King: The Shining 
• Mario Puzo: The Godfather 
• Frederick Forsythe: 
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Odessa File
• The Dogs of War 
• John Fowles: The Magus 
• Glendon Swarthout: The Shootist 
• Henry Kuttner: Fury 
• Eric Frank Russell: Three to Conquer 
• Fred Saberhagen: Changeling Earth 
• Leigh Brackett: The Big Jump 
• Marion Zimmer Bradley: The World Wreckers 
• Suzy McKee Charnas: A Walk to the End of the World 
• John Jakes: Brak the Barbarian 
• Alan E. Nourse: The Blade Runner 
• Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man 
• Charlotte Jay: Beat not the Bones 
• John Brunner: The Dreaming Earth 
• Herbert Asbury: The Gangs of New York 
• Tobias Schneebaum: Keep the River on Your Right 
• Alfred Korzybski: Science and Sanity 
• John Dunne: An Experiment with Time 
• Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder: Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain 
• Robert Monroe: Journeys out of the Body
• P.E.I. [Isaac] Bonewits: Real Magic 
• David Conway: Magic 
• unstated [Simon]: The Necronomicon 
• Herbert Brean: How to Stop Smoking 
• Harry Lorraine and Jerry Lucas: The Memory Book 
• Lawrence LeShan: How to Meditate 
• Wolf Rilla:  The Writer and the Screen 
• Dwight V. Swain:  Film Script Writing 
• Jim Corbett: The Man-Eating Leopard 
• Frank Belknap: The Hounds of Tindalos 
• Robert Audrey: African Genesis 
• Edward R. Ricciuti: Killers of the Sea