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After the Ford Madox Ford these in no particular order, i'll have forgotten so many books too, but

Beckett's Trilogy
Complete Short Prose
How It Is
Watt
Murphy
Krapp's Last Tape - so to my name
Not I

Tristram Shandy

i'd love to choose all of Faulkner but will stick with
Absalom, Absalom, the Wild Palms and Light in August

Kleist's stories
Kafka's short stories and diaries
The brother's Karamazov
Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
Chekhov's short stories
Marguerite Yourcenar's "memoirs of Hadrian"
Jean Rhys, the Wide Sargasso Sea
Genet's the thief's journal
Zeno's conscience, Italo Svevo
Thomas Bernhard's memoir "Gathering Evidence" is my favourite of the several that i've read
Iris Murdoch's The Sea The Sea..also The Philosopher's Pupil
Melville's shorter works along with the whale book -i've still to read Poe
William Gaddis, The Recognitions
Goytisolo's Marks of Identity, also Forbidden Territories

Virgil's georgics as well as the Aeneid, Dante's Purgatorio, so to a couple of favourite scholarly volumes, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" and John Frecerro's Dante: the poetics of conversion. I love too much philosophy to include much here, so i'll stick with the presocratics, Duns Scotus and Merleau-Ponty, John Caputo's book on Heidegger, Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein. A couple of good volumes on the presocratics by Gregory Vlastos, and more recently Jonathan Barnes

Also Christopher Rick's "Beckett's Dying Words" and Adam Piette's book on acoustic memory in Joyce, Proust, Mallarme and Beckett "remembering and the sound of words" these together with Badiou's incredibly energetic commitment to Beckett have seen me through thick and thin Likewise David C Lindberg and Richard S Westphall for the history of science

Celan, Hopkins, Clare, Eliot as i've already mentioned

undisciplined but disciplined and probably many more than fifty, but that's a start anyway, i just want to be reading all the time