01The Anatomy of Melancholy
“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source

Nick Cave
Nick Cave is the singer-songwriter behind Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the author of novels including And the Ass Saw the Angel. Through his newsletter The Red Hand Files he answers fan questions, and in Issue 101 he wrote out fifty books he loves. Picks below come from those letters.
01“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
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03“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
04“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
05“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
06“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
07“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
08“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.”source
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10“Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.”source
11“This is in no way definitive and by no means reflects the best books I have read, nor are these necessarily the greatest books by the particular author I have chosen, but here are a dozen books of fiction that I love.”source
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13“Here are a dozen books of fiction that I love. Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.”source
14“Here are a dozen books of fiction that I love. Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.”source
15“Here are a dozen books of fiction that I love. Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.”source
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17“I try to read, at the very least, a half-hour of poetry a day, before I begin to do my own writing. It jimmies open the imagination, making the mind more receptive to metaphor and abstraction.”source
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