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While at my father's last weekend I collected a box of books that I had been storing with him since 1999. They are the books that I prized above all others, the ones that I considered to be the "essential Christopher".

It was a big box so I shan't list them all today but here are a few of the titles:

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The African Queen by CS Forester
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Defence Diaries of W. Morgan Petty edited by Brian Bethell
Grimms Fairy Tales
Wilderness Seasons by Ian and Sally Wilson
Nahanni Trailhead by Joanne Ronan Moore
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale
The People's Guide to Backpacking, Boating and Camping in Mexico by Carl Franz

The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
Paris in the Terror by Stanley Loomis
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell
94 Hikes in the Canadian Rockies by Dee Urbick and Vicky Spring
Urban Alert! Emergency Survival for City Dwellers by Mary Ellen Clayton
The Wilderness Cabin by Calvin Rutstrum
The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
The Treasure of Topo-El-Bampo by Scott O'Dell

The Stikine River - Alaska Geographic
My Side of the Mountain by Jean George
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Stirling
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets edited by Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace (1965 edition)
Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip Jose Farmer
Ten Year to Doomsday by Chester Anderson and Michael Kurland
The Micronauts by Gordon Williams
Papillon by Henri Charriere

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
The Hook by Denis Cleary and Frank Maher
Nuclear War edited by Gregory Benford and Martin Harry Greenberg
For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
The Postman by Davin Brin
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
James Bond: The Authorised Biography by John Pearson
Tales of Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer
Fatherland by Robert Harris
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary Wolf
Shogun by James Clavell
Check your Own IQ by HJ Eysenck
The Blue of Capricorn by Eugene Burdick (1962 edition)
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer (1968 edition)
After Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Roots by Alex Haley
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
The Chernobyl Syndrome...And How To Survive It by Dean Ing
The HAB Theory by Allan W. Eckert
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Creator by Jeremy Leven
Fields of Fire by James Webb
Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
Long Voyage Back by Luke Rhinehart

Tai Ki by Kuno Knobl
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
No Blade of Grass by John Christopher (1971 edition)
The End Of The Matter by Alan Dean Foster
Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster
Dead Calm by Charles Williams (1965 edition)
World War III by John Stanley
Man From Atlantis #1 by Richard Woodley
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Fire From Within by Carlos Castaneda
Var the Stick by Piers Anthony
And All The Stars a Stage by James Blish
Bordertown edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Executioner #1 by Don Pendleton
Dhalgren by Samual R. Delany