Guardian Essential LibraryArt and Music
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Clear your shelves of dog-eared airport novels, forgettable potboilers and half-read works of non-fiction.
We asked eminent writers to choose 10 books from their respective fields to make up a show more capsule library of indispensable volumes. The only rules were that the books had to be in print and readily available in the UK.
From art to science via fiction and memoir, these are their selections for the Guardian's Essential Library of 100 vital books. Collect them, then read them...
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Essays on Music (2002) by Theodor Adorno |
The Painter of Modern Life (1964) by Charles Baudelaire |
Beethoven's Letters (1926) by Ludwig van Beethoven |
Ways of Seeing (1972) by John Berger |
The Story of Art (1950) by E. H. Gombrich |
The Glenn Gould Reader (1984) by Glenn Gould |
Doctor Faustus (1947) by Thomas Mann |
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1971) by Charles Rosen |
Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition (2002) by Igor Stravinsky |
The Lives of the Artists (1957) by Giorgio Vasari |
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