Here is a list of some of the 800 or so books in JDM’s personal library:
Title: The green flash, and other low sun phenomena.
Author: O'Connell, D. J. K.
Year: 1958
Title: Any number can play
Author: Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-
Year: 1957
Title: Arouse and beware :
Author: Kantor, MacKinlay,
Year: 1957
Title: Battle for the mind.
Author: Sargant, William Walters.
Year: 1957
Title: The big book of science fiction
Author: Conklin, Groff, 1904-1968.
Year: 1957
Title: Bon voyage!
Author: Hayes, Marrijane, 1919-
Year: 1957
Title: Frontiers of astronomy.
Author: Hoyle, Fred, Sir.
Year: 1957
Title: The homecoming game
Author: Nemerov, Howard.
Year: 1957
Title: Language: an enquiry into its meaning and function.
Author: Anshen, Ruth Nanda, ed.
Year: 1957
Title: The miracle of language
Author: Laird, Charlton Grant, 1901-
Year: 1957
Title: Once a widow
Author: Roberts, Lee, 1908-1976.
Year: 1957
Title: This week's stories of mystery and suspense;
Year: 1957
Title: The American character.
Author: Brogan, D. W. (Denis William), 1900-1974.
Year: 1956
Title: Carnival girl : a novel
Author: Glendinning, Richard.
Year: 1956
Title: From the ground up; observations on contemporary architecture, housing, highway building, and civic design.
Author: Mumford, Lewis, 1895-
Year: 1956
Title: Let's look at America.
Author: Creasey, John.
Year: 1956
Title: The living tide
Author: Berrill, N. J. (Norman John), 1903-
Year: 1956
Title: The mind of the South.
Author: Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941.
Year: 1956
Title: The mystery writer's handbook; a handbook on the writing of detective, suspense, mystery, and crime stories.
Author: Mystery Writers of America.
Year: 1956
Title: On native grounds, an interpretation of modern American prose literature. Author: Kazin, Alfred, 1915-
Year: 1956
Title: Science fiction omnibus
Year: 1956
Title: The creative process; a symposium.
Author: Ghiselin, Brewster, 1903- ed.
Format: BookBook
Year: 1955
Title: Crime for two,
Author: Mystery Writers of America.
Year: 1955
Title: The edge of the sea.
Author: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Year: 1955
Title: How not to write a play.
Author: Kerr, Walter, 1913-
Year: 1955
Title: Aztecs of Mexico : origin, rise and fall of the Aztec nation
Author: Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945.
Year: 1951
Title: Frankly, George; or, Letters to a publisher from an author whose first book is about to appear,
Author: Morton, Charles W 1899-
Year: 1951
Title: Psychopathology of everyday life;
Author: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Year: 1951
Title: Big book of science fiction.
Author: Conklin, Groff, 1904-1968, ed.
Year: 1950
Title: Blackwater.
Author: O'Rourke, Frank, 1916-
Title: A dictionary of modern English usage
Author: Fowler, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933.
Year: 1950
Title: Modern abnormal psychology; a symposium.
Author: Mikesell, William Henry, 1887-
Year: 1950
Title: My Lord America.
Author: Rackowe, Alec, 1900-
Year: 1950
Title: Encyclopedia of criminology,
Author: Branham, Vernon Carnegie, 1889- ed.
Year: 1949
Title: Language in thought and action,
Author: Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-
Year: 1949
Title: Mirror for man : a survey of human behavior and social attitudes
Author: Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960.
Year: 1949
Title: Biography of the earth, its past, present and future.
Author: Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Year: 1948
Title: 101 plots used and abused
Author: Young, James Nicholas, 1885-
Year: 1946
Title: Confessions of a story writer
Author: Gallico, Paul, 1897-
Year: 1946
Title: 10-in-1 dictionary of basic language in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Esperanto,
Author: Rodd, Marcel.
Year: 1945
Title: The birth and death of the sun; stellar evolution and subatomic energy,
Author: Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Year: 1945
Title: The white deer,
Author: Thurber, James, 1894-1961
Year: 1945
Title: Writing detective and mystery fiction,
Author: Burack, A. S. (Abraham Saul), 1908-
Year: 1945
Title: Hemingway,
Author: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Year: 1944
Title: The shape of books to come.
Author: Adams, James Donald, 1891-1968.
Year: 1944
Title: The craft of novel writing.
Author: Burack, A. S. (Abraham Saul), 1908-
Year: 1942
Title: The munshi; a standard Hindustani grammar (with exercises and full vocabulary) officially recommended for examinations in Urdu.
Author: Haidari, Mohamed Akbar Khan.
Year: 1942
Title: The crisis of our age; the social and cultural outlook,
Author: Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968.
Year: 1941
Title: Under the sea-wind, a naturalist's picture of ocean life,
Author: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Year: 1941