A Green Tree Reading List

Lafferty’s In a Green Tree contains the titles of many works and makes allusions to others.

Here is a partial Green Tree reading list:

Adams, Henry: The Education of Henry Adams

Appleton, Victor: Tom Swift books

Arlen, Michael: The Green Hat

Belloc, Hilaire: Multiple works including History of England and The Servile State

Benet, Stephen Vincent: "The King of the Cats"

Bennet, Arnold: Mentioned as an author in The Week-End Library

Biggers, Earl Derr: Seven Keys to Baldpate

Bruns, Friedrich: Book of German Lyrics

Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan books

Byrne, Donn: Blind Raftery

Caesar, Julius: Caesar's Commentaries

Cather, Willa: Death Comes to the Archbishop

Chardenal, C. A.: Complete French Course

Chesterfield, Lord (Philip Stanhope): Letters, Sentences, and Maxims

Chesterton, G.K.: Multiple works including The Man Who Was Thursday

Cobb, Irving S.: Mentioned as an author in The Week-End Library

Conrad, Joseph: Youth

Cook, Albert Stanburrough: First Book of Old English

Corvo, Baron (Frederick Rolfe): A History of the Borgias

Dana, Richard Henry Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast

Daniell, Alfred: French Scientific Reader

Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders

Descartes, René: Philosophical Writings

Dickens, Charles: Bleak House

Dieker (Davis): Elements of Surveying

Doyle, Arthur Conan: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy

Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers

Duncan, J.: Applied Mechanics for Engineers

Ellis, Havelock: The Dance of Life

Farrell, James T.: Studs Lonigan series

Ferber, Edna: Mentioned as an author in The Week-End Library

Finn, Father Francis J.: Tom Playfair, Percy Wynn, Harry Dee

Fitzpatrick, Benedict: Ireland and the Making of Britain

Génicot, Édouard: Theologia Moralis

Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Gogol, Nikolai: Taras Bulba

Gross, Milt: Dunt Esk

Hemingway, Ernest: Men Without Women

Herodotus: The Persian Wars

Hills, E.C. and J.D.M. Ford: First Spanish Course

Horn, Alfred Aloysius (and Ethelreda Lewis): Trader Horn

Hubbard, Elbert: Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book

Hudson, W. H.: Green Mansions

Hueneker (Huneker), James: Painted Veils

Hugo, Victor: Mentioned as an author of works about the sewers of Paris.

Huxley, Aldous: Jesting Pilate

Jeffers, Robinson: Roan Stallion and Other Poems

Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake

Lawrence, D.H.: Mentioned in the context of inventing sex as a literary theme.

Lawrence, T.E.: The Revolt in the Desert

Livy (Titus Livius): The History of Rome

Ludwig, Emil: Napoleon

Machiavelli, Niccolò: The Prince and The Discourses

Marquis, Don: archy and mehitabel and "The Revolt of the Oyster"

Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage

Melville, Herman: Mardi, Omoo, Typee

Mencken, H.L.: Prejudices Sixth Series

Mommsen, Theodor: The History of Rome

Morley, Christopher: Where the Blue Begins

Newman, John Henry: Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Grammar of Assent

Noyes, Alfred: "The Highwayman"

O'Casey, Sean: Mentioned as a playwright whose work was seen.

O'Neill, Eugene: Mentioned as a playwright whose works were read.

Pascal, Blaise: Pensees and The Provincial Letters

Patten, Gilbert (as Burt L. Standish): Frank Merriwell books

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Complete Works of Poe

Polo, Marco: The Travels of Marco Polo

Prescott, William H.: History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru

Rabelais, François: Alluded to through his characters Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Rambaud, Alfred: Civilisation Française

Rice, Elmer: Mentioned as a playwright whose works were read.

Saki (H. H. Munro): The Short Stories of Saki

Scott, Walter: Rob Roy, Kenilworth, Old Mortality

Shakespeare, William: The Complete Works

Skeat, Walter W.: A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Stall, Sylvanus: What A Young Boy Ought To Know

Steinbeck, John: Mentioned.

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle): The Charterhouse of Parma

Stephens, James: Deirdre

Stephens, John L.: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

Stevenson, Robert Louis: Travels with a Donkey and An Inland Voyage

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Stripling, T.S.: Mentioned as an author in The Week-End Library

Sue, Eugene: Mentioned as an author of works about the sewers of Paris.

Sutting: Primer of Navigation

Sweet, Henry: Anglo-Saxon Reader

Symonds, John Addington: Renaissance in Italy

Synge, John Millington: Mentioned as a playwright whose work was seen.

Tarkington, Booth: The Magnificent Ambersons

Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair and Barry Lyndon

Van Vechten, Carl: Parties

Vasari, Giorgio: Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects

Verne, Jules: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Wallace, Edgar: Mentioned as an author in The Week-End Library

Walsh, James J.: The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries

Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine and Other Stories

West, Nathanael: The Day of the Locust

Wilder, Thornton: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wiseman, Nicholas: Fabiola

Wolfe, Thomas: Mentioned.

Wood, De Volson: Principles of Elementary Mechanics

Wood-Allen, Mary: What A Young Girl Ought To Know

Wordsworth, William: "My heart leaps up when I behold."

Xenophon (ed. Clark): Anabasis

Young, G.F.: The Medici

Other Alluded-to Creators (Historians, Philosophers, Theologians, Cartoonists, etc.)

Burton, Robert: Quoted for "A fabis abstinete!" (from Pythagoras).

Congar, Yves: Called a "pop Catholic writer."

Fox, Fontaine: Alluded to as the creator of the Toonerville Trolley comic strip.

Keynes, John Maynard: Alluded to through the term "Keynesian."

McIntire, O.O.: Mentioned as the writer of the column "New York Day by Day."

Murray, John Courtney: Mentioned as a "pop Catholic writer."

Opper, Frederick Burr: Alluded to as the creator of the Happy Hooligan comic strip.

Plato: Mentioned by name.

Pythagoras: Quoted via Burton.

Suenens, Cardinal Léon Joseph: Mentioned as a "pop Catholic writer."

Tacitus: Quoted: "Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appelunt."

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre: Mentioned as a "pop Catholic writer."

Ziff, William B.: Quoted directly on the subject of Palestinian Arabs.