What book would you want folio to make a version of?

I would love a nice version of The Magus by John Fowles or Cats Cradle by Vonnegut or even Laybyrinths by Luis Borges.

What would you ask for?

Folio published Labyrinths in 2007. It doesn't pop up very often on the secondary market.

I’ve longed for more Italo Calvino, especially Invisible Cities, but so many of his works are perfect for the Folio treatment- if on a winters night a traveler, Cosmicomics, The Castle of Crossed Destinies...

They’ve done Labyrinths already by the way, you can usually find it decently priced second hand. If they did more Borges, I’d really like A Universal History of Infamy. It’s not one of the collections for which Borges is remembered, but I love that faux encyclopedia style and Borges’ manipulation of real historic events in spinning yarns about pirates and cowboys and gangsters.

Many thanks I was unaware of Labyrinths already existing I will definitely try to hunt down a copy.

A 4 volume deluxe leather edition of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit with a significant number of color illustrations (25 per volume) the quality of Alan Lee or Ul de Rico (Ring of the Nibelung). Both the Folio Society and Easton Press editions are disappointing.

>2 bookfair_e:
Was lucky enough to get one on ebay.
Back then I was a student, so I had to spend quite a few pounds to snatch it from fellow bidders. But I am a great admirer of Borges'.
And yes, it pops up rarely. When it does, it's often subject to a fierce bidding war. I've seen some prices go up to 65 pounds. I wouldn't mind Folio redoing the book. The 2007 edition looks a bit bland imo.

>1 Charon49:
The God of Small Things or The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Both books had an immense impact on me when I was around 18-20. The former made me seek the award-winning books (I didn't know what the Booker was at the time) and is the reason why at 26 I've read so many novels.
The second changed the way I normally think about things. Kundera is a master. I've yet to come across an author who writes like him.

>6 Kainzow:

Unless you are very, very lucky, Labyrinths is never inexpensive.

The last two copies on ebay sold for £35 and £49.

There are 5 copies on Abe ranging from £54 to £100.

>1 Charon49: The Magus is my number one request, and will remain so. For that matter, the Fowles big four (Collector/Magus/FLW/Daniel Martin) would make a sweet set. My credit card would fly from my wallet.

The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny would be my wish. One of those books that I submerged into and perceived the world differently when I surfaced

Despite the recent edition, I'd still enjoy it if FS did Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. As for Gaiman, an FS edition of Neverwhere would be a wonderful gift for a friend, and I'd enjoy it, too. Neither of us likes the current illustrated edition (Riddell) very much.

And I'm still hoping for Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I don't understand why they didn't do this as opposed to Starship Troopers.

>10 SF-72: And I'm still hoping for Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I don't understand why they didn't do this as opposed to Starship Troopers

Yeah, I'm still shaking my head over that one.

Cloud Atlas. I loved how it plays with narrative structure and language, and how it neatly ties in six different stories. It could be a challenge for them but I trust they would accept it if they had the opportunity. Also I hope they use the US edition. Apparently there are two separate editions for each side of the pond, but the UK one sounded a bit off... maybe because I read the US version, or maybe because I watched the movie adaptation, which adapts the US edition, before reading the actual book (which I usually do for books that were turned into movies, strangely).

I'd second the choices of the Calvino books as well as Cloud Atlas. Speaking of David Mitchell, I'd also love to see what FS would do with The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. And I will repeat my prior calls for some Cormac McCarthy.

How about folio editions of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy? The potential for creative illustration would truly be wonderful. Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra have alien beings and That Hidden Strength has scenes that would lend themselves to good artistic work.

>8 ArchStanton:
Perhaps it's taking them a long time to decide which version to use.

>13 Redshirt:
Yes, I loved reading "The Thousand Autumns of "Jacob De Zoet". An opportunity for some interesting illustrations for sure.

>14 jillmwo: A great suggestion.

I will of course say the same thing I say in all of these threads: Shogun and Tai-Pan.

I agree with you so bloody much. FS LOTR is a disappointment. The one time i mentioned to them that it could do with an update, they were quite terse and told me that it sells very well and is, in fact, one of their most popular products.

I would love to see;

• a new LOTR. Better than this set.( single volume/set bound in red moiré silk, with Alan Lee or similar illustrations )

• Anything by George Gissing

• a Thomas Hardy poetry collection

• more Ursula k le Guin books

• more P G Wodehouse (Piccadilly Jim, Monty Bodkin, etc.)

• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• The Idiot by Dostoyevsky (anything by Dostoyevsky)

• Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

• Anything by D H Lawrence

All of these would be an instant buy for me.

The Magus is such a wonderful suggestion - I was just thinking about it recently with my signed franklin library editions and how perfect a folio would be.

One I’d love to see is the cremator by Ladislav Fuks, or anything by Ismail kadare or I served the king of England by Hrabal

I would love to see any of the following:

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
Peter the Great by Robert Massie
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison Salisbury

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

Walter Scott, Chesterton in sets.

Complete Chesterton in sets would be awesome!

T.S. Eliot as individual editions 'four quartets reprint' 'the waste land' etc etc.

I agree that it took some time to warm towards the Ingahild Grathmer illustrations for the Lord of the Rings edition but I think there is a beauty to them. Only chapter headings mostly though is quite disappointing. I did grow up with the Alan Lee and John Howe illustrations which would make for a very nice folio edition that I’d prefer over the current most likely.

I’d also welcome an edition of Invisible cities and many more of the great suggestions. The only Cormac McCarthy I have read is the road.

>14 jillmwo: "How about folio editions of C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy?"

I agree and I've mentioned these on similar threads in the past.

My other hobbyhorse is the novels of John Cowper Powys, eg.,

Wolf Solent
A Glastonbury Romance
Weymouth Sands
Maiden Castle
Owen Glendower, and a misprint-free edition of
Porius.

If ever there was a classic author crying out for the Folio treatment, JCP is that one.

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

>19 sekhmet0108: FS have done Buddenbrooks in 1989, and I acquired a copy on the secondary market.

I would like to see Dandelion Wine, any of W G Sebald’s novels, Hilary Mantel, more Penelope Fitzgerald, Pat Barker’s Ghost Road trilogy, Elena Ferrante, Alice Munro and as others have suggested Calvino, Kundera and more Ursula Le Guin.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
Mystic River or Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Pet Cemetery by Stephen King

>29 fiascoborelli:

Oh yes for 'The Last Unicorn'.

>27 EdmundRodriguez: Two of my favorite nominees - it seems we have similar taste. Magnificent books both. I'll of course add A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I'll have to give A Canticle for Leibowitz a read then!

Yes! An FS edition of Canticle for Leibowitz! I would sell and arm and a leg for that

>33 Scholastico:

Your arm and leg?

Or

An Arm and a Leg and a Canticle for Leibowitz: the Sequel!

Yeah, having a deluxe edition of those books would be nice, especially with more illustrations. I hate it when they make big books with only a handful of illustrations! I will be sending my LOTR from FS back because of the text print quality issues - some of the text is faded on most of the pages.

I'd like to see them do the Flashman Papers, perhaps in three instalments, like the Hornblower sets.

>29 fiascoborelli: Gone Girl, really?

>26 boldface: Agreed! Just imagine the complete Porius or A Glastonbury Romance given the luxury two-volume treatment they are lavishing on Game of Thrones... dream on!

The Spider's House - Paul Bowles

Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Watership Down

>38 davidjbrown10: "Just imagine the complete Porius or A Glastonbury Romance given the luxury two-volume treatment they are lavishing on Game of Thrones... dream on!"

Yes, indeed, I am dreaming. With decent paper, both would need two volumes to be a comfortable read. Whom do you think would be the most suitable illustrators? Unless they were very versatile it would probably be someone different for each. I haven't got a clue at the moment, but I think we need to look outside the box. Dream on!

>14 jillmwo:, >26 boldface:

Thinking further along the lines of C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy (Dream on!), another long standing wish of mine, which is not a million miles from the current Folio binge on fantasy and horror, is a set of the the novels of Charles Williams. I see that my old paperback edition of All Hallows' Eve has an introduction by no less a figure than T. S. Eliot.

War in Heaven
Many Dimensions
The Place of the Lion
The Greater Trumps
Shadows of Ecstasy
Descent into Hell
All Hallows' Eve

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good.
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Wordsworth

There is an existing forum thread which is basically the same thing (https://www.librarything.com/topic/316028), but as it's a perpetually fascinating topic, I'll post what I posted in that one:

Anything by Terry Pratchett, Ian M. Banks or George MacDonald Fraser.
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Depending on how its done, would consider Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Infinite Jest, Beyond Good and Evil, or a collection of Chekhov short stories.

-The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
-The Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Harry Brockway
-Hamlet, illustrated by Gill
-The works of the Apostle John
-Any ancient work or chronicle through the middle ages. Especially of Russia or China
-Paul Revere by Esther Forbes

Any Irish literature or history would be instant buy. I would love to see:
JM Synge The Aran Islands/Plays
Seamus Heaney
Robert Graves The White Goddess
Maria Gimbutas
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar/Ariel
Charlotte Brontë Villette
The Mabinogi

Tom Reamy - Blind Voices

>45 Beth38:

I completely agree about Villette by Charlotte Brontë. It's such a shame they want to stop the books at three and left this one out.

YES! And throw in Gai Jin and Noble House to complete the set!

>42 boldface: Illustrator(s) for JCP? My favorite of those I am familiar with from other FS purchases is Peter Suart, whose work added much distinction to their edition of Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy some years ago (and Davies was a great fan of JCP!). I can imagine some intricate Grail-inspired illustrations for Glastonbury, though the colorful sweep of some of its scenes might benefit from a more naturalistic approach.

And yes, I too am somewhat of a fan of Charles Williams, though not of C.S. Lewis.

>48 StrangerThing: I can live without Gai-Jin, I find it really dull and a slog to get through, but Noble House for sure.

Education of Henry Adams. Pharsalia. Shahnameh. Paracelsus. Muqadimmah. A non-ugly edition of In Search of Lost Time. Vollmann's Rising Up Rising Down. Short stories of Isaac Babel. Martial's Epigrams. Dream of the Red Chamber. Journey to the West. James Newman's 'Mathematics and the Imagination.' Habibi by Craig Thompson (although the trade edition is already lovely). Maybe some Octavia Butler. A Savage War of Peace.

Hall of Mirrors - Robert Stone

>51 MobyRichard:

I gave up on the Henry Adams and purchased the LEC version of both 'The Education of Henry Adams' and 'Mont Saint Michel...' and am pretty satisfied. I had been asking since 2013 and figured it hadn't hit a survey yet.

I think it's time FS did "The Beach", by Alex Garland.

A History of the Franks - Gregory of Tours . As far as I can tell this has never been done by the FS and would make an excellent addition.

Poetry of Les Murray

>56 d-b:
Surely you are joking Mr.d-b?

Les Murray? I would buy that instantly - fantastic direct and moving stuff.

>55 Sorion:

Lovely choice. No they have not issued it, some books reference the work but that's as close as it gets.

>55 Sorion:
I too would immediately buy this. I was pleased when they finally published Piers Plowman and it quickly found its way to my shelf.

>55 Sorion: Yes, absolutely.

The Gulag Archipelago, unabridged. And Solzhenitsyn's complete Red Wheel.

>53 Cubby.R.S.:

I'm devouring Adam's History of the United States. That certainly could merit the FS treatment.

>62 ultrarightist: FS released The Gulag Archipelago back, I believe, in 2005. There appear to be a few copies doing the rounds on eBay.

>62 ultrarightist: I am aware, thank you. It is a one volume abridgment. I would like an unabridged edition.

I'm hoping the sequel novels to Howl's Moving Castle will get the same treatment. I would like to have nice editions to match the FS one.

>63 MobyRichard:

I do so love Henry Adams. I love the work of the entire family and find their writings quite enjoyable, but Henry seems to offer the culmination of many generations of learning. There's something quite wonderful in the, do not find too much too important but attempt to observe all that you can with regard. It's great stuff.

I would consider finding the LEC versions of his work, because it is highly unlikely Folio will get around to publishing them. They are not the nicest covers ever done by LEC, but the paper is worth it.

seconded!

I'd also love The Neverending Story getting this treatment.

>66 DubiouslyDarling:

I would really enjoy that, too.

Roadside Picnic.

Hey guys! I’m new on here but just getting into Folio. I prefer fiction. Would love to see any book by Michael Crichton...preferably Jurassic Park probably. I’d also love to see The Martian by Andy Weir which to me is a great page turner.

I would love to see their take on these:

- Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson
- The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
- The Pearl by Steinbeck
- The Day of the Locust by West
- Invisible Man by Ellison
- The Road by McCarthy
- Cloud Atlas by Mitchell

It would also be fun to see these series:

- Richard Sharpe Series by Cornwell
- John Carter of Mars Series by Burroughs

Is there anyone who has read and loves The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten? I think it’s one of the funniest books ever written but for some reason he seems to be kind of forgotten (in comparison with P. G. Wodehouse, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, Stephen Leacock). I’d be happy if any publisher reprinted it as a hardback but a FS version I’d get at any price.

I was introduced to Hyman Kaplan way back in my high school days, early 60's. Have to agree that it was some of the most hilarious writing and characterization.

>74 LG2: That makes me really happy - if there are some people remembering it there might be hope yet that one exists among the publishers too. :)

From what I gather, he's not very well known in English speaking countries for some reason (despite originating there). In the Czech Rep. on the other hand it's quite popular, easy to get in stores (translated). But it's such a strange kind of book to succeed in a foreign language when its humour is all about the English language and the hilarious mistakes one can make in it. Any translation is almost a new version of the story, given most of the dialogue has to be remade into jokes that would work in the grammar of the target language.

So I just don't get it, how it could have survived randomly in a country that can't fully appreciate the comedic genius of it because the version they know is practically a whole different novel. Yet, in America and the UK it seems to only exist in paperback or as old prints in atrocious state.

Does FS care at all about people's suggestions? Worth a try? :)

The Magicians by Lev Grossman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Just something I was thinking of since FS has been doing collections of Marvel comics, I would totally pay to have really nice Omnibus collections of classic manga, such as Rose of Versailles. Devilman would probably sell very good as well, but getting rights to such things is tricky. If they keep doing Marvel I would like for them to consider maybe giving more recent comics a turn, such as the Matt Fraction's run of Hawkeye. It would be a hit for sure!

Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together, with the first full English translation.

>78 ultrarightist: +1

Embers by Sandor Marai
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds
Jack London's short stories
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Browning
The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Gray

Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen
Waiting for the Galactic Bus by Parke Godwin.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (or any Cormac McCarthy)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (series)

LA Quartet by James Ellroy

>33 Scholastico: Leibowitz is certainly a classic which deserves the fine book treatment.

- Anything by George Gissing (a triple book boxset of The Odd Women, The Nether World and New Grub Street would make me go insane)

- Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon

- The Egoist by George Meredith

- Anything by Émile Zola's Les Rougons-Macquart (i know Germinal was taken out a while back, but i can't seem to find a reasonably priced one)

- Evelina by Frances Burney

- Indiana by George Sand

- Trilby by George du Maurier

- Poems by Thomas Hardy

- All the light we never see by Anthony Doerr

- Biographies of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing

(And more classic box sets)

>87 RRCBS: agree with all of this and would add some new Sit Walter Scott novels!

I see that a lot of people have already mentioned books that I want! I'll post my list anyway and just be seconding some of the wonderful suggestions here.

Diana Wynne Jones:
-Howl's Moving Castle Series (Castle in the Air, House of Many Ways)
-Magids (Deep Secret, The Merlin Conspiracy)
-The Worlds of Chrestomanci

C.S. Lewis:
-The Space Trilogy
-The Chronicles of Narnia
(I know they've done Narnia twice already but both were before I started buying Folio books for myself and I have been unable to find a complete set in very good condition for resale anywhere. I'd even spend the extra money on it if they did it as a limited edition.)

Tolkien:
-Roverandom
-Smith of Wootton Major
(These and some of his other short stories would be beautiful done as a collection.)

Atwood:
-The Penelopiad

Peter S. Beagle:
-The Last Unicorn

More cookbooks/food related books would be nice too.

>85 adiouri: "The Westing Game - Raskin"

Nice idea.

>86 sekhmet0108: "All the light we never see by Anthony Doerr"

A GREAT idea.

Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield. IMHO, much better than the Provincial Lady books.

>88 roserainford: cookbooks

I was just thinking about this the other day, but in the opposite sense. My cookbooks are kept separately from my library, just like my school books and auto repair manuals, as they are treated like functional reference books. I was asking myself if I'd ever buy a fine edition of a cookbook and couldn't imagine a scenario where I would. Odds are, it would have food residue in it upon first use!

>92 treereader: I guess the fact that I have a cookbook stand in my kitchen (and that I always wash my hands before flipping any pages) might bias my thinking a bit but I've never gotten any food on my cookbooks while cooking. They're all in pristine condition and I have a dedicated bookshelf in my kitchen for them. It would be nice to have some prettier copies to spice up the look of it, excuse the expression. I had purchased two cookbooks during the New Year's sale and had been very excited to receive them but unfortunately that package was lost in the post. (With it being almost July and me having ordered it at the end of December I can positively say it is disappeared for good.) I would love another chance to buy some cookbooks from Folio but I very much understand your point of view on why you wouldn't want to spend the money on that.

>88 roserainford:

I see from the list of latest members we must welcome you twice to our ranks. Welcome! (That was the second one). If you're planning on hanging around I heartily urge you to absorb in its entirety the Folio Society Devotees Wiki. which you'll find at:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees

Anything and everything you need to know about the Folio Society and its books is contained there. Be prepared to kiss goodbye to your bank balance.

>94 folio_books: Thank you for the warm welcome! I've been collecting them for a little while and my mother was a member back when the membership system was in place. I have spent more money than advisable on these books already. One thing I can't seem to figure out is how you are linking to the name of the person you are replying to on here? I clicked reply and it doesn't seem to show who I am replying to. Advice please?

>95 roserainford: Just enter > with the number of the comment next to it. The system will do the rest.

And welcome to the group! Be sure to read up on the wiki and feel free to share any questions you have.

>96 Fierylunar: Thank you! (I see that is actually in the wiki now that I'm looking at it. I will review that first before asking anything else in the future. Thank you for explaining so kindly!) I am looking forward to posting here and expanding my Folio collection.

>93 roserainford: "spice up the look of it"

Haha, well played!

I'm not seasoned enough (ha!) to be so efficient at each step to not accidentally muck up a page in a cookbook every so often. In my case, the usual culprit is a splash of liquid, not a fingerprint. I can imagine a much better cook getting away with nicer books, though.

>97 roserainford:

Dont be afraid to ask anyway - it's a lengthy Wiki!

A Little Princess reprint
North and South reprint
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Matilda
Sherlock Holmes

Suggested by others:
Flowers for Algernon (Though I requested this of FS years ago)
The Westing Game
Evelina by Frances Burney

>100 eatanygoodbooks:

I know quite a few people who would buy North and South. It remains very popular, partly due to the BBC series which keeps attracting new readers, too.

So many books. But i would like FS to go back to their roots and publish Maurier`s Cornish novels the most of all, in a re-design like they did Rebecca, would be a very nice set

It wouldn`t bother me if they published some more modern classics either, that deserved it of course, and `The Magus` and `Haunting at Hill House` have been highly sought after on librarything since before the beginning of man

.. and i still don`t have a nice edition of IT by Stephen King, i am not the wildest SK fan, but it would be nice with a volume to go with Folio Society`s The Shining, and i would like that book in particular, and i am not alone.

There are many others of course ..

>102 Pellias: "...i still don`t have a nice edition of IT by Stephen King..."

Have you looked at Cemetery Dance's edition of It? There were 3 states (all of which sold out long ago but can be had on the secondary market): lettered (52 copies, originally listed for $2,000, can be had for ~$5k), numbered artist edition (750 copies, originally listed for $475, can be had for ~$2k), gift edition (2,750 copies, originally listed for $125, can be had for ~$600). I don't have one, but have drooled over pics and spec sheets of all three editions on several occasions (I hope to eventually get a gift edition).

More detail at:

https://www.cemeterydance.com/it-25th-anniversary-special-edition.html

...although you can no longer buy it directly from them.

>103 St._Troy: Here goes. I don`t want a secondhand IT. I want an in-print IT. I am not paying crazy money for any of the previous published IT publications. I preferably want a FS IT, or a Suntup IT (if it`s not to crazy, well we all know that would be crazy, but anyway ..).

IT will happen someday ! :)

But most of all, i want those cornish novels ! I like the mood in Maurier`s books.

Do you have any wishes Rob?

>105 Pellias: "Do you have any wishes Rob?"

Almost too many to list, but I'll give it my best.

When it comes to horror (and not all of these are horror), I generally like the productions from Cemetery Dance and Centipede Press, and Suntup looks like it might be better than them (I would like a Suntup edition of most anything). Folio Society (as you may have deduced from my presence on this thread) is also a favorite of mine, although I find them to be a strange fit for horror - but that could be due to my lack of fondness for their edition of The Shining. However, I wouldn't want to rule them out.

Works I'd like special editions of, from whatever publisher:

Shadowland by Peter Straub - probably the best book that I feel no one pays much attention to; Gauntlet Press did a special edition years ago, but it doesn't do much for me.

Ghost Story by Peter Straub - behind Shadowland, but not far. Centipede has an edition of this on the way, but it's beyond my budget, and even if it weren't, I don't like the artistic direction they went with.

The Thief Of Always by Clive Barker - there have been a few, but nothing to my liking.

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker - CD did one, I missed out; I would take that, or another.

Different Seasons by Stephen King - for those who don't know, this is NOT horror; it is a fantastic collection of four novellas, two of which were the basis for the movies The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.

The Running Man by Stephen King - the basis of the horrifically awful (because they took inexcusable liberties with it) Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name and one of the short novels King originally published under the "Richard Bachman" pseudonym (in fact, if you seek a copy of this, you may need to use this name; I don't know if it has ever been published under King's own name).

Insomnia by Stephen King - there has been one already, but not to my liking.

The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs - a short novel ("novel" may be too grand a word) for children which I still re-read to this day (I'm 51); it is the first book I ever enjoyed, the one that touched off my love for reading, and which means quite a bit to me.

A set of the works of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells and Booker T. Washington would be nice.

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter - an amazing book; supposedly FS will eventually get to that.

The Name Of The Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - the first two books of his Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy (third book to come...eventually). I would kill to see what Suntup could do with these.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt - incredible writing, engrossing story.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but this is a start.

>106 St._Troy: "Different Seasons by Stephen King - for those who don't know, this is NOT horror; it is a fantastic collection of four novellas, two of which were the basis for the movies The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me."

I was just thinking that Different Seasons might make for a nice little slipcased four-volume curiosity from Folio. I like Stephen King movies, and can't say I'm a rabid reader of his, but if I could buy only one book of his in a nice format, it would be Different Seasons.

Also, one more of the four stories was made into a movie - Apt Pupil (I forget King's name for the story). Technically, all four of them, to varying degrees, could be considered psychological horrors.

>106 St._Troy: Have to write fast. I am making a late dinner.

I actually like FS `The Shining` not the greatest fan of the illustrations, but the book itself is well made and i like handling the book itself, therefore i want more (IT), i don`t like to handle the Cemetery Dance volumes as much as a FS book (but good enough). Of those titles you mention Name of the Wind, could be FS material i think, FS have been going more that way of late, also i was close to mention Secret History by Donna Tartt (had to check it were actually two `t`s`) myself. It is as you know highly recommended on "many" listings. Who knows which way FS will go come near future in terms of titles.

About that dinner ..

I'd prefer The Stand by King. But maybe FS already did that, it's gonna take me a decade to actually get through the wiki and find out how much I've missed out on exactly.

Some that I list have been mentioned by others.

The Neverending Story
Sphere (Michael Crichton)
Watership Down
A collection of Philip K Dick Short Stories
Who Goes There? by John Campbell (It's too short for FS to ever consider doing, but I would love to see the illustrations)

Francis Bacon Collection (I haven't looked, but I'm sure FS did this at one point)
H. L. Mencken Collection

I'm a big science fiction reader and FS has been really good with the classics both modern and in the public domain.

Some very fun suggestions in this thread.

I'm still hoping for the six core "Elric" books to be given the Folio treatment. Preferably in a couple of volumes that collect them all.
The Lewis Barnavelt books by Bellairs are quite enjoyable, but I never thought to suggest them before.
It seems bizarro to me that "The Neverending Story" hasn't been Folioed.
Someone mentioned Peter Straub's "Shadowland." Good Lord, I read that decades ago. I should give that a reread some year.
I would love to see John Myers Myers "Silverlock."
"Arthur Rex" by Thomas Berger is a delight.
I love "City Boy" by Herman Wouk.
" 'Salem's Lot" terrifies me to this day. :)
"Dandelion Wine" and "The Halloween Tree" by Bradbury all the way!
"Sword at Sunset" by Rosemary Sutcliff was quite solid.

>111 Steven.Evans: I would absolutely buy "Who Goes There?". The Thing is my favorite Horror film of all time, but I've never read the original novella. I looked it up and it has 168 pages, which doesn't seem that short compared to other books FS has published.

>111 Steven.Evans:
>113 DubiouslyDarling:

In 2018 an extended manuscript for "Who Goes There?" was discovered at Harvard University called "Frozen Hell", so if "Who Goes There?" was deemed too short they could use that instead, or just do the old "and other stories". Also, Folio might shy away from Campbell's work due to his problematic opinions as others have (see Astounding Award for Best New Writer), however they have published Eric Gill's work, so who knows.

<112

Your mention of Bradbury made me think of The Martian Chronicles. I would love to see that! And I bet an artist could really have fun with The Illustrated Man.

>115 amysisson:
The Illustrated Man was done by the FS in 2017, and the Martian Chronicles in 2015.

A few others have mentioned Lewis's Space Trilogy; I would love that. I'd also love to see some play collections like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, etc. And some modern poetry would be great as well like Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, and selected/collected poems of Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Charles Bukowski, et al.

While I hadn't thought about 'Waiting for the Barbarians' recently, the trailer for an upcoming movie adaptation brings it to mind. Strikes me as the sort of work that would make a nice FS edition. FS have published Coetzee previously - so this wouldn't be a huge stretch I don't think.

>116 wcarter:

Ack! I feel so silly.

>31 coynedj:
Following your (implicit) recommendation, I have now read A Canticle for Leibowitz. I agree that it is worthy of a FS version, would almost certainly buy it.

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, which of course would entail an FS foray into the economics genre

>120 EdmundRodriguez: - I'm glad you liked it. I too would almost certainly buy an FS edition, with the "almost" only there in case they failed miserably in the production. Given my many years experience with FS, I highly doubt they'd do that. Mole - take note!

Something by John Fowles
Something by Lesley Blanch
The Great Game
Baudolino
Something by Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal maybe?

>124 adiouri: looks interesting - I haven’t read that one. I was thinking I’d most like to see Executioner’s Song and The Fight along with his debut The Naked and the Dead given the treatment.

I bet they would make a killer version of the Power Broker by Robert Caro...

>126 new_collector:

Literally--imagine what would have happened if the old lady dropped the 1000-page Power Broker upon the head of General Pyrrhus.

1. Hamilton by Ron Chernow
2. Burr by Gore Vidal
3. Lincoln by Gore Vidal

It would be great for these to get the FS treatment.

>128 Forthwith: Hamilton was already done by FS, as part of the Founding Fathers set with the Ellis George Washington, Isaacson Benjamin Franklin, etc

>129 jsg1976: There was a copyright issue though, and it got pulled quickly. It'd be nice for that to get worked out and reprinted.

I don't see that the FS has ever published Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country. This situation must be remedied.

'A Canticle For Leibowitz', by Walter M. Miller jnr - classic post-nuclear-apocalypse sci-fi.

>132 StephenHorsfall: My wallet would empty very quickly for that.

>132 StephenHorsfall: and >133 coynedj: I read the first part of it, and started the second part, which seemed totally disconnected from the first part, and I stopped. So many people praise the book, but it seemed disconnected to me.

>134 ultrarightist: - The three parts of the book are disconnected in many ways, but do form a coherent whole. They cover vastly different periods of time and thus different characters who know nothing of the others, but the time periods are in sequence and especially in the third part you see just how they tell a "they're doing it all over again" story. Of course, one's taste in literature is particular to the individual, and there are a number of acknowledged "classics" that I gave up on myself, Great Expectations to name just one. Differences of opinion is what makes the world interesting.

Papillon by Henri Charrière - autobiographical novel about escape from penal colonies in French Guiana

1Q84 and anything by Haruki Murakami
Watership Down
Cloud Atlas

Anything from
Cormac McCarthy
Kurt Vonnegut

Anything more from
Steinbeck
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K Le Guin
Philip K Dick

>137 hotgandalf: Anything from ... Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-5 was published by Folio in 2007.

I have only recently come across the political thrillers written by Alan Furst and I can see why a number of reviewers have rated his books as being in a class above that of the competition.

Here is an American novelist who is at quite at home writing about Europe in the 1930s to 1950's ... and who gets it right. Not easy for European novelists to do that!

I know this is wishful thinking, but I'd be interested in a FS treatment of Gregory of Tours' "History of the Franks."

>140 Betelgeuse: I second that! Sadly, under current editorial leadership, I think that will only happen if it includes a robot or a few elves.

>140 Betelgeuse:
I would support that too, but like >141 Conte_Mosca: I doubt that this is going to happen.
I’d like to add to the group of wishful thinking the following titles:

Livy, Roman History (all extant works, namely books 1-10 and 21-45)
Statius, Thebaid and/or Achilleid
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered

>140 Betelgeuse: Fourthed.

>140 Betelgeuse:
Not quite history and not the Franks, but I'm afraid The Adventures of Asterix might be the closest thing you can hope for nowadays.

>142 Stephan68: I second the Orlando Furioso

I most probably stand alone on this. A three book set - Zane Grey's Ohio River Trilogy: Betty Zane, Spirit Of The Border, and The Last Trail.

I would plump for Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard stories. These for the most part came out during the hiatus in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Gerard was a Hussar in Napoleon's army and these stories, quite accurate historically, are both very funny and touching. Although I read some of them in the past, I had only come across a paperback of the complete stories and recently read them through with great enjoyment.

Journey to the west.

Julien Gracq - The opposing shore (Le rivage des Syrtes).

Umberto Eco - The Prague cemetary.

>147 laotzu225: I second Brigadier Gerard

Books I would be incredibly happy to see done by Folio Society:
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (limited edition, please!)
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Unset (the newish translation)
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto

I've said it twice before and I'll say it again. The Harry Potter series, Shogun by James Clavell, and more Stephen King.

>151 Eastonorfolio:
FS tweeted the other day they'd love to do Harry Potter, but it's up to J.K. Rowling.

https://mobile.twitter.com/foliosociety/status/1307974419307008000

>152 sdg_e: Wow! That's an encouraging tweet. FS wants to do it. Come on J.K. Rowling, let's do it!

>151 Eastonorfolio: I like the illustrated Harry Potter series with the Jim Kay illustrations. I own the regular and the deluxe versions. Imo I don't think FS could add that much more to the books. Compared to FS prices they are also prices quite reasonably (I got most of the deluxe versions below £100). I also don't think that Bloomsbury will license the books for another illustrated version.

I would love to see the Redwall series published by FS. I loved the books as a child and they really got me into reading.

Edit: There is also an illustrated version of hp by minalima (the graphic designers working on the films) on the way.

The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers in a boxed set

I'd really like them to do a new version of To Kill A Mockingbird

>150 uru: - 2666 would be very nice.

The Bible

>158 lekduith:
The FS has published several editions of the Bible in the last 70 years.

Yeah the Jim Kay versions of Potter just can’t be topped. They set the bar so high on those. However, I’d still love to see FS cook something up. Push comes to shove though, I’d rather see them put their efforts into other titles.

I looked at the illustrated deluxe version of Harry Potter and I didn't really like them that much. Just personal taste, they certainly put a lot of effort into them. Again on a personal basis, I need to read novels lying down due to health issues, and books of this size are just a no go when it goes beyond just taking a look at pretty pictures and wanting to read the whole book. So yes, a nice FS edition with their own type of illustrations and a more regular book size would suit me very well. But I agree, it doesn't seem likely that they'll be given the rights to do to that.

Currently coming to mind:

"Alone in Berlin" ("Jede Stirbt fuer Sich Allein") by Hans Fallada
"Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon
"Through the Woods"/"Down the River" by H. E. Bates with the original Agnes Miller Parker wood cuts
A new edition of "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson, in series with the magnificent 2014 "Treasure Island"
If I'm allowed to go wild, I'd love a serious new Edgar Allan Poe shorter writing collection, perhaps with Dan Hillier illustrations.
On the topic of Hillier, some more Hermann Hesse in series with "Steppenwolf".
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson (although the ending of the book kind of disappointed me)
Some more Ballard (I'd like to see "Crash" and "High Rise")
"The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
A new edition of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Laclos

A simple reprint of "The Foundation Trilogy"
A simple reprint of "The Great Gatsby"
A simple reprint of "The Last Man"
A simple reprint of "Frankenstein" (2004)

>162 ubiquitousuk:

A new edition of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Laclos would be very enjoyable, if the illustrations are right. That's unfortunately become a bit of an issue for me in the last few years.

FS has yet to take on an embarrassment of riches in canonical and otherwise enduring American writing - Willian Dean Howells, Dreiser, Dos Passos, Trumbo, Cheever, Baldwin, Mailer, Burroughs (Edgar/William), Updike, Gaddis, Charles Murray, Bowles (Paul/Jane), Maxwell.. yet Jurassic Park.

>164 foxtrot345: Pynchon, Gass, McCarthy, Barth, Frank Norris, Barthelme, Doctorow, Bukowski... maybe next time we’ll get Peter Benchley lol.

Delighted to see >86 sekhmet0108: mention this, and total wishful thinking, given the direction FS seem to be taking, but any/all of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle (did Germinal a while ago). If they're working in partnership with OUP on a Great Battles series, then could tap into the OWC's set of new translations.

Also Sir Walter Scott (mentioned a couple of times already)

>164 foxtrot345:
Oh, so agree. I'd add Willa Cather, McCarthy's Border trilogy, Kate Chopin, some more Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Smiley, Marilynne Robinson, Annie Proulx, EL Doctorow, James Agee, Kent Haruf.... the list goes on.

Later edit: sorry >165 SolerSystem:, seem to have duplicated a couple - emphasises the point though!

>165 SolerSystem: Haha i'd bet money on your prediction! So sad yet so accurate. Ah and Bukowski, what an underrated author!

I've always been surprised Salinger never received the Folio treatment. Everyone knows Catcher (Bukowski's Ham on Rye is also great,) but Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories are absolute gems. I can't wait for some of his new publications and just hope it doesn't flop like Twain.

Saul Bellow - Herzog is published via Folio but how can Steinbeck get so many books when they haven't even done Augie March, Humboldt's Gift or Henderson the Rain King? Maybe he's too controversial since he was divorced like five times and doesn't have the kindest portrayal of women?

John Williams - NYRB published his works but Stoner, Augustus and Butcher's Crossing are great.

I know Faulkner already has some books but hope they publish more - A Fable, Snopes trilogy, Absolam, Absolam, Light in August.

Raintree County? More of a coming of age story but when I read it in college I loved it. Also, how has Folio not published Under the Volcano? It's one of the best novels to come out of the UK!

Also on a side note does anyone have any recommendations on Phillip Roth? I just finished The Human Stain and loved it.

>167 Joshbooks1:
How about "The Plot Against America". Especially at this time.

>167 Joshbooks1:
So agree on Saul Bellow, especially Augie March. They've only really done Grapes, Eden and OMAM for Steinbeck - and the latter two very recently (it's only a year or two since I bewailed the failure to do anything other than Grapes for his fiction.

Later: ooh, forgot the non-fiction they've done as well - yes 5 v 1 is a bit lopsided (but there's still plenty of good Steinbeck to go!).

Later again: and, talking of non-fiction, I would dearly love to see John Muir done by FS - he's one that should have been in the Victorian series perhaps - still could be.

>168 LG2: Thanks! It's on my list to read next!

>169 Willoyd: I second a lovely edition of John Muir. I don't know why he has never been in the forefront of American literature; he was so inspiring, and I can't think of a better term but badass! I still always chuckle how Thoreau is lauded for 'braving it,' living like a mile outside of Concord for a year or two, and Muir is hardly spoken about. And Walden is a bit... overrated? I do really hope they publish his works. Library of America has his collections and they're great.

Has FS ever done anything by Jack London?

>172 Eastonorfolio:

Call of the Wild, 2011. Also in the Folio Book of Short Novels, 1998.

The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hašek

1491 by Charles Mann. This book was an eye opener for me and I would love to have it in a Folio Society edition.

>175 Chemren:
I'd add its sequel 1493. Both are decently produced trade editions, but would benefit from better quality illustrations.

So many good suggestions above. Anything by Fowles, but certainly 'The Magus.' Federalist & Anti-Federalist - excellent suggestion.

A Nabokov double header: 'Invitation to a Beheading' and 'Bend Sinister,' his two lesser-known anti-statist novels.

Rand's 'The Foutainhead,' with illustrations by the Balbussos. This is the novel that made Rand's literary reputation, and it's a much stronger novel than Atlas Shrugged.

As SF&F are popular with FS (and its audience), I'd love to see a 2 vol. set of Simmons' 'Hyperion' & 'The Fall of Hyperion.' In reality, they are one novel, split in two by the publisher to accommodate the size of the printed manuscript. Simmons submitted it as one book.

Also an illustrated edition of Heinlein's 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.' It's epic in scope, and has so far eluded the efforts of Hollywood to capture its scope and story.

A matching edition to Alice in Wonderland of Through the Looking-Glass with illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk

More Dostoevsky, as previously mentioned, matching the last Crime and Punishment

>178 peto11:

"A matching edition to Alice in Wonderland of Through the Looking-Glass with illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk."

A great idea.

>177 ArchStanton:

Heinlein's 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress': I'd second that too, though my first choice would be Stranger in a Strange Land.

For a publisher who caters to bibliophiles, Folio’s 70-year catalogue is remarkably bare of books about books. Apart from the Society’s own bibliographies, one is hard-pressed to find more than three or four FS titles relating to the making, collecting, or reading of books. Holbrook Jackson’s “The Anatomy of Bibliomania” (1930) would be a good place to start. That would be the same Holbrook Jackson who edited the FS version of Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholia” (which was the inspiration for his brilliant and timeless “Bibliomania”). A two-volume edition would be nice - the better to read in bed and to browse over a lifetime.

Haunting of Hill House is on netflix as some will know, i have not seen it myself, but that is besides the point, now a Haunting of Bly Manor (based on Turn of the Screw) by Henry James soon to come as a sort of follow up on the gothic series

Such a style at this present time, would be interesting a publication.

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Dauphne Maurier have had adapted tv series/film these last few years (not seen any, also besides the point) now Rebecca will be on air. So, what about that set of the reissue of the Cornish novels now, while Dauphne is still in the minds of the generation TV (that i am sort of a part of myself).

>180 BangkokYankee:
The FS published A Booklover’s Companion in 2006

>180 BangkokYankee: Hours in a Library from FS in 1991.

>180 BangkokYankee:

A Room of One's Own and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf (FS, 2000).

David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas (do a ‘best of’ the US & UK versions)
Isaac Asimov – Foundation Trilogy – reprint
Isaac Asimov – the other 4 Foundation novels – 2 prequels and 2 sequels to the Trilogy
Italo Calvino – Our Ancestors
Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino – The Complete Cosmicomics
Ernest Cline – Ready Player One
Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land - full manuscript version
Robert Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Kim Stanley Robinson – The Mars Trilogy
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath – new edition with illustrations by Kinsella
Ursula Le Guin – complete the Earthsea trilogy, plus Tehanu
Doris Lessing – Canopus in Argus series – all five volumes
Doris Lessing – Memoirs of a Survivor
Tolkien – Unfinished Tales (with decent colour illustrations – Alan Lee would do nicely)
Tolkien – The Book of Lost Tales Vol.1 and Vol.2 (as above)
Herman Hesse – Siddhartha
Herman Hesse – Strange News From Another Star
Herman Hesse – Journey to the East
Frank Herbert – the other 5 Dune volumes
Philip K. Dick – anything at all & reprint the now out of print editions
Liu Cixin – The Three Body Problem Trilogy
Alfred Bester – Tiger! Tiger! / The Stars My Destination

That should bankrupt me good 'n' proper!

There's lots of great suggestions on this thread. Would the FS editorial team take much notice of them?

>186 Waystation:

In a word ...

They're just people's wishlists. They've been ignoring mine for nearly fifty years.

I forgot to mention (and since this is just a wishlist, with no requirement for being realistic!):

Iain M. Banks - all 10 Culture novels
Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun - standard version
Gene Wolfe - The Urth of the New Sun - volume 5 that completes the tale

>187 folio_books: It seems from reading other posts here, that the editorial processes that leads to decisions in favour of publishing this, and overlooking that, are somewhat mysterious. An example: FS has published 9 novels of the Hornblower saga, but can't seem to bring itself (thus far) to commit to any more titles from the Dune series, which would surely have more commercial appeal.

Sarah Waters anyone? I love her books, especially Fingersmith, Affinity and The Night Watch.

>188 Waystation: Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun - standard version

I want that too. I`m almost seriously too scared to read this set, as i would prefer reading editions in the case of this particular LE.

Uncertain how a standard version would look, as it would look mostly the same i guess. Just somewhat smaller in size and somewhat degraded, but still mostly the same. The LE is a beautiful set of FINE buckram bound Harkonnen books (FS).

>188 Waystation: .. would also like to add, some probably know, but .. here goes .. look down in the comments section ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T06OTEYN5k&feature=emb_logo

>68 dyhtstriyk: dyhtstriyk The Neverending Story is my biggest wish for a new FS book! I've been begging for it ever since I discovered the FS. Copper silk binding, of course, two-color printing throughout, etc. And of course beautiful illustrations.

I'll also add my votes for some others already mentioned:

* The Last Unicorn
* A Canticle for Leibowitz
Cloud Atlas
The Magus
The Glass Bead Game, anything else by Hesse
Watership Down
Stranger in a Strange Land
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Name of the Wind
anything by Le Guin
anything by WG Sebald
more Octavia Butler

>106 St._Troy: St._Troy's suggestion of a set of Douglass, Wells, and Washington would be lovely. And I ADORE >42 boldface: boldface's suggestion of a complete set of Charles Williams' novels.

Beyond that:

Anything by Richard Bach, but perhaps especially Jonathan Livingston Seagull, in a nice little set to match their treatment of The Little Prince. Those two books have always seemed to go together particularly well for me, don't ask me why.

Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert might make for a nice regular FS edition.

A deluxe edition of The Tale of Genji, bound in moire silk, with lavish illustrations, etc.

A boxed set of Walter Wangerin Jr.'s Book of the Dun Cow trilogy might be nice?

Reprints of Four Quartets by Eliot, The Master and Margarita (please!), Labyrinths.

>181 Pellias: I've watched The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, and loved it so much I immediately went and borrowed the book from my university library - really enjoyed it too. Anything Shirley Jackson would be a must-buy for me. In addition to Turn of the Screw, the new season of the show is also based on a few short stories from James (like The Jolly Corner). I would be very excited to see more gothic lit from Folio.

I haven't read anything by Daphne du Maurier, but the Rachel Weisz-starring adaptation of My Cousin Rachel had stunning visuals and a haunting score. Her four Cornish novels have made it to my reading list.

As others have stated this is a wishlist and under current conditions I would be very surprised if any of these were ever seen, but here goes:
William Morris, such as The Life and Death of Jason, A Dream of John Ball, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well At The World's End...
E.R. Eddison:- The Worm Ouroboros, The Zimiamvian Trilogy, Styrbiorn the Strong...
Lord Dunsany:- The Gods of Pegāna, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, Dean Spanley, The King of Elfland's Daughter...
Fletcher Pratt:- The Well of the Unicorn
Poul Anderson:- The Broken Sword
George MacDonald:- Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith...
John Steinbeck:- The Acts of King Arthur

As for more modern authors, how about -
China Mieville
Susanna Clarke
Joe Abercrombie
P.D. James
Bernard Cornwell
Peter Ackroyd
Lawrence Norfolk

>192 Pellias: Be still, my heart! I found out about the limited edition too late. A chance of redemption?

>195 bradleyrees: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, of fond memory.

We tend to forget that FS must balance anticipated/speculated demand for any given volume, against the known cost of production...including licensing. That’s why we might be more likely to see, say, William Morris than John Fowles. 😐

>197 ArchStanton: Yes, I remember the Ballantine series but no longer possess any of them. I'm fortunate enough to own quite a few of the ones in my list as First, early or facsimile editions (must remember to order a facsimile dust jacket for my copy of Styrbiorn). I was most remiss in not including Morris' The Story of Sigurd the Volsung. According to Morris' daughter May it was the work he "held most highly and wished to be remembered by". It would make an excellent LE. I only have what could charitably be described as a 'reading copy' of the Longmans 1904 edition.

I was quite surprised that FS published News From Nowhere instead of one the 'prose romances' but I'll take what I can get.

>198 bradleyrees:
I'd really like FS to publish the William Morris prose romances. There don't seem to be any quality versions of these to be had anywhere else and presumably they are out of copyright. I would imagine that there must be great potential for FS to market these to lovers of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings.

No royalties to pay, sales to the Fantasy genre market and satisfying the FSD traditionalists all in one package. Come on Mole, surely worth considering.

>199 Hrodberht:

Yes, please.

>196 ArchStanton: `Be still, my heart! I found out about the limited edition too late. A chance of redemption?` Hard to know actually 100% FS do tend to send out different signals, but this time the request for a standard edition of Book of the New Sun is massive, so it will, it`s just when ..

.. I`ll be right there darling ..

(Emma, writing from Pellias`s account)

>199 Hrodberht: Very much agreed

>195 bradleyrees:

Lawrence Norfolk would be brilliant, Lempriere's Dictionary has stuck with me for decades.

>194 indianabones: Forgot about you, sorry. I was painting now and your post sprung to mind. - That would make a nice FS series. I wrote FS about Haunting at Hill House, and got a reply that would make (great) illustrations, and that the wish was to be forwarded to the board of deciders (that was beginning of this year, i think).

About Dauphne, there are different authors I probably would want more. It`s just that is down FS`s alley do do a republishing, and they should. Particularily with those series. If you like Hitchcockesque, you like those.

I'd love it if Folio would do a boxed set of Enid Blyton's Adventure series! Probably a long shot. Although it is British.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Series

>205 Mooch360: I loved this series as a child. And her Secret Series, too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Series_Enid_Blyton). It'd be fun to see these get the Folio treatment, but I can imagine a few complaints on here about the literary merits of Enid Blyton!

>205 Mooch360:

It's only a matter of time. I would be one of those complaining bitterly on here while secretly getting my order in before you can say Kiki the Parrot.

>208 boldface:

I hope so! The original hardcovers are hard to get decent copies of these days.

Complete stories of Isaac Babel. Not sure why this hasn't happened yet. 🤔

Mencken.

Elias Canneti

Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah

Michael Ondaatje's, "The English Patient" would be a real treat for me.

>211 LG2:

Me too.

The Bible!

>213 lekduith:
Done in fine and limited editions.
For a full list of all books ever produced by the FS go here.

Now I have often been much maligned recently, with a suggestion that my wish list for future publications is insufficiently contemporary. That is simply not true. I am absolutely hip and trendy and down with the kids, man. So here is my wish list for titles which FS has not yet published:

- Richard Hooker - Ecclesiastical Polity (1594)
- George Herbert - The Temple (1633)
- Lord Herbert of Cherbury - Autobiography (1643?)
- John Seldon - Table-Talk (published posthumously in 1689)
- James Howell - Familiar Letters (3 vols 1645-1650)
- Jeremy Taylor - Holy Living and Holy Dying (1650-1651)
- Sir William Temple - Essay on Gardens of Epicurus (1685)

I hope the mole is watching.

>215 Conte_Mosca:

:-)

>215 Conte_Mosca: an old soul :)

An "earthly" edition of "The Book of the New Sun".

Any book illustrated by Gustave Dore - wouldn't mind another gargantuan LE...

Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic

>215 Conte_Mosca:

High five, man!

>137 hotgandalf: Yesterday Folio posted something about Murakami on FB. When someone asked if they had anything by him in the pipeline they replied with 'that would be telling' rather than their usual 'I'll pass on the suggestion for you'. So I would interpret to mean they're working on a title. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle would be great!

>137 hotgandalf:, >220 Levin40: Oh yes, or even better a 3 volume set of 1Q84. Although knowing Folio it would probably be the atypical Norwegian Wood.

>217 bacchus.:

Don't you mean "Urthly?" ;)

>221 red_guy: Murakami, particularly 1Q84, would be most welcome.

>215 Conte_Mosca:

The mole can dig it ;-)

I would really like to see Stephen King’s It get the Folio treatment.

>225 warehouseisbare: I am not much on facebook (have to say) But, there i read that Stephen King are on their list, unsure which titles (don`t be surprised if it is signed also). So start saving .. when, who knows ..

>226 Pellias:

That’s good to know man. I’m not the biggest King fan but I think It deserves the treatment. More than likely they’ll do The Stand next if they do one imo. I’d probably buy it but while I thought The Stand was good...it wasn’t great to me (maybe for its time it was but I read it later in life). Still, I would like to see at least one or two more of his books chosen.

A few ideas ...

Traces on the Rhodian Shore
A Sand County Almanac
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Also I still keep hoping for "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" which has already been mentioned by others here.

The Good Soldier Svejk and his fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek

Please, please!

>229 homeless: Absolutely agree with The Good Soldier Svejk! Wonderful book.

The Malazan series (0% chance)

Lonesome Dove

>229 homeless:
I remember reading "Svejk" in the 1970's and was even then struck by the echoes of the crazy military systems of eastern Europe, even though the work was written in the 1920's and was set during the first world war. I recall laughing out loud many, many times. I agree that this would be a great choice.

Anything by:
C.G. Jung
Clark Ashton Smith
Robert Anton Wilson

>225 warehouseisbare: "I would really like to see Stephen King’s It get the Folio treatment."

I'm at least curious to see what they'd do with it. While King's It is possibly my favorite stand-alone novel of all time, I didn't like what FS did with The Shining; to me it felt subdued in a "we don't understand quiet menace" way, not a "subtlety is strength" way.

Has Folio ever done the Travels of John Mandeville? I'd be interested in that.

>235 Betelgeuse:
I think that this fact is probably what precipitated your question, but if it is not, foolscap press is currently selling a fine (and very expensive) version of it.

I believe that folio has not produced it though.

>235 Betelgeuse:

I believe Folio did sell a Mandeville manuscript facsimile on behalf of another publisher.

>235 Betelgeuse:
FS has never done Mandeville. The ultimate version is that produced by Foolscap Press (see here). A nice, but significantly more reasonably priced edition is available from George Braziller (see here).

>238 wcarter: Thank you, the Foolscap Press is outside of my desired price range, but the George Braziller looks nice!

>235 Betelgeuse:
>238 wcarter:

It should be said, however, that the Braziller edition only contains the illustrations to a manuscript of illustrations (BL Add MSS 24189) to the Travels and doesn't contain the narrative text of the Travels.

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7925&Col...

I would really, really love to see a Folio edition of Peter Straub's Ghost Story.

Sets I would pay an obscene amount of money for:

Jean Genet Collected Prose
Patrick Hamilton Collected Prose
Iain M Banks - Culture Series

The one book that would restore FS's literary bona fides: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page.

>242 Bibliogasm: ''Sets I would pay an obscene amount of money for: Iain M Banks - Culture Series''

I'd second that. I did send that in as a suggestion, making the point (which they've probably heard a million times) that sci fi nuts don't want to dabble with just one book from a series - we want the whole lot! Apparently the current editor is a big fan of Iain M Banks, but whether they can envisage sufficient sales to warrant making our wish come true is another matter. I wouldn't be surprised if they do at least come up with 'Consider Phlebas' at some point.

More wishful thinking:

M. John Harrison - Light

>242 Bibliogasm: Ebenezer Le Page - I second that. I came across it around 10 years ago when it was published by NYRB and what a charming amazing book. It certainly is a book I wish to reread in the future. I also concur with the Genet pick!

>242 Bibliogasm: >244 Joshbooks1: - And I'll third it. A wonderful book.

>242 Bibliogasm: ff I would like that too, and would buy it, but not if it comes in the £80 price range.

The God Delusion as an addition to Folio's excellent Richard Dawkins' series please.

And anything by W.G. Sebald.

>248 cronshaw:

I confess to not having heard of W.G. Sebald until now. I looked him up on Wikipedia and he seems a most remarkable chap indeed. I can't grasp why Folio have overlooked him so far and I'll await their putting that oversight right in due course. Thanks for the heads-up, Russell

As for Dawkins, I regard him very highly and have all the volumes published by Folio so far. The God Delusion was the first of his that I read and I have to say in retrospect I consider it the least worthy.

The mention of Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as one of his greatest works (alongside Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers) in the foreword to Stranger makes me hope that FS will publish that novel, too. (Stranger was definitely everything I would desire in such an edition, by the way.)

That being said, I'd also really enjoy Friday or Job - A comedy of justice, two of his later works.

Not sure if I’ve said this before but ‘Open Society and its Enemies’ by Karl Popper would be a title I would definitely snap up if FS published it. He’s an impressive thinker and logician and that’s his famous book, one I’m sure is worth adding to the FS canon.

Edit: I just read a James Meek article in the latest London Review of Books about conspiracy theories. He mentions Popper’s book and it gave me another nudge to read it.

>251 stopsurfing: - That's a book that I have had on my list for a long, long time but have never gotten around to. A relative who studied and taught philosophy has a high opinion of it. My greatest concern is whether it's something a dummie like me can make sense of - philosophy does tend to get difficult, you know.

They probably never would but a two volume set of Musil's The Man Without Qualities would be amazing. I'm not the biggest fan of English literature and it would be nice if Folio branched out a little more to at least more of the rest of Europe.

>250 SF-72: Bill Patterson, who was Heinlein’s biographer, wrote* that RAH himself considered ST, Stranger, and Moon as his three core works. If just one, or even two, of these books was read, the reader was likely to misunderstand Heinlein’s meaning. Interesting that RAH considered all three novels of a piece.

*this is from memory; for the life of me I can’t find the reference right now.

>254 ArchStanton:

That's interesting, thank you. And yes, these are very different novels, so him putting them together like this is fascinating.

I must really read the autobiography, it's on my shelf but I never got around to it.

>254 ArchStanton:

These three books are all quite high on my reading list. Did the biography suggest a best order for maximum understanding? :)

>256 Jobasha: I don’t think there’s a reading order to maximize understanding. Perhaps best to read brief summaries of the novels, then start with the most interesting sounding?

>255 SF-72: I found the reference. It’s in Patterson’s introduction to 'Moon is Harsh Mistress' (Virginia Edition, 2010). You’ll see that my memory has indeed played tricks, but the gist is there. Quoting Patterson:

“RAH left a 3”x5' index card, handwritten, in a safety deposit box, to be discovered after his passing:

'If a person names as his favorites of my books 'Stranger,' 'Harsh Mistress,' and 'Starship Troopers'…I then believe he has grokked what I meant. But if he likes one - but not the other two - then I am certain that he has misunderstood me, has picked out points, and misunderstood what he picked. If he picks 2 out of 3, then there is hope - 1 of 3, no hope.

'All three books are on one subject….'”

RAH continues, but I won’t. Gives too much away from the reader’s discovery process, and this post is already much too long and OT.

>257 ArchStanton:

Thank you for this. I've got the edition and can look it up. While I've read all his novels, I haven't read all of them in the Virginia Edition.

Some wishful thoughts for the new year. None of the below are impossible I believe.

Between the 30GBP - 45GBP "cheap" range.
- Hesse - Siddharta (paper sides, serious, no illustrations - in series with Steppenwolf)
- Kingsley Amis - The Alternation

On the 80GBP fine range
- Neverwhere... wildly illustrated
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (it's too soon, but at some point we'll yearn for closure)

up to 300GBP LE
- A Canticle for Leibowitz

Lending additional support for some above-mentioned works:

- Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros (or other works)

Also:

- Smith, Zothique (specifically)
- Zend Avesta

>259 bacchus.: My longstanding resistance to LEs would prevent me from buying A Canticle for Leibowitz if it was issued in that form (I'm a reader not a collector, and find that LEs are far too expensive for me). There are few things that could stop me from buying it as a regular or fine edition - maybe death, or some other catastrophe. But only maybe.

>259 bacchus.:

"On the 80GBP fine range
- Neverwhere... wildly illustrated
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (it's too soon, but at some point we'll yearn for closure)"

Absolutely for those.

Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

You know what would be both worthy of FS treatment AND quite a potential money maker?

Walking with the Wind, which is the memoir of US Congressman and noted Civil Rights activist John Lewis, who died this past year.

It is only available as a paperback right now. I'd snap up a Folio edition immediately if one became available.

I have just re-read a copy of Fatherland by Robert Harris in a tired old paperback and it is one of those books you do not want to put down.

If Folio Society are content to publish James Bond and Jack Reacher then why not the best thrillers of Robert Harris (such Fatherland, Munich, Enigma and Pompeii)?

I second Robert Harris. And Ken Follett.

Kawabata - Snow Country
Kawabata - Thousand Cranes
Fascinating glimpses into Japan written in one of the most beautiful styles I‘ve ever come across with.

>266 NLNils: Eye of the needle yes please ..

Any further Edmund Crispin murder mysteries with the same illustrations and binding style and as the two already published and I'd snaffle them in a heartbeat.

>269 cronshaw:

Your taste is impeccable, as always.

>269 cronshaw: +1 I lost out on them

>271 folio_books: your kindness and generosity are as ample as always :)

>272 Pellias: do keep an eye out for copies on the secondary market! The FS editions are gorgeously designed and illustrated, perfect for Edmund's crisp wit.

>273 cronshaw:

Seriously, I love both of the Crispin volumes so far. More would be very welcome!

>273 cronshaw: I have the one from the sale `Love lies bleeding` I just "fear" that FS will remake (or re-publish) the set once again as the did with the Josephine Tey books (in which they ended up doing an upgrade - they are all on my wishlist)

To be fair, I don`t peruse the secondhand market that much any more*, for standard editions that is (namely because of re-publishing)

* I might have to make an exception on day for `The Moving Toyshop`

>248 cronshaw: anything by W.G. Sebald

May I recommend Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction published by Notting Hill Editions? I don't own it yet, it's only on my wish list, but you did say that you'd like anything by Sebald, and I can highly recommend Notting Hill Editions in general.

If you're not familiar with this publisher, you should definitely try it out. It's a fairly new publisher founded about 10 years ago by a man who decided to pursue his dreams and passion for books at an age not typical for embarking on new business adventures and exploring new avenues - 80! His goal was to create a worthy format for a type of literature he felt was neglected - essays. He ran Notting Hill Editions until his death at the age of 87, and now his daughter is running it.

Imagine fully clothbound compact books very close to Slightly Foxed in size, only maybe a centimeter or two taller. Printed and bound in Germany by none other than Memminger MedienCentrum, which also prints many nice Folios. Paper similar to SF. Printed handsomely in 2 colours, with red used for page numbers, initial chapter letters, etc. Their website (link below) doesn't do justice to their books, I can snap a couple of pictures if you'd like.

https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/on-the-natural-history-of-destructio...

>276 elladan0891:
Enabled, but with another of their books - "On Dogs" - looks delightful.

>276 elladan0891: The first half of the book is wonderful - i'll never think of Hamburg the same, or flies in wartime for that matter. The second half wasn't my favorite and a few of his essays Sebald came off as pretentious and it left me a sour taste for him. Still well worth the read.

Interesting publisher. I'll have to check this out in greater detail tonight. Thanks!

Stuart and Revett's 'Antiquities of Athens' - at full size with original engravings - as a facsimile but bound in Folio's usual style. They would be five magnificent volumes.

>277 wcarter: It does. I might acquire it one day too. Hope you like it when it arrives.

>278 Joshbooks1:
I think they have quite an interesting, quirky, and varied selection. Worth exploring. And I appreciate the format. I like to have compact books for on-the-go reading, and Notting Hill Editions help fill the niche together with Slightly Foxed and other pocket hardbacks. I have only a few of their books so far, but will get more for the purpose.

- A 2/3 volume edition of Humboldt's 'Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent', illustrated with his own drawings
- A nice big book of Ernst Haeckel's prints
- Robert Grave's 'The White Goddess'
- An updated version of 'Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'
- Ken Follet's 'Pillars of the Earth' series
- Dan Simmon's 'Hyperion Cantos' series

George Sandys (1578 – 1644) - 'The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books'

To save anyone the bother of posting, or emailing me, it's being dealt with.

I believe the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud would make for a great FS release.

Do you think it's heresy to want them to do Mayle's A Year in Provence (and series - maybe the first 3, 'Another Year' and 'Toujours')?

They could do some great illustrations and styling for that series, and I think it would sell well.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

>288 amysisson: - I'd guess this wouldn't be any time soon as another publisher has an illustrated edition coming out next year - more info on Erin Morgenstern's website - http://erinmorgenstern.com/2021/09/illustrated-night-circus-coming-2022/

>57 wcarter:

I'd love to see some Australian poetry published by the FS. They haven't published Banjo or Lawson, so I guess I'm dreaming with Murray though.

>290 d-b:
I suspect the appeal to be too narrow. Can you imagine a Brit trying to understand Banjo, and the Yanks opinion of Aussies would become even wilder.

If anyone is interested in the poetry of Banjo Paterson, one of Australia's most notable poets, one of his most famous poems is Clancy of the Overflow and can be read here.

Weldon has actually published a very nice illustrated slipcased two volume edition of the poems of both Banjo and Lawson (see here), and it is cheap on the secondary market.

I have said it before, James Clavell’s Shogun. I would actually like a nice copy of Aesop’s Fables as well, I think that would provide many opportunities to excel in an LE, given the number of fables and possible illustrations. They could make it into something quite special.

>292 Hamwick:
Aesop’s fables were done by the FS in 1998 and 2018 as very nice standard editions.

>292 Hamwick: if you have LE money to spend on an edition of Aesop, it is one of the more printed works by private and fine presses. I capped that query at $2k USD, but Officina Bodoni did a truly beautiful edition that is worth admiring.

Also there is this, which is a near facsimile of the 1909 edition from Hodder & Stoughton illustrated by Detmold.

>293 wcarter: thank you, I just had a look on eBay. There are a lot available at a nice price. The Detmold edition does look very nice, I can see I will buy one. I did look at your LE list, I did not think to check for an SE.

>294 abysswalker: oh, now that is beautiful. I have spent my LE funds for the last month, I can see my looking at that 1909 version a few times in the future though. Thank you, I think! :)

>292 Hamwick:

You need to do a bit of homework.

Aesop's Fables is a charter member of Private Press Royalty, i.e. it has been published by many different private presses over the past 125 years and there are MANY outstanding editions in a wide price range. Specifically, take a look at the Limited Editions Club 1933 edition designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Oxford University Press under the supervision of John Johnson. It contains wonderful medieval woodcuts and it is flawlessly letterpress printed.

Good to know, it sounds like I will have more of an issue in deciding which to purchase, which is a nice problem. Or of course buying a number of different copies. I withdraw my desire for a Folio LE version and stick with wanting the LE of Shogun.

>292 Hamwick: I would love FS to do Shogun. I've been hoping and waiting for years. I envision it as a 2 volume, beautifully illustrated edition with a specially designed slipcase. Please FS, let's do this.

>289 jeremyjm: jeremyjm

Oh wow! Thanks so much for this info! I wasn't even aware of that company. I just signed up for their newsletter in the hopes I'll get plenty of advanced notice so I can order one, assuming I can afford it, of course.

>231 Soup811: SubPress is reprinting (something I think is unheard of), but given the sky high prices pointing to the existent demand, they'll do it with a non-numbered edition at least of the first two books, but probably they will do all of them.

I'd love see a folio version of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber

>302 ChrisG1: - Ooh, that's a good one.

>290 d-b: I'm still surprised they haven't published anything by Patrick White. Maybe copyright issues? A Nobel Prize winner and some amazing novels. Recently finished Riders in the Chariot by NYRB and out of four or five novels I read by him they are all wonderful.

I would LOVE a Folio Wolf Hall...

>291 wcarter:

Oh nice. I saw this at the secondhand bookshop next to the old Pancake Manor awhile back. I have the 1980s 'singer of the bush' complete works.

Anything by Elizabeth Bowen, Death of the Heart, The House in Paris or collected stories maybe? Think such an important writer would be a no brainer for the FS treatment

The Elegance of the Hedgehog. This is one of the books I have given to multiple people across the spectrum of age, gender and race, and they all loved it.

Also A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. I give it to people going on cruises. They all love it. But they still go on the cruise, of course.

The disappointing news (to me at least) that folio explicitly declined to publish The Book of Ebenezer le Page, has managed (lowered) my expectations for future releases a little. I hope they at least continue some of the series they started a while ago now, particularly the Barchester Chronicles and Dune Messiah.

>309 EdmundRodriguez: Oh, did they give a reason?

>310 overthemoon:
I can only assume they did not think it would make enough money (as apparently some of the staff really like the book).

They were approached by Extraordinary Editions (who worked with them on the Toilers of the Sea LE previously). This time EE will do it alone, so at least a decent edition is on the horizon (middle of next year I think).

Unfortunately (for me at least) I think it says a lot about the direction and focus of folio. Not to say I don't enjoy (and purchase) plenty of folio's releases, but I've always thought Ebenezer to be a really appropriate book for folio and if they've declined that one they'll probably miss out lots of others "worthy" titles (obviously subjective).

That is indeed a great disappointment. Absent a terrible edition, I would have bought it and recommended it to others.

>311 EdmundRodriguez: well I'll look out for that EE version then - I have a paperback which I've lent to others and they've liked the book.

>309 EdmundRodriguez: Very disappointing news indeed.

I wonder if anyone in the States would be interested in ordering Ebenezer le Page from Extraordinary Editions as a group to save on shipping? It's a title I've wanted for awhile, but I can't justify paying twice as much for shipping as the actual book.

>314 SolerSystem: I would be all in on a reasonably-priced edition, but a gander at their web site tells me that their edition will be out of my price range.

>315 coynedj:

Standard edition £45 to subscribers according to the flagged post above.

>316 terebinth: Well, in that case..... I'm interested. Though I'm not a subscriber.

Has Folio ever published Solaris by Stanislaw Lem?

>318 Nicolas89: I wish. Ideally Folio would be able to use the recent direct translation by Bill Johnston, which has yet to receive a print edition.

In agreement with >210 MobyRichard: on The Muqaddimah. FS excels at presenting history texts and this one deserves it. I'd love to see what they could do with it.

I wonder if Folio Society has ever considered doing any of the Inspector Appleby novels by Michael Innes.

In the age of QAnon, I'm still hoping for Illuminatus! which dissects all that conspiracy nonsense in an appropriately chaotic and hilarious way. Nothing new under the sun.

Probably going to continue to be disappointed, though.

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, please.

>322 Cat_of_Ulthar: I need to check that one out - it sounds like it's right up my alley. Proving once again that this site is keeping me from ever finishing all these books!

I’ve been a fan of Colin Watson’s Flaxborough series of crime novels almost since they were first published in the 1960s and 1970s, but sadly these intricately plotted, wryly witty, mordantly observant and sometimes hilariously funny books seem to have vanished from the scene. Any other fans out there of Inspector Purbright, Sergeant Love, Mr. Chubb, and the incomparable Miss Teatime? If Folio can devote all the attention they have to “golden age” detectives like Poirot, et al, not to mention the James Bond series, surely these gems deserve similar treatment? The dozen novels are short enough to make four not particularly fat omnibus volumes. I’d replace my scruffy paperbacks with them like a shot.

>325 davidjbrown10:
They haven't entirely disappeared. All 12 are available in paperback from Farrago Books, including my favourite Bump In The Night. For crime series I prefer paperbacks, rereadable without special care in odd places and positions.

Tribute of Panem
New Narnia LE and SE
The Blade itself trilogy

I hope for this 3 one day

>326 Jayked: Thanks—yes, I have one of the Farrago editions, the rest in older s/h paperbacks. I just think Watson is so good he deserves better treatment. There are so many relishable details to enjoy on re-reading.

I'd love to have a nice edition of Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. I think this would be a hit for Folio Society because as far as I can tell there are no English versions other than the mass market versions, so it's unlikely that fans of the book would already have a copy they're committed to. The book has a 4.5/5 rating on Goodreads with almost 20,000 reviews so, while long, it is quite good. Finally, I suspect many FS readers haven't read it yet so it would help open them to another type/style of literature.

>329 ExLibrisDavid: That book is very high on my TBR list, high enough to have migrated from the shelf to the bedroom. I have the mass-market hardcover, and expect to begin it within the next few weeks.

>330 coynedj: Very good, I hope you enjoy it! =)

>329 ExLibrisDavid: the hardback from Kodansha is not has good as a FS but it is sewn binding, I like it a lot.

A series with Cadfael !

>333 Maretzo: yes please!

May not be something Folio Society has considered, but I think a nice edition of John Sutherland's book How To Read A Novel would be fabulous. It's a useful reference work and highly readable.

One of my favourite FS books is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I have just learned that it is just the first part of a trilogy, the others being No longer at ease and Arrow of God. I would certainly buy these if FS published them on the same model as the first one.

>336 overthemoon: I didn't know that. I'd instinctively thought that sequels to Things Fall Apart would be named 'The center cannot hold' and 'Mere Anarchy'.

Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance would be a splendid choice for the Folio Society. This provides an opportunity for an impressive design and lavish illustrations. The book is recommended by Stephen Greenblatt, Jay Parini and others.

>337 dyhtstriyk: maybe they are the subtitles ;-).
I only learned about these by reading an interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in today's Guardian.

I may have already posted my choices before, but I can't recall. Mostly SFF.

Top choices for Folio editions:
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wildseed by Octavia Butler
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Viriconium by M. John Harrison
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest

>1 Charon49: Year Round Things to Do in goatskin with gold block.

>341 LesMiserables:
Your dry sense of humour persists!
I suspect that more recent members of FSD may not realise that YRTD was the Folio Society book that had more copies printed, and most distributed free, than any other FS book. Most FS collectors had multiple copies.
For those who are wondering about this infamous book, see https://www.librarything.com/topic/306838

Areopagitica By Milton. Under the present, this in a much annotated addition would be highly welcome.

>342 wcarter: Ha ha. I feel it obligatory to keep the YRTD legend alive.

I just suddenly thought I'd love to see Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel as a Folio. I'm picturing a representation of the graphic novel that's part of the story, plus the traveling troupe, the airport community....

>336 overthemoon: Everyman's Library has a omnibus with Things Fall Apart and the other two novels in the trilogy.

>346 billburden: Thanks, I'll look it up.

Later: OK, but I really like the FS edition of Things Fall Apart and I'd like the others to match it, with illustrations in a similar style.

>345 amysisson: SubPress has a Station Eleven LE. It's nothing to write home about (not even Illustrated), but its cover price was $50 and at least the binding and cover artwork were better than the Knopf first.

Another thought: Barry Unsworth's short but evocative Morality Play. Originally published back in the '90's, it deserves far greater attention as literature.

invisible man, ralph ellison

They did a version of that which was too authentic. Couldn't find them.

>351 InVitrio: I was confused for two seconds and then I cackled XD

The short stories of Satyajit Ray!

The Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski would be awesome. I would like the Quality treatment from Folio or an Fine Press letterpress printed version.

Chuck Palunhiak books would be great too

>354 Ragnaroek:

I'd definitely second The Witcher for FS.

As things are, the regular publisher has the two short story collections out in illustrated editions, but none of the novels (so far). I really hope they'll continue this with the novels.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima.

Metallic gold textured paper cover (yeah, I said it - paper!) with a slipcover that has the pavilion sketched in embossed gold with flame-shaped cutouts surrounding it revealing the gold from the book's cover.

>1 Charon49:

The Holy Bible - Douay Rheims - Challoner revision.

Or

Holy Bible - Lain Vulgate

In Quarto, green Nigerian goatskin decoratively stamped, with block gilding.

>356 LeBacon: I do very much like the sound of that.

If it were a genuine Bible, wouldn't the goat come back to life?

I would love Folio to publish The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipul, The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, and absolutely anything by James Baldwin, W.G. Sebald or Yukio Mishima. TAKE MY MONEY.

Thanks in advance Ms. Mole.

>360 cronshaw: Great selection, I would buy any and (almost) all of those. So that's two of us ...

>329 ExLibrisDavid: Musashi is an interesting suggestion and I would certainly love to have a FS edition but I am not sure if there would be enough interest. How about James Clavell's Shogun? The previous TV series and upcoming new version would certainly kindle interest in a fine edition and that might then lead to more interest subsequently in an edition of Musashi.

>329 ExLibrisDavid:
>362 rld1012:
I would be up for Musashi. Wiki suggests it has sold 120 million copies. I am a fan of Japanese literature and would like to see more translations of great books from around the world.

I recently found out that King Kong is a book, so assuming that it's an entertaining read and that the writing is decent / not horrible, I'd love to see an FS edition that's as gorgeous as Jaws!

The Saint John's Bible would be a spectacular publication for FS. It would surely be an LE, but it is a true thing of beauty - I used to live near St. John's University and have seen several pages of the original. It might even get me to break my "no limited editions" pledge.

I really wish that FS would do more poetry: Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, Hart Crane's The Bridge, selected poetry by Wallace Stevens, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, selected poetry by Ted Hughes, Omeros by Derek Walcott, the complete War Music by Christopher Logue, and Memorial and Nobody by Alice Oswald.

Still a lot of sci-fi classics to mine:

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Vurt by Jeff Noon
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

I wish FS would publish more Edmund Crispin titles, in series with The Moving Toyshop and Love Lies Bleeding. Fantastic production design, great illustrations, brilliant reads.

>368 cronshaw:
Another set of Maigret would be nice, too

>367 HonorWulf:

Neuromancer is supposedly on the way.

Agreed on Snow Crash. If they can get the art right. But that goes for just about anything, I guess.

Still waiting for that Edward Gibbon LE. Some Paul Valery would be nice, prose work not his poetry. A non-ugly edition of In Search of Lost Time.

Also, I would love for FS to commission illustrations for non-fiction (especially science texts). I'm kind of tired of "plates" reproducing stuff I can just find on the Internet. If they are going to do that at least be more restrictive and only do plates that are not publicly available...like from somebody's private archive or something.