My 1976 Reading List
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Muckrakers
Fred Cook
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
This Perfect Day
Ira Levin
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
Great Short Works of Henry James
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Paul Zindel
The 42nd Parallel
John Dos Passos
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Nineteen-Nineteen
John Dos Passos
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
The Big Money
John Dos Passos
100 Selected Poems
e.e. cummings
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
My Name is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok
Notes to Myself
Hugh Pranther
The Death of a Salesman (play)
Arthur Miller
All the President’s Men
Bernstein & Woodward
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Acupulco Gold
Edwin Corley
The Promise
Chaim Potok
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin
Papillon
Henri Charierre
The Joyous Season
Patrick Dennis
Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
Centennial
James Michener
Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holliday
How to Be Your Own Best Friend
Newman and Berkowitz
Serpico
Peter Maas
Ethan Fromme
Edith Wharton
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Bylines
Elizabeth Levy
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Someone Like You
Roald Dahl
The Reporter
Jess Stearn
You’ll Like My Mother
Naomi Hintze
Gifts of an Eagle
Kent Durden
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Environmental Handbook
Garrett DeBell, ed.
Inquiry: A Search for Faith
Methodist Press
The Moneychangers
Arthur Hailey
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Boston Women’s Book Collective
Elements of Tournament Debate
Clark Kimball
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Bored of the Rings
Harvard Lampoon
The Rights of Prisoners
ACLU
The Secret Woman
Victoria Holt
Herzog
Saul Bellow
The Ugly American
Lederer and Burdick
Punishment: For and Against
anthology
The Razor’s Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Rich Man, Poor Man
Irwin Shaw
Macbeth
Shakespeare
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The Troubled Generation
Rudolph Wittenberg
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Meaning of Dreams
Calvin Hall
Hamlet
Shakespeare
The Magus
John Fowles
My 1975 Reading List
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Good-bye, Mr. Chips
James Hilton
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maughem
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Paper Moon
J.D. Brown
Murder With Mirrors
Agathy Christie
The Light in the Forest
Conrad Richter
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
True Grit
Charles Portis
The Glass Menagerie (play)
Tennessee Williams
Lost Horizon
James Hilton
Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Joseph Kesserling
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
Veronica’s Room (play)
Ira Levin
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
Surpise! Surprise!
Agatha Christie
Tomorrow Will Be Better
Betty Smith
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
Craig and Joan: Two Lives for Peace
Eliot Asinof
The Parasites
Daphne duMaurier
The Bait
Dorothy Uhnak
Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Marjorie Kellogg
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey
Rosemary’s Baby
Ira Levin
Alive
Piers Paul Read
The Drifters
James Michener
1984
George Orwell
My, Darling, My Hamburger
Paul Zindel
That Man Cartwright
Ann Fairbairn
The American Dream and the Zoo Story (play)
Edward Albee
Giants in the Earth
O.E. Rolvaag
The Crucible (play)
Arthur Miller
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Far Western Frontier
Ray Allen Billington
The Elements of Style
Strunk and White
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (play)
Allen and Spark
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (play)
Jerome Lawrence
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Short Stories
O. Henry
Billy Budd
Herman Mellville
The Scarlet Letter
Nathanial Hawthorne
The Matchmaker (play)
Thornton Wilder
The Other Side of the Mountain
E.G. Valens
Auntie Mame (play)
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Butterflies Are Free
Leonard Gershe
My 1974 Reading List
Exodus
Leon Uris
Dibs in Search of Self
Virginia Axline
Airport
Arthur Hailey
Lilies of the Field
William Barrett
Todd
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The Poseidon Adventure
Paul Gallico
Karen
Marie Kilellea
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Maggie Now
Betty Smith
Joy in the Morning
Betty Smith
Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
Jeannie Morris
Sisterhood is Powerful
Robin Morgan, ed
Black Like Me
Griffin
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
To Sir, With Love
Braithwaite
Paid Servant
Braithwaite
Hotel
Arthur Hailey
Wheels
Arthur Hailey
Runway Zero-Eight
Arthur Hailey
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
To Kill a Mockingbirtd
Harper Lee
We The Living
Ayn Rand
Mrs. Mike
Katherine Flannagan
The Angel Inside Went Sour
Esther Rothman
The Twins Who Found Each Other
Bard Lindeman
Richie
Thomas Thompson
Five Smooth Stones
Ann Fairbairn
Soul Sister
Grace Halsell
The House of Tomorrow
Adair Arlen
Death Had Two Sons
Yael Dyan
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansbury
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya
Eith Moon
Bette Lord
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Alex Kates Shulman
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian
Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician’s Nephew
The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Moscow Conversations
Susan Jacoby
A Patch of Blue
Elizabeth Kata
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Hannah Greene
My Experiment with Truth
Gandhi
Bessie Yellowhair
Brace Halsell
The Girls in Huntington House
Blossom Elfman
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
That was then, This is now
S. E. Hinton
Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
Christy
Catherine Marshall
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Anne Moody
M*A*S*H
Richard Hooker
P. S. You’re Not Listening
Eleanor Craig
Out of the Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis
Summer of ’42
Herman Raucher
My Favorites in Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
Auntie Mame
Patrick Dennis
Perelandra
C. S. Lewis
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Spear
Light a Single Candle
Beverly Butler
The Ox-Bow Incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
M*A*S*H Goes to Maine
Richard Hooker
Winter on Her Own
Elizabeth Howard
The Monday Voices
Joanne Greenberg
The Three Faces of Eve
Thigpen and Checkly
In This Sign
Joanne Greenberg
In High Places
Arthur Hailey
The Final Diagnoses
Arthur Hailey
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Lady
Conrad Richter
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman
Ernest J. Gaines
All Things Bright and Beautiful
James Herriot