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1974-1976

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

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