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1977-1979

My 1979 Reading List

Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis

Myself When Young
Daphne du Maurier

The House of the Seven Gables
Nathanial Hawthorne

The Women’s Room
Marilyn French

The Semisovereign People
E. E Shattachneider

Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies
Julia Spruill

The Children’s Hour
Lillian Hellman

Charlotte Temple
Susanna Rowson

The Best Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

The Awakening
Kate Chopin

My Antonia
Willa Cather

Literary Women
Ellen Moers

The Starmaker
Henry Denker

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

People in Pain
Mark Zborowski

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs

The Society of Captives
Gersham W. Sykes

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

Congress: The Electoral Connection
David Mayhew

The Street Corner Society
William Foote Whyte

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen

The World According to Garp
John Irving

You Can’t Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe

Sisters
Elizabeth Fishel

Women, Money & Power
Chesler and Goodman

How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
Alan Lakem

Root of Bitterness
Nancy Cott, ed.

Surfacing
Margaret Atwood

The Pursuit of Loneliness
Slater

Then and Now
W. Somerset Maugham

Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse

Good as Gold
Joseph Heller

The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis

And Keep Your Powder Dry
Margaret Mead

The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins

Alice I Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll

Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Childhood’s End
Arthur Clarke

Shattered Peace
Daniel Yergin

China Crosses the Yalu
Allen Whiting

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Edgar Huntley
Charles Brookden Brown

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper

The Irony of Vietnam
Gelb and Betts

Civilization Espanola
Diego Marin

Life of an American Slave
Frederick Douglass

Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis
Patrick Morgan

Deterrence in American Foreign Policy
George and Smoke

The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville

Billy Budd
Herman Melville

Walden
Thoreau

Lectures and Essays
Emerson

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow

My 1978 Reading List

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
J.D. Salinger

Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

Dreams Die First
Harold Robbins

Idiots First
Bernard Malamud

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Flying
Kate Millett

Childwold
Joyce Carol Oates

Manwatching
Desmond Morris

Dona Perfecta
Perez Galdos

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

Sybil
Flora Rheta Schreiber

Pere Goriot
Honoré de Balzac

Loose Change
Sara Davidson

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad

Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

J.B.
Archibald MacLeish

The Fall
Albert Camus

The History of the Modern World
R. R. Palmer

The Stranger
Albert Camus

The Plague
Albert Camus

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Shanna
Kathleen Woodiwiss

The Thornbirds
Colleen McCullough

The Oranging of America
Max Apple

The Andersonville Trial
Saul Levitz

The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky

Washington, D.C.
Gore Vidal

Richard II
Shakespeare

The Prince
Machiavelli

Art and Experience in Classical Greece
Pollitt

The Leopard
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville

Hard Times
Dickens

Oliver’s Story
Erich Segal

The German Ideology and Extranged Labour
Marx

Early Medieval Art
Ernst Kitzinger

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain

Essays
Max Weber

What is to be Done?
V.I. Lenin

Bread and Wine
Ignazio Silone

Michelangelo’s David
Charles Seymour, Jr.

The Plague
Albert Camus

The Dispossessed
Urusla K. LeGuin

David: Brutus
Robert Herbert

A Different Woman
Jane Howard

Getting Even
Woody Allen

Stop-Time
Frank Conroy

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula LeGuin

The Impressionists
William Gaunt

My 1977 Reading List

Anthem
Ayn Rand

Twelfth Night
Shakespeare

The Flame and the Flower
Kathleen Woodwise

The Ebony Tower
John Fowles

The Wildest Heart
Rosemary Rogers

The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder

The Chosen
Chaim Potok

Passages
Gail Sheehy

The Circle
W. Somerset Maugham

Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne Dwyer

Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand

The B.S. Factor
Arthur Herzog

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Prisig

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Antigone
Jean Anouilh

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Christmas Stories
Charles Dickens

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Judith Rossner

The Boys from Brazil
Ira Levin

Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy

Captains and Kings
Taylor Caldwell

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Dark Fires
Rosemary Rogers

Ordinary People
Judith Guest

Watch Your Language
Theodore Bernstein

The Archbishop of Canterbury
Summering
Joanne Greenberg

The Professional Journalist
John Hobenberg

Beyond the Looking Glass
Kathrine Perutz

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

The Collector
John Fowles

Oedipus the King
Sophocles

San Manuel Bueno, Martir
Miguel Unamuno

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

The Graduate
Charles Webb

Don’t Play Dead Before You Have To
Marie Wojciechowska

Othello
Shakespeare

King Lear
Shakespeare

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

Dr. Faustus
Marlowe

Trinity
Leon Uris

Best Short Stories
W. Somerset Maugham

I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven

Ghosts
Ibsen

Subliminal Seduction
Wilson Key

The Doll’s House
Ibsen

The Queen’s Confession
Victoria Holt

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