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