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Subject: Greatest books of all time (recompiled)
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Remember those 8 lists that Mike Morris (msmorris@watsci.uwaterloo.ca) posted?
There were some redundancies among those lists, so I compiled them all
into one large list.  There are 425 books on about 10 pages (of LaTeX output --
Morris' lists took up about 17 pages).  There are also 2 or so books that
seem to be some kind of compilation of other work, and there are 2 books
that I added to the end that I either thought should be in the list or
I want to read later, you can ignore these.

I think, the list is, for the most part, error-free.  If anybody finds some bugs
in it, or if anybody would like to put the list into some sort of coherent
order (such as by date), that'd be great (but please let me know first --
I've got a version of it in LaTeX, that I'd rather you sort instead of
this text version).

I hope somebody can find this useful, otherwise sorry for the waste of
bandwidth...the list is formatted by detex (oh wow!) and is simply in
the form "author: Title".
------------------- 425 greatest books of all time ---------------------------
 
  The Bible
  The New Testament
  The Great Conversation   Three volumes of intro and reference
      to the set. 
  Syntopicon 1
  Syntopicon 2
  Qu'ran
     Unknown : The Epic of Gilgamesh
     Unknown : The Greek Anthology
     Unknown : Medieval Latin Lyrics
     Unknown : Beowulf
     Homer : The Iliad, The Odyssey
     Sappho : Poems
     Aeschylus : Tragedies, The Oresteia
     Sophocles : Tragedies, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Electra,
      The Theban Plays
     Euripides : Tragedies, Alcestis, Medea, Hipploytus, Trojan Women, 
      Electra, Bacchae
     Lucretius : On the Nature of Things
     Aristophanes : Collected plays, Comedies, The Birds
     Herodotus : The Persian Wars, History
     Thucydides : Hisotry of the Peloponnesian War
     Plato : Collected dialogues, The Trial and Death of Socrates,
      The Republic
     Aristotle : Ethics, Politics, Collected works, volume I and II
     Epicurus : ``Letter to Herodotus,'' ``Letter to Menoecus''
     Hippocrates : Collected works, Medical Writings
     Galen : On the Natural Faculties
     Euclid : The Elements
     Archimedes : Collected works
     Apollonius of Perga : Conic Sections
     Nicomachus of Gerasa : Introduction to Arithmetic
     Marcus Aurelius : The Meditations
     Apuleius : The Golden Ass
     Cicero : Works
     Horace : Works
     Pindar : Olympians, etc.
     Theocritus : Idylls
     Julius Caesar : The War in Gaul
     Petronius : The Satyricon
     Livy : History of Rome
     Ovid : Works
     Plutarch : Parallel Lives, Moralia
     Tacitus : The Annals, The Histories, Agricola, Germania
     Epictetus : The Discourses, Encheiridion
     Sun Tsu : Art of War
     Tu Fu : Poems
     Unknown : Classic Japanese Poetry
     Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching
     Unknown : The Bhagavad-Gita
     Ssu-Ma Chien : Records of the Grand Historian of China
     Unknown : Catullus
     Unknown : The Early Irish Epic
     Unknown : The English and Scottish Popular Ballad
     Sei Shonagon : The Pillow Book
     Abelard and Heloise : Various
     Heike Monogatari : Various
     Lady Murasaki : The Tale of Genji
     Virgil : The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics
     Ptolemy : The Almagest
     Nicolaus Copernicus : On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
     Lucian : Works
     Plotinus : The Enneads
     Saint Augustine : On the Teacher, Confessions, City of God,
      On Christian Doctrine
     Unkown : The Song of Roland
     Unkown : The Song of Songs
     Unkown : The Nibelungenlied (Volsunga Saga as Scandinavian version)
     Unknown : The Mahabharata
     Unknown : The Kalevala
     Unknown : The Journal of John Woolman
     Njal : The Saga
     Saint Thomas Aquinas : Summa Theologica, vol. I and II
     Dante Alighieri : The New Life, On Monarchy, The Divine Commedy
     Geoffrey Chaucer : Troilus and Cressida, The Canterbury Tales
     Leonardo da Vinci : Notebooks
     Nicolo Machiavelli : The Prince,
      Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
     T. Malory : Le Morte d'Arthur
     J. Gardner : Grendel
     M. Stewart : The Crystal Cave, etc.
     J. Dryden : MacFlecknoe, etc.
     C. Marlowe : Poems, Doctor Faustus
     T. Gray : Elegy in a Country Churchyard
     M. Arnold : Dover Beach
     R. Browning : Collected Works
     E. Dickinson : Collected Works
     J. Keats : Collected Works
     P.B. Shelley : Collected Works
     A. Tennyson : Idylls of the King, etc.
     C. Bronte : Jane Eyre
     J. Cooper : Last of the Mohicans
     W. Scott : Ivanhoe, etc.
     B. Brecht : Mother Courage
     L. Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun
     A. Miller : Death of a Salesman, Canticle for Liebowitz, Crucible
     Pirandello : Six Characters in Search...
     A. Strindberg : Miss Julie, etc.
     J. Synge : Playboy of the Western World
     O. Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest
     T. Wilder : Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth
     T. Williams : Streetcar Named Desire
     e.e. cummings : Collected Works
     G.M. Hopkins : Collected Works
     A.E. Housman : Collected Works
     T. Roethke : Collected Works
     J. Didion : Collected Works
     A. Dillard : Collected Works
     L. Eiseley : Immense Journey, etc.
     J. McPhee : Collected Works
     Saki (Munro) : Collected Short Stories
     L. Thomas : Collected Works
     J. Thurber : Carnival, etc.
     E.B. White : Essays
     S. Anderson : Winesburg, Ohio
     F.S. Fitzgerald : Great Gatsby
     J. Galsworthy : Forsyte Saga
     E. Hemingway : The Sun also Rises
     S. Lewis : Main Street
     J. Steinbeck : The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
     R. Wright : Native Son
     R. Bradbury : The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451
     A. Burgess : Enderby, A Clockwork Orange
     J. Gardner : October Light
     J. Herriot : All Creatures Great   Small
     J. Knowles : A Separate Peace
     H. Lee : To Kill a Mockingbird
     T. Morrison : Song of Solomon
     A. Paton : Cry the Beloved Country
     J.R.R. Tolkien : Lord of the Rings
     J. Watson : The Double Helix
     Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan
     Desiderius Erasmus : The Praise of Folly
     Sir Thomas More : Utopia
     M. Renault : The King Must Die, etc.
     J. William : Augustus
     Bede : History of the English Church and People
     A.C. Cawley : Everyman   Miracle Plays
     Ackerman : Backgrounds to Medieval Literature
     W. Langland : Piers the Ploughman
     E. Hamilton : Mythology, etc.
     Martin Luther : Table Talk, Three Treatises
     Francois Rabelais : Gargantua and Pantagruel
     Marco Polo : The Travels of Marco Polo
     John Calvin : Institutes of the Christian Religion
     Michel de Montaigne : Essays
     William Gilbert : On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
     Galileo Galilei : The Starry Messenger
      Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
     Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
     Edmund Spenser : Prothalamion, The Faerie Queene, 
      Shephearde's Calendar
     Sir Francis Bacon : Essays, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum,
      New Atlantis
     William Shakespeare : Poetry, Plays and Sonnets, Macbeth, 
      The Tempest
     Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
     Rand : Atlas Shrugged
     Mumford : City in History
     Walker : Color Purple
     Zukav : Dancing Wu-Li Masters
     Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago
     Watscon : Double Helix
     Herbert : Dune Trilogy
     Strunk   White : Elements of Style
     Rifkin : Entropy
     Thompson : Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
     Abbott : Flatland
     Mishima : Forbidden Colors
     Asimov : Foundation Trilogy
     Rand : Fountainhead
     Friedman : Free to Choose
     Hofstadter : Godel, Escher, Bach
     Mitchell : Gone with the Wind
     Pynchon : Gravity's Rainbow
     Atwood : Handmaid's Tale
     Hersey : Hiroshima
     Revel : How Democracies Perish
     St. Exupery : Little Prince
     Frankl : Man's Search for Meaning
     Lewis : Mere Christianity
     Abbey : Monkey Wrench Gang
     Kerouac : On the Road
     Shirer : Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
     Peck : Road Less Travelled
     Leopold : Sand County Almanac
     de Beauvoir : Second Sex
     Merton : Seven Story Mountain
     Hesse : Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
     Vonnegut : Slaughterhouse Five
     Schumacher : Small Is Beautiful
     Heinlein : Stranger in a Strange Land
     Kuhn : Structure of Scientific Revolutions
     Capra : Tao of Physics
     Toffler : Third Wave
     Berry : Unsettling of America
     Pirsig : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
     Ben Jonson : Volpone, Epigrams, Plays
     Izaak Walton : The Compleat Angler
     Johannes Kepler : Epitome of Copernican Astronomy,
      Concerning the Harmonies of the World
     William Harvey : On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals,
      On the Circulation of the Blood, On the Generation of Animals
     Rene Descartes : Rules for the Direction of the Mind, 
      Discourse on the Method, Geometry, Meditations on First Philosophy, 
      and other works
     Moliere : Comedies
     John Milton : English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes,
      Areopagitica, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, 
      L'Allegro
     William Blake : Selected Works
     Blaise Pascal : The Provincial Letters, Pensees,
      Scientific Treatises
     Sir Isaac Newton : Principia and Optics,
      Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
     Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz : Discourse on Metaphysics,
      New Essays Concerning Human Understanding, Monadology
     Benedict de Spinoza : Ethics
     Christiaan Huygens : Treatise on Light
     John Locke : A Letter Concerning Toleration, 
      Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, 
      An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
      Thoughts Concerning Education
     Jean Baptiste Racine : Tragedies, Phedre
     John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
     Tsao Hsueh Chin : The Dream of the Red Chamber
     Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
     Jonathon Swift : Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, 
      Meditations upon a Broomstick, Resolutions when I Come to be Old
      Journal to Stella, A Modest Proposal
     Choderlos de Laclos : Dangerous Acquaintances
     Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
      A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
     Restif de la Bretonne : Monsieur Nicolas
     William Congreve : The Way of the World
     George Berkeley : The Principles of Human Knowledge
     Alexander Pope : Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man
     Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu : Persian Letters,
      Spirit of Laws
     Voltaire : Letters on the English, Candide,
      Philosophical Dictionary
     Giacomo Casanova : History of My Life
     Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
     Samuel Johnson : The Vanity of Human Wishes, Dictionary, Rasselas,
      The Lives of the Poets
     David Hume : Treatise on Human Nature, Essays Moral and Political,
      An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
     Montesquieu : Spirit of Laws, 
     Jean Jaques Rousseau : On the Origin of Inequality,
      On the Political Economy, Emile, The Social Contract, Confessions
     Adam Smith : The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Wealth of Nations
     Immanuel Kant : Critique of Pure Reason,
      Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals,
      Critique of Practical Reason, The Science of Right, Critique of Judgment,
      Perpetual Peace
     Edward Gibbon : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
      Autobiography
     James Boswell : Journal, Life of Samuel Johnson
     Antoine Laurent Lavoisier : Elements of Chemistry
     John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton : Federalist Papers,
      (together with Articles of Confederation,
      Constitution of the United States, and Declaration of Independence)
     Thomas Jefferson : Writings
     Flannery O'Connor : Wise Blood, Collected Works
     Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1832-1858,
      Speeches and Writings 1859-1865
     Ulysses S. Grant : Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters
     William Tecumseh Sherman : Memoirs
     Richard B. Morris, ed. : Basic Documents in American History
     Clinton Rossiter, ed. : The Federalist Papers
     Jeremy Bentham :
      Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation,
      Theory of Fictions
     Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust, Poetry and Truth
     Anton Chekhov : Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard
     Flann O'Brien : At Swim-Two-Birds
     Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter
     Eugene O'Neill : Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh,
      Long Day's Journey into Night, Ah Wilderness
     Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape,
      Murphy
     E. Bradlee Watson and Benfield Pressey, eds. :
      Contemporary Drama
     Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier : Analytical Theory of Heat
     William Wordsworth : Poems, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems,
      Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 1800
     Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Poems, Biographia Literaria
      The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Writings on Shakespeare
     William Butler Yeats : Collected Poems, Collected Plays,
      The Autobiography
     Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice, Emma
     Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
     William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
     Karl von Clausewitz : On War
     Stendhal : The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, On Love
     Baudelaire : Poems
     George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
     Arthur Schopenhauer : Studies in Pessimism
     Michael Faraday : Chemical History of a Candle,
      Experimental Researches in Electricity
     Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Phenomenology of Spirit,
      Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
     Charles Lyell : Principles of Geology
     Auguste Comte : The Positive Philosophy
     Honore de Balzac : Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet
     Ralph Waldo Emerson : Representative Men, Essays, Journal,
      American Scholar
     Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales
     Alexis de Tocqueville : Democracy in America
     John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic, On Liberty,
      Representative Government, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women,
     Charles Darwin : The Origin of Species, the Descent of Man,
      Autobiography
     Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, 
      Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, 
      Little Dorrit
     Francis Parkman : France and England in North America
     Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin
     Frederick Douglass : Various
     Claude Bernard : Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine     
     Henry David Thoreau : Civil Disobedience, Walden
      A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
     Karl Marx : Capital (together with Communist Manifesto)
     George Eliot : Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss
     T.S. Eliot : Collected Poems and Collected Plays,
      Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
     Walt Whitman : Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas,
      Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855),
      A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
     Robert Frost : Collected Poems
     Lewis Carroll : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
      Through the Looking Glass
     Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
     Joseph Conrad : Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
     E.M. Forster : A Passage to India
     Herman Melville : Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Bartleby the Scrivener,
      Redburn, White-Jacket The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, Pierre
     Friedrich Engels : The Communist Manifesto
     Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment, The Idiot,
      The Brothers Karamazov
     Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary, Three Stories, 
      A Sentimental Education
     Edmond and Jules de Goncourt : Journal
     Rimbaud : Poems
     Henrik Ibsen : Plays, A Doll's House
     Count Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace, Anna Karenina, What is Art?,
      Twenty-Three Tales, The Kingdom of God is within You
     Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
      The Mysterious Stranger, Mississippi Writings, The Innocents Abroad,
      Roughing It
     William James : The Principles of Psychology,
      The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragamatism and Four Essays
      from The Meaning of Truth, Essays in Radical Empiricism
     Henry James : The American, The Ambassadors
     Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
      Beyond Good and Evil, The Geneology of Morals, The Will to Power
     Jules Henri Poincare : Science and Hypothesis, Science and Method
     Sigmund Freud : The Interpretation of Dreams,
      Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Civilization and Its Discontents,
      New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
     Gilbert White : A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
     Robert Burns : Various
     George Bernard Shaw : Plays and Prefaces, Pygmalion, Major Barbara
     Max Planck : Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory,
      Where Is Science Going?, Scientific Autobiography
     Henri Bergson : Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory,
      Creative Evolution, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
     John Dewey : How We Think, Democracy and Education,
      Experience and Nature, Logic, the Theory of Inquiry,
      Human Nature and Conduct
     Alfred North Whitehead : An Introduction to Mathematics,
      Science and the Modern World, The Aims of Education and Other Essays,
      Adventures of Ideas
     George Santayana : The Life of Reason, Skepticism and Animal Faith,      
      Persons and Places
     John Donne : Selected Works
     Nikolai Lenin : The State and Revolution
     Marcel Proust : Remembrance of Things Past
     Bertrand Russell : The Problems of Philosophy,
      The Analsysis of Mind, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth,
      Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits
     Thomas Mann : The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers
     Albert Einstein : The Meaning of Relativity,
      On the Method of Theoretical Physics,
      The Evolution of Physics (with    L. Infeld )
     James Joyce : ``The Dead'' in Dubliners,
      Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
     Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando,
      The Waves, Room of One's Own
     D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers, Women in Love
     Aldous Huxley : Brave New World, Collected Essays, 
      After Many a Summer, Ape and Essence, Island
     L.P. Hartley : Facial Justice
     Olivia Manning : The Balkans Trilogy (to 1965)
     Ivy Compton-Burnett : The Mighty and Their Fall
     Joseph Heller : Catch-22
     Richard Hughes : The Fox in the Attic
     Patrick White : Riders in the Chariot
     Angus Wilson : The Old Men at the Zoo, Late Call
     James Baldwin : Another Country, Go Tell it on the Mountain
     Pamela Hansford Johnson : An Error of Judgment
     Malcolm Lowry : Under the Volcano
     V.S. Naipaul : A Bend in the River
     William Stryon : Sophie's Choice
     Brian Aldiss : Life in the West
     Russell Hoban : Riddley Walker
     David Lodge : How Far Can You Go?
     John Kennedy Toole : A Confederacy of Dunces
     Alasdair Gray : Lanark
     Alexander Theroux : Darconville's Cat
     Paul Theroux : The Mosquito Coast
     Gore Vidal : Creation
     Norman Mailer : The Naked and the Dead, Ancient Evenings,
      Armies of the Night
     Nevil Shute : No Highway
     Elizabeth Bowen : The Heat of the Day
     Jaques Maritain : Art and Scholasticism, The Degrees of Knowledge,
      The Rights of Man and Natural Law, True Humanism
     Franz Kafka : The Trial, The Castle
     Arnold Toynbee : A Study of History, Civilization on Trial
     Jean Paul Sartre : Nausea, No Exit, Being and Nothingness
     Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn : The First Circle, The Cancer Ward
     George Orwell : Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
     Andre Malraux : Man's Fate
     Albert Camus : The Plague, The Stranger, Outsider
     Edgar Allan Poe : Short Stories and Other Works, The Raven
     Mary McCarthy : The Groves of Academe
     Raymond Chandler : The Long Goodbye
     Kingsley Amis : Lucky Jim, The Anti-Death League
     John Braine : Room at the Top
     Lawrence Durrell : The Alexandria Quartet (to 1960)
     Colin MacInnes : The London Novels (to 1960)
     Malcolm Bradbury : The History Man
     Brian Moore : The Doctor's Wife
     Robert Nye : Falstaff
     Erica Jong : How to Save Your Own Life
     James Plunkett : Farewell Companions
     Paul Scott : Staying On
     John Updike : The Coup
     J.G. Ballard : The Unlimited Dream Company
     Bernard Malamud : The Assistant, Dubin's Lives
     Iris Murdoch : The Bell
     Alan Sillitoe : Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
     T.H. White : The Once and Future King
     William Faulkner : The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, 
      The Mansion
     Ian Fleming : Goldfinger
     C.P. Snow : Strangers and Brothers (to 1970)
     Ernest Hemingway : Short Stories, For Whom the Bell Tolls,
      The Old Man and The Sea, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms
     Rex Warner : The Aerodrome
     Joyce Cary : The Horse's Mouth
     Somerset Maugham : The Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage
     Evelyn Waugh : Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour (to 1961)
     Mervyn Peake : Titus Groan
     John O'Hara : The Lockwood Concern
     Chinua Achebe : A Man of the People
     John Barth : Giles Goat-Boy, The End of the Road
     Nadine Gordimer : The Late Bourgeois World
     Walker Percy : The Last Gentleman
     R.K. Narayan : The Vendor of Sweets
     J.B. Priestley : The Image Men
     Mordecai Richler : Cocksure
     Keith Roberts : Pavane
     John Fowles : The French Lieutenant's Woman
     Saul Bellow : The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog,
      Humboldt's Gift
     Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra : Don Quixote
     Jorge Luis Borges : Labyrinths, Dreamtigers
     Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude
     Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol : Dead Souls
     Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev : Fathers and Sons
     Arthur Conan Doyle : ``Sherlock Holmes''
     Alexander Berkman : Various
     Doris Lessing : The Golden Notebook
     Muriel Spark : The Girls of Slender Means, The Mandelbaum Gate
     William Golding : The Spire, The Lord of the Flies
     Wilson Harris : Heartland
     Christopher Isherwood : A Single Man
     Vladimir Nabokov : Lolita, Pale Fire, Speak, Memory, The Defence
     Henry Adams : The Education of Henry Adams,
      History of the United States during the Administration of Jefferson, 
      History of the United States during the Administration of Madison
     Frank Norris : Novels and Essays
     W.E.B. Du Bois : Writings
     Willa Cather : Early Novels and Stories, My Antonia
     Theodore Dreiser : Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men
     Benjamin Franklin : Writings
     Fernand Braudel : The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World
      in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century
     William H. McNeill : The Rise of the West
     Will and Ariel Durant : The Story of Civilization
     Samuel Eliot Morison : The Oxford History of the American People
     Page Smith : A People's History of the United States
     E.H. Gombrich : The Story of Art
     H.G. Wells : Various
     Ford Madox Ford : Parade's End, The Good Soldier
     Herbert Read : The Green Child
     William Carlos Williams : Poems
     Jack London : Novels and Stories, Novels and Social Writings
     William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886
     Washington Irving : History, Tales, and Sketches, 
      Legend of Sleepy Hollow
     Stephen Crane : Prose and Poetry
     James Fenimore Cooper : The Leatherstocking Tales vol. I and II
     William Sansom : The Body
     William Cooper : Scenes from Provincial Life
     Budd Schulberg : The Disenchanted
     Anthony Powell : A Dance to the Music of Time (to 1975)
     J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye
     Henry Williamson : The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (to 1969)
     Herman Wouk : The Caine Mutiny
     Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man
     Henry Green : Party Going
     Edith Wharton : Ethan From
     Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren : How to Read a Book
 
  Supplementary 
 
     W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. :
      Poets of the English Language
     Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. :
      The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
 
  My picks 
 
     John Dickson Carr : The Devil in Velvet
     John Irving : A Prayer for Owen Meany, Ciderhouse Rules
 
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