Major John S. - 100 one-night reads: a book lovers guide

CONTENTS
by Category

FANTASY AND SAGA

Heaney, Seamus, (trans.), Beowulf

Hilton, James, Lost Horizon

Lewis, C. S., Out of the Silent Planet

Tolkien, J. R. R., The Hobbit

Verne, Jules, Around the World in Eighty Days

White, E. B., Charlotte's Web

FICTION

Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart

Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim

Auchincloss, Louis, The Education of Oscar Fairfax

Begley, Louis, Wartime Lies

Benson, E. F., Queen Lucia

Bringle, Mary, Hacks at Lunch

Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop

Clark, Walter van Tilberg, The Ox-Bow Incident

Connell, Evan S., Mrs. Bridge

Conrad, Joseph, The Secret Agent

Dermot, Maria, The Ten Thousand Things

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

Forster, E. M., Where Angels Fear to Tread

Greene, Graham, Our Man in Havana

Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises

Jackson, Shirley, The Haunting of Hill House

James, Henry, Washington Square

Jewett, Sarah Orne, The Country of the Pointed Firs

Joyce, James, Dubliners

Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow Country

Kipling, Rudyard, Kim

Kotzwinkle, William, The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Lagerkvist, Pr, Barabbas

London, Jack, The Call of the Wild

Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice

Maugham, W. Somerset, The Razor's Edge

Maxwell, William, They Came Like Swallows

Narayan, R. K., The English Teacher

O'Brian, Patrick, The Unknown Shore

Orwell, George, Animal Farm

Porter, Katherine Anne, Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Portis, Charles, True Grit

Pym, Barbara, Excellent Women

Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49

Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front

Roth, Philip, Portnoy's Complaint

Seth, Vikram, The Golden Gate

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, The Magician of Lublin

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Stegner, Wallace, Remembering Laughter

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island

Thomas, Dylan, Under Milk Wood

Waugh, Evelyn, The Loved One

Wescott, Glenway, The Pilgrim Hawk

West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust

Wharton, Edith, Madame de Treymes

Wilder, Thornton, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

HISTORY, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, The American Scholar and Self-Reliance

Galbraith, John Kenneth, Name-Dropping

Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac

Leys, Simon, Chinese Shadows

Muir, John, My First Summer in the Sierra

Nicol, John, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

Parkinson, C. Northcote, Parkinson's Law

Sobel, Dava, Longitude

Wroe, Ann, A Fool and His Money

HUMOR

Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim

Benson, E. F., Queen Lucia

Cornford, F. M., Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician

Dennis, Patrick, Auntie Mame

Elliott, Bob, and Ray Goulding, Write If You Get Work: The Best of Bob and Ray

Kotzwinkle, William, The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Sellar, W. C., and R. J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That

Sullivan, Frank, Frank Sullivan Through the Looking Glass

Waugh, Evelyn, The Loved One

Wodehouse, P. G., Something Fresh

MEMOIRS

Baker, Russell, Growing Up

Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain

Dundas, Hugh, Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years

Flanner, Janet, Paris Was Yesterday: 19251939

Galbraith, John Kenneth, Name-Dropping

Hanff, Helene, 84, Charing Cross Road

Kates, George, The Years That Were Fat

Kernan, Alvin, Crossing the Line

Lee, Laurie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Liebling, A. J., Between Meals

Mangione, Jerre, Mount Allegro

McGlinchey, Charles, The Last of the Name

Nicol, John, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

Robertson, Adele Crockett, The Orchard

Sullivan, Frank, Frank Sullivan Through the Looking Glass

Tregaskis, Richard, Guadalcanal Diary

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, On the Way Home and West From Home

MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE

Ambler, Eric, A Coffin for Dimitrios

Chandler, Raymond, The Big Sleep

Conrad, Joseph, The Secret Agent

Greene, Graham, Our Man in Havana

Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon

Hansen, Joseph, Fadeout

Higgins, George V., The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Highsmith, Patricia, The Talented Mr. Ripley

MacDonald, John D., The Deep Blue Good-By

Mosley, Walter, Devil in a Blue Dress

van Gulik, Robert H., The Chinese Gold Murders

SCIENCE

Dyson, Freeman J., The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet

Medawar, Peter Brian, Advice to a Young Scientist

Sobel, Dava, Longitude

Tahan, Malba, The Man Who Counted

Watson, James D., The Double Helix

TRAVEL

Chatwin, Bruce, In Patagonia

Dimock, Edward Cameron, Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East

Flanner, Janet, Paris Was Yesterday: 19251939

Lee, Laurie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Liebling, A. J., Between Meals

Newby, Eric, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

Nicol, John, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

Thesiger, Wilfred, Arabian Sands

INTRODUCTION

If you have picked up this book in a bookstore, or even more if you have already bought it and brought it home, you have proclaimed yourself to be a reader. You will recognize in the authors of this book kindred spirits who take pleasure in reading and who wish to share that pleasure with you. We hope to enrich your reading life by recommending to you one hundred books that we have read and loved over the years, that we believe you will enjoy greatly as well, and that you can read in a single evening.

In part what we want to share with you is our own good fortune. As children, if we said (as all children sometimes say), There's nothing to do, our mother would respond, Of course there is. Get a good book and read it. And because that seemed to be excellent advice, and because we were lucky enough to live in a home where good books were readily available and in a town with a well-stocked public library, we both formed at an early age the lifetime habit of reading. Books have been our friends and companions for decades; we have learned that books expand the world in which one lives, and expand one's mind to match that world.