The lists are alphabetical by author, except for the title at the top of each. Mr. Fitzgerald, in 200 pages, chronicles everything which makes us human and makes us love and drives us forward to do more than merely exist. Mr. Shabazz and Mr. Haley profoundly altered the course of my life. And there is not enough room for me to talk about Mr. Boswell. Without their words, I would be a diminished person.That being said...you should read as much of the following as you can. All of you.
THE SINGLE GREATEST BOOK I EVER READ IN MY LIFE
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
FIFTEEN FAVORITE WORKS OF FICTION
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
TEN FAVORITE WORKS OF NON-FICTION
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz as told to Alex Haley
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Bill Graham Presents by Bill Graham with Robert Greenfield
The Four Witnesses by Robin Griffith-Jones
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties by Ian McDonald
Excerpts from the Writings of John Stuart Mill
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto
The Modern Mind by Peter Watson
TEN FAVORITE POETS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
W. H. Auden
Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas Gray
John Keats
Andrew Marvell
Eugene O'Neill
Joe Orton
Sir Harold Pinter
Virgil
Oscar Wilde
TWO WRITERS YOU SHOULD JUST GO OUT AND READ EVERYTHING BY
William Shakespeare
Anthony Trollope
Andrew Rostan is Not responsible for any complaints or refunds if you buy these books and don't like them.
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I love (LOVE) The Westing Game. It was such a pleasure to have it read to me in fourth grade (I hope librarians still read to children), and it was an equal pleasure to reread it as an adult.
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