Power Faith and Fantasy by Michel B. Oren The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham To the north by Elizabeth Bowen The fifth queen /Ford Madox Ford The 42nd parallel by Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. A passage to India by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. The wings of the dove by James, Henry, 1843-1916. Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel Brave new world /by Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. The way of all flesh by Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902. Henderson, the rain king by Bellow, Saul Zuleika Dobson by Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.
Remembrance of things past / [Marcel Proust] ; translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. by Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara.
Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
Cloud Atlas : A Novel by DAVID MITCHELL
Crowds and Power By Elias Canetti
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal, born Marie-Henri Beyle
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) by Stendhal, born Marie-Henri Beyle
The Second Sex, published in 1949, by Simone de Beauvoir
Book Row : An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
by Mondlin, Marvin
The Hedgehog, the fox and the magistars pox: mending the gap between science and the humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
1) The Truth About Reference Librarians
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786402202/bibliofuture
2) The Truth About Catalogers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786401036/bibliofuture
3) Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/083890680X/bibliofuture
4) Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570613818/bibliofuture
A Venetian affair by Andrea Di Robilant
Party of One by Anneli Rufus
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer a Man Who Would Cure The World by Tracy Kidder
Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by : ANDREW SEAN GREER
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Sands of Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure by Michael Hoeye
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke (Translator), Dai Sijie
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes by Will Cuppy
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion Tetralogy. A four-novel sequence woven from the vivid strands of Celtic mythology, Walton's work is recognized, alongside The Lord of the Rings and T. H. White's The Once & Future King, as one of the supreme achievements of the genre.
The one-volume edition of Walton's tetralogy includes The Prince of Annwn; The Children of Llyr; The Song of Rhiannon; and The Island of the Mighty
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
A Box of Matches Nicholson Baker's
A degree of mastery by J.M. Roberts
A passion for books by POWELL, Lawrence Clark
An Underacheivers Diary by Benjamin Anastas
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Courtesans and Fishcakes by James Davidson
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis
Fifty Acres and a Poodle by Jenne Laskas
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Goodbye, Friend by Dr. Gary Kowalski
In our time by Susan Brownmiller
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A short guide to a happy life by Anna Quindlen
Other People’s Dirt by Louise Rafkin
Out Of Harms Way by Terri Crisp and Samantha Glenn
Questions of Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich
Scratching the Woodchuck by David Kline
Sparrows by Mary Doria Russell
The Bear Comes Home by Zabor
The chained library, by STREETER, Barnett Hillman,
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Man Who Listens To Horses by Monty Roberts
The Meaning of it All by Richard P Feynman
The Sewing Circle by Axel Madsen
Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon
The Sands of Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure by Michael Hoeye
Wiccan for Life: from birth to summerland – by Raymond Buckland
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Pulitzer Prize: 1948-
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
Best Books
From Random House's Modern Library Board
1. ULYSSES James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN James Joyce
4. LOLITA Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22 Joseph Heller
8. DARKNESS AT NOON Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Samuel Butler
13. 1984 George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Theodore Dreiser
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN Ralph Ellison20. NATIVE SON Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING
Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy)
John Dos Passos
24. WINESBURG, OHIO
Sherwood Anderson
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA
E.M. Forster
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
Henry James
27. THE AMBASSADORS
Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT
F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY
James T. Farrell
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER
Ford Madox Ford
31. ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL
Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE
Theodore Dreise
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST
Evelyn Waugh
35. AS I LAY DYING
William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN
Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END
E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER
Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES
William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE
James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)
Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT
Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES
Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT
Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO
Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW
D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE
D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER
Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
Norman Mailer
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT
Philip Roth
53. PALE FIRE
Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST
William Faulkner
55. ON THE ROAD
Jack Kerouac
56. THE MALTESE FALCON
Dashiell Hammett
57. PARADE'S END
Ford Madox Ford
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON
Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER
Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES
John Cheever
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
J.D. Salinger
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE
W. Somerset Maugham
67. HEART OF DARKNESS
Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET
Sinclair Lewis
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
Lawrence Durell
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS
V.S. Naipaul
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
Nathanael West
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Ernest Hemingway
75. SCOOP
Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE
James Joyce
78. KIM
Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW
E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH
Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE
Wallace Stegner
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER
V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART
Elizabeth Bowen
85. LORD JIM
Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME
E.L. Doctorow
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE
Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD
Jack London
89. LOVING
Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
Salman Rushdie
91. TOBACCO ROAD
Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED
William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS
John Fowles
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET
Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE
William Styron
97. THE SHELTERING SKY
Paul Bowles
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
James M. Cain
99. THE GINGER MAN
J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Booth Tarkington
Reading List:
A Time Line of Trunks, 1770-1930 http://www.trunk.com/book.htm
B O U G H T Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Book of Shadows by Phyllis Curott
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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All the king's men. by Warren, Robert Penn, 1905 Word freak by Stefan Fatsis
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Wiccan for Life: from birth to summerland – by Raymond Buckland
The Crimson Petal and the White – by Michael Faber
American Visions by Robert Hughes
Dog Eat Dog by Jane and Michael Stern
Lindberg by A Scott Berg
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Roverandom by J R R Tolkien
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