Foreword: As noted elsewhere, the books listed are only those which I have read or re-read within the past decade and which are exceptionally good or are unusually bad (and, thus, deserving of warning). Accordingly, the list omits 80% of my readings since college, as I simply didn’t make notes in that now distant past.
A Man in Full – Wolfe
Art of Fielding – Harbach
Baron in the Trees – Calvino
Before Night Falls – Arenas
Birdsong – Faulks
Candide – Voltaire
Cantebury Tales – Chaucer
Catch 22 – Heller
Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
Chekhov’s Best Plays
Corelli’s Mandolin – Bernier
Cutting for Stone – Verghese
Cyrano de Bergerac – Rostand
Darkling Thrush – Hardy
Decameron – Boccaccio
Devil in the White City – Larson
Divine Comedy – Dante
Don Quixote – Cervantes
Dorian Gray – Wilde
Engleby – Faulks
Far from the Madding Crowd – Hardy
Fathers & Sons – Turgenev
Faust – Goethe
First Love – Turgenev
Gandhi – Shirer
Gone with the Wind – Mitchell
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim – Mamdani
Good Soldier – Ford
Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
Illiad – Homer
Imporance of Being Earnest – Wilde
Issac’s Storm – Larson
Jennie Gerhardt – Dreiser
Jonathon Livingston Seagull – Bach
Jude the Obscure – Hardy
Last Tycoon, Lazard Freres – Cohan
Les Miserables – Hugo
Linnet Bird – Holeman
Little Women – Allcott
Longitude – Sobel
Lotos and Cross – Zacharias
Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez
Lush Life – P:rice
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Magic Universe – Calder
Man without a Country – Vonnegut
Mysterious Stranger – Twain
Naked and the Dead – Mailer
Nineteen Eighty-Four – Orwell
Oscar Wilde’s Poems
Pillars of the Earth – Follett
Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver
Portrait of an Artist – Joyce
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi
Scaramouche – Sabatini
Shakespeare – Bryson
Shakespeare’s Insults – Hill
Shantaram – Roberts
Silas Marner – Eliot
Sister Carrie – Dreiser
Sons and Lovers – DH Lawrene
Sound and Fury – Faulkner
Spectacle of Corruption – Liss
Suite Francaise – Nermirovsky
T S Eliot – Selected Poems
Tess of the Dubervilles – Hardy
The Coffee Trader – Liss
The Help – Stockett
The Little Prince – St. Exupery
The Prince – Machiavelli
The Way of All Flesh – Butler
Three Cups of Tea – Moretnson
Thunderstruck – Larson
Tipping Point – Gladwell
T S Eliot, Select Poems
Twelve Men – Dreiser
War and Peace – Tolstoy
Water for Elephants – Gruen
William James Writings
Wind, Sand & Stars – St. Exupery
Women in Love – DH Lawrence
Wuthering Heights – Bronte
Dr. Zhivago – Pasternak