No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This is a record of the lives I have lived, the worlds I have wandered, and the emprises I have experienced through the whispered words of turning pages...
The Waiting List
1776 (David McCullough)
1984 (George Orwell)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain)
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A River Runs Through It (Norman F. Maclean)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Complete Poems (John Keats)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Famous Pirates of the New World (A. B. C. Whipple)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Gods and Generals (Jeff Shaara)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
King Arthur and His Knights (Mabel Louise Robinson)
King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)
Lawrence of Arabia (Alistair MacLean)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Mother Courage and Her Children (Bertolt Brecht)
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksander Solzhenitsyn)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)
Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (Marco Polo)
The Art of Warfare (Sun Tzu)
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry (Christine de Pizan)
The Cather in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Crisis (Winston Churchill)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison)
The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (H. G. Wells)
The Life of Saint Patrick (Quentin Reynolds)
The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
The Republic (Plato)
The Scottish Chiefs (Jane Porter)
The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
The Song of Hiawatha (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)
The Story of Scotland Yard (Laurence Thompson)
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater (Anne Terry White)