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Jane Mallison, Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days [2008]

271 entries: 250 monographical, 21 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically with topical additions: related works listed under some of the main entries

Book Smart, though presenting a list of readings organized across the space of twelve months actually constitutes a third, shorter and less demanding, "lifetime reading plan" after Clifton Fadiman's and Philip Ward's. Formally it is a list of 120 works, 10 for each month. But in the preface, Mallison suggests reading only one of those 10 per month. The reader's supposed to pick one. "I long to believe there's one wild completist out there who will set out to use the book for ten years," she states. Since she also suggests picking any 12 books, not just one from each monthly list, the reader indeed could gradually, over the course of many years, go on the literary adventures she suggests, especially as many of the 120 entries give other suggested readings. They have been included in the list here.

These items included that are not one of the 120 main entries are as follows: nos. 2, 3; the second bullet, 7, and 8; 11-14; 16, 17, and the fourth bullet; 19-21 and the Pasolini film; 24-26; 28-31; 34, 35; 37, 38; 40; the fifth bullet, 42, 43; 47, 48; the sixth bullet; 55, 56; 58; 64-67; 70; 74; 78-83; 88-90; 93-95; the seventh bullet; the Coppola film; 105-112; 114, 115; 117; 119, 120; 122, 123; 126, 127; the eighth and ninth bullets; 130; 132, 133; the tenth and eleventh bullets; 140-142; 144-147; 149, 150; 153; the thirteenth and fourteenth bullets; 158, the fifteenth and sixteenth bullets, and the Thurber play; 161-165; 168, 169; 174, the eighteenth bullet; 176-180; 182 and the Hellman operatta; 184, 185; 188-190; 193, 194; 197-199; 201-203; 206, 207; 209, 210; 213; the nineteenth bullet; 217, 218, and the twentieth bullet; 221, 222; 225, 226; 228-230; 232; 234-235; the twenty-first bullet, 237, and the Visconti film; 240, 241; 243-244; 246, 247; 250.

Mallison's is one of only two lists to include music, film, and opera/ musical theatre works. These items are included in list but not numbered; nor are they included in the master list. The other is the Utne Reader's.

  1. Beowulf

  2. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English version—English

  3. Michael Crichton

  4. Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences With the Northmen in A D 922
    The 13th Warrior
    1976—English


  5. John Gardner

  6. Grendel
    1971—English

  7. Miguel de Cervantes

  8. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison specifies Edith Grossman's English translation—Spanish


  9. Geoffrey Chaucer
    Canterbury Tales
    1478; Mallison specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English version—English

    • Dante

  10. Inferno
    part of La Divina Commedia; written ca. 1308-21; Mallison specifies Robert and Jean Hollander's English translation—Italian

  11. Homer
    Odýsseia
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C; Mallison specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek


    • C P Cavafy

  12. 'Ithaka'
    —Greek

  13. Derek Walcott

  14. Omeros
    1990—English

  15. Margaret Atwood

  16. The Penelopiad
    2005—English

  17. James Joyce

  18. Ulysses
    published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

    Franz Kafka
  19. Die Verwandlung

  20. The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison specifies Stanley Corngold's English translation—German


  21. In der Strafkolonie

  22. In the Penal Colony
    1919—German


  23. Der Prozess

  24. The Trial
    1925—German


  25. Das Schloss

  26. The Castle
    1926—German


  27. Philip Roth

  28. The Breast
    1972—English

  29. Murasaki Shikibu
    Genji Monogatari
    The Tale of Genji
    ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison specifies Royall Tyler's English translation—Japanese


    • Ted Hughes

  30. Tales From Ovid: Twenty-Four Passages From the Metamorphoses
    published in part in After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, 1994; in its entirety, 1997; English translations of selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses—English

  31. Ovid
    Metamorphoseon
    Metamorphoses
    8; Mallison specifies Charles Martin's English translation—Latin


    --
    • After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

  32. 1994; edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun—English

  33. Jane Alison

  34. The Love-Artist
    2001—English

    Sophocles
  35. Oidipous Tyrannos

  36. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
    ca. 429 B C; Mallison specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek


  37. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

  38. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek


  39. Aristotle

  40. Peri Poiêtikês
    De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


  41. Thomas Pynchon

  42. The Crying of Lot 49
    1966—English

    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Edipo Re
    Oedipus Rex
    film; 1967—Italian


  43. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

  44. Aeneid
    First Century B C; Mallison specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translation—Latin

  45. Julian Barnes

  46. Flaubert's Parrot
    1984—English

  47. Frederick Brown

  48. Flaubert
    2006—English

  49. Gustave Flaubert

  50. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translation—French

  51. Julian Barnes

  52. England, England
    1998—English

    Robert Caro
  53. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power

  54. 1982—English

  55. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

  56. 1974—English

  57. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent

  58. 1990—English

  59. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate

  60. 2002—English

  61. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power

  62. 2012—English

  63. Frederick Douglass

  64. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
    1845—English

  65. Benjamin Franklin

  66. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868—English

  67. Walter Isaacson

  68. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    2003—English

  69. Gordon S Wood

  70. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
    2004—English

    Peter Guralnick
  71. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

  72. 1994—English

  73. Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

  74. 1999—English

  75. Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

  76. 2005—English

    David Levering Lewis
  77. W E B DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

  78. 1994—English

  79. W E B DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

  80. 2001—English

  81. Megan Marshall
    The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
    2005—English

    --
    • The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters

  82. 2005; edited by Ronald A Bosco and Joel Myerson—English

  83. R W B Lewis

  84. The Jameses: A Family Narrative
    1991—English

  85. Lucasta Miller

  86. The Brontë Myth
    2001—English

  87. Patricia O'Toole

  88. The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
    1991—English

  89. Kenneth Silverman

  90. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
    1984—English

  91. Lytton Strachey

  92. Eminent Victorians
    1918—English

  93. Michael Holroyd

  94. Lytton Strachey: A Biography
    originally published in two volumes, 1967 and 1968—English

  95. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  96. De Vita Caesarum
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
    written 121—Latin


    James Baldwin
  97. Go Tell It on the Mountain
    1953—English

    • 'Notes of a Native Son'

  98. originally published Nov. 1955 in Harper's—English

  99. Charles Dickens

  100. Great Expectations
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  101. Theodore Dreiser

  102. An American Tragedy
    1925—English

  103. Ralph Ellison

  104. Invisible Man
    1952—English

  105. F Scott Fitzgerald

  106. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  107. Charles Frazier

  108. Cold Mountain
    1997—English

  109. Robert Morgan

  110. Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution
    2003—English

  111. Harriette Arnow

  112. The Dollmaker
    1954—English

    Thomas Hardy
  113. Jude the Obscure

  114. originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

  115. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

  116. published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the Graphic—English

  117. Bernard Malamud

  118. The Assistant
    1957—English

  119. Thomas Mann

  120. Der Zauberberg
    The Magic Mountain
    1924; Mallison specifies John E Woods's English translation—German


  121. Henry David Thoreau

  122. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

  123. Margaret Atwood

  124. The Handmaid's Tale
    1985—English

    Charlotte Brontë
  125. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

  126. originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  127. Shirley

  128. originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1849—English

  129. Villette

  130. originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1853—English

  131. Lyndall Gordon

  132. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
    1994—English

  133. Jean Rhys

  134. Wide Sargasso Sea
    1966—English

  135. Daniel Defoe

  136. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
    1722—English

  137. Euripides

  138. Mēdeia
    Medea
    431 B C; Mallison specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translation—Greek


  139. Meg Wolitzer

  140. The Wife
    2003—English

  141. Gail Godwin

  142. The Odd Woman
    1974—English

  143. William Makepeace Thackeray

  144. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
    originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

  145. Leo Tolstoy

  146. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian

  147. A N Wilson

  148. Tolstoy
    1988—English

  149. Sigrid Undset

  150. Kristin Lavransdatter
    originally published in three volumes: Kransen, 1920; Husfrue, 1921; Korset, 1922; Mallison specifies Tiina Nunnally's English translation—Norwegian

  151. Edith Wharton

  152. The House of Mirth
    1905—English

    Virginia Woolf
  153. A Room of One's Own

  154. 1929—English

  155. Mrs. Dalloway

  156. published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English

  157. To the Lighthouse

  158. 1927 —English

  159. Flush: A Biograpy

  160. 1933—English

  161. Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar

  162. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
    1979—English

  163. Quentin Bell

  164. Virginia Woolf
    1972—English

  165. Hermione Lee

  166. Virginia Woolf
    1996—English

  167. Russell Banks

  168. Continental Drift
    1985—English

  169. Mikhail Bulgakov

  170. Mástyer i Margaríta
    The Master and Margarita
    published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989; Mallison specifies Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's English translation—Russian


  171. Truman Capote

  172. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
    originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1965 in the New Yorker—English

  173. Gerald Clarke

  174. Capote
    1988—English

  175. Deborah Davis

  176. Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
    2006—English

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  177. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

  178. Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian


  179. Zapaski iz Podpol'â

  180. Notes From Underground
    1864—Russian


  181. Brat'â Karamazovy

  182. The Brothers Karamazov
    originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  183. Meyer Levin

  184. Compulsion
    1956—English

  185. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  186. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

    Ian McEwan
  187. Atonement

  188. 2001—English

  189. Amsterdam

  190. 1998—English

  191. Enduring Love

  192. 1997—English

  193. Saturday

  194. 2005—English

  195. John Milton

  196. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

  197. Robert B Parker

  198. Early Autumn
    1980—English

  199. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    1852—English

    • James Baldwin

  200. 'Everybody's Protest Novel'
    originally published Spring 1949 in Zero; included in Collected Essays—English

  201. Tom Wolfe

  202. The Bonfire of the Vanities
    originally published serially Jul. 1984-Aug. 1985 in Rolling Stone; revised 1987—English

  203. Chinua Achebe

  204. Things Fall Apart
    1958—English

  205. Joseph Conrad

  206. Heart of Darkness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

    Francis Ford Coppola
    Apocalypse Now
    film; 1979—English

  207. Gabriel García Márquez

  208. Cien Anõs de Soledad
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1967; Mallison specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translation—Spanish


  209. Kawabata Yasunari

  210. Yukiguni
    Snow Country
    published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948; Mallison specifies Edward G Seidensticker's English translation—Japanese


    Naguib Mahfouz
  211. Bein el-Qasrein

  212. Palace Walk
    1956; Mallison specifies William M Hutchin and Olive E Kenny's English translation—Arabic


  213. Qasr el-Shoaq

  214. Palace of Desire
    1957—Arabic


  215. El-Sukkareyya

  216. Sugar Street
    1957—Arabic


  217. Thomas Mann

  218. Buddenbrooks
    1901—German

    John Galsworthy
  219. The Man of Property

  220. 1906—English

  221. Indian Summer of a Forsyte

  222. 1918—English

  223. In Chancery

  224. 1920—English

  225. Awakening

  226. 1920—English

  227. To Let

  228. 1921—English

    Rohinton Mistry
  229. Family Matters

  230. 2002—English

  231. A Fine Balance

  232. 1995—English

  233. Such a Long Journey

  234. 1991—English

  235. V S Naipul

  236. A House for Mr. Biswas
    1961—English

  237. V S Naipul et al.

  238. Between Father and Son: Family Letters
    1999; published in part in the New Yorker; edited by Gillon Aitken—English

    Nuala O'Faolain
  239. My Dream of You

  240. 2001—English

  241. Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

  242. 1996—English

  243. Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

  244. 2003—English

    José Rizal
  245. Noli Me Tángere

  246. 1887; Mallison specifies Harold Augenbraum's English translation—Spanish

  247. El Filibusterismo

  248. The Reign of Greed
    1891—Spanish


  249. Jessica Hagedorn

  250. Dogeaters
    1990—English

  251. A B Yehoshua

  252. Mar Mani
    Mr. Mani
    1989; Mallison specifies Hillel Halkin's English translation—Hebrew


    Jack Finney
  253. Time and Again

  254. 1970—English

  255. The Body Snatchers

  256. 1955—English

  257. Edward Bellamy

  258. Looking Backward, 2000-1887
    1888—English

    E M Forster
  259. A Passage to India
    1924—English

    • 'My Wood'

    —English

    • 'Two Cheers for Democracy'

  260. —English

  261. Aldous Huxley

  262. Brave New World
    1932—English

  263. George Orwell

  264. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

    Henry James
  265. The Ambassadors

  266. originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English

  267. Washington Square

  268. originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

  269. The Aspern Papers

  270. originally published serially 1888 in the Atlantic Monthly—English

  271. Gloria Naylor

  272. Linden Hills
    1985—English

    George Orwell
  273. Animal Farm
    1945—English

    • 'Such, Such Were the Joys'

    originally published Sep.-Oct. 1952 in the Partisan Review—English

    • 'Shooting an Elephant'

  274. originally published Autumn 1936 in New Writing; included in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, 1950—English

  275. Phillip Pullman

  276. His Dark Materials
    originally published in three volumes: Northern Lights, 1995 (U S title: The Golden Compass); The Subtle Knife, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, 2000—English

  277. Mary Shelley

  278. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  279. Barry Unsworth

  280. The Songs of the Kings
    2002—English

  281. Evelyn Waugh

  282. The Loved One
    originally published Feb. 1948 in Horizon—English

  283. Nathanael West

  284. The Day of the Locust
    1939—English

  285. Peter Lefcourt

  286. The Deal
    1991—English

  287. Jane Smiley

  288. Ten Days in the Hills
    2007—English

  289. Kingsley Amis

  290. Lucky Jim
    1954—English

    David Lodge
  291. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses

  292. 1975—English

  293. Small World: An Academic Romance

  294. 1984—English

  295. Richard Russo

  296. Straight Man
    1997—English

  297. Jane Smiley

  298. Moo
    1995—English

  299. Michael Frayn

  300. Headlong
    1999—English

  301. Katharine Weber

  302. The Music Lesson
    1999—English

  303. A S Byatt

  304. Possession
    1990—English

  305. Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

  306. Satires
    late First-early Second centuries; Mallison specifies Rolfe Humphries's English translation—Latin

    Alison Lurie
  307. Foreign Affairs

  308. 1984—English

  309. The War Between the Tates
    1974—English

    Lorrie Moore
    • Birds of America

  310. stories originally published in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Elle, the New York Times, the Paris Review—English

  311. Vladimir Nabokov

  312. Pale Fire
    1962—English

  313. François Rabelais

  314. La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
    originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translation—French

    David Sedaris
  315. Me Talk Pretty One Day
    2000; presented in part as radio essays—English

    • 'SantaLand Diaries'

    radio essay; originally presnted Dec. 1992; included in Barrel Fever, 1994—English

    --
    • Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

  316. 2005; edited by David Sedaris—English

    James Thurber
  317. Fables of Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated

  318. 1940; 28 stories originally published Jan. 1939-Feb. 1940 in the New Yorker—English

  319. Further Fables for Our Time
    1956; 47 stories, 37 of which originally published in the New Yorker—English

    • 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'

    originally published Mar. 1939 in the New Yorker; included in My World - And Welcome to It, 1942—English

    A Thurber Carnival
    play, 1960—English

    • Writings and Drawings

  320. 1996; includes The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments [1932]; My Life and Hard Times [1933]; The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures [1939]; and The 13 Clocks [1950]; selections from Is Sex Necessary?, 1929; The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931; Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces, 1937; My World - And Welcome to It, 1942; The Thurber Carnival, 1945; The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures, 1948; The Thurber Album: A New Collection of Pieces About People, 1952; Thurber Country: A New Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species, 1953; Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago, 1955; Further Fables of Our Time, 1956; Alarms and Diversions, 1957; and The Years With Ross, 1959; nearly all of Fables of Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940; and seven essays previously uncollected in book form; edited by Garrison Keillor—English

  321. Oscar Wilde

  322. The Importance of Being Earnest
    1895—English

    James Boswell
  323. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

  324. 1791—English

  325. London Journal

  326. written 1762-63—English

  327. Mary Hyde

  328. The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi
    1972—English

  329. Walter Jackson Bate

  330. Samuel Johnson
    1977—English

  331. Bruce Redford

  332. Designing the Life of Johnson
    2002—English

  333. David Buchanan

  334. The Treasures of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers
    1974—English

  335. J Hector St. John (J Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur)

  336. Letters From an American Farmer Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America
    1782—English

  337. Henry Fielding
    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    1749—English

    • Samuel Johnson

  338. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections From the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language
    2002; edited by Jack Lynch—English

  339. Henry Hitchings

  340. Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
    2005—English

  341. Allen Reddick

  342. The Making of Johnson's Dictionary
    1990—English

  343. Charlotte Lenox

  344. The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella
    1752—English

  345. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  346. School for Scandal
    1777—English

  347. Laurence Sterne

  348. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67—English

    Jonathan Swift
  349. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships

  350. Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English


  351. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
    originally anonymously published 1729—English

    • Epitaph

  352. —Latin

  353. Hester Thrale (Heather Lynch Piozzi)

  354. Thraliana, the Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776-1809
    writeen 1776-1809; published 1942; edited by Katherine C Balderston—English

  355. Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life

  356. 1786—English

  357. Mary Hyde

  358. The Thrales of Streatham Park
    1977—English

  359. James Clifford

  360. Heather Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)
    1941—English

  361. William McCarthy

  362. Heather Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman
    1985—English

  363. Beryl Bainbridge

  364. According to Queeney
    2001—English

  365. Voltaire

  366. Candide, ou L'Optimisme
    1759; Mallison specifies Tobias Smollett's English translation—French

  367. Samuel Johnson

  368. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
    The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    1759—English


    Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein
    Candide
    operetta, 1956; new versions, 1973, 1989, and 1999—

  369. Louisa M Alcott

  370. Little Women
    originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869—English

  371. Katharine Weber

  372. The Little Women
    2003—English

  373. Geraldine Brooks

  374. March
    2005—English

  375. Willa Cather

  376. My Ántonia
    1918—English

    Mark Haddon
  377. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  378. 2003—English

  379. A Spot of Bother

  380. 2006—English

  381. Gabriel García Márquez

  382. El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    1985—Spanish


  383. Philip Wylie

  384. The Disappearance
    1951—English

  385. L P Hartley

  386. The Go-Between
    1953—English

    James Joyce
  387. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  388. originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English

  389. Dubliners

  390. 1914—English

  391. Richard Ellmann

  392. James Joyce
    1959—English

  393. Harper Lee

  394. To Kill a Mockingbird
    1960—English

    Claire Messud
  395. The Emperor's Children

  396. 2006—English

  397. When the World Was Steady

  398. 1995—English

  399. The Last Life

  400. 1999—English

  401. The Hunters

  402. 2001—English

    Chaim Potok
  403. The Chosen

  404. 1967—English

  405. The Promise

  406. 1969—English

  407. My Name Is Asher Lev

  408. 1972—English

  409. Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews

  410. 1978—English

  411. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  412. The Yearling
    1938—English

  413. Betty Smith

  414. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    1943—English

  415. Anzia Yezierska

  416. Bread Givers
    1925—English

  417. Mary V Dearborn

  418. Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey
    1988—English

    Pat Barker
  419. Regeneration

  420. 1991—English

  421. Union Street

  422. 1982—English

  423. The Eye in the Door

  424. 1993—English

  425. The Ghost Road

  426. 1995—English

  427. Stephen Crane

  428. The Red Badge of Courage
    published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895—English

    Joseph Heller
  429. Catch-22

  430. 1961—English

  431. Closing Time

  432. 1994—English

  433. Ernest Hemingway

  434. A Farewell to Arms
    1929—English

  435. Homer
    Iliad
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C; Mallison notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural version—Greek

    • Christopher Logue

  436. War Music
    English version of the Iliad; originally published in five volumes: War Music, 1981; Kings, 1991; The Husbands, 1995; All Day Permanent Red, 2003; and Cold Calls, 2005; portions also published as sound recordings—English

    Bobbie Ann Mason
  437. In Country

  438. 1985—English

  439. Elvis Presley

  440. 2002—English

  441. Al Santoli
    Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It
    1981—English

    • Yosef Komunyakaa

  442. 'Facing It'
    —English

  443. Tim O'Brien

  444. The Things They Carried
    1990—English

    William Styron
  445. The Long March

  446. originally entitled Long March, published 1953 in Discovery—English

  447. Lie Down in Darkness

  448. 1951—English

  449. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

  450. originally entitled 'Darkness Visible', published Dec. 1989 in Vanity Fair—English

  451. Edmund Wilson

  452. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
    1962—English

    James Agee
  453. A Death in the Family

  454. 1957—English

  455. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

  456. 1962—English

  457. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

  458. 1941; photography by Walker Evans—English

    Saul Bellow
  459. Herzog

  460. 1964—English

  461. The Adventures of Augie March

  462. 1953—English

  463. Mr. Sammler's Planet

  464. 1970—English

  465. Humboldt's Gift

  466. 1975—English

    William Faulkner
  467. Absalom, Absalom!

  468. 1936—English

  469. Intruder in the Dust

  470. 1936—English

    Kazuo Ishiguro
  471. The Remains of the Day

  472. 1989—English

  473. Never Let Me Go

  474. 2005—English

  475. An Artist of the Floating World

  476. 1986—English

    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  477. Il Gattopardo
    The Leopard
    1958; Mallison specifies Archibald Colquhoun's English translation—Italian


    • 'The Professor and the Siren'

  478. —Italian

  479. David Gilmour

  480. The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
    1991—English

    Luchino Visconti
    Il Gattopardo
    film; 1963—Italian

  481. Walker Percy

  482. The Moviegoer
    1961—English

  483. Wallace Stegner

  484. Angle of Repose
    1971—English

  485. Mary Hallock Foote

  486. A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote
    1972; written in the 1920s; edited by Rodman W Paul—English

  487. Darlis Miller

  488. Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West
    2002—English

    Lewis Thomas
  489. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

  490. 1974; 29 essays originally published serially 1971-73 in the New England Journal of Medicine—English

  491. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

  492. 1979; 29 essays originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine—English

  493. Late-Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

  494. 1983; 24 essays originally published in varied periodicals: Discover, the New York Review of Books, the New England Journal of Medicine—English

  495. Robert Penn Warren

  496. All the King's Men
    1946—English

  497. Walt Whitman

  498. Leaves of Grass
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English

  499. Daniel Mark Epstein

  500. Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
    2004—English