As promised, a list of some of the many books that my father
read in his lifetime. His book choices continue to inspire me; I know they will
do so for many years to come. In 1938, when he was twenty years old, he started
to note the specific year in which he read the books he listed. These are the
books he read during that year.
- The Wind from the Mountains Trygve Gulbranssen
- The Deserted Village and Other Poems Oliver Goldsmith
- And So—Victoria Vaughan Wilkins
- American Dream Michael Foster
- The Outward Room Miller Brand
- Anna Karenina Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- War and Peace Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- The Turning Wheels Stuart Cloete
- Invasion Maxence Van der Meersch
- Northwest Passage Kenneth Roberts
- Rogue Herries Hugh Walpole
- The Stars Look Down Albert Joseph Cronin
- The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Inheritance Phyllis Bentley
- Why Rome Selden Peabody Delany
- The Sisters Myron Brinig
- Judith Paris Hugh Walpole
- The Fortress Hugh Walpole
- Vanessa Hugh Walpole
- The Ordinary Difficulties of Everyday People John Rathbone Oliver
- D’Annunzio Tommaso Antongini
- Parnassus On Wheels Christopher Morley
- The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley
- The Wall Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The Citadel Albert Joseph Cronin
- Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier
- The Rains Came Louis Bromfield
- Opera, Front and Back H. Howard Taubman
- Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys
- Dawn In Lyonesse Mary Ellen Chase
- Appreciation William Lyon Phelps
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
- To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
- More of My Life Andrea Majocchi, MD
- For the Honor of the School Ralph Henry Barbour
- Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe
- The Telltale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
- Doctor Bradley Remembers Francis Brett Young
- Green Mansions William Henry Hudson
- Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
