Showing posts with label reading list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading list. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

My father’s reading list prior to 1936, continued

Androcles and the Lion—George Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch—Alice Hegan Rice
A Christmas Carol—Charles Dickens
Edith Trevor’s Secret—Mrs. Harriet Lewis
The King of Kings—Jeanie MacPherson and Henry MacMahon
The Black Pirate—MacBurney Gates
The Whistling Waddy--Donald Bayne Hobart
Deerslayer—James Fenimore Cooper
Riders of the Purple Sage—Zane Grey (author of the next four titles)
Desert Gold
Thunder Mountain
The Mysterious Rider
Man of the Forest
The Crossing—Winston Churchill
Marjorie Daw—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Black Hunter—James Oliver Curwood
Kazan—James Oliver Curwood
Bob, Son of Battle—Alfred Ollivant
Dick Kent, Fur Trader—Milton Richards
Tarzan of the Apes—Edgar Rice Burroughs (author of the next six titles)
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
Tarzan and the Lost (World) Empire
Tarzan the Untamed
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 
Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wonderful War (The Saint)—Leslie Charteris
The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter—Ambrose Bierce
The Shadow Man—Edgar Wallace (author of the next eleven titles)
Red Aces
The Colossus
The Terror Keep
The Devil Man
The Green Ribbon
The Mystery of the Frightened Lady
The Fellowship of the Frog
India-Rubber Men
The Fourth Plague
The Black
The Ringer
The Flying Beast—Walter S. Masterman
The Greek Coffin Mystery—Ellery Queen (author of the next two titles)
The Egyptian Cross Mystery
The Dutch Shoe Mystery
The Kennel Murder Case—S.S.Van Dine (author of the next three titles)
The Greene Murder Case
The Bishop Murder Case
The Scarab Murder Case
Laughing Death—Walter C. Brown
The Daughter of Fu Manchu—Sax Rohmer

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

My father’s reading list prior to 1936

As promised, I will continue to post the lists of books my father read during his life. He was a prolific reader already during his childhood and teenage years. In 1936, when he was eighteen years old, he started to annotate his reading list according to the specific year that he read a particular book. My post today will include some of the books he read prior to 1936. The first one on his list was Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Here are the first fifty books he recorded as read, so many of them typical of a young boy’s life…….

Quo Vadis—Henryk Sienkiewicz
Fortitude—Hugh Walpole
Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe
Tom Brown’s Schooldays—Thomas Hughes
The Black Arrow—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
Call of the Wild—Jack London
The Man without a Country—Edward Everett Hale
Men of Iron—Howard Pyle
Daddy Long Legs—Jean Webster
The Riflemen of the Ohio—Joseph A. Altsheler (also author of the next thirteen books)
The Young Trailers
The Forest Runners
The Free Rangers
The Scouts of the Valley
The Border Watch
The Sun of Saratoga
The Horsemen of the Plains
The Last of the Chiefs
Shadow of the North
Sun of Quebec
The Guns of Shiloh
The Tree of Appomattox
Apache Gold
The Arkansas Bear—Albert Bigelow Paine
Just So Stories—Rudyard Kipling
Story of a Bad Boy—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Story of Roland—James Baldwin
Robin Hood and His Merry Men—John Finnemore
The Sky Pilot—Ralph Connor
Boy’s Life of Edison—William H. Meadowcraft
The Tragedy of the Italia—Davide Guidici
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe
Scouting with Daniel Boone—Everett T. Tomlinson
The Palm of the Hot Hand—King Phillips
Pinocchio—Carlo Collodi
Jim Davis—John Masefield
The Black Buccaneer—Stephen W. Meader
Boots and Saddles—E.B. Custer
The Perfect Tribute—M.R.S. Andrews
Twice Told Tales—Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Spy—James Fenimore Cooper
The Black Glove—Geraldine Gordon Salmon
The Gold Bug—Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum—Edgar Allan Poe
The Other Wise Man—Henry Van Dyke
The Crisis—Winston Churchill
Richard Carvel—Winston Churchill
The Mansion—Henry Van Dyke

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