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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

  2. Michael Crichton

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

  3. John Gardner

    4. Grendel
    1971—English

  4. Miguel de Cervantes

    5. 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

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

    • Dante

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

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

    • C P Cavafy

    7. 'Ithaka'
    —Greek

  7. Derek Walcott

    8. Omeros
    1990—English

  8. Margaret Atwood

    9. The Penelopiad
    2005—English

  9. James Joyce

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

    Franz Kafka
  10. Die Verwandlung

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

  11. In der Strafkolonie

    12. In the Penal Colony
    1919—German

  12. Der Prozess

    13. The Trial
    1925—German

  13. Das Schloss

    14. The Castle
    1926—German

  14. Philip Roth

    15. The Breast
    1972—English

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

    • Ted Hughes

    16. 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

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

    --
    • After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

    17. 1994; edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun—English

  17. Jane Alison

    18. The Love-Artist
    2001—English

    Sophocles
  18. Oidipous Tyrannos

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

  19. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

    20. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek

  20. Aristotle

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

  21. Thomas Pynchon

    22. The Crying of Lot 49
    1966—English

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

  22. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

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

  23. Julian Barnes

    24. Flaubert's Parrot
    1984—English

  24. Frederick Brown

    25. Flaubert
    2006—English

  25. Gustave Flaubert

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

  26. Julian Barnes

    27. England, England
    1998—English

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

    28. 1982—English

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

    29. 1974—English

  29. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent

    30. 1990—English

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

    31. 2002—English

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

    32. 2012—English

  32. Frederick Douglass

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

  33. Benjamin Franklin

    34. 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

  34. Walter Isaacson

    35. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    2003—English

  35. Gordon S Wood

    36. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
    2004—English

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

    37. 1994—English

  37. Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

    38. 1999—English

  38. Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

    39. 2005—English

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

    40. 1994—English

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

    41. 2001—English

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

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

    42. 2005; edited by Ronald A Bosco and Joel Myerson—English

  42. R W B Lewis

    43. The Jameses: A Family Narrative
    1991—English

  43. Lucasta Miller

    44. The Brontë Myth
    2001—English

  44. Patricia O'Toole

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

  45. Kenneth Silverman

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

  46. Lytton Strachey

    47. Eminent Victorians
    1918—English

  47. Michael Holroyd

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

  48. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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

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

    • 'Notes of a Native Son'

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

  50. Charles Dickens

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

  51. Theodore Dreiser

    52. An American Tragedy
    1925—English

  52. Ralph Ellison

    53. Invisible Man
    1952—English

  53. F Scott Fitzgerald

    54. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  54. Charles Frazier

    55. Cold Mountain
    1997—English

  55. Robert Morgan

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

  56. Harriette Arnow

    57. The Dollmaker
    1954—English

    Thomas Hardy
  57. Jude the Obscure

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

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

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

  59. Bernard Malamud

    60. The Assistant
    1957—English

  60. Thomas Mann

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

  61. Henry David Thoreau

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

  62. Margaret Atwood

    63. The Handmaid's Tale
    1985—English

    Charlotte Brontë
  63. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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

  64. Shirley

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

  65. Villette

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

  66. Lyndall Gordon

    67. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
    1994—English

  67. Jean Rhys

    68. Wide Sargasso Sea
    1966—English

  68. Daniel Defoe

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

  69. Euripides

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

  70. Meg Wolitzer

    71. The Wife
    2003—English

  71. Gail Godwin

    72. The Odd Woman
    1974—English

  72. William Makepeace Thackeray

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

  73. Leo Tolstoy

    74. 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

  74. A N Wilson

    75. Tolstoy
    1988—English

  75. Sigrid Undset

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

  76. Edith Wharton

    77. The House of Mirth
    1905—English

    Virginia Woolf
  77. A Room of One's Own

    78. 1929—English

  78. Mrs. Dalloway

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

  79. To the Lighthouse

    80. 1927 —English

  80. Flush: A Biograpy

    81. 1933—English

  81. Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar

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

  82. Quentin Bell

    83. Virginia Woolf
    1972—English

  83. Hermione Lee

    84. Virginia Woolf
    1996—English

  84. Russell Banks

    85. Continental Drift
    1985—English

  85. Mikhail Bulgakov

    86. 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

  86. Truman Capote

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

  87. Gerald Clarke

    88. Capote
    1988—English

  88. Deborah Davis

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

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  89. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye

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

  90. Zapaski iz Podpol'â

    91. Notes From Underground
    1864—Russian

  91. Brat'â Karamazovy

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

  92. Meyer Levin

    93. Compulsion
    1956—English

  93. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    94. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

    Ian McEwan
  94. Atonement

    95. 2001—English

  95. Amsterdam

    96. 1998—English

  96. Enduring Love

    97. 1997—English

  97. Saturday

    98. 2005—English

  98. John Milton

    99. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

  99. Robert B Parker

    100. Early Autumn
    1980—English

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

    • James Baldwin

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

  101. Tom Wolfe

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

  102. Chinua Achebe

    103. Things Fall Apart
    1958—English

  103. Joseph Conrad

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

    Francis Ford Coppola
    Apocalypse Now
    film; 1979—English

  104. Gabriel García Márquez

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

  105. Kawabata Yasunari

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

    Naguib Mahfouz
  106. Bein el-Qasrein

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

  107. Qasr el-Shoaq

    108. Palace of Desire
    1957—Arabic

  108. El-Sukkareyya

    109. Sugar Street
    1957—Arabic

  109. Thomas Mann

    110. Buddenbrooks
    1901—German

    John Galsworthy
  110. The Man of Property

    111. 1906—English

  111. Indian Summer of a Forsyte

    112. 1918—English

  112. In Chancery

    113. 1920—English

  113. Awakening

    114. 1920—English

  114. To Let

    115. 1921—English

    Rohinton Mistry
  115. Family Matters

    116. 2002—English

  116. A Fine Balance

    117. 1995—English

  117. Such a Long Journey

    118. 1991—English

  118. V S Naipul

    119. A House for Mr. Biswas
    1961—English

  119. V S Naipul et al.

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

    Nuala O'Faolain
  120. My Dream of You

    121. 2001—English

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

    122. 1996—English

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

    123. 2003—English

    José Rizal
  123. Noli Me Tángere

    124. 1887; Mallison specifies Harold Augenbraum's English translation—Spanish

  124. El Filibusterismo

    125. The Reign of Greed
    1891—Spanish

  125. Jessica Hagedorn

    126. Dogeaters
    1990—English

  126. A B Yehoshua

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

    Jack Finney
  127. Time and Again

    128. 1970—English

  128. The Body Snatchers

    129. 1955—English

  129. Edward Bellamy

    130. Looking Backward, 2000-1887
    1888—English

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

    • 'My Wood'

    —English

    • 'Two Cheers for Democracy'

    131. —English

  131. Aldous Huxley

    132. Brave New World
    1932—English

  132. George Orwell

    133. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

    Henry James
  133. The Ambassadors

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

  134. Washington Square

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

  135. The Aspern Papers

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

  136. Gloria Naylor

    137. Linden Hills
    1985—English

    George Orwell
  137. Animal Farm
    1945—English

    • 'Such, Such Were the Joys'

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

    • 'Shooting an Elephant'

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

  138. Phillip Pullman

    139. 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

  139. Mary Shelley

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

  140. Barry Unsworth

    141. The Songs of the Kings
    2002—English

  141. Evelyn Waugh

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

  142. Nathanael West

    143. The Day of the Locust
    1939—English

  143. Peter Lefcourt

    144. The Deal
    1991—English

  144. Jane Smiley

    145. Ten Days in the Hills
    2007—English

  145. Kingsley Amis

    146. Lucky Jim
    1954—English

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

    147. 1975—English

  147. Small World: An Academic Romance

    148. 1984—English

  148. Richard Russo

    149. Straight Man
    1997—English

  149. Jane Smiley

    150. Moo
    1995—English

  150. Michael Frayn

    151. Headlong
    1999—English

  151. Katharine Weber

    152. The Music Lesson
    1999—English

  152. A S Byatt

    153. Possession
    1990—English

  153. Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

    Alison Lurie
  154. Foreign Affairs

    155. 1984—English

  155. The War Between the Tates
    1974—English

    Lorrie Moore
    • Birds of America

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

  156. Vladimir Nabokov

    157. Pale Fire
    1962—English

  157. François Rabelais

    158. 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
  158. 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

    159. 2005; edited by David Sedaris—English

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

    160. 1940; 28 stories originally published Jan. 1939-Feb. 1940 in the New Yorker—English

  160. 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

    161. 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

  161. Oscar Wilde

    162. The Importance of Being Earnest
    1895—English

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

    163. 1791—English

  163. London Journal

    164. written 1762-63—English

  164. Mary Hyde

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

  165. Walter Jackson Bate

    166. Samuel Johnson
    1977—English

  166. Bruce Redford

    167. Designing the Life of Johnson
    2002—English

  167. David Buchanan

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

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

    169. 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

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

    • Samuel Johnson

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

  170. Henry Hitchings

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

  171. Allen Reddick

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

  172. Charlotte Lenox

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

  173. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    174. School for Scandal
    1777—English

  174. Laurence Sterne

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

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

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

  176. 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

    177. —Latin

  177. Hester Thrale (Heather Lynch Piozzi)

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

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

    179. 1786—English

  179. Mary Hyde

    180. The Thrales of Streatham Park
    1977—English

  180. James Clifford

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

  181. William McCarthy

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

  182. Beryl Bainbridge

    183. According to Queeney
    2001—English

  183. Voltaire

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

  184. Samuel Johnson

    185. 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—

  185. Louisa M Alcott

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

  186. Katharine Weber

    187. The Little Women
    2003—English

  187. Geraldine Brooks

    188. March
    2005—English

  188. Willa Cather

    189. My Ántonia
    1918—English

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

    190. 2003—English

  190. A Spot of Bother

    191. 2006—English

  191. Gabriel García Márquez

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

  192. Philip Wylie

    193. The Disappearance
    1951—English

  193. L P Hartley

    194. The Go-Between
    1953—English

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

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

  195. Dubliners

    196. 1914—English

  196. Richard Ellmann

    197. James Joyce
    1959—English

  197. Harper Lee

    198. To Kill a Mockingbird
    1960—English

    Claire Messud
  198. The Emperor's Children

    199. 2006—English

  199. When the World Was Steady

    200. 1995—English

  200. The Last Life

    201. 1999—English

  201. The Hunters

    202. 2001—English

    Chaim Potok
  202. The Chosen

    203. 1967—English

  203. The Promise

    204. 1969—English

  204. My Name Is Asher Lev

    205. 1972—English

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

    206. 1978—English

  206. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    207. The Yearling
    1938—English

  207. Betty Smith

    208. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    1943—English

  208. Anzia Yezierska

    209. Bread Givers
    1925—English

  209. Mary V Dearborn

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

    Pat Barker
  210. Regeneration

    211. 1991—English

  211. Union Street

    212. 1982—English

  212. The Eye in the Door

    213. 1993—English

  213. The Ghost Road

    214. 1995—English

  214. Stephen Crane

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

    Joseph Heller
  215. Catch-22

    216. 1961—English

  216. Closing Time

    217. 1994—English

  217. Ernest Hemingway

    218. A Farewell to Arms
    1929—English

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

    • Christopher Logue

    219. 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
  219. In Country

    220. 1985—English

  220. Elvis Presley

    221. 2002—English

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

    • Yosef Komunyakaa

    222. 'Facing It'
    —English

  222. Tim O'Brien

    223. The Things They Carried
    1990—English

    William Styron
  223. The Long March

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

  224. Lie Down in Darkness

    225. 1951—English

  225. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

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

  226. Edmund Wilson

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

    James Agee
  227. A Death in the Family

    228. 1957—English

  228. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

    229. 1962—English

  229. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    230. 1941; photography by Walker Evans—English

    Saul Bellow
  230. Herzog

    231. 1964—English

  231. The Adventures of Augie March

    232. 1953—English

  232. Mr. Sammler's Planet

    233. 1970—English

  233. Humboldt's Gift

    234. 1975—English

    William Faulkner
  234. Absalom, Absalom!

    235. 1936—English

  235. Intruder in the Dust

    236. 1936—English

    Kazuo Ishiguro
  236. The Remains of the Day

    237. 1989—English

  237. Never Let Me Go

    238. 2005—English

  238. An Artist of the Floating World

    239. 1986—English

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

    • 'The Professor and the Siren'

    240. —Italian

  240. David Gilmour

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

    Luchino Visconti
    Il Gattopardo
    film; 1963—Italian

  241. Walker Percy

    242. The Moviegoer
    1961—English

  242. Wallace Stegner

    243. Angle of Repose
    1971—English

  243. Mary Hallock Foote

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

  244. Darlis Miller

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

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

    246. 1974; 29 essays originally published serially 1971-73 in the New England Journal of Medicine—English

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

    247. 1979; 29 essays originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine—English

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

    248. 1983; 24 essays originally published in varied periodicals: Discover, the New York Review of Books, the New England Journal of Medicine—English

  248. Robert Penn Warren

    249. All the King's Men
    1946—English

  249. Walt Whitman

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

  250. Daniel Mark Epstein

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