Mrs. Clark’s Book List

(In the order Steph Clemence Frye read them)

• Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift • The Odyssey by Homer • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck • Walden by Henry David Thoreau • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane • Ivanhoe by Walter Scott • Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw • Moby Dick by Herman Melville • Oedipus Rex by Sophocles • The Aeneid by Virgil • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley • 1984 by George Orwell • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte • The Once and Future King by T. H. White • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller • Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee • The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson • Call of the Wild by Jack London • Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict • Lord of the Flies by William Golding • Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy • My Antonia by Willa Cather • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer • The Symposium by Plato • Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll • The Complete Sherlock Holmes • The by Arthur Return Conan of the Doyle Native by Thomas Hardy • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway • Native Son by Richard Wright • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling • The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens • She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith • Hiroshima by John Hersey • Main Street by Sinclair Lewis • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle • The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer • Animal Farm by George Orwell • Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg • How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler • Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson • Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rölvaag • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad • Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy • Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain • The Holy Bible • The Iliad by Homer • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens • Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann • Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio • Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole • Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde • Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser • Clarissa by Samuel Richardson • Paradise Lost by John Milton • Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

• The Green Hat • The Last Days of by Pompeii Michael Arlen by Edward Bulwer-lytton • Sappho by Alphonse Daudet • The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield • Jalna by Mazo de la Roche • “Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield (short story) • The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith • Europa by Robert Briffault • Europa in Limbo by Robert Briffault • The Widow Barnaby by Frances Milton Trollope • The Widow Married by Frances Milton Trollope • The Old Wives’ Tales by Arnold Bennett • The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott • Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray • The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington • Penrod by Booth Tarkington • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Golden Bough by James George Frazer • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams • Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe • John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen • Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-exupéry • All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren • Madame Curie by Eve Curie • Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall • Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts • The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene • The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan • The Organization Man by William H. Whyte • Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad • The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James • The Bridge of San Luis Ray by Thornton Wilder • The Inferno by Dante Alighieri • Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner • The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway • Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce • A Passage to India by E. M. Forster • The Human Comedy by William Saroyan • The Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark • How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn • Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw • Lust for Life by Irving Stone • The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman • The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather • The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’neill • The Virginian by Owen Wister • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert • The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy • Capital (Das Kapital) by Karl Marx • Our Plundered Planet by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. • The Crucible by Arthur Miller • Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen • The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand • Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev • Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis • The Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter • “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (short story) • Our Town by Thornton Wilder • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot • One Man’s Meat by E. B. White • The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain • Roughing It by Mark Twain • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner • The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell