Future Reviews

Once I began to take this more seriously, I decided that a second reading was required in most cases before posting. (But NOT Ayn Rand!) Unread, unreviewed books not being permitted on the shelves by order of the domestic court, what follows should give an idea of what my den looks like -- within the confines of what is permitted by a tolerant spouse.


Fiction

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Jane Austen, Emma
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote
John Cheever, Falconer
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus
Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides
Dante Alleghieri, The Divine Comedy
Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
John DosPassos, Manhattan Transfer
Feodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
Feodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Feodor Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov
Alexandre Dumas, Camille
Alexandre Dumas, The Man In The Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
George Eliot, Silas Marner
William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ken Follet, Pillars of the Earth
Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
Robert Graves, I, Claudius
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls
James Hilton, Lost Horizon
Homer, The Odyssey
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Washington Irving, Stories
Henry James, The Ambassadors
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Henry James, Daisy Miller
Henry James, The Real Thing
Henry James, The Europeans
Henry James, Washington Square
Henry James, The American
Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia
James Joyce, Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
D.H. Lawrence, Women In Love
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
W. Somerset Maugham, Up At The Villa
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Herman Melville, Benito Cereno
Herman Melville, Typee
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country
Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
Raphael Sabatini, Captain Blood
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
Bram Stoker, Dracula
William Styron, The Confessions Of Nat Turner
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
William M. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon
William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope, Kept in the Dark
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
John Updike, Rabbit Run
John Updike, Bech: A Book
Jules Verne, Around the World In Eighty Days
Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Candide
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief
Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Edmund Wilson, Memoirs of Hecate County
Owen Wister, The Virginian
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
Emille Zola, Nana

Biography

Whittaker Chambers, Witness
Lord Charnwood (Albert Benson), Lincoln
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Georges Clemanceau, Demonstenes
Noemie Emery, Washington: A Biography
Carolly Erickson, The First Elizabeth
Carrolly Erickson, Great Harry
James Thomas Flexner, George Washington
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots
Antonia Fraser, Cromwell, The Lord Protector
Robert Graves, Goodby To All That
Nicholas Hammond, Alexander the Great: King, Commander, and Statesman
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Christopher Hibbert, Elizabeth I, The Virgin Queen: Genius of the Golden Age
Paul Johnson, Napoleon
Arthur Kahn, The Education of Julius Caesar
Basil Liddell-Hart, A Greater Than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus
A.J. Liebling, The Earl of Louisiana
William Manchester, Disturber of the Peace
Felix Markham, Napoleon: A Biography
Martin Marty, Luther
Robert K. Massie, Peter The Great
Andre Maurois, Disraeli: A Picture Of The Victorian Age
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea: Christopher Columbus
A.L. Rowse, Milton, The Puritan
Gene Smith, Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography
C.P. Snow, Variety of Men
Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex
Henri Troyat, Alexander of Russia
Henri Troyat, Catherine The Great
Henri Troyat, Ivan The Terrible

Political and Social Criticism ; Religion

Allan Bloom, The Closing of The American Mind
Po Bronson, The Nudist on the Late Shift
G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
Ortega Y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting
Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road To Serfdom
Irving Kristol, On the Democratic Idea In America
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Idea of a University
Richard Nixon, The Real War
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America
Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

History

Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Ernle Bradford, The Mediterranean
Ernle Bradford, Battle for the West: Thermopylae
Ernle Bradford, The Shield and The Sword
Ernle Bradford, The Great Siege
Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army
Bruce Catton, Glory Road
Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword
Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat
James Chambers, The Devil's Horsemen
Winston Churchill, The Second World War
Winston Churchill, History of the English-Speaking Peoples
John A. Crowe, Spain: The Root and the Flower
Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast
Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri
Bernard DeVoto, Journals of Lewis and Clark
Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative
Antonia Fraser, Faith and Treason
Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire
Michael Grant, The Twelve Caesars
Christopher Hibbert, Days of the French Revolution
Christopher Hibbert, Redcoats and Rebels
David A. Howarth, 1066: The Year Of The Conquest
David A. Howarth, The Voyage of the Armada
Marion Johnson, The Borgias
Paul Johnson, The Renaissance
Bruce Lancaster, The American Revolution
Basil Liddell-Hart, The Real War
S.L.A. Marshall, World War I
Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra
James P. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln And The Second American Revolution
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
Herman Melville, White Jacket
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America
Alan Moorehead, The White Nile
Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
Nigel Nicolson, Napoleon 1812
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail
John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World
Anne Rose, Victorian America and the Civil War
Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich
Cornelius Tacitus, The Histories
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Barabara Tuchman, The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror
Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmermann Telegram
Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower
Barbara Tuchmann, The First Salute

Gems and Oddities

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
William Rusher, How to Win Arguments
Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

Shakespeare

"The Tragedy of King Lear"

Literary and Artistic Criticism

Allan Bloom, Giants and Dwarfs
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
Harley Granville-Barker, Prefaces to Shakespeare
John Updike, AssortedProse

Travel

Ernle Bradford, Ulysses Found
G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America
Charles Dickens, American Notes
Robert Graves, Majorca Observed
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo
George Sand, Winter in Majorca
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels With a Donkey
Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain, Roughing It
Evelyn Waugh, When the Going Was Good

Military

Basil Liddell-Hart, Great Captains Unveiled
Harry Summers, On Strategy
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Seapower on History, 1660-1783

Humor

Garrison Keilor, News From Lake Wobegon
James Thurber, Alarms & Diversions
James Thurber, Fables for Our Times I