READING 1958-59

Attached is a list of the books I read 1958-59. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com

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Junior High School, Plymouth, NH

1 Charles Dickens 1 Tale of Two Cities 19/1 ENG N1

2 Augustus Caesar's World HIS1

3 Constance Rourke 1 Davy Crockett 20/1 AMER BIO1

4 Richard H. Davis 1 Soldiers of Fortune 19/1 AMER N2

5 Robert L. Stevenson 1 Treasure Island 19/2 ENG N3

6 Boris Pasternak 1 Doctor Zhivago 20/1 RUSS N4

7 Leon Uris 1 Exodus 20/1 ENG N5

8 Mary Renault 1 The King Must Die 20/2 ENG N6

9 Thomas Costain 1 The Darkness and the Dawn 20/3 ENG N7

10 Leo Tolstoy 1 Anna Karenina 19/1 RUSS N8

11 Lord 1 The Good Years 20/2 AMER HIS2

12 Mark Twain 1 Tom Sawyer 19/2 AMER N9

13 Lew Wallace 1 The Prince of India 19/3 AMER N10

14 Homer 1 The Iliad BC/1 GRE N11

15 Homer 2 The Odyssey BC/2 GRE N12

16 Virgil 1 The Aeneid BC/1 ROM N13

17 Kielty 1 The Fall of Constantinople 20/3 AMER HIS3

18 Brown 1 Daniel Boone 20/4 AMER BIO2

19 North 1 George Washington 20/5 AMER BIO3

20 John Gunther 1 Alexander the Great 20/6 AMER BIO4

21 Bliven D-Day 20/7 AMER HIS4

22 Herman Melville 1 Moby Dick 19/4 AMER N14

23 Howard Pyle 1 Robin Hood 19/3 ENG HIS5

24 Howard Pyle 2 Otto of the Silver Hand 19/4 ENG N15

25 Robert Payne 1 The Gold of Troy 20/8 AMER BIO5

26 Euripides 1 Iphigenia in Taurus BC/3 GRE PL1

27 Mark Twain 2 Life on the Mississippi 19/5 AMER HIS6

28 J.B. Bury 1 History of the Roman Empire 20/4 ENG HIS7

29 Relativity for the Layman SCI1

30 Allen Moorehead 1 The Russian Revolution 20/9 AMER HIS8

31 Sequoyah BIO6

32 Olivia Coolidge 1 The Trojan War HIS9

33 Cochise BIO7

34 Geronimo BIO8

35 Daniel Defoe 1 Robinson Crusoe

36 The Bible



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