READING 1961

Attached is a list of the books I in 1961. 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

For reviews of some of these books, see www.samizdat.com/isyn/reviews.html For brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html For more on books and reading, see www.samizdat.com/readers.html

1 Bundesen 1 Toward Manhood 20/1 AMER SCI1

2 Richard H. Davis 3 The King's Jackel 19/1 AMER N1

3 Richard H. Davis 4 Reporter Who Made Himself 19/2 AMER N2

4 Gustave Flaubert 1 Madame Bovary 19/1 FREN N3

5 John Steinbeck 1 The Red Pony 20/2 AMER N4

6 John Steinbeck 2 Junius Maltby 20/3 AMER N5

7 Robert L. Stevenson 2 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 19/1 ENG N6

8 Rudyard Kipling 1 The Light that Failed 19/2 ENG N7

9 Von Hagen 1 The World of the Maya 20/4 AMER HIS1

10 Von Hagen 2 The Aztec: Man and Tribe 20/5 AMER HIS2

11 Lew Wallace 2 The Fair God 19/3 AMER N8

12 Ignatius Donnelly 1 Atlantis 19/4 AMER HIS3

13 Thompson 1 The Rise & Fall of Maya Civ. 20/6 AMER HIS4

summer vacation

14 Allen Drury 1 Advise and Consent 20/7 AMER N9

15 William Shirer 1 Rise & Fall of Third Reich 20/8 AMER HIS5

16 Jane Austen 1 Pride & Prejudice 19/3 ENG N10

17 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2 Poor Folk 19/1 RUSS N11

18 Knight 1 This Above All 20/1 ENG N12

19 Richard Dana 1 Two Years Before the Mast 19/5 AMER N13

20 Honore de Balzac 1 Old Goriot 19/2 FREN N14

Holderness School, sophomore

21 Shakespeare 2 MacBeth 16/2 ENG PL2

22 Ivan Turgenev 1 Fathers & Sons 19/2 RUSS N15

23 Aristophanes 1 Lysistrata BC/2 GRE PL3

24 Sophocles 1 Oedipus Rex BC/3 GRE PL4

25 Sophocles 2 Antigone BC/4 GRE PL5

26 Euripides 2 Medea BC/5 GRE PL6

27 Benjamin Franklin 1 Autobio of Ben Franklin 18/1 AMER BIO1

28 Homer (repeat) The Iliad BC/6 GRE N16

29 Alexandre Dumas 1 The Borgias 19/3 FREN HIS6



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