Reading list from How To Read Better And Faster by Norman Lewis, 1944 ===================================================================== Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg An Anerican Doctor's Odyssey by Victor Heiser Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler Art for Art's Sake by Albert Guerard The Art of Enjoying Art by A. Philip MacMahon The Art of Thinking by Abbe Ernest Dimnet The Arts by Hendrik Willem Van Loon Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West Capital by Karl Marx Captain Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester Cartoon Cavalcade by Thomas Craven Citizen Tom Paine by Howard M. Fast Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson Collected Works of Mrs. Peter Willoughby by Mary Elizabeth Plummer Country Lawyer by Bellamy Partridge Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim Sorokin The Crusades by Konrad Bercovici Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes by Edward Gibbon The Doctor Looks at Love and Life by Joseph Collins The Editor and His People by William Allen White The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography English Vocabulary Builder by Johnson O'Connor English Words and Their Background by G.H. MacKnight Essays by Ralph Waldo Emmerson Evenings with Music by Syd Skolsky Exploring Your Mind by Albert Edward Wiggam The Face is Familiar by Ogden Nash Fantastic Interim by Henry Morton Robinson Giants in the Earth by O.E. Roelvaag Good Night, Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek The Great Answer by Margaret Lee Runbeck Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson Hamlet by William Shakespeare H.M. Pulham, Esq. by John P. Marquand Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry The Human Body by Logan Clendening, M.D. The Human Mind by Karl A. Menninger Hunger by Knut Hamsun The Iliad by Homer Improvement of Reading by Louella Cole, Ph.D. Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russel Language in Action by S.I. Hayakawa Lanny Budd Series (Between Two Worlds, Wide Is the Gate, Dragon's Teeth, Presidential Agent, etc.) by Upton Sinclair Liberal Education by Mark Van Doren Life: A Psychological Survey by Pressey, Janney, and Kuhlen The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson The Lure of Music by Olin Downes Lust for Life by Irving Stone Man in Structure and Function, edited by George Rosen Mankind So Far by William Howells Marks of an Educated Man by Albert Edward Wiggam Mathematical Recreations by Maurice Kraitchik Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben A Mathematics Refresher by A. Hooper The Meaning of Art by A. Philip MacMahon The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 5th edition Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif Midchannel by Ludwig Lewisohn Music Comes to America by David Ewen The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain My Unconsidered Judgment by Noel Busch Nature of the Physical World by Eddington Naval Customs, Traditions and Usage by Captain Leland P. Lovette, U.S.N. New International Dictionary The Odyssey by Homer Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen Out of the Silent Planet by Clive S. Lewis Popular Mathematics by Denning Miller Power with Words by Norman Lewis Remember the Day by Kenneth Horan Riddles of Science by Sir J. Arthur Thomson Roughly Speaking by Louise Randall Pierson Science for the Citizen by Lancelot Hogben Screwtape Letters by Clive S. Lewis Shadow Show by J.H. Curle A Short History of Science by Sedgwick, Tyler, and Bigelow Silent Reading by J.A. O'Brien Since Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen So Little Time by John P. Marquand South Wind by Normal Douglas The Star-Gazer by Zsolt Harsanyi The Store by R.S. Stribling Story of Philosophy by Will Durant Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe Straight Thinking by William J Reilly Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith Streamline Your Mind by James Mursell Success by Lion Feuchtwanger TVA--Democracy on the March by David Lillienthal A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens They Also Ran by Irving Stone Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis Toward a Philosophy of History by Jose Ortega y Gasset Treasury of Science edited by Harlow Shapley A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Twelve Ways to Build a Vocabulary by Archibald Hart U.S. War Aims by Walter Lippmann Wind in the Sahara by R.V.C. Bodley Wisdom of China and India, edited by Lin Yutang Word Wealth by Ward S. Miller Varieties of Religious Experience by William James What to Listen For in Music by Aaron Copland Why We Behave Like Human Beings by George A. Dorsey Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson The Wisdom of the Body by W.B. Cannon Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen