Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. xv
	Toni Morrison's: The Bluest Eye	p. 1
	Robert Coover's: Pricksongs & Descants	p. 4
	Gwendolyn Brooks's: Selected Poems	p. 7
	Joseph Campbell's: The Power of Myth	p. 10
	Jean Kerr's: The Snake Has All the Lines	p. 12
	The Works of Shakespeare	p. 15
	J. R. R. Tolkien's: The Lord of the Rings	p. 18
	The Little Engine That Could	p. 20
	J. D. Salinger's: The Catcher in the Rye	p. 23
	The Most of P. G. Wodehouse	p. 26
	John Crowley's: Little, Big	p. 29
	John Hersey's: Hiroshima	p. 31
	Joyce Carol Oates's: Expensive People and More	p. 33
	Theodore H. White's: The Making of the President, 1960	p. 35
	Ernest Becker's: The Denial of Death	p. 37
	Alexandre Dumas': The Count of Monte Cristo	p. 39
	Gertrude Stein's: Ida	p. 44
	Thomas Merton's: The Seven Storey Mountain	p. 47
	Mary Higgins Clark's: A Stranger Is Watching	p. 49
	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's: The Yearling and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita	p. 51
	Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew Mysteries	p. 53
	Caesar's Gallic Wars	p. 55
	Harriet Beecher Stowe's: Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 57
	Charles Dickens's: David Copperfield	p. 59
	Ayn Rand's: Atlas Shrugged and More	p. 62
	Sigrid Undset's: Kristin Lavransdatter	p. 64
	Virginia Woolf's: A Room of One's Own	p. 66
	Anthony Trollope's: The Way We Live Now	p. 69
	Thomas a Kempis's: The Imitation of Christ	p. 72
	Arthur Conan Doyle's: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	p. 75
	Barbara W. Tuchman's: The Guns of August	p. 78
	Sebastian Junger's: The Perfect Storm	p. 80
	Cecil Woodham-Smith's: The Reason Why	p. 82
	J. D. Salinger's: The Catcher in the Rye	p. 84
	Dee Brown's: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	p. 86
	Geoffrey Barraclough's: An Introduction to Contemporary History	p. 88
	Ernest Hemingway's: Collected Stories	p. 91
	Ernest Becker's: The Denial of Death	p. 93
	Harper Lee's: To Kill a Mockingbird	p. 95
	Ram Dass's: The Only Dance There Is and More	p. 99
	Sigmund Freud's: The Interpretation of Dreams	p. 102
	The Bible	p. 104
	Charlotte Bronte's: Jane Eyre	p. 107
	Ernest Hemingway's: For Whom the Bell Tolls	p. 109
	William Shakespeare's: Henry VIII	p. 112
	F. Scott Fitzgerald's: The Great Gatsby	p. 117
	Betty Smith's: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	p. 119
	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series	p. 122
	Herman Wouk's: Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs's Compromising Positions	p. 124
	William Lewis Nida's: Ab the Cave Man	p. 126
	Kay Thompson's: Eloise	p. 128
	William Maxwell's: So Long, See You Tomorrow	p. 130
	Albert Camus': The Myth of Sisyphus	p. 132
	G. K. Chesterton's: The Man Who Was Thursday	p. 137
	Robert Louis Stevenson's: A Child's Garden of Verses and More	p. 140
	Anthony Burgess's: A Clockwork Orange	p. 142
	Albert Schweitzer's: Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Series	p. 144
	Moss Hart's: Act One	p. 147
	Maya Angelou's: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 149
	Frank McCourt's: Angela's Ashes	p. 151
	William Saroyan's: The Human Comedy	p. 154
	Christopher Morley's: Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire!	p. 157
	Stendhal's: The Red and the Black	p. 159
	John Barth's: The End of the Road	p. 161
	The Sears Catalogue	p. 163
	Rainer Maria Rilke's: Letters to a Young Poet	p. 165
	C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Series	p. 168
	Harper Lee's: To Kill a Mockingbird	p. 171
	E. B. White's: Charlotte's Web	p. 173
	Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse	p. 175
	F. Scott Fitzgerald's: The Great Gatsby	p. 177
	The Books That Changed Their Lives: A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors	p. 179
	Editor's Note	p. 185
	Roxanne's Very Opinionated Reading List	p. 187
	Joy's Very Opinionated Reading List	p. 191
	About Read to Grow	p. 193
	Acknowledgments	p. 195
	About the Editors	p. 199

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