My Reading List

I love to read, and try to read at least 52 books each year. I’ve been keeping a public reading list on my personal website since 2015, and have found it encourages me to read more. Books I especially loved are marked with an asterisk (*).

2024

1. The Road to Roswell, by Connie Willis
2. Sagittarius Rising, by Cecil Lewis
3. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

2023

1. Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie*
2. Fermat’s Last Theorem, by Amir D. Aczel*
3. Either/Or, by Elif Batuman*
4. The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 1
5. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin*
6. Chasing the Light, by Oliver Stone
7. ‘night, Mother, by Marsha Norman
8. Fleabag, by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl
10. The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleanora Duse, by Eva La Gallienne
11. Proof, by David Auburn
12. Novelist as a Vocation, by Haruki Murakami*
13. Big Swiss, by Jen Beagin
14. Death Valley, by Melissa Broder*
15. Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin
16. Henceforward, by Alan Ayckbourn
17. The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russell
18. Letters on Cezanne, by Rainer Maria Rilke
19. ‘Art,’ by Yasmina Reza
20. Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld
21. Skylight, by David Hare
22. Wool, by Hugh Howey*
23. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury*
24. Sam, by Allegra Goodman*
25. Horse Brain, Human Brain, by Janet Jones
26. Mid-Summer, by Vina Delmar
27. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
28. Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler*
29. All My Sons, by Arthur Miller
30. Ways of Seeing, by John Berger
31. Zaha Hadid, by Philip Jodidio
32. Drowning, by T.J. Newman
33. The Success and Failure of Picasso, by John Berger
34. Every Man for Himself and God Against All, by Werner Herzog*
35. K2, by Ed Viesturs*
36. No Way Down, by Graham Bowley*
37. Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, by Susannah Shaw
38. The Art of Storytelling, by Amy E. Spaulding
39. America Toons In: A History of Television Animation, by David Perlmutter
40. Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, by Leonard Maltin
41. Exploring Geology, by Stephen J. Reynolds
42. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer*
43. The Doomsday Machine, by Daniel Ellsburg*
44. Glossy, by Marisa Meltzer
45. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer*
46. The Secret Life of John le Carré, by Adam Sisman
47. The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan*
48. Younger, by Pamela Redmond
49. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
50. Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert
51. Eiger Dreams, by Jon Krakauer*
52. 102 Minutes, by Jim Dwyer*
53. Shift, by Hugh Howey
54. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
55. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler*
56. If Cats Disappeared from the World, by Genki Kawamura*
57. Hurlyburly and Those the River Keeps, by David Rabe
58. Starter Villain, by John Scalzi*
59. A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord*
60. What Now? by Ann Patchett
61. The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares*
62. Antarctica, by Conor Kilgallon
63. The Idiot, by Elif Batuman*
64. Antarctica, by Gabrielle Walker*
65. Antarctica, by Sebastian Copeland
66. Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2022 (incomplete)

1. Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
2. A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik
3. The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka
4. Master and Man, by Leo Tolstoy
5. In the Margins, by Elena Ferrante
6. Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
7. Verity, by Colleen Hoover
8. Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
9. The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
10. Scoop, by Evelyn Waugh
11. Nancy’s Mysterious Letter, by Carolyn Keene
12. Junk, by Ayad Akhtar
13. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons*
14. Defining Sexual Misconduct, by Stacey Hannem and Christopher Schneider
15. Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
16. Visual Storytelling, by William C. Martell
17. The Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons*
18. All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
19. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo*
20. A Basic Foil Companion, by Paul Sise
21. Cezanne, by Basil Taylor
22. By the Sword, by Richard Cohen
23. Nine Princes in Amber, by Robert Zelazny
24. 12 Notes, by Quincy Jones*
25. The Diamond Eye, by Kate Quinn
26. In the Mecca, by Gwendolyn Brooks
27. Rogues, by Patrick Radden Keefe*
28. Bliss Montage, by Ling Ma
29. Walking to Aldebaran, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
30. Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky*
31. Now is Not the Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson*
32. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, by Kevin Wilson*
33. Goodbye, Again, by Jonny Sun
34. The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis
35. Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson*
36. Lincoln’s Dreams, by Connie Willis
37. Seinfeldia, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
38. I Am I Am I Am, by Maggie O’Farrell
39. Dune, by Frank Herbert*
40. Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert
41. The Art of Acting, by Stella Adler*
42. The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
43. The Night Before Christmas, by Nikolai Gogol*

2021

1. Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet*
2. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis*
4. The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
5. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte*
6. Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld*
7. Between Silk and Cyanide, by Leo Marks*
8. Life on the Line, by Emma Goldberg
9. Blowing My Way to the Top, by Jen Atkin
10. Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris*
11. In the Blink of an Eye, by Walter Murch*
12. On Directing Film, by David Mamet*
13. Smile and Look Pretty, by Amanda Pellegrino
14. In Five Years, by Rebecca Serle
15. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett*
16. The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn
17. Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith*
18. Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
19. Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett*
20. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro*
21. DisneyWar, by James B. Stewart
22. A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away, by Paul Hirsch*
23. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
24. Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe
25. But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct, by Ken Kwapis*
26. August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts
27. Adventures in the Screen Trade, by William Goldman*
28. Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
29. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel*
30. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry
31. The Family Firm, by Emily Oster
32. Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata*
33. Instructions for Dancing, by Nicola Yoon
34. Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stewart*
35. Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx
36. Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexievich*
37. Cribsheet, by Emily Oster
38. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
39. Black Gold, by Marguerite Henry
40. Yearbook, by Seth Rogen*
41. The Art Detective, by Philip Mould*
42. Evidence of the Affair, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
43. The Man Who Made Vermeers, by Jonathan Lopez*
44. Here Is New York, by E.B. White
45. The Comfort Book, by Matt Haig
46. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
47. 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff*
48. King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry
49. The Space Between Worlds, by Micaiah Johnson
50. The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
51. The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart*
52. Girls Can Kiss Now, by Jill Gutowitz
53. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, by Trenton Lee Stewart
54. The Boys, by Ron Howard and Clint Howard
55. To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis*
56. Can I Get There by Candlelight? by Jean Slaughter Doty
57. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
58. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
59. These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett*
60. Writing from the Inside Out, by Dennis Palumbo*
61. Special Characters, by Laurie Segall
62. Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hannah
63. Fire Watch, by Connie Willis
64. Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel*
65. The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka
66. The Best of Connie Willis, by Connie Willis*
67. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien*
68. The Method, by Isaac Butler*
69. The Night Before Christmas, by Nikolai Gogol*
70. The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow, by Katherine Woodfine*
71. This Time Tomorrow, by Emma Straub*
72. I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, by Connie Willis*

2020

1. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot
2. Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo
3. Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke*
5. Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe*
6. Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
7. Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke*
8. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, by Patricia Highsmith*
9. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird, by Josie Silver
10. How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell
11. Severance, by Ling Ma*
12. Josef Albers: Formulation: Articulation*
13. Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder
14. Sounds Like Titanic, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
15. My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante*
16. The Library of Legends, by Janie Chang
17. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo
18. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
19. The Art of Forgery, by Noah Charney*
20. Galatea, by Madeline Miller
21. How to Live a Good Life, ed. by Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary, and Daniel Kaufman
22. Provenance, by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo*
23. The Plaza, by Julie Satow
24. Plaza Suite, by Neil Simon
25. Tales from the Ant World, by E.O. Wilson
26. My Friend Anna, by Rachel DeLoache Williams
27. Eloise, by Kay Thompson
28. FBI Myths and Misconceptions, by Jerri Williams
29. The Confidence Game, by Maria Konnikova
30. Call Me By Your Name, by André Aciman
31. Botticelli, by Barbara Deimling
32. Three Uses of the Knife, by David Mamet
33. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith*
34. The Grand Tour, by Harry Seidler
35. Son of a Witch, by Gregory Maguire
36. Passage, by Connie Willis*
37. Perestroika in Paris, by Jane Smiley*
38. The Magician’s Nephew, by C.S. Lewis*
39. Take a Look at the Five and Ten, by Connie Willis
40. The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories, by O. Henry
41. The Actor’s Life, by Jenna Fischer*
42. Keya Das’s Second Act, by Sopan Deb
43. The Hollywood Standard, by Christopher Riley
44. Making a Good Script Great, by Linda Seger
45. Agnes Martin, by Frances Morris et al
46. The Eight Characters of Comedy, by Scott Sedita
47. The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith*
48. The Frasier Scripts*
49. Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley

2019

1. Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
2. The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
3. The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy*
5. Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
6. White Fang, by Jack London
7. Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury*
8. The Invisibility Cloak, by Ge Fei
9. Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson*
10. Learning to Live in the World, by William Stafford*
11. Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
12. Motherhood: Poems About Mothers, edited by Carmela Ciuraru
13. Vertical Motion, by Can Xue*
14. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami*
15. Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
16. The Paris Review Interviews, III
17. Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
18. Harvey, by Mary Chase*
19. King Lear, by William Shakespeare
20. The Hawk in the Rain, by Ted Hughes
21. Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master, by Kathryn Smith
22. YouTubers, by Chris Stokel-Walker
23. Matisse, by Gilles Neret
24. Exhalation: Stories, by Ted Chiang
25. Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
26. Principles of Macroeconomics, by N. Gregory Mankiw
27. Half-Earth, by E.O. Wilson
28. Bring the Funny, by Greg DePaul
29. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire*
30. No Time to Spare, by Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann*
32. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
33. Dragon Teeth, by Michael Crichton
34. Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
35. A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
36. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
37. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
38. The October Country, by Ray Bradbury*
39. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
40. Screenplay, by Robin U. Russin and William Missouri Downs
41. Academica, by Cicero
42. Black Narcissus, by Rumer Godden
43. The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin
44. The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
45. Fleishman is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
46. Where’d You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple*
47. Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer*
48. Educated, by Tara Westover
49. The Circle, by Dave Eggers
50. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis*
51. Super Pumped, by Mike Isaac
52. Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
53. Circe, by Madeline Miller*
54. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee*
55. Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction, by Joseph M. Siracusa
56. The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa
57. Catch Me If You Can, by Frank Abagnale*
58. Devotions, by Mary Oliver
59. Know My Name, by Chanel Miller
60. The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller*
61. Vanity Fair’s Women on Women, ed. by Radhika Jones and David Friend
62. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
63. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
64. Creativity, Inc., by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

2018

1. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
2. The Enchiridion, by Epictetus*
3. The Gospel in Brief, by Leo Tolstoy*
4. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov*
5. Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama
6. Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah 
7. Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
8. The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
9. The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
10. Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
11. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
12. I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron
13. Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
14. Definitely Maybe, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky*
15. Love-Lies-Bleeding, by Don DeLillo
16. Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
17. The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
18. Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
19. Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill
20. No Name in the Street, by James Baldwin
21. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury*
22. Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury*
23. Once and Forever, by Kenji Miyazawa
24. Ethics, by Barbara MacKinnon*
25. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government, by Archibald Cox
26. Formal Theories of Truth, by Jc Beall et al
27. Summerland, by Hannu Rajaniemi
28. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton*
29. Blue Nights, by Joan Didion*
30. The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury*
31. Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis
32. Lost Time, by Jozef Czapski
33. The Sword and the Circle, by Rosemary Sutcliff
34. The Miserable Mill, by Lemony Snicket*
35. The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket*
36. The Ersatz Elevator, by Lemony Snicket*
37. The Vile Village, by Lemony Snicket*
38. The Hostile Hospital, by Lemony Snicket*
39. The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket*
40. The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket*
41. The Grim Grotto, by Lemony Snicket*
42. The Penultimate Peril, by Lemony Snicket*
43. The End, by Lemony Snicket*
44. How We’ll Live On Mars, by Stephen L. Petranek
45. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
46. Jimmy Stewart: A Biography, by Marc Eliot
47. The Light Beyond the Forest, by Rosemary Sutcliff
48. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, by Graham Greene*
49. The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy*
50. Letters from Father Christmas, by J.R.R. Tolkien
51. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda
52. Scotland, by Rab Houston
53. Economics, edited by Simon Cox

2017

1. The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick
2. The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss
3. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
4. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle*
5. Works and Days, by Hesiod 
6. Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl*
7. What Love Is and What It Could Be, by Carrie Jenkins
8. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White*
9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage*
10. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
11. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
12. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, by Richard Carlson*
13. A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd
14. How to Build a Time Machine, by Paul Davies
15. The Road to Camlann, by Rosemary Sutcliff
16. Quantum Chance, by Nicolas Gisin
17. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
18. The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene
19. The Examined Life, by Robert Nozick
20. The Architecture of Happiness, by Alain de Botton
21. Profiles of the Future, by Arthur C. Clarke*
22. Ethics in the Real World, by Peter Singer
23. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
24. What Money Can't Buy, by Michael Sandel
25. The White Album, by Joan Didion
26. Reality is Not What it Seems, by Carlo Rovelli
27. Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom
28. Generation Wealth, by Lauren Greenfield
29. The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
30. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
31. A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller*
32. Why I Am Not a Feminist, by Jessa Crispin
33. If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? by G.A. Cohen
34. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, by Philip K. Dick
35. The Minority Report, by Philip K. Dick
36. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
37. The Cosmic Perspective, by Bennett et al.
38. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson*
39. The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
40. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery*
41. The Adventures of Robin Hood, by Roger Lancelyn Green
42. The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White
43. What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
44. Father Sergius, by Leo Tolstoy
45. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
46. Legal Methods, by Peter L. Strauss
47. Thinking Like a Lawyer, by Frederick Schauer
48. The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
49. The Night Before Christmas, by Nikolai Gogol
50. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
51. The Nutcracker, by E.T.A. Hoffman
52. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2016

1. Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
2. Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
3. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
4. Letters to a Young Poet, by Ranier Maria Rilke
5. The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot
6. The Book of Questions, by Pablo Neruda
7. The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick Brooks
8. Realism in Mathematics, by Penelope Maddy
9. A Mathematician's Apology, by G.H. Hardy*
10. 13 Days to Glory, by Lon Tinkle
11. The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
12. Managing Oneself, by Peter Drucker
13. Night, by Elie Wiesel
14. Equity and Mercy, by Martha Nussbaum
15. The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer*
16. Social Studies, by Fran Lebowitz
17. Fabless, by Daniel Nenni and Paul McLellan
18. The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder
19. The Supermen, by Charles J. Murray
20. Intelligent Virtue, by Julia Annas
21. Fearless Symmetry, by Avner Ash and Robert Gross
22. Candide, by Voltaire*
23. Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs, by David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin
24. Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
25. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
26. Ants at Work, by Deborah Gordon
27. The Fall of Rome, by Bryan Ward-Perkins
28. The Panda's Thumb, by Stephen Jay Gould
29. Unskilled and Unaware of It, by Justin Kruger and David Dunning (pdf) 
30. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
31. Letters to a Young Scientist, by E.O. Wilson
32. The Meaning of Human Existence, by E.O. Wilson
33. The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert*
34. Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, by Carlo Rovelli
35. In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall*
36. An Urchin in the Storm, by Stephen Jay Gould
37. Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems, by Peter French
38. Brainstorms, by Daniel Dennett
39. On Writing, by Stephen King*
40. Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle, translated by Richard Taylor
41. Code, by Charles Petzold*
42. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
43. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
44. Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang*
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick*
46. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis*
47. The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis*
48. The Magician's Nephew, by C.S. Lewis*
49. The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket*
50. The Reptile Room, by Lemony Snicket*
51. The Wide Window, by Lemony Snicket*
52. The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck

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