Attached is a list of the books I read 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. For the complete
list of my reading since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
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