CHAPTER 38 - BOOKS TO READ

From Richard's memoirs, recovered from his original WordPerfect files

Richard C. Clarke

I have always had a great love for books.  Our home is literally stacked with them in nearly every room in the house.  I listed books for my children to choose from to read while they were in high school.  I list them here in the hope that some of my posterity will choose from the list and read several of these books while still of high school age.

1.  ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS  Robert Sherwood

2.  ALICE ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND  Lewis Carroll

3.  ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT  Erich Maria Remarque

4.  THE ANCIENT MARINER  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5.  ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM  Margaret Landon

6.  THE APOSTLE  Sholem Asch

7.  ARABIAN NIGHTS  Andrew Lang

8.  KING ARTHUR  Howard Pyle

9.  BAMBI  Felix Salten

10.  BARON MUNCHAUSEN  Rudolph Raspe

11.  THE BAT  Mary Roberts Rinehart

12.  BEN HUR  Lew Wallace

13.  THE BIBLE  King James Authorized Version

14.  BLACK ARROW  Robert Louis Stevenson

15.  BLACK BEAUTY  Anna Sewell

16.  THE BLACK HUNTER  James Oliver Curwood

17.  THE BLUE FLOWER  Henry Van Dyke

18.  THE BOOK OF MORMON  LDS Church

19.  THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY  Thornton Wilder

20.  JIM BRIDGER  Shannon Garst

21.  BROKEN ARROW  Elliot Arnold

22.  PAUL BUNYAN  Esther Shepherd

23.  CALL OF THE WILD  Jack London

24.  CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE  Samuel Shellabarger

25.  CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS  Rudyard Kipling

26.  A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES  Robert Louis Stevenson

27.  A CHRISTMAS CAROL  Charles Dickens

28.  COMPLETE POEMS  Robert Frost

29.  A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT  Mark Twain

30.  THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO  Alexandre Dumas

31.  THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

32.  THE COVERED WAGON  Emerson Hough

33.  CRAZY HORSE  Shannon Garst

34.  CYRANO de BERGERAC  Edmond Rostand

35.  DAVID COPPERFIELD  Charles Dickens

36.  DAVID CROCKETT  Autobiography

37.  DAVID HARUM  Edward Noyes Westcott

38.  THE DEERSLAYER  James Fenimore Cooper

39.  THE DIVINE COMEDY  Alighieri Dante

40.  DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS  LDS Church

41.  ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE  Miguel de Cervantes

42.  DOVE IN THE EAGLE’S NEST  C. N. Yonge

43.  DRACULA  Bram Stoker

44.  DRUMS  James Boyd

45.  DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK  Walter Edmonds

46.  EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON  P. J. Asbjornsen

47.  EVANGELINE  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

48.  JANE EYRE  Charlotte Bronte

49.  FABLES  Aesop

50.  FAIRY TALES  Anderson

51.  FAIRY TALES  Grimm

52.  THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE  Henry Van Dyke

53.  FOUR FEATHERS  A. E. W. Mason

54.  FRANKENSTEIN  Mary Shelley

55.  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN  Carl Van Doren

56.  GENGHIS KHAN  Harold Lamb

57.  THE GOLD BUG  Edgar Allen Poe

58.  GONE WITH THE WIND  Margaret Mitchell

59.  THE GOOD EARTH  Pearl Buck

60.  GREEN GRASS OF WYOMING  Mary O’Hara

61.  GULLIVER’S TRAVELS  Jonathan Swift

62.  HANS BRINKER  Mary Mapes Dodge

63.  HEIDI  Johanna Spyri

64.  HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER  Edward Eggleston

65.  HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES  Nathaniel Hawthorne

66.  HUCKLEBERRY FINN  Mark Twain

67.  HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME  Victor Hugo

68.  THE ILIAD  Homer

69.  THE INVISIBLE MAN  H. G. Wells

70.  IVANHOE  Walter Scott

71.  THE JUNGLE BOOK  Rudyard Kipling

72.  JUST SO STORIES  Rudyard Kipling

73.  KIDNAPPED  Robert Louis Stevenson

74.  LAST DAYS OF POMPEII  Bulwer-Lytton

75.  KING SOLOMON’S MINES  H. Rider Haggard

76.  LAST OF THE MOHICANS  James Fenimore Cooper

77.  LEAVES OF GRASS  Walt Whitman

78.  LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW  Washington Irving

79.  LES MISERABLES  Victor Hugo

80.  LIFE WITH FATHER  Clarence Day

81.  LITTLE BLACK SAMBO  Helen Bannerman

82.  LITTLE MEN  Louisa May Alcott

83.  LITTLE WOMEN  Louisa May Alcott

84.  LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME  John Fox, Jr.

85.  LIVES  Plutarch.

86.  LORNA DOONE  Richard Blackmore

87.  MARY  Sholem Asch

88.  MAUD MILLER  John Greenleaf Whittier

89.  MEN OF IRON  Howard Pyle

90.  MERCHANT OF VENICE  William Shakespeare

91.  MOBY DICK  Herman Melville

92.  MY FRIEND FLICKA  Mary O’Hara

93.  THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND  Jules Verne

94.  NAPOLEON  Emil Ludwig

95.  THE NAZARENE  Sholem Asch

96.  NORTHWEST PASSAGE  Kenneth Roberts

97.  THE ODYSSEY  Homer

98.  THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA  Ernest Hemingway

99.  OLIVER TWIST  Charles Dickens

100.  THE OREGON TRAIL  Frances Parkman

101.  ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES  Charles Darwin

102.  THE OTHER WISE MAN  Henry Van Dyke

103.  OUTLINE OF HISTORY  H. G. Wells

104.  PARADISE LOST  John Milton

105.  THE PATHFINDER  James Fenimore Cooper

106.  PEARL OF GREAT PRICE  LDS Church

107.  PENROD  Booth Tarkington

108.  PENROD AND SAM  Booth Tarkington

109.  PETER PAN  James M. Barrie

110.  TALE OF PETER RABBIT  Beatrix Potter

111.  PICKWICK PAPERS  Charles Dickens

112.  PILGRIMS PROGRESS  John Bunyan

113.  ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO  Carlo Collodi

114.  THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM  James Oliver Curwood

115.  POEMS OF CHILDHOOD  Robert Louis Stevenson

116.  PRIDE AND PREJUDICE  Jane Austen

117.  THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER  Mark Twain

118.  QUO VADIS  Henryk Sienkiewicz

119.  RAMONA  Helen Hunt Jackson

120.  THE RAVEN  Edgar Allen Poe

121.  REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM  Kate Douglas Wiggin

122.  THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE  Thomas Hardy

123.  RIP VAN WINKLE  Washington Irving

124.  THE ROBE  Lloyd C. Douglas

125.  ROBIN HOOD  Howard Pyle

126.  ROBINSON CRUSOE  Daniel Defoe

127.  THEODORE ROOSEVELT  Henry Pringle

128.  RUBAIYAT  Omar Khayyam

129.  RUGGLES OF RED GAP  Harry Wilson

130.  SAND  Will James

131.  SCARAMOUCHE  Rafael Sabatini

132.  THE SCARLET LETTER  Nathaniel Hawthorne

133.  THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL  Emmuska Orczy

134.  THE SEA AROUND US  Rachel Carson

135.  THE SEA HAWK  Rafael Sabatini

136.  THE SEA WOLF  Jack London

137.  SEVENTEEN  Booth Tarkington

138.  SHE  H. Rider Haggard

139.  SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER  Oliver Goldsmith

140.  ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES  Arthur Conan Doyle

141.  SHOWBOAT  Edna Ferber

142.  SILAS MARNER  George Eliot

143.  SMOKY  Will James

144.  THE SONG OF HIAWATHA  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

145.  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTRY  Carey McWilliams

146.  THE SPOILERS  Rex Beach

147.  THE SPY  James Fenimore Cooper

148.  THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE  R. L. Stevenson

149.  SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON  Johann R. Wyss

150.  TALE OF TWO CITIES  Charles Dickens

151.  THE TALISMAN  Walter Scott

152.  THE THREE MUSKETEERS  Alexandre Dumas

153.  TOM SAWYER  Mark Twain

154.  THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE  John Fox, Jr.

155.  TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO  Autobiography

156.  TREASURE ISLAND  Robert Louis Stevenson

157.  THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS  Lewis Carroll

158.  THUNDER HEAD  Mary O’Hara

159.  THE TURN OF THE SCREW  Henry James

160.  TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA  Jules Verne

161.  TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST  Richard Dana

162.  UNCLE REMUS  Joel Chandler Harris

163.  VANITY FAIR  William Thackeray

164.  THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD  Oliver Goldsmith

165.  THE VIRGINIAN  Owen Wister

166.  THE WANDERING JEW  Eugene Sue

167.  THE WAR OF THE WORLDS  H. G. Wells

168.  WESTWARD HO!  Charles Kingsley

169.  THE WIZARD OF OZ  Frank L. Baum

170.  THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS  Kenneth Grahame

171.  WINNIE THE POOH  A. A. Milne

172.  WUTHERING HEIGHTS  Emily Bronte

173.  THE YEARLING  Marjorie Rawlings