David and John Major's 100 One-Night Reads

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A list of titles suggested in the book "100 One-Night Reads" by David C. Major and John S. Major. These books are all supposedly short enough and interesting enough to be read in one night.

Note: The authors chose two essays for Ralph Waldo Emerson, so the list contains more than 100 entries.

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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  2. 2.
    A Coffin for Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

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    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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  4. 4.
    The Education of Oscar Fairfax
    by Louis Auchincloss

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  5. 5.
    Growing Up
    by Russell Baker

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  6. 6.
    Wartime Lies: A Novel
    by Louis Begley

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  7. 7.
    Queen Lucia
    by E F Benson

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    Hacks at Lunch: A Novel of the Literary Life
    by Mary Bringle

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    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  12. 13.
    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library MM)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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  13. 14.
    Mr. Bridge
    by Evan S. Connell

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  14. 15.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  15. 16.
    The Road from Coorain
    by Jill Ker Conway

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    Microcosmographia Academica Being a Guide...
    by F.M. Cornford

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  17. 18.
    Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
    by Patrick Dennis

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  18. 19.
    The Ten Thousand Things
    by Maria Dermout

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  19. 20.
    Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East : Journeys in India
    by Edward Cameron Dimock

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    Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years
    by Hugh Dundas

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    Write If You Get Work : The Best of Bob and Ray
    by Bob Elliott

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    American Scholar
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  23. 25.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  24. 26.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  25. 27.
    Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
    by Janet Flanner

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  26. 28.
    Where Angels Fear to Tread
    by E.M. Forster

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  27. 29.
    Name-dropping
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

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  28. 30.
    Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment
    by Graham Greene

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    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  30. 32.
    84, Charing Cross Road
    by Helene Hanff

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  31. 33.
    Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
    by Joseph Hansen

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  32. 34.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  33. 35.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  34. 36.
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
    by George V. Higgins

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  35. 37.
    The Talented Mr.Ripley
    by Patricia Highsmith

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  36. 38.
    Lost Horizon: A Novel
    by James Hilton

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  37. 39.
    The Haunting of Hill House
    by Shirley Jackson

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  38. 40.
    Washington Square
    by Henry James

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  39. 41.
    The Country of the Pointed Firs
    by Sarah Orne Jewett

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  40. 42.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  41. 43.
    The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China
    by George N. Kates

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  42. 44.
    Snow Country
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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    The Bear Went Over the Mountain : A Novel (Owl Book)
    by William Kotzwinkle

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  46. 48.
    Barabbas
    by Par Lagerkvist

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  47. 49.
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    As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
    by Laurie Lee

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  48. 50.
    A Sand County Almanac
    by Aldo Leopold

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Created by reenum on Aug 23, 2006.
 

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Untitled — 11 weeks ago

One Night Reads? I think some of these would be a bit of a stretch!