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

  2. 2.
    A Coffin for Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

  3. 3.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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

  5. 5.
    Growing Up (Signet)
    by Russell Baker

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

  7. 7.
    Queen Lucia
    by E F Benson

  8. 8.
    ?
    Hacks at Lunch: A Novel of the Literary Life
    by Mary Bringle

  9. 10.

  10. 11.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  11. 12.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

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

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

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

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

  16. 18.
    Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
    by Patrick Dennis

  17. 19.
    The Ten Thousand Things
    by Maria Dermout

  18. 20.
    Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East : Journeys in India
    by Edward Cameron Dimock

  19. 21.
    ?
    Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years
    by Hugh Dundas

  20. 23.
    ?
    Write If You Get Work : The Best of Bob and Ray
    by Bob Elliott

  21. 24.
    ?
    American Scholar
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  22. 25.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  23. 26.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  24. 27.
    Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
    by Janet (Genet) Flanner

  25. 28.
    Where Angels Fear to Tread
    by E.M. Forster

  26. 29.
    Name-dropping
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

  27. 30.
    Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment
    by Graham Greene

  28. 31.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

  29. 32.
    84, Charing Cross Road
    by Helene Hanff

  30. 33.
    Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
    by Joseph Hansen

  31. 35.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  32. 36.
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
    by George V. Higgins

  33. 37.
    The Talented Mr.Ripley
    by Patricia Highsmith

  34. 38.
    Lost Horizon: A Novel
    by James Hilton

  35. 39.
    The Haunting of Hill House
    by Shirley Jackson

  36. 40.
    Washington Square
    by Henry James

  37. 41.
    The Country of the Pointed Firs
    by Sarah Orne Jewett

  38. 42.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce

  39. 43.
    The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China
    by George N. Kates

  40. 44.
    Snow Country
    by Yasunari Kawabata

  41. 45.

  42. 46.
    Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  43. 47.
    The Bear Went Over the Mountain : A Novel (Owl Book)
    by William Kotzwinkle

  44. 48.
    Barabbas
    by Par Lagerkvist

  45. 49.
    ?
    As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
    by Laurie Lee

  46. 50.
    A Sand County Almanac
    by Aldo Leopold

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Created by reenum on Aug 23, 2006.
 

Comments

Um, if you plan on not sleeping that night, sure... — 1 year ago

I agree, some of these are a stretch. Shorter books, sure. Not a lot of one-nighters for me…


Untitled — 2 years ago

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




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