Lists of Bests: David and John Major's 100 One-Night Reads

Send to Printer David and John Major's 100 One-Night Reads 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.	?	Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
	2.		A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
	3.		Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis
	4.		The Education of Oscar Fairfax by Louis Auchincloss
	5.		Growing Up by Russell Baker
	6.		Wartime Lies: A Novel by Louis Begley
	7.		Queen Lucia by E F Benson
	8.	?	Hacks at Lunch: A Novel of the Literary Life by Mary Bringle
	9.		Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) by Truman Capote
	10.		Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
	11.		The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
	12.		In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin
	13.		The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library MM) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
	14.		Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
	15.		The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad
	16.		The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
	17.	?	Microcosmographia Academica Being a Guide... by F.M. Cornford
	18.		Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
	19.		The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout
	20.		Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East : Journeys in India by Edward Cameron Dimock
	21.	?	Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years by Hugh Dundas
	22.		The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution (Nypl/Oup Lectures) by Freeman J. Dyson
	23.	?	Write If You Get Work : The Best of Bob and Ray by Bob Elliott
	24.	?	American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson
	25.		Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
	26.		The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	27.		Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
	28.		Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
	29.		Name-dropping by John Kenneth Galbraith
	30.		Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment by Graham Greene
	31.		The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
	32.		84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
	33.		Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery by Joseph Hansen
	34.		Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
	35.		Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
	36.		The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books) by George V. Higgins
	37.		The Talented Mr.Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
	38.		Lost Horizon: A Novel by James Hilton
	39.		The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
	40.		Washington Square by Henry James
	41.		The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
	42.		Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
	43.		The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China by George N. Kates
	44.		Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
	45.		Crossing the Line: A Blue Jacket's Odyssey in World War Two by Alvin Kernan
	46.		Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
	47.		The Bear Went Over the Mountain : A Novel (Owl Book) by William Kotzwinkle
	48.		Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
	49.	?	As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
	50.		A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
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