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Art Garfunkel's 135 Favorite Books

From Art Garfunkel’s official website:

" Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader his entire life. Since 1968, Mr. Garfunkel has been keeping a list of every book he has read. We also present the following list of books which have been designated by Mr. Garfunkel as his favorites. The books are indexed here in the order in which they were read."

(found at: http://www.artgarfunkel.com/favorites.html)

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1. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
2. The Art of Loving (P.S.)
by Erich Fromm
  
3.
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 In Search of the Miraculous
by P.D. Ouspensky
  
4. War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
5. Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
  
6. Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
8. The Armada
by Garrett Mattingly
  
9. Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country
by Bill Moyers
  
10. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
11. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
12. J. S. Bach (Vol 1)
by Albert Schweitzer
  
13. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
14. Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (scholastic Classics) (Scholastic Classics)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
15. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
  
16. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
17.
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 Geology Illustrated
by John S. Shelton
  
18. Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
19. Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Routledge Classics)
by C.G. Jung
  
20. Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography
by Charles Chaplin
  
21. The Shining
by Stephen King
  
22.
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 Bullfinch's Mythology
by Bullfinch
  
23. The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
24. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
25. Childhood and Society
by Erik H. Erikson
  
26. Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Marcel Proust
  
27. A Guided Tour of Five Works by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Death Scene), Allegory of the Cave
by Christopher Biffle
  
28. The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
29. Fifth Business (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Robertson Davies
  
30.
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 On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
  
31. Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jean Rhys
  
32. Ladies' Man
by Richard Price
  
33. Voyage in the Dark (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jean Rhys
  
34. Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Hardy
  
35. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
36.
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 Slave
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
37.
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 The Life of Birds, vol. 1
by Jean Dorst
  
38.
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 Within a Budding Grove
by Marcel Proust
  
39.
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 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged)
by Edward Gibbon
  
40. The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
by J. P. Donleavy
  
41. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
42. Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)
by Gary Zukav
  
43. The Powers That Be
by David Halberstam
  
44. The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Augustine
  
45. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
46. A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
  
47. The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
by Baldassare Castiglione
  
48. The White Hotel
by D.M. Thomas
  
49.
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 Henry James: The Middle Years: 1882-1895
by Leon Edel
  
50. The Waning of the Middle Ages
by J. Huizinga
  
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