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Message: [QUOTE="trb123, post: 3530174, member: 711"] My list of 40 books was heavily skewed in favor of British writers. Even then I could not include all the titles I wanted. I now try to make up that deficit. 1. Parnassus on wheels, and The haunted bookshop - Christopher Morley, the author, also wrote the wonderful introduction to the Doubleday volume of Complete Sherlock Holmes. 2. Clues of the Caribbees - 5 superb Dr. Poggioli long stories by T.S. Stribling 3. My glorious brothers, and Spartacus 4. The Zimmerman telegram, Guns of August, and The Proud Tower - All Barabara Tuchman books are worth reading more than once. They are included here although they are not novels. 5. The crisis of the old order, The coming of the new deal, and The politics of upheaval. These are personal favorites. I am not asking everybody to read these books twice. 6. The collapse of the Third Republic - extremely readable [I]prequel[/I] to The rise and fall of the Third Reich 7. English History 1914-1945 - AJP Taylor. This is a masterpiece of narrative history. 8. Tom Brown's Schooldays - a must read 9. Hardy's novels. Start with [I]Far from the madding crowd[/I] and follow up with [I]The Mayor of Casterbridge[/I], [I]Tess[/I] and others 10. E.V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey. I believe that this was the first Penguin Classic. Penguin Classics, Everyman's Library, Sentry books and Modern Library are my favorite sources of books that I can read multiple times. [/QUOTE]