
The following is a chronological index of the books read by Art Garfunkel since June 1968. Books marked with an asterick represent one of Mr. Garfunkel's favorite books. To view a complete list of Art Garfunkel's favorite books, go to "Favorites".
| 363. | Nov 1985 | Arthur Schopenhauer | Essays and Aphorisms | 1851 | 236 pp. |
| 364. | Nov 1985 | Luigi Barzini | The Europeans | 1983 | 267 pp. |
| 365. | Nov 1985 | Rollo May | My Quest for Beauty | 1985 | 243 pp. |
| 366. | Dec 1985 | Carl Sagan | Cosmos | 1980 | 286 pp. |
| 367. | Dec 1985 | Eugen Herrigel | Zen in the Art of Archery | 1953 | 90 pp. |
| 368. | Dec 1985 | David Hume | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | 1750-75 | 105 pp. |
| 369. | Dec 1985 | Julius Caesar | The Conquest of Gaul | 52 bc. | 236 pp. |
| 370. | Dec 1985 | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | 1889 | 331 pp. |
| 371. | Dec 1985 | Richard Hudson | Linguistics | 1984 | 166 pp. |
| 372. | Jan 1986 | Virgil | The Aeneid * | 30-19bc. | 336 pp. |
| 373. | Jan 1986 | various poets | The Colour of Saying Anthology of Verse | 1963 | 170 pp. |
| 374. | Mar 1986 | Gene A. Brucker | Renaissance Florence | 1969 | 280 pp. |
| 375. | Mar 1986 | Edward I. Koch | Politics | 1985 | 246 pp. |
| 376. | Mar 1986 | Giorgio Vasari | Lives of the Artists | 1568 | 477 pp. |
| 377. | Apr 1986 | Julian Jaynes | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind * | 1976 | 446 pp. |
| 378. | Apr 1986 | G. William Domhoff | Who Rules America Now? | 1983 | 223 pp. |
| 379. | May 1986 | Martin Heidegger | Poetry, Language, Thought | 1971 | 229 pp. |
| 380. | Jun 1986 | Alan S. Parkes | Patterns of Sexuality and Reproduction | 1976 | 141 pp. |
| 381. | Jul 1986 | Edmund Gosse | Father and Son | 1907 | 251 pp. |
| 382. | Sep 1986 | John Gardner | Self-Renewal | 1981 | 127 pp. |
| 383. | Sep 1986 | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | 1314 | 180 pp. |
| 384. | Sep 1986 | E.M. Forster | Howard's End | 1910 | 271 pp. |
| 385. | Sep 1986 | Gaston Bachelard | The Poetics of Space | 1958 | 241 pp. |
| 386. | Sep 1986 | William Kennedy | Ironweed * | 1983 | 227 pp. |
| 387. | Oct 1986 | Homer | The Odyssey | c.700 bc. | 365 pp. |
| 388. | Oct 1986 | James Joyce | Selected Letters, edited by Richard Ellman | 1957 | 409 pp. |
| 389. | Nov 1986 | Moss Hart | Act One | 1959 | 383 pp. |
| 390. | Nov 1986 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Enchanter * | 1939 | 95 pp. |
| 391. | Nov 1986 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Heart of Emerson's Journals, 1820-75 | 1820-75 | 338 pp. |
| 392. | Dec 1986 | Harold C. Schonberg | The Lives of the Great Composers * | 1970 | 627 pp. |
| 393. | Dec 1986 | David A. Stockman | The Triumph of Politics * | 1986 | 411 pp. |