
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".
| 184. | Jan 1981 | W.X.C. Guthrie | Socrates | 1969 | 187 pp. |
| 185. | Jan 1981 | Jonathan Miller | The Body in Question | 1978 | 341 pp. |
| 186. | Feb 1981 | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged) * | 1787 | 713 pp. |
| 187. | Feb 1981 | J.P. Donleavy | The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman * | 1977 | 402 pp. |
| 188. | Mar 1981 | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * | 1916 | 253 pp. |
| 189. | Mar 1981 | John Steinbeck | The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights | 1976 | 349 pp. |
| 190. | Jun 1981 | J.D. Salinger | uncollected short stories, vol. 2 (containing "The Inverted Forest") | Unpublished 1947 | 107 pp. |
| 191. | Jun 1981 | Gary Zukav | The Dancing Wu Li Masters * | 1979 | 332 pp. |
| 192. | Jun 1981 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Faust (part one) | 1805 | 197 pp. |
| 193. | Jul 1981 | David Halberstam | The Powers That Be * | 1979 | 1027 pp. |
| 194. | Jul 1981 | Laurie Lee | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | 1969 | 186 pp. |
| 195. | Jul 1981 | Benvenuto Cellini | Autobiography | 1562 | 397 pp. |
| 196. | Aug 1981 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Lost in America | 1981 | 259 pp. |
| 197. | Sep 1981 | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | 1839 | 934 pp. |
| 198. | Oct 1981 | Jack London | Martin Eden | 1909 | 348 pp. |
| 199. | Oct 1981 | Henry James | Washington Square | 1880 | 174 pp. |
| 200. | Oct 1981 | Aristotle | On Poetry and Style | c.350b.c. | 106 pp. |
| 201. | Oct 1981 | Saint Augustine | Confessions * | 398a.d. | 347 pp. |
| 202. | Nov 1981 | Joan Edelman Spero | The Politics of International Economic Relations | 1981 | 334 pp. |
| 203. | Nov 1981 | Francois Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel | 1534 | 712 pp. |
| 204. | Dec 1981 | David Halberstam | The Breaks of the Game | 1981 | 360 pp. |
| 205. | Dec 1981 | Immanuel Kant | Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | 1785 | 92 pp. |
| 206. | Dec 1981 | Einhard | The Life of Charlemagne | 830 | 67 pp. |
| 207. | Jan 1982 | David Hume | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | 1748 | 124 pp. |
| 208. | Jan 1982 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote * | 1604 | 940 pp. |
| 209. | Jan 1982 | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own * | 1929 | 118 pp. |
| 210. | Jan 1982 | Gustave Flaubert | The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas | c.1882 | 92 pp. |
| 211. | Feb 1982 | Baldesar Castiglione | The Book of the Courtier * | 1518 | 345 pp. |