1979-1983Since the 1960's, Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader. We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read since 1968.To view a list of Art Garfunkel's favorite books, go to Favorites. Books with asterisks are favorites. | |||||
148. | Feb 1979 | John McPhee | Coming Into the Country | 1976 | 438 pp. |
149. | Mar 1979 | William Manchester | The Glory and the Dream | 1974 | 1302 pp. |
150. | May 1979 | L.N. Tolstoy | Ressurrection | 1899 | 568 pp. |
151. | Jun 1979 | Paul Bowles | The Sheltering Sky | 1949 | 305 pp. |
152. | Jun 1979 | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | 1902 | 111 pp. |
153. | Jul 1979 | Yukio Mishima | Spring Snow | 1968 | 376 pp. |
154. | Jul 1979 | James Joll | European History since 1870 | 1973 | 486 pp. |
155. | Aug 1979 | Norman Mailer | Marilyn | 1974 | 262 pp. |
156. | Aug 1979 | Jean Rhys | Good Morning, Midnight * | 1974 | 190 pp. |
157. | Aug 1979 | John Irving | The World According to Garp | 1976 | 609 pp. |
158. | Sep 1979 | Plato | The Protagoras, The Meno | 430, 402b.c. | 157 pp. |
159. | Sep 1979 | Richard Price | Ladies' Man * | 1978 | 264 pp. |
160. | Sep 1979 | James M. Cain | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1934 | 120 pp. |
161. | Sep 1979 | Jean Rhys | Voyage in the Dark * | 1934 | 159 pp. |
162. | Sep 1979 | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | 1776 | 347 pp. |
163. | Nov 1979 | John C. Brandt and Stephen P. Maran | New Horizons in Astronomy | 1979 | 533 pp. |
164. | Nov 1979 | Margaret Mead | Male and Female | 1949 | 344 pp. |
165. | Nov 1979 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Ecco Homo | 1888 | 134 pp. |
166. | Nov 1979 | A. Alvarez | The Savage God | 1971 | 272 pp. |
167. | Nov 1979 | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure * | 1896 | 511 pp. |
168. | Dec 1979 | George Santayana | The Sense of Beauty | 1896 | 164 pp. |
169. | Dec 1979 | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels * | 1726 | 360 pp. |
170. | Dec 1979 | W.B. Yeats | Autobiography | 1922 | 387 pp. |
171. | Dec 1979 | John Reed | Ten Days that Shook the World | 1926 | 351 pp. |
172. | Jan 1980 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Slave * | 1962 | 287 pp. |
173. | Jan 1980 | John Dewey | Liberalism and Social Action | 1935 | 93 pp. |
174. | Jan 1980 | Studs Turkel | Working | 1972 | 762 pp. |
175. | Feb 1980 | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | 1861 | 512 pp. |
176. | Jul 1980 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Botany, a study of pure curiosity | 1781 | 122 pp. |
177. | Jul 1980 | Henry James | The American | 1875 | 325 pp. |
178. | Jul 1980 | Len Jenkin | New Jerusalem | Unpub-lished | 204 pp. |
179. | Sep 1980 | Jean Dorst | The Life of Birds, vol. 1 * | 1971 | 341 pp. |
180. | Sep 1980 | Marcel Proust | Within a Budding Grove * | 1920 | 386 pp. |
181. | Oct 1980 | Lester C. Thurow | The Zero-Sum Society | 1980 | 214 pp. |
182. | Nov 1980 | John Huston | An Open Book | 1980 | 373 pp. |
183. | Nov 1980 | Mordecai Richler | Joshua, Then and Now | 1980 | 435 pp. |
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. |
212. | Feb 1982 | Charles Major | When Knighthood Was in Flower | 1898 | 294 pp. |
213. | Feb 1982 | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | Oration on the Dignity of Man | 1487 | 69 pp. |
214. | Feb 1982 | David C. Gompert, Michael Mandelbaum, Richard L. Garwin, John H. Barton | Nuclear Weapons and World Politics | 1977 | 354 pp. |
215. | Mar 1982 | D.M. Thomas | The White Hotel * | 1981 | 240 pp. |
216. | Mar 1982 | Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, Steven Marcus, David Rochman | Doing Good(The Limits of Benevolence) | 1978 | 168 pp. |
217. | Apr 1982 | Jane Austen | Emma | 1816 | 471 pp. |
218. | Apr 1982 | John Calvin | On God and Political Duty | 1535 (and 1561) | 121 pp. |
219. | Apr 1982 | Leon Edel | Henry James - The Middle Years: 1882--1895 * | 1962 | 389 pp. |
220. | May 1982 | Milan Kundera | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | 1980 | 237 pp. |
221. | May 1982 | Yukio Mishima | Runaway Horses | 1969 | 423 pp. |
222. | May 1982 | Albert Einstein | The World As I See It | c.1932 | 112 pp. |
223. | May 1982 | Ivan Turgenev | First Love | 1860 | 107 pp. |
224. | May 1982 | Vincent Wright | The Government and Politics of France | 1978 | 253 pp. |
225. | May 1982 | Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea | 1966 | 156 pp. |
226. | May 1982 | Lionel Trilling | Sincerity and Authenticity | 1971 | 158 pp. |
227. | May 1982 | Christopher Isherwood | Prater Violet | 1945 | 160 pp. |
228. | Jun 1982 | Johan Huizinga | The Waning of the Middle Ages * | 1919 | 335 pp. |
229. | Jun 1982 | Honoré de Balzac | The Black Sheep * | 1842 | 339 pp. |
230. | Jun 1982 | Martin Buber | On Judaism | 1909 to 1951 | 231 pp. |
231. | Jun 1982 | David Sylvester | Napoleon and the French Empire | 1978 | 90 pp. |
232. | Jul 1982 | Robert S. Lopez | The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance | 1970 | 74 pp. |
233. | Jul 1982 | Marie Sandoz | Crazy Horse | 1942 | 413 pp. |
234. | Aug 1982 | David McClintick | Indecent Exposure | 1982 | 521 pp. |
235. | Sep 1982 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Adolescent | 1874 | 599 pp. |
236. | Oct 1982 | Robert Graves | Goodbye to All That | 1929 | 347 pp. |
237. | Oct 1982 | Robert G. Weisbord | Ebony Kinship * | 1973 | 220 pp. |
238. | Oct 1982 | Marc Bloch | Feudal Society Vol. 1 | 1940 | 279 pp. |
239. | Nov 1982 | John Updike | Bech is Back | 1982 | 195 pp. |
240. | Dec 1982 | The Book of Job | 63 pp. | ||
241. | Dec 1982 | Robin Lane Fox | The Search for Alexander | 1980 | 441 pp. |
242. | Dec 1982 | James Joyce | Stephen Hero | 1906 | 253 pp. |
243. | Dec 1982 | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | 1607 | 133 pp. |
244. | Dec 1982 | Lawrence Durrell | Justine | 1957 | 245 pp. |
245. | Feb 1983 | William James | The Varieties of Religious Experience * | 1902 | 500 pp. |
246. | Feb 1983 | André Breton | Nadja | 1928 | 160 pp. |
247. | Feb 1983 | Stephen Jay Gould | Ever Since Darwin | 1977 | 271 pp. |
248. | Feb 1983 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | 1940 | 402 pp. |
249. | Mar 1983 | John Le Carré | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | 1974 | 317 pp. |
250. | Mar 1983 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey * | 1927 | 124 pp. |
251. | Apr 1983 | 51 writers (a source book) | Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West, Vol. 1 | 880 pp. | |
252. | May 1983 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Confessions | 1781 | 606 pp. |
253. | May 1983 | Tom Wolfe | The Painted Word | 1975 | 120 pp. |
254. | Jun 1983 | Patrick Humphries | Bookends - The Simon and Garfunkel Story | 1982 | 186 pp. |
255. | Jun 1983 | Emil Ludwig | Napoleon * | 1926 | 682 pp. |
256. | Jul 1983 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social
Contract and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality |
1762 and 1755 | 226 pp. |
257. | Aug 1983 | Arnt Eliassen and Kaare Pedersen | Meteorology, an Introductory Course, Vol. 1 chapters 1, 2, 3 | 1977 | 135 pp. |
258. | Aug 1983 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Reveries of the Solitary Walker | 1778 | 155 pp. |
259. | Aug 1983 | Henry David Thoreau | Walden * | 1854 | 247 pp. |
260. | Aug 1983 | Peter Gay | The Enlightenment (The Rise of Modern Paganism) * | 1966 | 419 pp. |
261. | Aug 1983 | Plutarch | Makers of Rome (from Lives) | c.100a.d. | 366 pp. |
262. | Se. 1983 | Basho | The Narrow
Road to the Deep North and other travel sketches |
1670--90 | 147 pp. |
263. | Sep 1983 | W. Somerset Maugham | The Razor's Edge * | 1944 | 314 pp. |
264. | Sep 1983 | Aaron Copland | Copland on Music | 1944--59 | 280 pp. |
265. | Sep 1983 | Moliere | 'The Misanthrope' (a play) | 1666 | 55 pp. |
266. | Sep 1983 | Dylan Thomas | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog | 1940 | 128 pp. |
267. | Sep 1983 | Isaac Asimov | The Human Body | 1963 | 309 pp. |
268. | Sep 1983 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lectures on Literature * | 1980 | 382 pp. |
269. | Sep 1983 | Aeschylus | The Oresteian Trilogy | c.480b.c. | 203 pp. |
270. | Oct 1983 | Sophocles | 'Electra' (a play) | 435b.c. | 55 pp. |
271. | Oct 1983 | William Shakespeare | 'Trolius and Cressida' | 1602 | 152 pp. |
272. | Oct 1983 | Cicero | Selected Works | c. 60b.c. | 160 pp. |
273. | Nov 1983 | Elie Wiesel | The Testament | 1981 | 261 pp. |
274. | Nov 1983 | Tom Stoppard | 'Albert's
Bridge' (1969); 'If You're Glad I'll Be Frank' (1969), 'Artist Descending a Staircase' (1973) (three plays for radio) |
116 pp. | |
275. | Nov 1983 | Sappho, Pindar, Solon, and 23 others | Greek Lyrics (translated by Richard Lattimore) |
c.650--500b.c. | 82 pp. |
276. | Dec 1983 | Robertson Davies | One Half of Robertson Davies | 1978 | 286 pp. |
277. | Dec 1983 | Basile Kerblay | Modern Soviet Society | 1983 | 306 pp. |