This list was originally written down and handed to Arnold Samuelson.
- “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane
- “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
- Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
- Dubliners, by James Joyce
- The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
- Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann
- Hail and Farewell, by George Moore
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Oxford Book of English Verse
- The Enormous Room, by E.E. Cummings
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
- Far Away and Long Ago, by W.H. Hudson
- The American, by Henry James