Book Reviews
- Essays
“Here is New York” – E.B. White
- Fiction
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
A Damsel in Distress – P.G. Wodehouse
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Before the Fact – Francis Iles (aka Anthony Berkeley)
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Emma – Jane Austen
Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes – Anita Loos
Goodbye, Mr. Chips – James Hilton
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boulle
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Scaramouche – Rafael Sabatini
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Bride of Lammermoor – Sir Walter Scott
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – R.A. Dick (Josephine Leslie)
The Iliad – Homer
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
The Wheel Spins (aka The Lady Vanishes) – Ethel Lina White
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Villette – Charlotte Bronte
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- Movie and Book Comparisons
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Letter From an Unknown Woman – Stefan Zweig
The House of the Seven Gables – Movie and Book
The Maltese Falcon (1929) – Dashiell Hammett, book review and comparison with the 1941 movie
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: James Thurber and Danny Kaye
Witness for the Prosecution: Movie, Play, Short Story
- Non-Fiction
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the World’s and the Art of Fake News – A. Brad Schwartz
Edith Head’s Hollywood – Edith Head and Paddy Calistro
Five Came Back – Mark Harris
Hollywood Musicals: The 101 Greatest Song-and-Dance Movies of All Time – Ken Bloom
Hope: Entertainer of the Century – Richard Zoglin
I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story – Marni Nixon
James J. Corbett: A Biography of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Popular Theater Headliner – by Armond Fields
Life With Mother Superior – Jane Trahey
Mary Poppins, She Wrote – Valerie Lawson
The Making of My Fair Lady – Keith Garebian
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II – Molly Guptill Manning
- Plays
Major Barbara and Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
- Poetry
“In the Bleak Midwinter” – Christina Rossetti
- Short Stories
“But Kisses Never Hurt Me” – Andrea Lundgren
Damon Runyon – His Broadway Stories: Guys and Dolls
Edgar Allan Poe’s C. August Dupin
The Thirteen Clocks – James Thurber
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