Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady --
Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrisons's The Bluest Eye --
Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants --
Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected Poems --
Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth --
Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The Snake Has All the Lines --
Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare --
Graeme Base on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings --
Jeff Benedict on The Little Engine That Could --
Elizabeth Berg on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye --
Amy Bloom on The Most of P.G. Wodehouse --
Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big --
Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima --
Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive People and More --
Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, 1960 --
Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death --
Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo --
Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein¿s Ida --
Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain --
Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A Stranger Is Watching --
Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling --
and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita --
Claire Cook on the Nancy Drew Mysteries --
Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars --
Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin --
Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield --
Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and More --
Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter --
Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own --
Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now --
Carlos Eire on Thomas á Kempis's The Imitation of Christ --
Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes --
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August --
Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm --
David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why --
Alice Hoffman on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye --
Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee --
Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingways Collected Stories --
Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death --
Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird --
Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The Only Dance There Is and More --
Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams --
Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible --
Margot Livesey on Charolotte Brontës Jane Eyre --
Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls --
Frank McCourt on Shakespeare's Henry VIII --
Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby --
Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn --
Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series --
Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs' Compromising Positions --
Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man --
Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise --
Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwells So Long, See You Tomorrow --
Jacques Pépin on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus --
Anne Perry on G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday --
Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and More --
Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange --
Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Series --
Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act One --
SARK on Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings --
Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes --
Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan's The Human Comedy --
Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire! --
Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The Red and the Black --
Jane Stern on John Barth's The End of the Road --
Michael Stern on the Sears Catalogue --
Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet --
Paco Underhill on C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Series --
Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird --
Kate Walbert on E.B. White's Charlotte's Web --
Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse --
Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby --
The Books That Changed Their Lives : A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors --
Roxanne's Very Opinionated Reading List --
Joy's Very Opinionated Reading List --
