THE “LONG LIST” of Possible Future Selections

East of Eden                                                              John Steinbeck

As I Lay Dying                                                          William Faulkner

The Secret Agent                                                     Joseph Conrad

Tess of the D’Urbervilles                                        Thomas Hardy

The Big Rock Candy Mountain                               Wallace Stegner

Saturday                                                                    Ian McEwen

On Chesil Beach                                                        Ian McEwen

Ironweed                                                                   William Kennedy

The Trouble With Poetry                                        Billy Collins

Selected Poems                                                         James Fenton

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress                               Robert Heinlein

Theodore Rex                                                           Edmund Morris

John Adams                                                              David McCullough

Gilead                                                                         Marilynne Robinson

Any Human Heart                                                    William Boyd

The Virginian                                                            Owen Wister

Ragtime                                                                     E.L. Doctorow

Short Stories                                                             Wallace Stegner

Our Story Begins (SS’s)                                           Tobias Wolf

The Somme                                                               Peter Hart

I Claudius                                                                  Robert Graves

His Excellency: George Washington                      Joseph Ellis

Wings of the Dove                                                    Henry James

The Foundation                                                        Isaac Asimov

Master of the Senate (LBJ)                                    Robert Caro

Farenheit 451                                                           Ray Bradbury

Netherland                                                                Joseph O’Neill

The Invisible Man                                                    Ralph Ellison

The Great Influenza                                                 John Barry

 The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine    Michael Lewis
Thirteen Bankers...                                                  Simon Johnson & James Kwak
Solar                                                                           Ian McEwen
The Lacuna                                                               Barbara Kingsolver
A Gate at teh Stairs                                                 Lorrie Morgan
The Earth is Enough                                                Harry Middleton
The Dead Hand...                                                     David E. Holfman
A Native Realm, a Search for Self Definition       Czeslaw Milosz
A choice from the body of work by                       Leon Uris
Bonfire of the Vanities                                            Tom Wolfe