Vintage reading : from Plato to Bradbury : a personal tour of some of the world's best books / Robert Kanigel.

Just stumbled upon this at our library website.

I checked this out of the library once, but I didn't have time to really look at it. It overlaps with so many of my favorite books. 

Table of Contents

	Look Homeward, Angel	p. 8
x	The Portrait of a Lady	p. 11
x	As I Lay Dying	p. 14
x	Wuthering Heights	p. 17
	Kim	p. 20
x	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	p. 23
	Justine	p. 25
x	Oliver Twist	p. 27
x	Pride and Prejudice	p. 30
x	A Passage to India	p. 32
x	My Antonia	p. 35
x	Madame Bovary	p. 38
	Stories (Heretics, subversives, demagogues) - Dorothy Parker	p. 42
x	The Prince	p. 44
	The Devil's Dictionary	p. 47
x	Mein Kampf	p. 50
	Nana - Emile Zola	p. 53
	Ten Days That Shook the World - John Reed	p. 55
x	Native Son	p. 58
x	Essays (Books that shaped the western world) - Montaigne	p. 62
x	Dialogues - Plato	p. 65
	The Wealth of Nations - Plato	p. 68
	An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus	p. 71
x	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	p. 74
	The Origin of Species	p. 77
x	The Histories	p. 80
	The Federalist Papers	p. 83
	The Annals of Imperial Rome	p. 86
x	The Peloponnesian War	p. 89
x	Democracy in America	p. 92
	Only Yesterday - Frederick Lewis Allen	p. 96
	Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif	p. 99
	Selected Works - Cicero	p. 102
	Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead	p. 104
	The Outermost House - Henry Beston	p. 107
	The Amiable Baltimoreans - Francis F. Beirne	p. 110
	What to Listen for in Music - Aaron Copland	p. 113
	Gods, Graves, and Scholars - C.W. Ceram	p. 116
	The Stress of Life - Hans Selve	p. 118
	The Greek Way - Edith Hamilton	p. 121
	A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe	p. 126
	The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley	p. 129
	Elective Affinities - Goethe	p. 132
	Homage to Catalonia -George Orwell	p. 135
	Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud	p. 138
	Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis	p. 141
	Roughing It - Mark Twain	p. 144
	A Study in Scarlet	p. 148
x	The Song of Hiawatha	p. 150
	The Rise of David Levinsky -	p. 153
	Java Head	p. 156
	Mr. Pottermack's Oversight	p. 159
	A Bell for Adano	p. 161
	The Martian Chronicles	p. 164
	Gentleman's Agreement	p. 167
	The Ten Books of Architecture	p. 172
	The Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors	p. 175
	The Seven Lamps of Architecture	p. 177
	The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form	p. 180
	The Elements of Style	p. 182
	A Room of One's Own	p. 186
	The American Language	p. 189
	The Little Prince	p. 192
	The Education of Henry Adams	p. 195
	Flatland	p. 198
x	Their Eyes Were Watching God	p. 201
	A Mathematician's Apology	p. 204
	My Life	p. 207
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	p. 210
x	Gilgamesh	p. 214
x	Confessions	p. 217
	The Golem	p. 219
	The Razor's Edge	p. 221
x	The Seven Storey Mountain	p. 224
	Death Be Not Proud	p. 227
x	Ecclesiastes	p. 230
	Lost Horizon	p. 233
	The Bhagavad Gita	p. 236
x	Night -	p. 239
	The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James	p. 242