1936 Reading List | F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
• The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan
• A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
• Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
• The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Bennett
• The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiel Hammett
• The Red and the Black, by Stendahl
• The Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, translated by Michael Monahan
• An Outline of Abnormal Psychology, edited by Gardner Murphy
• The Stories of Anton Chekhov, edited by Robert N. Linscott
• The Best American Humorous Short Stories, edited by Alexander Jessup
• Victory, by Joseph Conrad
• The Revolt of the Angels, by Anatole France
• The Plays of Oscar Wilde
• Sanctuary, by William Faulkner
• Within a Budding Grove, by Marcel Proust
• The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
• Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
• South Wind, by Norman Douglas
• The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
• John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works

*In 1936 — perhaps the darkest year of his life — F. Scott Fitzgerald was convalescing in a hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, when he offered his nurse a list of 22 books he thought were essential reading.
The list is written in the nurse’s hand. (Dorothy Richardson)

via The University of South Carolina / Open Culture