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 David C. Major and John S. Major,
who are brothers, are the co-authors of 100 ONE-NIGHT READS.
100 ONE-NIGHT READS
brings together a listing of books that can be consumed in one quiet evening in categories ranging from fiction to fantasy, history to humor, mystery to memoir.
Read the Bookreporter.com review.
David C. Major's Summer Reading List
JOHN MUIR'S LAST JOURNEY SOUTH TO THE AMAZON AND EAST TO AFRICA: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence
Edited by Michael P. Branch
This new volume of unpublished journals and correspondence from the last great trip of John Muir's life, to South America and Africa, is a must-read for environmentalists.
THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS
by Sarah Orne Jewett
A favorite re-read this summer is THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS, one of John Major's and my 100 One-Night Reads. It's impossible to forget this graceful story of a rich (and vanished) culture on the Maine coast.
THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN: Myth and History
by Shepard Krech III
I'm going to read this study of Native Americans and the natural world while on vacation on the South Shore of Boston, not far from where the locals encountered the newcomers at Plymouth.
JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS: A Restatement
by John Rawls
The great Harvard philosopher gives us a new and accessible overview of his work on achieving a more civil society.
THE PRIZE OF ALL THE OCEANS: The Dramatic True Story of Commodore Anson's Voyage Round the World and How He Seized the Spanish Treasure Galleon
by Glyn Williams
The most recent telling of Commodore Anson's round the world voyage in the 1740s to "annoy the King of Spain" and seize a treasure galleon. My guess is that none of the boats I will see this summer will be up to anything quite so arduous.
John S. Major's Summer Reading List
DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS
by P. D. James
This is the latest novel by the grande dame of British crime fiction. I'm going to read it on vacation in sunny Provence, just as a reminder that a bleak East Anglian coast really does
exist.
PATRICK O'BRIAN: A Life Revealed
by Dean King
This biography unveils the surprisingly tangled, indeed invented, life of the author of my favorite historical novels. O'Brian's THE UNKNOWN SHORE is one of my brother David's and my 100 ONE-NIGHT READS.
THINKS
by David Lodge
A new novel set in the fictitious University of Gloucester. It's both cerebral and funny, interweaving understanding of the human condition with some of the wackier elements of academe. Lodge is one of England's finest contemporary writers, and still too little known on this side of the Atlantic.
JOHN ADAMS
by David McCullough
The instant bestseller by America's premier political biographer, providing new perspectives and remarkable insights into the character and career of the Braintree lawyer and farmer and estimable Founding Father.
MOBY-DICK
by Herman Melville
It's time to re-read this classic, in the year of the 150th anniversary of its publication. The hunt for the whale, the meditations on whaling, and the indifference of the natural world are unforgettable components of a masterpiece.
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