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Ball State University 
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What Arthur W. Hafner is Reading

Please share your comments! Tell me what you think I should be reading or what you think about something that I have read. I also like to hear about books that others are reading and why they find them interesting. I recently purchased a Kindle and find that my reading has increased since I always have my books with me.


Spring 2011
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
Labyrinths (1964) by Jorges Luis Borges
The Confession (2010) by John Grisham
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
The Testament (1999) by John Grisham
Swann's Way (1913) by Marcel Proust

Fall - Winter 2010
A Bend in the River (1979) by VS Naipul
Hedda Gabler (1890) by Henrik Ibsen
Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad
Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
The Broker (2005) by John Grisham
The Order of Things (1966) by Michel Foucault
Uncle Vanya (1898) by Anton Chekhov

Spring - Summer 2010
Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
Father and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
The Associate (2009) by John Grisham
The Firm (1991) by John Grisham
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
The Partner (1997) by John Grisham

Fall - Winter 2009
Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoi
Fear and Trembling (1843) by Soren Kierkegaard
Frankenstein (1818) by Marry Wollstonecraft Shelley
Madam Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert
Pride and Prejudice (1837) by Jane Austen
The Broker (2005) by John Grisham
Things Fall Apart (1957) by Chinua Achebe

Spring - Summer 2009
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
The Client (1993) by John Grisham
The Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea (1953) by Ernest Hemmingway
The Rights of Man (1791) by Thomas Paine
Vindication on the Rights of Women (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Waiting for Godot (1952) by Samuel Becket

Fall - Winter 2008
Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes
Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
Snow Country (1932) by Kawabata Yusunari
The Pelican Brief (1992) by John Grisham
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
The Stranger (1943) by Albert Camus
The Summons (2002) by John Grisham

Summer 2008
In the Fear Zone by Lowell B. Komie
The Appeal by John Grisham
The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West

Spring 2008
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
A Girl of the Limber Lost by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Virginian by Owen Wister

Winter 2008
Hotel Europejski: A Novel by Lowell B. Komie
1776 by David McCullough
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

Fall 2007
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
Germinal by Emile Zola
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Pere Goriot by Honore De Balzac

Summer 2007
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

Spring 2007
The Silhouette Maker of Copenhagen by Lowell B. Komie
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Evelina by Fanny Burney
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Winter 2007
The Broker by John Grisham
The Ox-Wow Incident by W.V.T. Clark
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Fall 2006
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Summer 2006
Truman by David McCullough
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Path between the Seas by David McCullough

Spring 2006
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Camille by Alexandre Dumas

Winter 2006
McTeague by Frank Norris
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

Fall 2005
The Last Juror by John Grisham
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Summer 2005
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Spring 2005
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
Indiana by George Sand
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Winter 2005
Bleachers by John Grisham
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge

Fall 2004
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by William L. Riordon
Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Last Juror by John Grisham

Summer 2004
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman

Spring 2004
Term Limits by Vince Flynn
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

Winter 2004
The Humpback of Lodz by Lowell B. Komie
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
For Whom the Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
The King of Torts by John Grisham

Fall 2003
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Summer 2003
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
Deliverance by James Dickey
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Spring 2003
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Winter 2003
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Next by Ken Kesey
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Fall 2002
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Summer 2002
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sallinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Spring 2002
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Winter 2002
Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Rememberance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fall 2001
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Calumet "K" by Sam Merwin and K. K. Webster

Summer 2001
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Night Swimmer; A Man in London and Other Stories by Lowell B. Kummie
Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

Spring 2001
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
The Last Jewish Shortstop in America by Lowell B. Komie

Winter 2001
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
In Pursuit of Reason; The Live of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Fall 2000
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
Damnation of Theron Ware by Herald Frederick
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck

Summer 2000
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
The Brethren by John Grisham
Who Moved my Cheese? by Spencer Johnson’s
Why We Buy; The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill

Spring 2000
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
My Antonia by Willa Cather

Winter 2000
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Longitude by Dava Sobel

Fall 1999
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Howards End by E.M. Forester
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Summer 1999
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Spring 1999
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Macroeconomics (3rd edition) by N. Gregory Mankiw
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Winter 1999
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Way the World Works (3rd edition) by Jude Wanniski
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Fall 1998
The Goal (2nd edition) by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Theatetus by Plato
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Summer 1998
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Spring 1998
The Medusa and the Snail; More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Way Things Are by Lucretius

Winter 1998
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Fall 1997
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated by John Cardinal Newman
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Summer 1997
The Partner by John Grisham
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Candide by Voltaire
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Spring 1997
Desires, Right & Wrong; The Ethics of Enough by Mortimer J. Adler
Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy P. Basler
The Runaway Jury by John Grishman
Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Winter 1997
Ten Philosophica Mistakes by Mortimer J. Adler
First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
The Lawyer's Chambers by Lowell B. Komie
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
King Lear by William Shakespeare

Fall 1996
The Angels and Us by Mortimer J. Adler
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
The Chamber by John Grisham
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
The Speeches of Pericles by Thucydides
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

Summer 1996
Emma by Jane Auste
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Spring 1996
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Odyssey by Homer
1984 by George Orwell

Winter 1996
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Advancement of Learning by Sir Francis Bacon
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Paradise Lost by John Milton
As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Fall 1995
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Summer 1995
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Meno by Plato

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