1923

US F I C T I O N

1. Black Oxen, Gertrude Atherton 6 copies on LT

2. His Children's Children, Arthur Train 0 copies

3. The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim 352 copies

4. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis 1,113 copies

5. The Dim Lantern, Temple Bailey 2 copies

6. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson 1 copy

7. The Mine with the Iron Door, Harold Bell Wright 6 copies

8. The Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey 26 copies

9. The Sea-Hawk, Rafael Sabatini 143 copies

10. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart 18 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Etiquette, Emily Post 51 copies

2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini 27 copies

3. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick, editor 3 copies

4. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson 0 copies

5. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells 467 copies

6. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters 4 copies

7. Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion, Emile Coué 4 copies

8. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok 30 copies

9. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon 235 copies

10. A Man from Maine, Edward Bok 0 copies

Derek Bok is a grandson of Edward Bok, and Sissela Bok is his wife, a daughter of Gunnar Myrdal.

Derek Bok wrote Our underachieving colleges and Universities in the marketplace.

Sissela Bok wrote Lying; moral choice in public and private life and Secrets: on the ethics of concealment and revelation.

Gunnar Myrdal wrote An American dilemma; the Negro Problem and modern democracy and Asian drama - an inquiry into the poverty of Nations.

I enjoyed swashbuckling through The Sea Hawk, and I can't really say I've READ Emily Post, but I've certainly referenced her. I haven't read any of the others, though I did enjoy the film of Enchanted April.

I love Sabatini, but have somehow missed the Sea Hawk. I did read #4 Babbit by Sinclair Lewis, though.

Just The Story of Mankind for me.

My mother lent me Enchanted April last year - apparently Elizabeth von Arnim was my grandmother's favourite author. 'Mawkishly sweet' was my take.

I've never heard of any of the other fiction, except Babbitt.

None for me

Well, Babbitt is on my To Be Read list.

Unlike sarahemmm above in msg 6, I thought The Enchanted April was a wonderful read.

I've also read Lewis' Babbitt and Sabatini's The Sea Hawk.

>6 sarahemmm: Dear me. I love The Enchanted April, too. I have it in the Folio Society edition. The movie is the most faithful rendition of a book I've ever seen, and is one of my favorite movies of all time.

>9 jillmwo:, 10

I think its a generational thing - my neighbours (61 and 77) love it; my mother likes others of hers and proposes to lend me Elizabeth's German Garden which I shall try to start with an open mind!

A Man from Maine finally has three copies in LT, including one in the CarlSandburgLibrary.

Arthur Train's book, "His children's Children" has no 'members' in Lt, although there are 100 owners of other books by him including the one shown in the Touchstone, Courts and Criminals. With an average rating of 4.32, he must have been a decent writer.

I'm sure I read The Sea Hawk as a kid, as I surely did love Scaramouche, also by Sabatini. I own Babbitt, but haven't read it yet. And while I don't have The Story of Mankind, I do have a few other's by Van Loon. They are fun to read.

Loved The Enchanted April - the book and the film.