College Credit and More!

Even homeschool kids can get college credits while in High School. I found a link that shows how to do this and saved it since I have a Freshman this year.

Also, while exploring one day, a Park Ranger told me about this site: US National Parks for Teachers

Baking Charts - we use these all the time as we experiment.

Writing Tips for Anxious Writers

Smallest Town in Each State

Science Wars Mitosis vs Meiosis How Much Pain Can You Handle

Periodic Table this is from the Royal Society of Chemistry. It is interactive...in other words fun!

Code Academy - I was told about this from a computer guy I met at the zoo.

Homeschool Coding

Math and Its Symbols

Make Writing More Suspenseful - I love TED talks

Link to Graphic Reading Organizers

Good information no matter who you are.

Histories Mysteries

Trying to get my kids excited over things has been a challenge, but they love NCIS, CSI, etc. So one day I was looking around on FB (when bored I read FB articles) and I came across this idea. So I began to research the idea and there are so many different mysteries that can be searched and read about. So I started creating a card for each of the different mysteries and will let them choose a mystery to research and see where this will lead.

Links for some:
History Mysteries
10 Unsolved Mysteries
9 Strange Unsolved Mysteries
25 Mysteries
10 WWII Mysteries
10 Strangest from WWII
More WWII Mysteries
15 WWII Mysteries

The ones that I have put onto cards for the girls to choose from (in a hat, way over their heads so there is no cheating for a "better" card).

1. Bermuda Triangle
2. Where is Atlantis?
3. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
4. Fate of the Arc of the Covenant
5. Jesus' Resurrection
6. Copper Scroll Treasure
7. The Fire in the Coal Mine
8. Oak Island Money Pit
9. RFK Assassination
10. JFK Assassination/Babushka Woman
11. Cleopatra's Tomb
12. Did a Romanov Survive?
13. Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
14. Escape of Napoleon
15. Death of Napoleon
16. Lindburgh Baby
17. Amelia Earhart
18. Spontaneous Combustion
19. Vile Vortices
20. Taos Hum
21. Sailing Stones
22. Culpeper Ring
23. Lincoln Assassination
24. Jack the Ripper (this is the most popular with the girls)
25. Lost Colony of Roanoke
26. Bimini Road
27. Voynich Manuscript
28. Shroud of Turin
29. Lizzie Borden and Parent's Murderer
30. John Dillinger
31. Easter Island
32. Agatha Christie's Disappearance
33. King Arthur
34. Robin Hood
35. The Antikythera Mechanism
36. Loch Ness Monster
37. The Mary Celeste
38. Zodiac Killer
39. DB Cooper
40. Black Dahlia
41. Death of Mozart
42. Female Pope?
43. Mad King Ludwig
44. Highest Value Art Heist
45. Meriwether Lewis
46. Archimedes Death Ray
47. Escape Alcatraz
48. Noah's Ark
49. Tower Princes
50. Big Foot/Chupacabra, et al
51. What happened to the Blutfahne? (famous Nazi Flag)
52. Death of Subhas Chandra Bose
53. 17 British Soldiers in Auschwitz
54. Ness Gun Battery Mystery Artist
55. Hitler's Missing Globe
56. Raoul Wallenberg
57. Heinrich Mueller
58. Who Betrayed Jean Moulin?
59. Who Betrayed Anne Frank (Frank Family)?
60. Who was the Dead Body in Operation Mincemeat?
61. Foo Fighters
62. Disappearance of Flight 19.
63. Empty Plane after Pearl Harbor
64. Russian Amber Room....theft?
65. Rommel's Hidden Treasure
66. German U Boat U530
67. Herschel Grynszpan
68. Glenn Miller
69. Battle of Los Angeles
70. Die Glocke, Nazi Bell
71. Nazi Ghost Train
72. Ghost Planes of WWII
73. Trail of Tears
74. General Custer
75. Stonewall Jackson Death
76. Lost Confederate Gold
77. General Grant's Photograph (Gen Grant at City Point)
78. Mystery Photos (Civil War)
79. Ghosts of Kolb Farm
80. Army Itch (Civil War)
81. Fort Monroe (Civil War)
82. Disappearance of the USS Keystone State
83. Glowing Soldiers (Civil War)

I will continue to add to this list, as I find this fun and interesting. I think the girls will love it, too.
I may have to look up some things like for science, too.

Halloween Themed Lessons

Since it is October and I really want my kids to have hands on experiences to help solidify what they are learning, I did some research on things. I found music that evokes all things Halloween, starting with Mussorgsky (Night on Bald Mountain). Books or Literature (Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley's works and an older one from Washington Irving) and Haiku poetry or poetry in general. Science experiments from YouTube and just things to do in general. Math is fun project...the original project called for kids to measure the auditorium or gymnasium and create a haunted house. The kids had to measure the room and figure out the cost for what they wanted to create. My change (remember I homeschool) is for the girls to measure the front yard, driveway and side yard and figure out what they want to create and how much it will cost. They spent a good deal of time outside measuring and discussing what they want to create. I did put one caveat on their plans....no scaring little kids. Geography is studying places that are known for being scary, like Transylvania, Romania.

This is going to be such a fun month...I am saving Christmas things to make (we are decorating using yarn) and making gifts (using yarn and sewing techniques) and we are making our own Halloween Decorations. What makes you happy? I know that crafting makes me happy and finding something that makes the girls work, makes them happy and they work without realizing that they are learning! Education should be fun and that is what I am trying for. I want to find something that sparks them and gets them running on the work.

Afghans:
Rustic Panels Afghan
Crocodile Flower Afghan
Crocodile Stitch Afghan
Stadium Blanket
Alaskan Blue Tunisian Throw
Square Diamond Throw
Spiral Afghan - Very interesting look.
Irish Shamrocks Afghan
Bavarian Rainbow Afghan
Swedish Countryside Afghan

Animals:
Crochet Cat Bed - I have cats....4 of them. They like my yarn, so this could be fun to make.

Bags:
Candy Bag - this is listed as an Easter Bag, but it could be made for Halloween as a party favor (change colors) or Christmas even.
Errands Bag
Hobo Bag

Christmas/Winter:
Crocodile Stitch Christmas Tree

Cowls/Scarves:
Anthophila Knit Scarf
French Inspired Cowl
How To Infinity Scarf
Magentalicious Cowl
Breezy Night Sky Scarf
Rainbow Mood Scarf - can be a lot of fun.
Papagena Scarf - this is such a beautiful scarf. I may have to make a few of these for my girls.
Crocodile Cowl
Subway Scarf
One Skein Asymmetry Scarf
Arrowhead Lace Cowl
Itanos Summer Scarf
Neon Dreams Infinity Scarf - This was nicknamed the Willy Wonka Cowl by all free crochet. This pattern is free and found on Moogly Blog. It is really pretty and if done in these colors could really be something Willy Wonka would definitely love.

Flowers:
Crocodile Stitch Flower

Gloves/Mittens:
Oyster Mittens
Blooming Berry Baby Mittens - girl babies.

Halloween/Fall:
Skull Scarf

Hats/Headbands:
Pink Ski Hat - colorwork as there is other colors in it.
Slouchy Horseshoe Cable Hat
Basic Crochet Beanie
Blue Green Boy Striped Hat
Simple Slouch Hat

How To/Tutorial:
Bavarian Rectangle
Bavarian Square

Kitchen/Dishcloths/Hotpads:
School of Fish Scrubby - I don't know if this will work for you, but I got the pattern from Red Heart Free Patterns
Knit Scrubby Washcloth - very simple, using the new Scrubby yarn.
Twist Stitch Diamond Dish Cloth - free Ravelry download
Doily Style Dishcloth - very interesting look....may be fun to make a few.
Water Lily Dishcloth
The Crazy Dishcloth
Crochet Angel Dishcloth
Sun Catcher Dishcloth

Shawls/Wraps:
Batwing Shawl
Kristin Shawl
Prism Shawl - this is a free pattern on Ravelry. I learned some time ago, that if you put a free pattern that you like into your "library" it will always be available to you, even updates to the pattern.
Sapphire Shawlette
Greek Revival Shawl - I had to use the wayback machine to find this link and have it pull up, but is so worth the look and print. It is beautiful!

Socks/Slippers/Booties:
Crocodile Stitch Baby Booties
Hybrid Slipper Socks
Striped Baby Booties
Lemon Lime Baby Booties
Creta Lace Socks - nice looking socks....think one of the girls might like them.
Circus Striped Socks
Peppermintoes - this is a very interesting style of sock.
Slipper Socks
Lace Socks

Required Reading for Middle School and High School

I saw a list of books for Middle School and High School and it asked how many have you read? I have read quite a few, so I will make some notations, but I am saving this list for my girls to pick from, also. 

Middle School Required Reading

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit - I read this on my own. It was never required for me to read. 

3. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - I read this on my own, again, never required reading. 

4. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - Required reading for high school, not middle school. 

6. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - I have a copy of this book, that I just got recently, I have not read it yet. 

8. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle - I read this with my daughters. 

9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis - I read this on my own, I didn't have to read it for school. 

10. The Giver by Lois Lowry

11. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

12. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

13. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

14. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

15. My Brother Sam Is Dead by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier

High School Required Reading

16. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

17. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

18. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - I had to read this for college. 

19. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - I read this on my own as an adult, I never had to read it in school. 

20. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - I had to read this for college. 

21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - I had to read this for college. 

22. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - I had to read this for college. 

23. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - someone else had to read this for high school and threw the book away on the last day (that is what a lot of the girls did), since I loved to read, I snagged a lot of books this way.  I read it over the summer. 

24. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - I had to read this for college. 

25. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - I had to read this for college. 

26. The Iliad by Homer - I read this on my own. 

27. The Crucible by Arthur Miller - Another I read on my own. 

28. Animal Farm by George Orwell - my cousin a teacher at my high school told me not read this book voluntarily, she had not liked it. 

29. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - I read this on my own and then for college. 

30. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - I read this in college. 

31. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - I read this in college. 

32. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - I read this on my own. 

33. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - I loved this book, I have read it many times and read it on my own in middle school. 

34. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - I read this on my own. 

35. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - I read this for college. 

Homeschooling Preparation

School will be starting for many and many who traditionally homeschool are collecting stuff for their children for school. I am saving things that I can use with my children as we change again from Public School, to K12 to traditional.

Ultimate List of Online Music
Hewitt Homeschooling
Science with Netflix
Grammar - difference in commas, colons, dashes
Marker Caddy
10 Best Online Math Games
10 Archaeological sites in OH - some are close by
History Videos - Lists put together in YouTube
Literature Study Guides - has quizzes, essay questions and synopses. It is on Spark Notes.
Piano Music based on Pi
Basic US Geography
Technology Rocks US Geography
Free Homeschool Printables for K-3
7 Ways to go to College Free
Beginner's Guide to High School Homeschool
Free Preposition Printables
Homeschool Guide to High School Credits
Insect Notebook Pages
Lets Homeschool High School - Future Reference

List of Books

Below is a list of books another homeschooling mom posted. She states that she was given this by a college admissions person. I am saving as in a few years (about 6 I will have 1 going). This is just for saving not for debate. If you are interested in it, great. If you want to debate this list, I am only saving it for my use.

Homer: The Odyssey
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Sophocles: Antigone
Aristophanes: The Clouds
Euclid: Elements
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics; Politics
Plato: Apology; Phaedo; Crito; Euthyphro; The Republic
Virgil: The Aeneid
Augustine: City of God; Confessions; On Free Choice of the Will
Aquinas: Selections from Summa Theologica
Dante: The Inferno
Chaucer: “The Franklin’s Tale”
More: Utopia
Luther: On Secular Authority
Calvin: On Civil Government
Shakespeare: As You Like It; King Lear
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Milton: Paradise Lost
Hobbes: Leviathan
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire: Candide
Locke: Second Treatise
Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality; the Social Contract
Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Paine: Common Sense
Kant: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals; Perpetual Peace
Goethe: Faust
Shelley: Frankenstein
de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Marx: The Communist Manifesto
Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
Mill: Utilitarianism
Nietzsche: Basic Writings
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Eliot: The Wasteland
Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Kirk: The Roots of American Order
Lewis: The Weight of Glory; The Discarded Image; The Abolition of Man
Beowulf
The Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
The United States Constitution
Federalist Papers
Anti-Federalist Papers
The Rights of Man

Lots more to Share

More from my FB files. Some added from others and some that the kids have asked me to make.

Recipes:
No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
Hummingbird Cake
Breakfast Enchiladas
Lemon Meringue

Patterns:
Beagle
Moogly Blog Afghan Block
Baby Flip Flops
Dress Up Bunny
Jack the Aviator
SACU Bag - bag for stuffed animals
Versatile Bowler

Books:
100 Books to Read before College

Homeschooling:
Best Places to Get Home Schooling Books

Anniversary: 
Anniversary Gifts by year

From Email and from FB, More that I really want to save

Recipes:
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Enchiladas
Donut Pancakes
Pumpkin Pancakes
Monkey Bread
Peanut Butter Potato Candy
Reese's Peanut Butter No Bake Bars
Biscuit and Gravy Casserole
Italian Christmas Cookies
Paula Deen's Funnel Cake Recipe
Buckeye Cheesecake

Afghans:
Jacob's Star Afghan
Easy Afghans
Early Bird Afghan
Blueberry Lemonade Afghan
Old Blue Eye's Afghan aka Millionaire's Afghan
Rose Afghan
Rose Twists Afghan
Eyelet Parfait Afghan
Eyelet Ripple Afghan
Moogly CAL Afghan Block 20 posted
Amish Crochet Puzzle Ball

Crochet/Knit Patterns:
Downton Abbey Shawl
Ocean Front Shawl
25 Pumpkin Patterns
Grumpy Care Bear
Wild Things Hat and Mittens for younger children
Simple Dishcloths
Tweedy Eyelet Scarf
Moogly Links for Last Minute Gifts
10 Free Cowl Infinity Scarf Patterns
Moogly Happy Autumn Leaves
Warm Hands from Moogly Links - crochet mittens
Amazing Grace Blissful Beanie
Moogly Links for pet costumes
Crochet Slippers Moogly Links
Moogly Links for Penguin Patterns

Homeschooling/Eschooling:
Transitive/Intrasitive Verbs
Predicate Nominative
Direct/Indirect Object
Mathway
Oozing Pumpkins
Kid's Math Prime Numbers
Salt and Ice Experiment
Candy Experiments
TED Talks
Candy Test
Factory Tours in USA
Monthly Writing Prompts for Journals

Plarn - Plastic Bag Yarn
Sadie Robinson Duck Dynasty Dance

Books and Lists:
Cultural Icons Favorite Books
Bill Murray - Huckleberry Finn,  Laurens Van Der Post, A Story Like The Wind and A Far Off Place, The Plague by Albert Camus
Joan Didion - Victory by Joseph Conrad
John Darnielle - Play It As It Lays, The Canterbury Tales, A Broken Mirror
Robin Williams - Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
Neil deGrasse Tyson - One, Two, Three, Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Joanna Newsom - Lolita, edited by Alfred Appel Jr.. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
Dolly Parton - The Little Engine That Could
Olivia Munn - Replay by Ken Grimwood
Donald Glover - The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
James Franco - As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Lena Dunham - Lolita
Chelsea Handler - The Fountainhead. Mawson’s Will, One Thousand White Women, Anna Karenina
J. K. Rowling - The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Bill Hader - Salem’s 
Amy Poehler - Traveling Mercies
Caroline Kennedy - Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, and A Death in the Family, by James Agee, A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, and Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
Lady Gaga - Letters to a Young Poet
Nikola Tesla - Goethe's Faust

100 Books Read by David Bowie

The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 2007

The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007

Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007

Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002

The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997

The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996

Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995

The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994

Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993

Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990

David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986

The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986

Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985

Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984

Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984

Money, Martin Amis, 1984

White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984

Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984

The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984

A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980

Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980

Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91

Viz (magazine) 1979 –

The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979

Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978

In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978

Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976

Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975

Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975

Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974

Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972

In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971

Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971

The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970

The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967

Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967

Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. , 1966

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965

City of Night, John Rechy, 1965

Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964

Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963

The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962

Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961

Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –

On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961

Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961

Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961

The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960

All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd,1960

Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959

The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958

On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957

The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957

Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957

A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956

The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1948

The Street, Ann Petry, 1946

Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945

The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, 1944

The Outsider, Albert Camus, 1942

The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939

The Beano, (comic) 1938 –

The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell, 1937

Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood, 1935

English Journey, J.B. Priestley, 1934

Infants of the Spring, Wallace Thurman, 1932

The Bridge, Hart Crane, 1930

Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh, 1930

As I lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1930

The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos, 1930

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin, 1929

Passing, Nella Larsen, 1929

Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence, 1928

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922

BLAST, ed. Wyndham Lewis, 1914-15

McTeague, Frank Norris, 1899

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual, Eliphas Lévi, 1896

Les Chants de Maldoror, Lautréamont, 1869

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856

Zanoni, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842

Inferno, from the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, about 1308-1321

The Iliad, Homer, about 800 BC

25 Favorite Books From Assigned Reading When I was in high school, the last day of school was the day that many of my classmates (and older students) would throw away books that were bought for them to read in classes. I would go through the barrels and pull out any books that I didn't have and hadn't read. I would read them over the summer. When I got to college, I had to read these same books again. I already owned a copy and was able to participate quite well.
       

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - read this
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  - read this
3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - read this
4. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - read this
5. 1984 by George Orwell - read this 
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - read this, saw the play and named my kitten, "George." 
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - read this, just watched the movie (yipes, needed to pre-screen before I let my kids watch it). 
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - read this. 
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - read this
10. The Giver by Lois Lowry - never saw this one. 
11. Hamlet by William Shakespeare - read this (plus many others). 
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - never saw this one. 
13. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - I am currently trying to read this book. 
14. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - read this, saw the play. 
15. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - read this. 
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - read this. 
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell - My cousin once told me this was a horrible book. Yet it is on a list. 
18. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - read this
19. A Separate Peace by John Knowles - never saw this one. 
20. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - read this and my daughter gets to read it for school. 
21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - read this many. many times. 
22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - read this. Loved the back story. 
23. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - read this. 
24. Macbeth by William Shakespeare - read this, "By the pricking of my thumbs" 
25. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston- never saw this one.

430 Books in Marilyn Monroe's Library

1) Let’s Make Love by Matthew Andrews (novelization of the movie)

2) How To Travel Incognito by Ludwig Bemelmans

3) To The One I Love Best by Ludwig Bemelmans

4) Thurber Country by James Thurber

5) The Fall by Albert Camus

6) Marilyn Monroe by George Carpozi

7) Camille by Alexander Dumas

8) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

9) The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt-Farmer

10) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

11) From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming

12) The Art Of Loving by Erich Fromm

13) The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran

14) Ulysses by James Joyce

15) Stoned Like A Statue: A Complete Survey Of Drinking Cliches, Primitive, Classical & Modern by Howard Kandel & Don Safran, with an intro by Dean Martin (a man who knew how to drink!)

16) The Last Temptation Of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

17) On The Road by Jack Kerouac

18) Selected Poems by DH Lawrence

19 and 20) Sons And Lovers by DH Lawrence (2 editions)

21) The Portable DH Lawrence

22) Etruscan Places (DH Lawrence?)

23) DH Lawrence: A Basic Study Of His Ideas by Mary Freeman

24) The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

25) The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

26) Death In Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann

27) Last Essays by Thomas Mann

28) The Thomas Mann Reader

29) Hawaii by James Michener

30) Red Roses For Me by Sean O’Casey

31) I Knock At The Door by Sean O’Casey

32) Selected Plays by Sean O’Casey

33) The Green Crow by Sean O’Casey

34) Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

35) Clash By Night by Clifford Odets

36) The Country Girl by Clifford Odets

37) 6 Plays Of Clifford Odets

38) The Cat With 2 Faces by Gordon Young

39) Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

40) Part Of A Long Story: Eugene O’Neill As A Young Man In Love by Agnes Boulton

41) The Little Engine That Could by Piper Watty (with childish pencil scrawls at end, possibly MM’s)

42) The New Joy Of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer & Marion Rombauer-Becker (with some cut recipes, page markers, a typed diet sheet and manuscript shopping list, apparently in MM’s hand, laid in)

43) Selected Plays Of George Bernard Shaw

44) Ellen Terry And Bernard Shaw – A Correspondence

45) Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell – Their Correspondence

46) The Short Reigh Of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck

47) Once There Was A War by John Steinbeck

48) Set This House On Fire by William Styron

49) Lie Down In Darkness (William Styron?)

50) The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone by Tennessee Williams

51) Camino Real by Tennessee Williams

52) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (with notes by MM)

53) The Flower In Drama And Glamour by Stark Young (inscribed to MM by Lee Strasberg, Christmas 1955)

American Literature

54) Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

55) The Story Of A Novel by Thomas Wolfe

56) Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe

57) A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (Thomas Wolfe?)

58) Thomas Wolfe’s Letters To His Mother, ed. John Skally Terry

59) A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

60) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

61) Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

62) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

63) Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

64) The American Claimant & Other Stories & Sketches by Mark Twain

65) In Defense of Harriet Shelley & Other Essays (Mark Twain?)

66) The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

67) Roughing It (Mark Twain?)

68) The Magic Christian by Terry Southern

69) A Death In The Family by James Agee

70) The War Lover by John Hersey

71) Don’t Call Me By My Right Name & Other Stories by James Purdy

72) Malcolm by James Purdy

Anthologies

73) The Portable Irish Reader (pub. Viking)

74) The Portable Poe – Edgar Allen Poe

75) The Portable Walt Whitman

76) This Week’s Short Stories (New York, 1953)

77) Bedside Book Of Famous Short Stories

78) Short Novels Of Colette

79) Short Story Masterpieces (New York, 1960)

80) The Passionate Playgoer by George Oppenheimer

81) Fancies And Goodnights by John Collier

82) Evergreen Review, Vol 2, No. 6

83) The Medal & Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello

Art

84) Max Weber (art book – inscribed to MM by ‘Sam’ – Shaw?)

85) Renoir by Albert Skira

86) Max by Giovannetti Pericle

87) The Family Of Man by Carl Sandburg

88-90) Horizon, A Magazine Of The Arts (Nov 1959, Jan 1960, Mar 1960.)

91) Jean Dubuffet by Daniel Cordier

Biography

92) The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham

93) Close To Colette by Maurice Goudeket

94) This Demi-Paradise by Margaret Halsey

95) God Protect Me From My Friends by Gavin Maxwell

96) Minister Of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story by Quentin Reynolds, Ephraim Katz and Zwy Aldouby

97) Dance To The Piper by Agnes DeMille

98) Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It by Mae West

99) Act One by Moss Hart

Christian Science

100) Science And Health With Key To The Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

101) Poems, Including Christ And Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy

Classical Works

102) 2 Plays: Peace And Lysistrata by Aristophanes

103) Of The Nature Of Things by Lucretius

104) The Philosophy Of Plato

105) Mythology by Edith Hamilton

106) Theory Of Poetry And Fine Art by Aristotle

107) Metaphysics by Aristotle

108-111) Plutarch’s Lives, Vols 3-6 only (of 6) by William and John Langhorne

Counter-Culture

112) Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie

113) The Support Of The Mysteries by Paul Breslow

114) Paris Blues by Harold Flender

115) The Shook-Up Generation by Harrison E. Salisbury

Foreign-Language Texts And Translations

116) An Mands Ansigt by Arthur Miller

117) Independent People by Halldor Laxness

118) Mujer by Lina Rolan (inscribed to MM by author)

119) The Havamal, ed. D.E. Martin Clarke

120) Yuan Mei: 18th Century Chinese Poet by Arthur Waley

121) Almanach: Das 73 Jahr by S. Fischer Verlag

French Literature

122) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

123) The Works Of Rabelais

124) The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

125) Cities Of The Plain by Marcel Proust

126) Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

127) The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust

128) The Captive by Marcel Proust

129) Nana by Emile Zola

130) Plays by Moliere

Freud

131) The Life And Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones

132) Letters Of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud

133) Glory Reflected by Martin Freud

134) Moses And Monotheism by Sigmund Freud

135) Conditioned Reflex Therapy by Andrew Salter

Gardening & Pets

136-137) The Wise Garden Encyclopedia, ed. E.L.D. Seymour (2 editions)

138) Landscaping Your Own Home by Alice Dustan

139) Outpost Nurseries – publicity brochure

140) The Forest And The Sea by Marston Bates

141) Pet Turtles by Julien Bronson

142) A Book About Bees by Edwin Way Teale

143) Codfish, Cats & Civilisation by Gary Webster

Humor

144) How To Do It, Or, The Art Of Lively Entertaining by Elsa Maxwell

145) Wake Up, Stupid by Mark Harris

146) Merry Christmas, Happy New Year by Phyllis McGinley

147) The Hero Maker by Akbar Del Piombo & Norman Rubington

148) How To Talk At Gin by Ernie Kovacs

149) VIP Tosses A Party, by Virgil Partch

150) Who Blowed Up The House & Other Ozark Folk Tales, ed. Randolph Vance

151) Snobs by Russell Lynes

Judaica (MM officially converted to Judaism upon her marriage to Miller).

152) The Form of Daily Prayers

153) Sephath Emeth (Speech Of Truth): Order Of Prayers For The Wholes Year In Jewish and English

154) The Holy Scriptures According To The Masoretic Text (inscribed to MM by Paula Strasberg, July 1, 1956)

Literature

155) The Law by Roger Vailland

156) The Building by Peter Martin

157) The Mermaids by Boros

158) They Came To Cordura by Glendon Swarthout

159) The 7th Cross by Anna Seghers

160) A European Education by Romain Gary

161) Strike For A Kingdom by Menna Gallie

162) The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert

163) The Woman Who Was Poor by Leon Bloy

164) Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson

165) The Contenders by John Wain

166) The Best Of All Worlds, Or, What Voltaire Never Knew by Hans Jorgen Lembourn (is this the same guy who later wrote ’40 Days With Marilyn’?)

167) The Story Of Esther Costello by Nicholas Montsarrat

168) Oh Careless Love by Maurice Zolotow (MM biographer)

169) Add A Dash Of Pity by Peter Ustinov

170) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (filmed as A Place In The Sun – MM admired Elizabeth Taylor’s performance)

171) The Mark Of The Warrior by Paul Scott

172) The Dancing Bear by Edzard Schaper

173) Miracle In The Rain by Ben Hecht (co-author of MM’s autobiography)

174) The Guide by R.K. Narayan

175) Blow Up A Storm by Garson Kanin (later wrote screenplay ‘Moviola’, featurning an MM-based character)

176) Jonathan by Russell O’Neill

177) Fowlers End by Gerald Kersh

178) Hurricane Season by Ralph Winnett

179) The un-Americans by Alvah Bessie (later wrote The Symbol, a novel loosely based on MM’s life)

180) The Devil’s Advocate by Morris L. West

181) On Such A Night by Anthony Quayle

182) Say You Never Saw Me by Arthur Nesbitt

183) All The Naked Heroes by Alan Kapener

184) Jeremy Todd by Hamilton Maule

185) Miss America by Daniel Stren

186) Fever In The Blood by William Pearson

187) Spartacus by Howard Fast

188) Venetian Red by L.M. Pasinetti

189) A Cup Of Tea For Mr Thorgill by Storm Jameson

190) Six O’Clock Casual by Henry W. Cune

191) Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong (the movie ‘Don’t Bother To Knock’ was based on this novel)

192) The Gingko Tree by Sheelagh Burns

193) The Mountain Road by Theodore H. White

194) Three Circles Of Light by Pietro Di Donato

195) The Day The Money Stopped by Brendan Gill

196) The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins (Hollywood-set bestseller, featuring a Jean Harlow-based character, Rina Marlowe. Marilyn’s secretary, Margerie Stengel, recalls that Marilyn was reading a Robbins novel in her New York apartment in 1961.)

197-198) Justine by Lawrence Durrell (2 editions, possibly read during filming of The Misfits)

199) Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell

200) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

201) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

202) The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

203) Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog by Dylan Thomas (Marilyn met Thomas in Shelley Winters’ apartment circa 1951)

204) Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, by Malcolm Lowry

Modern Library

205) The Sound And The Fury/As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

206) God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell

207) Anna Christie/The Emperor Jones/The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (Marilyn played Anna in a scene performed at the Actor’s Studio in 1956)

208) The Philosophy Of Schopenhauer by Irwin Edman

209) The Philosophy Of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner

210) The Dubliners by James Joyce

211) Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson

212) The Collected Short Stories by Dorothy Parker (Friend of Marilyn’s, lived nearby her Doheny Drive apartment in 1961)

213) Selected Works by Alexander Pope

214) The Red And The Black by Stendhal

215) The Life Of Michelangelo by John Addington

216) Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (Niagara director Henry Hathaway wanted to film this with MM and James Dean. It was eventually made with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey.)

217) Three Famous French Romances (W. Somerset Maugham?)

218) Napoleon by Emil Ludwig

219) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (a second copy?)

220) The Poems And Fairy-Tales by Oscar Wilde

221) Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass/The Hunting Of The Snark, by Lewis Carroll

222) A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes

223) An Anthology Of American Negro Literature, ed. Sylvestre C. Watkins

Music

224) Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan

225) Music For The Millions by David Ewen

226) Schubert by Ralph Bates

227) Men Of Music by Wallace Brockaway and Herbert Weinstock

Plays

228) The Potting Shed by Graham Greene

229) Politics In The American Drama by Caspar Nannes

230) Sons Of Men by Herschel Steinhardt

231) Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (MM auditioned for the movie, but Judy Holliday got the part)

232) Untitled & Other Radio Drams by Norman Corwin

233) Thirteen By Corwin, by Norman Corwin

234) More By Corwin, by Norman Corwin

235) Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill (a second copy)

236) Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951

237) Theatre ’52 by John Chapman

238) 16 Famous European Plays, by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell

239) The Complete Plays Of Henry James

240) 20 Best Plays Of The Modern American Theatre, by John Glassner

241) Elizabethan Plays by Hazelton Spencer

242) Critics’ Choice by Jack Gaver

243) Modern American Dramas by Harlan Hatcher

244) The Album Of The Cambridge Garrick Club

European Poetry

245) A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Houseman

246) The Poetry & Prose Of Heinrich Heine by Frederich Ewen

247) The Poetical works Of John Milton, by H.C. Beeching

248) The Poetical Works Of Robert Browning (H.C. Beeching?)

249) Wordsworth by Richard Wilbur

250) The Poetical Works Of Shelley (Richard Wilbur?)

251) The Portable Blake, by William Blake

252) William Shakespeare: Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton

253) Poems Of Robert Burns, ed. Henry Meikle & William Beattie

254) The Penguin Book Of English Verse, ed. John Hayward

255) Aragon: Poet Of The French Resistance, by Hannah Josephson & Malcolm Cowley

256) Star Crossed by Margaret Tilden

American Poetry

257 and 258) Collected Sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay (2 editions)

259) Robert Frost’s Poems by Louis Untermeyer (Marilyn befriended Untermeyer during her marriage to Arthur)

260) Poe: Complete Poems by Richard Wilbur (a 2nd copy?)

261) The Life And Times Of Archy And Mehitabel by Don Marquis

262) The Pocketbook Of Modern Verse by Oscar Williams

263) Poems by John Tagliabue

264) Selected Poems by Rafael Alberti

265) Selected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers

266) The American Puritans: Their Prose & Poetry, by Perry Miller

267) Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

268) Poet In New York by Federico Garcia Lorca

269) The Vapor Trail by Ivan Lawrence Becker (inscribed to Arthur by the author, there is also a note to MM)

270) Love Poems & Love Letters For All The Year

271) 100 Modern Poems, ed. Selden Rodman

272) The Sweeniad, by Myra Buttle

273) Poetry: A Magazine Of Verse, Vol.70, no. 6

Politics

274) The Wall Between by Anne Braden

275) The Roots Of American Communism by Theodore Draper

276) A View Of The Nation – An Anthology : 1955-1959, ed. Henry Christian

277) A Socialist’s Faith by Norman Thomas

278-279) Rededication To Freedom by Benjamin Ginzburg (2 copies)

280) The Ignorant Armies by E.M. Halliday

281) Commonwealth Vs Sacco & Vanzetti, by Robert P. Weeks

282) Journey To The Beginning by Edgar Snow

283) Das Kapital by Karl Marx

284) Lidice by Eleanor Wheeler

285) The Study Of History by Arnold Toynbee

286) America The Invincible by Emmet John Hughes

287) The Unfinished Country by Max Lerner

288) Red Mirage by John O’Kearney

289) Background & Foreground – The New York Times Magazine: An Anthology, ed. Lester Markel (a friend of MM)

290) The Failure Of Success by Esther Milner

291) A Piece Of My Mind by Edmund Wilson

292) The Truth About The Munich Crisis by Viscount Maugham

293) The Alienation Of Modern Man by Fritz Pappenheim

294) A Train Of Powder by Rebecca West

295) Report From Palermo by Danilo Dolci

296) The Devil In Massachusetts by Marion Starkey

297) American Rights: The Constitution In Action, by Walter Gellhorn

298) Night by Francis Pollini

299) The Right Of The People by William Douglas

300) The Jury Is Still Out by Irwin Davidson and Richard Gehman

301) First Degree by William Kunstler

302) Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville

303) World Underworld by Andrew Varna

Prayer

304) Catechism For Young Children (1936, so may be from Norma Jeane’s childhood)

305) Prayer Changes Things (1952, inscribed to MM – perhaps from Jane Russell?)

306) The Prophet by Kahlil Bibran (a second copy?)

307) The Magic Word L.I.D.G.T.T.F.T.A.T.I.M. by Robert Collier

308) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (a third copy?)

309) His Brother’s Keeper by Milton Gross (3-page extract from Readers’ Digest, Dec 1961)

310) Christliches ergissmeinnicht by K. Ehmann

311) And It Was Told Of A Certain Potter by Walter C. Lanyon (1922, so may be from childhood. Several newspaper poems and prayers tipped in.)

312) Bahai Prayers (inscribed to MM, ‘Marilyn Monroe Maybeline. A gift for my darling Maybeline, with all my love, Charlzetta’ – dated 1961.)

Psychology

313) Man Against Himself by Karl A. Menninger

314) The Tower And The Abyss by Erich Kahler

315) Something To Live By, by Dorothea S. Kopplin

316) Man’s Supreme Inheritance by Alexander F. Matthias

317) The Miracles Of Your Mind by Joseph Murphy

318) The Wisdom Of The Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

319) A Prison, A Paradise by Loran Hurnscot

320) The Magic Of Believing by Claude M. Bristol

321) Peace Of Mind by Joshua Loth Liebman

322) The Use Of The Self by Alexander F. Matthias

323) The Power Within You by Claude M. Bristol

324) The Call Girl by Harold Greenwald

325) Troubled Women by Lucy Freeman (who later wrote ‘Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe’)

326) Relax And Live by Joseph A. Kennedy

327) Forever Young, Forever Healthy by Indra Devi

328) The Open Self by Charles Morris

329) Hypnotism Today by Leslie Lecron & Jean Bordeaux

330) The Masks Of God: Primitive Mythology, by Joseph Campbell

331) Some Characteristics Of Today by Rudolph Steiner

Reference

332) Baby & Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (pub. 1958)

333) Flower Arranging For Fun by Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop

334) Hugo’s Pocket Dictionary: French-English And English-French

335) Spoken French For Travellers And Tourists, by Charles Kany & Mathurin Dondo

336) Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus, by C.O. Mawson & K.A. Whiting

Religion

337) What Is A Jew? by Morris Kertzer

338) A Partisan Guide To The Jewish Problem, by Milton Steinberg

339) The Tales Of Rabbi Nachman, by Martin Buber

340) The Saviours Of God: Spiritual Exercises, by Nikos Kazantzakis

341) The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran (4th copy?)

342) The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows

343) The Secret Books Of The Egyptian Gnostics, by Jean Doresse

344) Jesus by Kahlil Gilbran

345) Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy

346) Why I Am Not A Christian, by Bertrand Russell

Russian Literature

347) Redemption & Other Plays by Leo Tolstoy

348) The Viking Library Portable Anton Chekhov

349) The House Of The Dead, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

350) Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

351) Best Russian Stories: An Anthology, ed. Thomas Seltzer

352) The Plays Of Anton Chekhov

353) Smoke by Ivan Turgenev

354) The Poems, Prose & Plays Of Alexander Pushkin

355) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (not in the Christies’ catalogue. But friends of MM recall her reading it as a young actress, and she had hopes of playing Grushenka. Her own remarks in interviews make it clear that she had read the novel.)

Science

356) Our Knowledge Of The External World, by Bertrand Russell

357) Common Sense And Nuclear Warfare, by Bertrand Russell

358) Out Of My Later Years by Albert Einstein

359) Men And Atoms by William Laurence

360) Man Alive by Daniel Colin Munro (inscribed to Renna Campbell from Lorraine?)

361) Doctor Pygmalion by Maxwell Maltz

362) Panorama: A New Review, ed. R.F. Tannenbaum

363) Everyman’s Search by Rebecca Beard

364) Of Stars And Men by Harlow Shapley

365) From Hiroshima To The Moon, by Daniel Lang

366) The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer

367) Sexual Impotence In The Male, by Leonard Paul Wershub

Scripts And Readings

368) Medea by Jeffers Robinson

369) Antigone by Jean Anouilh

370) Bell, Book And Candle by John Van Druten

371) The Women by Clare Boothe

372) Jean Of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson

Travel

373) The Sawbwa And His Secretary by C.Y. Lee

374) The Twain Shall Meet by Christopher Rand

375) Kingdom Of The Rocks by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

376) The Heart Of India by Alexander Campbell

377) Man-Eaters Of India by Jim Corbett

378) Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett

379) My India by Jim Corbett

380) A Time In Rome by Elizabeth Bowen

381) London by Jacques Boussard

382) New York State Vacationlands

383) Russian Journey by William O. Douglas

384) The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer

Women Authors

385) The Portable Dorothy Parker

386) My Antonia by Willa Cather

387) Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather

388) The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (befriended Marilyn when she first moved to New York)

389) The Short Novels Of Colette (A second copy?)

390) The Little Disturbances Of Man by Grace Paley

Here are a few other books which weren’t included, but Monroe was reported either to have read or owned them. Most on the list are cited in the Unabridged Marilyn.

391) The Autobiography Of Lincoln Steffens (read during The Fireball)

392-403) Carl Sandburg’s 12-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln

404) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Marilyn gave a copy to Joe after their wedding)

405) Poems Of W.B. Yeats (Marilyn read his poems aloud at Norman Rosten’s house)

406) Mr Roberts by Joyce Cary

407) The Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd

408) The Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky

409) The Bible

410) The Biography Of Eleanora Duse, by William Weaver

411) De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Study Of Human Bone Structure) by Andreas Vesalius

412) Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

413) Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs A, by Richard Aldrich

414) Goodnight Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler

415) Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton

416) How Stanislavsky Directs by Mikhail Gorchakov (posted earlier by Felicia)

417) I Married Adventure by Olso Johnson

418) The Importance Of Living by Lin Yutang

419) Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (read during All About Eve)

420) Psychology Of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud

421) The Rains Came by Louis Broomfield

422) The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine (read during some Like It Hot)

423) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

424) To The Actor by Michael Chekhov (Marilyn’s acting teacher from 1950-1955)

425) Captain Newman, M.D. (Novel based on Dr Ralph Greenson’s as an army doctor in Korea. Marilyn was said to be reading this on the week of her death.A film based on the book was released in 1963.)

426) Songs For Patricia by Norman Rosten (posted by Paju)

427) A Lost Lady by Willa Cather (Marilyn hoped to film this with her production company. But an earlier adaptation was so disappointing to the author, that she withdrew the film rights.)

428) Lust For Life by Irving Stone

429) The Deer Park by Norman Mailer (Hollywood-based novel. Marilyn commented on the book, ‘He’s too impressed by power, in my opinion.’ Mailer tried unsuccessfully to meet Marilyn, and after her death wrote several books on her.)

430) The Rebel by Albert Camus