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Art Garfunkel's Library: Favorite Books  
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Art Garfunkel has read an outstanding number of books in his lifetime. According to him, since 1968 at 27 years of age, he has read 967 books. This is a list of those he considers his favorites books. The books are in the chronological order of which they were read, followed by author, title, date published and number of pages.

	1968 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions 1781; 606 pp.
	1969 - L.N. Tolstoy -War and Peace 1869; 1444 pp.
	1970 - Johann Wolfgang Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774; 199 pp.
	1971 - Bill Moyers - Listening to America 1971; 342 pp.
	1972 - L. N. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina 1873; 852 pp.
	1973 - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice 1797; 430 pp.
	1974 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892; 248 pp.
	1975 - Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker 1974; 1162 pp.
	1976 - John S. Shelton - Geology Illustrated 1966; 424 pp.
	1977 - Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift 1973; 472 pp.
	1978 - Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species 1859; 460 pp.
	1979 - Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight 1974; 190 pp.
	1980 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave 1962; 287 pp.
	1981 - Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged) 1787; 713 pp.
	1982 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote 1604; 940 pp.
	1983 - William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902; 500 pp.
	1984 - James Joyce - Ulysses 1921; 783 pp.
	1985 - William M. Thackeray - Vanity Fair 1847; 636 pp.
	1986 - Virgil - The Aeneid 30-19bc.; 336 pp.
	1987 - Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan 1651; 729 pp.
	1988 - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground 1864; 158 pp.
	1989 - Charles Dickens - Bleak House 1853; 975 pp.
	1990 - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad 1867; 492 pp.
	1991 - Will and Ariel Durant - The Story of Civilization VIII: The Age of Louis XIV 1963; 74 pp.
	1992 - H.G. Wells - A Short History of the World 1922; 357 pp.
	1993 - Hermann Hesse - Demian 1919; 179 pp.
	1994 - Franz Kafka - The Trial 1920; 256 pp.
	1995 - Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh 1903; 444 pp.
	1996 - Robert D. Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts 1993; 300 pp.
	1997 - Charles and Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare 1807; 313 pp.
	1998 - Patrick Süskind - Perfume 1985; 263 pp.
	1999 - Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha 1997; 428 pp.
	2000 - Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937
	2002 - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters 1866
	2003 - Charles Bukowski - Post Office 1971; 196 pp.

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