Since the 1960's, Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader. Since 1968, Mr. Garfunkel has been keeping a list of every book he has read.(Index of Books). We also present the following list of books which have been designated by Mr. Garfunkel as his favorites. The books are indexed here in the order in which they were read.
| 1. | Jun 1968 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Confessions | 1781 | 606 pp. |
| 2. | Jun 1968 | Erich Fromm | The Art of Loving | 1956 | 146 pp. |
| 3. | Oct 1968 | P.D. Ouspensky | In Search of the Miraculous | 1949 | 389 pp. |
| 4. | Feb 1969 | L.N. Tolstoy | War and Peace | 1869 | 1444 pp. |
| 5. | May 1969 | Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint | 1969 | 274 pp. |
| 6. | Sep 1969 | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | 1847 | 320 pp. |
| 7. | Jan 1970 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | 1774 | 199 pp. |
| 8. | Mar 1970 | Garrett Mattingly | The Armada | 1959 | 402 pp. |
| 9. | Mar 1971 | Bill Moyers | Listening to America | 1971 | 342 pp. |
| 10. | Jul 1971 | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | 1947 | 477 pp. |
| 11. | Jan 1972 | L. N. Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | 1873 | 852 pp. |
| 12. | Mar 1972 | Albert Schweitzer | J.S. Bach, Vol. 1 | 1911 | 428 pp. |
| 13. | Oct 1973 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 1797 | 430 pp. |
| 14. | Oct 1974 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1892 | 248 pp. |
| 15. | Feb 1975 | Robert A. Caro | The Power Broker | 1974 | 1162 pp. |
| 16. | Jun 1975 | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | 1881 | 545 pp. |
| 17. | Dec 1976 | John S. Shelton | Geology Illustrated | 1966 | 424 pp. |
| 18. | Jan 1977 | Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift | 1973 | 472 pp. |
| 19. | May 1977 | C.G. Jung | Modern Man in Search of a Soul | 1933 | 244 pp. |
| 20. | May 1977 | Charles Chaplin | My Autobiography | 1964 | 497 pp. |
| 21. | Sep 1977 | Stephen King | The Shining | 1977 | 447 pp. |
| 22. | Jul 1977 | Bulfinch | Mythology | 1855 | 236 pp. |
| 23. | Apr 1978 | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | 1859 | 460 pp. |
| 24. | Apr 1978 | Robert M. Persig | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | 1974 | 406 pp. |
| 25. | May 1978 | Erik Erikson | Childhood and Society | 1950 | 424 pp. |
| 26. | May 1978 | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way | 1928 | 325 pp. |
| 27. | Jul 1978 | Plato | The Last Days of Socrates Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, Phaedo | 390 b.c. | 199 pp. |
| 28. | Aug 1978 | Fydor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | | 642 pp. |
| 29. | Sep 1978 | Robertson Davies | Fifth Business | 1970 | 268 pp. |
| 30. | Dec 1978 | Jack Kerouac | On the Road | 1955 | 310 pp. |
| 31. | Aug 1979 | Jean Rhys | Good Morning, Midnight | 1974 | 190 pp. |
| 32. | Sep 1979 | Richard Price | Ladies' Man | 1978 | 264 pp. |
| 33. | Sep 1979 | Jean Rhys | Voyage in the Dark | 1934 | 159 pp. |
| 34. | Nov 1979 | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | 1896 | 164 pp. |
| 35. | De 1979 | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | 1726 | 360 pp. |
| 36. | Jan. 1980 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Slave | 1962 | 287 pp. |
| 37. | Sep 1980 | Jean Dorst | The Life of Birds, vol. 1 | 1971 | 341 pp. |
| 38. | Sep 1980 | Marcel Proust | Within a Budding Grove | 1920 | 386 pp. |
| 39. | Feb 1981 | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged) | 1787 | 713 pp. |
| 40. | Feb 1981 | J. P. Donleavy | The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman | 1977 | 402 pp. |
| 41. | Mar 1981 | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1916 | 253 pp. |
| 42. | Jun 1981 | Gary Zukav | The Dancing Wu Li Masters | 1979 | 332 pp. |
| 43. | Jul 1981 | David Halberstam | The Powers That Be | 1979 | 1027 pp. |
| 44. | Oct 1981 | Saint Augustine | Confessions | 398 a.d. | 347 pp. |
| 45. | Jan 1982 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote | 1604 | 940 pp. |
| 46. | Jan 1982 | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | 1929 | 118 pp. |
| 47. | Feb 1982 | Baldesar Castiglione | The Book of the Courtier | 1518 | 345 pp. |
| 48. | Mar 1982 | D.M. Thomas | The White Hotel | 1981 | 240 pp. |
| 49. | Apr 1982 | Leon Edel | Henry James - The Middle Years: 1882--1895 | 1962 | 389 pp. |
| 50. | Jun 1982 | Johan Huizinga | The Waning of the Middle Ages | 1919 | 335 pp. |
| 51. | Jun 1982 | Honoré de Balzac | The Black Sheep | 1842 | 339 pp. |
| 52. | Oct 1982 | Robert G. Weisbord | Ebony Kinship | 1973 | 220 pp. |
| 53. | Feb 1983 | William James | The Varieties of Religious Experience | 1902 | 500 pp. |
| 54. | Mar 1983 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | 1927 | 124 pp. |
| 55. | Jun 1983 | Emil Ludwig | Napoleon | 1926 | 682 pp. |
| 56. | Aug 1983 | Henry David Thoreau | Walden | 1854 | 247 pp. |
| 57. | Aug 1983 | Peter Gay | The Enlightenment (The Rise of Modern Paganism) | 1966 | 419 pp. |
| 58. | Sep 1983 | W. Somerset Maugham | The Razor's Edge | 1944 | 314 pp. |
| 59. | Sep 1983 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lectures on Literature | 1980 | 382 pp. |
| 60. | Jan. 1984 | James Joyce | Ulysses | 1921 | 783 pp. |
| 61. | Mar 1984 | J.D. Salinger | Nine Stories | 1953 | 198 pp. |
| 62. | Ap. 1984 | Thomas Mann | The Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man (The Early Years) | 1955 | 378 pp. |
| 63. | May 1984 | L.N. Tolstoy | What is Art? | 1896 | 191 pp. |
| 64. | Oct 1984 | Iris Murdoch | A Severed Head | 1961 | 205 pp. |
| 65. | Jan 1985 | William M. Thackeray | Vanity Fair | 1847 | 636 pp. |
| 66. | Feb 1985 | Thornton Wilder | The Ides of March | 1948 | 204 pp. |
| 67. | Mar 1985 | Constantin Stanislavski | An Actor Prepares | 1936 | 295 pp. |
| 68. | May 1985 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 | 590 pp. |
| 69. | Jun 1985 | Lucretius | On the Nature of the Universe | c. 54 bc. | 256 pp. |
| 70. | Jul 1985 | Marcel Proust | The Guermantes Way | 1925 | 425 pp. |
| 71. | Aug 1985 | Lao Tsu | Tao Te Ching | 6 Cent. bc. | 81 pp. |
| 72. | Sep 1985 | L.N. Tolstoy | Confession | 1879 | 93 pp. |
| 73. | Oct 1985 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce | 1959 | 744 pp. |
| 74. | Oct 1985 | Herodotus | The Histories | 446 bc. | 624 pp. |
| 75. | Nov 1985 | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | 1905 | 329 pp. |
| 76. | Jan 1986 | Virgil | The Aeneid | 30-19bc. | 336 pp. |
| 77. | Ap. 1986 | Julian Jaynes | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | 1976 | 446 pp. |
| 78. | Sep 1986 | William Kennedy | Ironweed | 1983 | 227 pp. |
| 79. | Nov 1986 | Vladimir Nabokov | The Enchanter | 1939 | 95 pp. |
| 80. | Dec 1986 | Harold C. Schonberg | The Lives of the Great Composers | 1970 | 627 pp. |
| 81. | Dec 1986 | David A. Stockman | The Triumph of Politics | 1986 | 411 pp. |
| 82. | Jan 1987 | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | 1651 | 729 pp. |
| 83. | May 1987 | Carrie Fisher | Postcards from the Edge | 1987 | 218 pp. |
| 84. | Jun 1987 | Marcel Proust | Cities of the Plain | 1913 | 378 pp. |
| 85. | Oct 1987 | Rudyard Kipling | Just So Stories | 1902 | 158 pp. |
| 86. | Oct 1987 | Peter Ladefoged | Elements of Acoustic Phonetics | 1962 | 108 pp. |
| 87. | Nov 1987 | Mark Twain | Life on the Mississippi | 1882 | 352 pp. |
| 88. | Feb 1988 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Notes from the Underground | 1864 | 158 pp. |
| 89. | Apr 1988 | George Eliot | Middlemarch | 1872 | 908 pp. |
| 90. | Jun 1988 | Francis Parkman | The Oregon Trail | 1849 | 286 pp. |
| 91. | Jan 1989 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | 1853 | 975 pp. |
| 92. | Mar 1989 | E.L. Doctorrow | Billy Bathgate | 1989 | 323 pp. |
| 93. | Jul 1989 | Brenda Maddox | Nora - The Real Life of Molly Bloom | 1988 | 381 pp. |
| 94. | Aug 1989 | Sanche de Gramont | Epitaph for Kings | 1969 | 428 pp. |
| 95. | Oct 1989 | Sigmund Freud | Civilization and Its Discontents | 1930 | 104 pp. |
| 96. | Jul 1990 | Mark Twain | Innocents Abroad | 1867 | 492 pp. |
| 97. | Jul 1990 | Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar | 1963 | 216 pp. |
| 98. | Nov 1990 | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | 1927 | 716 pp. |
| 99. | Nov 1990 | Fredric Dannen | Hit Men | 1990 | 327 pp. |
| 100. | Feb 1991 | Will and Ariel Durant | The Story of Civilization VIII: The Age of Louis XIV | 1963 | 74 pp. |
| 101. | Mar 1991 | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | 1989 | 525 pp. |
| 102. | Apr 1991 | Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations | 177 ad. | 129 pp. |
| 103. | May 1991 | Marcel Proust | The Captive | 1921 | 289 pp. |
| 104. | Au. 1991 | Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | 1989 | 407 pp. |
| 105. | Nov 1991 | John Updike | Rabbit, Run | 1960 | 249 pp. |
| 106. | Nov 1991 | William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner | 1966 | 429 pp. |
| 107. | Jan 1992 | H.G. Wells | A Short History of the World | 1922 | 357 pp. |
| 108. | Feb 1992 | Swami Prabhavananda | The Sermon on the Mount according to Vendanta | 1963 | 126 pp. |
| 109. | Apr 1992 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | 1851 | 245 pp. |
| 110. | Dec 1992 | Camille Paglia | Sex, Art and American Culture | 1992 | 287 pp. |
| 111. | Fe. 1993 | Hermann Hesse | Demian | 1919 | 179 pp. |
| 112. | May 1994 | Franz Kafka | The Trial | 1920 | 256 pp. |
| 113. | May 1994 | Daneil Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year | 1725 | 256 pp. |
| 114. | May 1994 | Jean Rhys | After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie | 1931 | 191 pp. |
| 115. | Aug 1994 | Henry Kissinger | Diplomacy | 1994 | 835 pp. |
| 116. | Dec 1994 | Gustav Janouch | Conversations with Kafka | 1923 | 201 pp. |
| 117. | Jan 1995 | Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh | 1903 | 444 pp. |
| 118. | Apr 1995 | Stendahl | The Red and the Black | 1830 | 574 pp. |
| 119. | Mar 1996 | Robert D. Kaplan | Balkan Ghosts | 1993 | 300 pp. |
| 120 | Ma. 1996 | Gustave Flaubert | Flaubert in Egypt | 1850 | 222 pp. |
| 121. | Jun 1997 | Charles and Mary Lamb | Tales from Shakespeare | 1807 | 313 pp. |
| 122. | Oct 1997 | Keith B. Richburg | Out of America | 1997 | 254 pp. |
| 123. | Dec 1997 | David Denby | Great Books | 1996 | 463 pp. |
| 124. | May 1998 | Patrick Süskind | Perfume | 1985 | 263 pp. |
| 125. | Au. 1998 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | 1952 | 469 pp. |
| 126. | Nov 1998 | D.H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | 1913 | 484 pp. |
| 127. | Feb 1999 | Arthur Golden | Memoirs of a Geisha | 1997 | 428 pp. |
| 128. | Apr 1999 | Russell Banks | Cloudsplitter | 1998 | 758 pp. |
| 129. | Oct 1999 | Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson | Raising Cain | 1999 | 267 pp. |
| 130. | May 2000 | Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 1937 | |
| 131. | Aug 2000 | Jacques Barzun | From Dawn to Decadence | 2000 | |
| 132. | Nov 2000 | Jakob Walter | The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier | 1830 | |
| 133. | Mar 2002 | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | 1866 | |
| 134. | Dec 2002 | Harold Nicolson | Good Behavior | 1955 | 285 pp. |
| 135. | Feb 2003 | Charles Bukowski | Post Office | 1971 | 196 pp. |
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