How to live a life by the books

Join long-time Courier-Journal book editor Keith Runyon for a discussion Louisville Free Public Library How-To Festival 2:15 p.m. May 11

To share your favorites, email [email protected]

Or come to the Job Shop classroom hall 10 a.m.-2:15 May 11 to add titles.

Keith Runyon’s list of favorites

1. Act One by Moss Hart 31. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

2. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 32. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

3. One Man's Meat by E.B. White 33. Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton

4. The Letters of E.B. White (1976 edition, edited by 34. When the Cheering Stopped by Gene Smith Dorothy Lobrano Guth) 35. They Were Strong and Good (Children’s book) by 5. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro Robert Lawson

6. The Little Book by Selden Eldwards 36. 1939: The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter 7. Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg 37 and 38. America in the King Years: Parting the 8. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Waters (1954-1963) and Pillar of Fire (1963-68) by 9. A First Class Temperament by Geoffrey Ward Taylor Branch.

10. Here at the New Yorker by Brenda Gill 39. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 40. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

12. The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder 41. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

13. Black and White: Style in Conflict by Thomas 42. The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman Kochman 43. Markings by Dag Hammarskjold 14. The American Heritage Dictionary 44. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris 45. Haywire by Brooke Hayward 16. The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. 46. A Separate Peace by John Knowles White 47. No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin 17 and 18. The Forsyte Saga and A Modern Comedy by John Galsworthy 48. A Rap on Race by James Baldwin and Margaret Mead 19. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton 49. Truman by David McCullough 20. To 27. The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, 50. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, 51. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Twain Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years) 52. Journey by Robert and Suzanne Massie 28. All the President's Men by Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein 53. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

29. The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand 54. Our Town by Thornton Wilder

30. George S. Kaufman by Howard M. Teichmann 55. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill 31. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. 56. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller