A List, by James E. Kerns

Short Stories  

The Catbird Seat, by James Thurber

Neighbour Rosicky, by Willa Cather

All of O. Henry’s short stories, but especially:

The Gift of the Magi

Mammon and the Archer

The Romance of a Busy Broker

The Ransom of Red Chief

The Last Leaf

All of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories

Poetry

Robert Frost, but especially:

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

A Minor Bird

The Cremation of Sam McGee, by Robert Service

Sonnet #29, by William Shakespeare

Books

The Sea Wolf, by Jack London

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

Mark Twain, but especially:

Pudd’nhead Wilson

The Prince and the Pauper

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

All of Charles Dickens’ books

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

Christmas Stories                   

Christmas Day in the Morning, by Pearl S. Buck

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

The Gift of the Magi, by O’Henry

Where Love is, There God is Also, by Leo Tolstoy