THE TOD SHOW READS
PRIOR TO 1981 (41/397)
Novels
The Amityville Horror—Jay Anson
The Exorcist—William Peter Blatty
No Such Thing As a Witch—Ruth Chew
Silas Marner—George Eliot
Harriet the Spy—Louise Fitzhugh
The Believers—Janice Holt Giles
Hannah Fowler—Janice Holt Giles
Misty of Chincoteague—Marguerite Henry
Stormy, Misty’s Foal—Marguerite
Henry
Flowers For Algernon—Daniel Keyes
Carrie—Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot—Stephen King
The Shining—Stephen King
The Stand—Stephen King
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler—E.L.
Konigsburg
To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee
The Boys From Brazil—Ira Levin
The Call of the Wild—Jack London
The Thorn Birds—Colleen McCollough
The Worst Witch—Jill Murphy
The Borrowers—Mary Norton
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH—Robert
C. O’Brien
Freaky Friday—Mary Rodgers
The Omen—David Seltzer
Damien: The Omen 2—David Seltzer
Black Beauty—Anna Sewell
The Witch of Blackbird Pond—Elizabeth
George Speares
Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck
The Pearl—John Steinbeck
The Love Machine—Jaqueline Susann
Once is Not Enough—Jaqueline Susann
Yargo—Jaqueline Susann
Dolores—Jaqueline Susann
I Remember Mama—John Van Druten
The Onion Field—Joseph Wambaugh
Charlotte’s Web—E.B. White
Biography
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl—Anne
Frank
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden—Joanne
Greenberg
Call Me Madam—Xaveira Hollander
Plays
The Music Man—Meredith Willson
Our Town—Thornton Wilder
IN 1981 (11)
Novels
Flowers in the Attic—V.C. Andrews
Petals in the Wind—V.C. Andrews
If There Be Thorns—V.C. Andrews
Les Miserables—Victor Hugo
Firestarter—Stephen King
Cujo—Stephen King
The Fan—Bob Randall
Catcher in the Rye—J.D. Salinger
Endless Love—Scott Spencer
Plays
Death of a Salesman—Arthur Miller
Other
The Official Preppy Handbook—Lisa Birnbach
IN 1982 (8)
Novels
A Stranger is Watching—Mary Higgins
Clark
Lord of the Flies—William Golding
The World According to Garp—John Irving
The Dead Zone—Stephen King
Final Conflict: Omen 3—Gordon McGill
Night Waking—Kathleen Snow
Murder in the White House—Margaret Truman
Biography
Every Secret Thing—Patricia Hearst Shaw
IN 1983 (23)
Novels
My Sweet Audrina—V.C. Andrews
Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
When the Cradle Falls—Mary Higgins Clark
The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fury—John Farris
The Hotel New Hampshire—John Irving
The Turn of the Screw—Henry James
Daisy Miller—Henry James
Amityville Horror 2—John G. Jones
Christine—Stephen King
Pet Sematary—Stephen King
Different Seasons—Stephen King
The Mirror—Marilyn Milhiser
A Stranger in the Mirror—Sidney Sheldon
The Naked Face—Sidney Sheldon
Master of the Game—Sidney Sheldon
The Rage of Angels—Sidney Sheldon
Celebrity—Thomas Thompson
Blood and Money—Thomas Thompson
Biography
Montgomery Clift—Patricia Bosworth
The Happy Hooker—Xaviera Hollander
Jackie Oh!—Kitty Kelley
Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star—Kitty
Kelley
IN 1984 (11)
Novels
Seeds of Yesterday—V.C. Andrews
Legion—William Peter Blatty
Hollywood Wives—Jackie Collins
A Separate Peace—John Knowles
Tales of the City—Armistead Maupin
Gone with the Wind—Margaret Mitchell
Bloodline—Sidney Sheldon
The Other Side of Midnight—Sidney Sheldon
Little Pilgrim’s Progress—Helen
L. Taylor
Biography
Royal Service—Stephen Barrie
The Von Bulow Affair—William Wright
IN 1985 (3)
Novels
More Tales of the City—Armistead Maupin
The Witch of Blackbird Pond—Elizabeth
George Speares (2nd)
Biography
Monty—Robert LaGuardia
IN 1986 (4)
Novels
Heaven—V.C. Andrews
Dark Angel—V.C. Andrews
If Tomorrow Comes—Sidney Sheldon
Biography
Lana: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth—Lana
Turner
IN 1987 (3)
Novels
Of Human Bondage—Somerset Maugham
The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde
Biography
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe—Anthony
Summers
IN 1988 (7)
Novels
Thinner—Stephen King
Interview with the Vampire—Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat—Anne Rice
Windmills of the Gods—Sidney Sheldon
Biography
Detour—Cheryl Crane
Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme—Mary
Wilson
Others
The Rubaiyat—Omar Khayyam
IN 1989 (15)
Novels
I, Claudius—Robert Graves
Claudius the God—Robert Graves
Rosemary’s Baby—Ira Levin
Further Tales of the City—Armistead
Maupin
Animal Farm—George Orwell
Myra Breckinridge—Gore Vidal
Myron—Gore Vidal
Biography
Mayflower Madam—Sidney Biddles Barrow
This ‘n’ That—Bette Davis
Kiss Hollywood Goodbye—Anita Loos
Madonna—Mark Bego
Plays
Waiting For Godot—Samuel Becket
Saint Joan—George Bernard Shaw
Other
Aristotle For Everyone—Mortimer Adler
The Defense Diaries of W. Petty Morgan—Brian
Bethell
IN 1990 (9)
Novels
Babycakes—Armistead Maupin
Significant Others—Armistead Maupin
Sure of You—Armistead Maupin
Queen of the Damned—Anne Rice
The Sands of Time—Sidney Sheldon
Biographies
Past Imperfect—Joan Collins
A Woman Called Jackie—C. David Heymann
Call Her Miss Ross—J. Randy Toraborelli
All in a Lifetime—Dr. Ruth Westheimer
IN 1991 (8)
Novels
The Doomsday Conspiracy—Sidney Sheldon
The Bonfire of the Vanities—Tom Wolfe
Biographies
My Life as a Woman—Roseanne Barr
Chanel: A Woman of Her Own—Axel Madsen
Mother Goddam—Whitney Stine with Bette
Davis
Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess—David
Spada
Madonna Unauthorized—Christopher Anderson
My Turn—Nancy Reagan
IN 1992 (22)
Novels
Little Women—Louisa May Alcott
Other Voices, Other Rooms—Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s—Truman
Capote
Lady Chatterley’s Lover—D.H. Lawrence
Memories of Midnight—Sidney Sheldon
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher
Stowe
The City and the Pillar—Gore Vidal
The Front Runner—Patricia Nell Warren
Biographies
Madame Sarah—Cornelia Otis Skinner
Isadora—Isadora Duncan
Me—Katharine Hepburn
Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends—Susan
Strasberg
Marilyn: The Last Take—Peter Harry Brown
and Patte B. Barham
The Bell Jar—Sylvia Plath
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee
Williams—Donald Spoto
Wallis & Edward: The Intimate Correspondence
of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor—Michael Bloch, editor
Plays
The Boys in the Band—Mart Crowley
Salome—Oscar Wilde
Suddenly Last Summer—Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire—Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie—Tennessee Williams
The Night of the Iguana—Tennessee Williams
IN 1993 (27)
Novels
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—Lewis
Carroll
Through the Looking Glass: And What She Found
There—Lewis Carroll
Maurice—E.M. Forster
The Tale of the Body Thief—Anne Rice
The Stars Shine Down—Sidney Sheldon
Valley of the Dolls—Jaqueline Susann
Yargo—Jaqueline Susann (2nd)
Every Night, Josephine! —Jaqueline Susann
Two Sisters—Gore Vidal
A Search For the King—Gore Vidal
Messiah—Gore Vidal *
Biographies
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—Maya
Angelou
The Heart of a Woman—Maya Angelou
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’
Merry Like Christmas—Maya Angelou
Gather Together in My Name—Maya Angelou
All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes—Maya
Angelou
Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey
Now—Maya Angelou
Frankly Speaking: Trader Vic’s Own Story—Victor
Bergeron
Capote: A Biography—Gerald Clarke
Diana: Her True Story—Andrew Morton
Going Within—Shirley Maclaine
Borrowed Time—Paul Monette
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography—Donald
Spoto
Life With Jackie—Irving Mansfield **
Plays
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—Edward
Albee
The Blacks: A Clown Show—Jean Genet
Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches—Tony
Kushner
IN 1994 (8)
Novels
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade—Patrick
Dennis
Maybe the Moon—Armistead Maupin
The Mummy: Ramses the Damned—Anne Rice
Live From Golgotha—Gore Vidal
The Fancy Dancer—Patricia Nell Warren
Biographies
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life &
Times of Harvey Milk—Randy Shilts
Plays
The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me—David
Drake
Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika—Tony
Kushner
IN 1995 (7)
Novels
Nothing Lasts Forever—Sidney Sheldon
Biographies
Take It Like a Man—Boy George
Marie Antoinette—Stefan Zweig
Honor Bound: A Gay Naval Midshipman Fights
To Serve His Country—Joseph Steffan
Palimpsest—Gore Vidal
The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life—Charles
Higham
Plays
The Crucible—Arthur Miller
IN 1996 (9)
Novels
Primary Colors—Anonymous
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—Phillip
K. Dick
Daisy Miller—Henry James (2nd)
Beloved—Toni Morrison
The Best Little Boy in the World—John
Reid (Andrew Tobias)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—Unknown
Biographies
Last Watch of the Night—Paul Monette
Plays
Othello—William Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex—Sophocles
IN 1997 (24)
Novels
Morning Noon and Night—Sidney Sheldon
Biographies
Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life (1918-1945)—Ina
Russell, editor
My Story—Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht
Plays
The Zoo Story—Edward Albee
The Octoroon—Dion Boucicault
He and She—Rachel Crothers
Under the Gaslight—Augustin Daly
Trifles—Susan Glaspell
The Children’s Hour—Lillian Hellman
Shenandoah—Bronson Howard
M. Butterfly—David Henry Hwang
A Movie Star Has To Star in Black & White—Adrienne
Kennedy
Fashion: Or, Life in New York—Anna Cora
Mowatt
Waiting For Lefty—Clifford Odetts
Streamers—David Rabe
As You Like It—William Shakespeare
Macbeth—William Shakespeare
Metamora: Or, The Last of the Wompanoags—John
Augustus Stone
Machinal—Sophie Treadwell
The Contrast—Royall Tyler
I Don’t Have To Show You No Stinking
Badges!—Luis Valdez
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—Tennessee Williams
Others
The Women Troubadours—Meg Bogin
The Lais of Marie de France
IN 1998 (5)
Novels
A Boy’s Own Story—Edmund White
Biographies
The Last of the Duchess—Caroline Blackwood
Others
Even the Stars Look Lonesome—Maya Angelou
A Night to Remember—Walter Lord
Our Paris—Edmund White and Hubert Sorin
IN 1999 (22)
Novels
The Alchemist—Paulo Coelho
The Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tell Me Your Dreams—Sidney Sheldon
The Smithsonian Institution—Gore Vidal
Biographies
Diana: The Last Year—Donald Spoto
The Hidden Jesus: A New Life—Donald
Spoto
Marilyn Monroe—Barbara Leaming
Prayer Warriors—Stuart Howell Miller
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story—Paul
Monette
Openly Bob—Bob Smith
Plays
Corpus Christi—Terrance McNally
The Comedy of Errors—William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream—William
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet—William Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Love—Tom Stoppard &
Marc Normand (screenplay)
Other
The Gospel According to Matthew
Stonewall—Martin Duberman
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism—Bishop
John Shelby Spong
Resurrection: Myth or Reality—Bishop
John Shelby Spong
A Room of One’s Own—Virginia Woolf
The Seat of the Soul—Gary Zukav
IN 2000 (34)
Novels
The Hours—Michael Cunningham
Hello Darling, Are You Working?—Rupert
Everett
A Single Man—Christopher Isherwood
Faggots—Larry Kramer
The Night Listener—Armistead Maupin
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone—J.
K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets—J.
K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban—J.
K. Rowling
The Witch of Blackbird Pond—Elizabeth
George Speare (3rd)
Dark Green, Bright Red—Gore Vidal
Julian—Gore Vidal
Williwaw—Gore Vidal
Burr—Gore Vidal
Lincoln—Gore Vidal
The Married Man—Edmund White
Biographies
The Naked Civil Servant—Quentin Crisp
Conversations With Marilyn—W. J. Weatherley
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis—Donald
Spoto
All Too Human: A Political Education—George
Stephanopoulos
D.V.—Diana Vreeland
Memoirs—Tennessee Williams
The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor—Donald
Spoto
Six Medieval Women—Andrea Hopkins
Plays
James—Ane Crabtree and Joie Lee (screenplay)
Hamlet—William Shakespeare
King Lear—William Shakespeare
Bad Accidents—Graeme Stone (screenplay)
The Best Man—Gore Vidal
An Evening with Richard Nixon—Gore Vidal
Visit to a Small Planet—Gore Vidal
The Two-Character Play—Tennessee Williams
Small Craft Warnings—Tennessee Williams
Others
Why Christianity Must Change or Die—Bishop
John Shelby Spong
This Hebrew Lord—Bishop John Shelby
Spong
IN 2001 (22)
Novels
The Old Curiosity Shop—Charles Dickens
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale
Hurston
A Wrinkle in Time—Madeleine L’Engel
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire—J.
K. Rowling
The Sky is Falling—Sidney Sheldon
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon—John
Spanbauer
The Hobbit—J. R. R. Tolkien
1876—Gore Vidal
Empire—Gore Vidal
Kalki—Gore Vidal
Hollywood—Gore Vidal
The House of Mirth—Edith Wharton
The Beautiful Room is Empty—Edmund White
Moise and the World of Reason—Tennessee
Williams
Biographies
Before Night Falls—Reinaldo Arenas
The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love—Jill
Conner Browne
Mary Queen of Scots—Antonia Fraser
Plays
The Laramie Project—Moises Kaufman
The Kentucky Cycle—Robert Schenkkan
The Taming of the Shrew—William Shakespeare
Others
Born of a Woman—Bishop John Shelby Spong
Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out—Funny
Gay Males (Bob Smith)
IN 2002 (17)
Novels
The Sun Also Rises—Earnest Hemingway
Sarah—JT Leroy
The Servant of the Bones—Anne Rice
Washington, D.C.—Gore Vidal
The Judgement of Paris—Gore Vidal
Stuart Little—E. B. White
Biographies
A Song Flung Up To Heaven—Maya Angelou
Madonna—Andrew Morton
Marie Antoinette: The Journey—Antonia
Fraser
Madame de Pompadour—Nancy Mitford
Here Is New York—E. B. White
Plays
After the Fall—Arthur Miller
Tartuffe—Molière
As You Like It—William Shakespeare (2nd)
The Merchant of Venice—William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream—William
Shakespeare (2nd)
Othello—William Shakespeare (2nd)
IN 2003 (22)
Novels
Little Me—Patrick Dennis
Prater Violet—Christopher Isherwood
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix—J.
K. Rowling
Charlotte’s Web—E.B. White
Dawn—Elie Wiesel
Biographies
A Royal Duty—Paul Burrel
The Prince, the Showgirl and Me—Colin
Clark
The Life of Elizabeth I—Alison Weir
Night—Elie Wiesel
Plays
Deathwatch—Jean Genet
All’s Well That Ends Well—William
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar—William Shakespeare
Macbeth—William Shakespeare (2nd
time)
The Tempest—William Shakespeare
Others
Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown—Michael
Cunningham
The Sissy Duckling—Harvey Fierstein
American Slavery: 1619-1877—Peter Kolchin
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg—James
M. McPherson
When the Smoke Cleared at Gettyburg—George
Sheldon
Journey Through Heartsongs—Mattie J.T.
Stepanek
The English Roses—Madonna
Mr. Peabody’s Apples—Madonna
IN 2004 (19)
Novels
Choke—Chuck Palahniuk
The Fan—Bob Randall (2nd
time)
The Vampire Armand—Anne Rice
Nocturnes For the King of Naples—Edmund
White
The Cabala—Thornton Wilder
Biography
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl—Harriet
Jacobs
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings—Amy
Kelly
Hamlet’s Dresser—Bob Smith
Other
The Way—Michael Berg
The Adventures of Abdi—Madonna
Yakov and the Seven Thieves—Madonna
The Human Zoo—Desmond Morris
The Naked Ape—Desmond Morris
The Tale of Mister Tod—Beatrix Potter
King John—William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona—William
Shakespeare
The Giving Tree—Shel Silverstein
The Gospel Project:
The Gospels of Mark, Luke, Matthew, and John
The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The Proto-Gospel of James
Plus sections of: Understanding the New Testament—Howard Clark Kee
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible
with Jewish Eyes—John Shelby Spong
IN 2005 (9)
Novels
Around the World With Auntie Mame—Patrick
Dennis
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince—J.
K. Rowling
Biography
Tallulah, Darling—Denis Brian
The Men With the Pink Triangle—Heinz
Heger
Christopher and His Kind—Christopher
Isherwood
Uncle Mame: The Life of Patrick Dennis—Eric
Myers
Other
Lotsa de Casha—Madonna
The Pink Triangle—Richard Plant
Much Ado About Nothing—William Shakespeare
IN 2006
(7)
Fiction
The DaVinci Code—Dan Brown
Rats Saw God—Rob Thomas
Other
The Five People You Meet in Heaven—Paul
Albom
The Mayflower—Kate Caffrey
The English Roses: Too Good To Be True—Madonna
‘Brokeback Mountain’ (story and
screenplay)—Annie Proulx, et al
The San Francisco Earthquake—Gordon
Thomas & Max Morgan Witts
