- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Euclid's Elements by Euclid
- Molloy by Samuel Beckett
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
- A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
- Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography by H.L. Mencken
- Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892 by H.L. Mencken
- Heathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936 by H.L. Mencken
- Points Of View by W. Somerset Maugham
- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
- Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
- Absolute Rage by Robert K. Tanenbaum
- A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman
Source:
- https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/23814.Richard_Gilmore_Reading_List