F Scott Fitzgerald's list of 22 'must read' books!

A list of 22 'must-read' books by popular American author F Scott Fitzgerald, best known for his novel 'The Great Gatsby', has now emerged, giving a rare glimpse into the writer's personal choice of literature.
In 1936, Fitzgerald was convalescing in a hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, when he dictated to his nurse a list of 22 books he thought were essential reading.
The list includes the works of Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov' and Marcel Proust, among others.
Fitzgerald's financial and drinking problems had reached a critical stage in 1936. He had moved into Asheville's Grove Park Inn that April after transferring his wife Zelda, a psychiatric patient, to nearby Highland Hospital, according to openculture.Com.

That summer he fractured his shoulder while diving into the hotel swimming pool, and sometime later, according to Michael Cody at the University of South Carolina's Fitzgerald Web site, "he fired a revolver in a suicide threat, after which the hotel refused to let him stay without a nurse."
"He was attended thereafter by Dorothy Richardson, whose chief duties were to provide him company and try to keep him from drinking too much. In typical Fitzgerald fashion, he developed a friendship with Miss Richardson and attempted to educate her by providing her with a reading list," Cody said.

At the top of the page, Richardson writes 'These are books that Scott thought should be required reading.'

The books include 'Sister Carrie' by Theodore Dreiser, 'The Life of Jesus' by Ernest Renan, 'A Doll's House' by Henrik Ibsen, 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson, 'The Old Wives' Tale' by Arnold Bennett, 'The Maltese Falcon' by Dashiel Hammett and 'The Red and the Black' by Stendahl.
The list also features 'The Short Stories' of Guy De Maupassant, translated by Michael Monahan, 'An Outline of Abnormal Psychology' edited by Gardner Murphy, The Stories of Anton Chekhov' edited by Robert N Linscott, 'The Best American Humorous Short Stories', edited by Alexander Jessup, 'Victory' by Joseph Conrad, 'The Revolt of the Angels' by Anatole France, 'The Plays of Oscar Wilde', 'Sanctuary' by William Faulkner and 'Within a Budding Grove', 'The Guermantes Way', 'Swann's Way' by Marcel Proust.

'South Wind' by Norman Douglas, 'The Garden Party' by Katherine Mansfield, 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works, also made the cut.