Steinbeck in Budapest, Hungary in 1963, autographing books at a book shop.

Dr. Robert DeMott's seminal work, Steinbeck's Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed, is available below as .PDFs, by permission of the author. This work has been a major resource for Steinbeck researchers and students since it was first published by Garland in 1984. Unfortunately, Steinbeck's Reading is no longer in print. In the interest of making this important work more available to the public, Dr. DeMott proposed to the Center that its web-site host the book in digital form.  The Center is honored to do so.

Each link below goes to a section of the book and will open in your browser as a searchable .PDF.  To expedite loading, these .PDFs are generally less than 15 pages long. Note that Dr. DeMott has written a New Preface.

Title Pages	List: Abbott to Blake	Explanatory Notes: Abbott to Freud
Contents	List: Blake to Cooper	Explanatory Notes: Fromm to Norris
Preface	List: Coulton to Flanagan	Explanatory Notes: Norris to Yeats
New Preface (2009)	List: Flattely to Hughes	Published Primary Sources
Acknowledgments	List: Humboldt to London	Other Primary and Secondary Sources
Introduction	List: London to Newcomer	Author Index
Abbreviations	List: Newstead to Sandburg	Title Index
Notes on Catalogue Usage	List: Sandburg to Travels
Illustrations	List: Traven to Zinsser