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Title: The Torchlight List
Subtitle: Around the World in 200 Books
Author: Jim Flynn
Narrator: Anthony Haden Salerno
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-06-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-hear books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the listener beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler's take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman's view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald's impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk's analysis of the West's history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.

Editorial Reviews:
Jim Flynn begins The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books with an account of an uncle who read by "torchlight" on a boat during World War I. Flynns book provides a reading map for those who want to transform their lives through the written word.
Given a relaxed performance by Anthony Haden Salerno, The Torchlight List mixes canonical works of literature like Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace and Anna Karenina with more eclectic reading material, like Evolution in Action by Julian Huxley and The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Each entry is given a concise, insightful gloss by Flynn.
With an avuncular tone, Salerno conveys the wisdom and intellectual curiosity of Flynns writing.

Members Reviews:
GOOD IDEA, MIXED RESULT
The author, of "Flynn effect" fame, had a good idea: to propose to students and other interested audiences a reading list of 200 books presenting to them the world in interesting ways, and thus to counteract the increasing lack of reading habits. In doing so, he avoided the tradition of presenting "canonic" books, preferring a variety of authors selected by him.
This is a worthy endeavor. But in part it is badly executed. Some of the included books are substandard. Thus, Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, called by the author "excellent" (p. 137), is not a reliable book. And to recommend Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker as the "best account of the current theory" of evolution (p. 16) is very doubtful.
More serious are glaring errors of omission. Thus, classical Greece, understanding of which is essential for comprehending the contemporary world, is mentioned only in relation to the development of mathematics (p. 11). As a minimum at least one of the books of Homer, Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, and a good history of Athens and its culture, such as Christian Meier, Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age, should have been included. And what about Rome and its literature, a book on the Catholic Church, Goethe, modern Arab authors, and so on? All these and more are missing from the list, which includes instead a disproportional number of books on some countries and many of no real significance. Therefore, anyone using this book as a guide for reading must do so very selectively, both adding and skipping much.
Still, the author should be congratulated on his idea of preparing such a list and doing so in part quite well.
Professor Yehezkel Dror
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Great little book
This book has a great list of books that tell you about the world. No, it's not the complete compendium of everything you should read, and nor does it accurately represent every story on the planet, but Flynn acknowledges that.