Saturday, October 26, 2013

List of Books Read in Previous Years


Here is a running list of the books we have read in previous years:


2023

Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf 

Sunday Morning and other poems, by Wallace Stevens 

MacBeth, by William Shakespeare 

The Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw 

Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw 

Captain Brasbounds Conversion, by George Bernard Shaw 

Antigone, by Sophocles 

Gilgamesh (2nd millennium BC epic)

Book of Job (from the Bible)


2022 
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe 
        and Volpone, by Ben Jonson
The Golden Ass, by Apuleius 
Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night, by Marguerite Duras 
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and The Wasteland, by T. S. Eliot 
The Brothers Ashkenazi, by I.J. Singer 
In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust 
In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust 
In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust 
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Walker Evans 
Tao Te Ching, by Lao-Tau 
Ezra and Nehemiah, from the Bible

2021
The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
Othello, by Shakespeare
Lysistrata & Thesmophoriazusae, by Aristophanes
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, by Aimé Césaire
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Nikolai Leskov
The 42nd Parallel, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
1919, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
The Big Money, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Kakoro, by Natsume Soseki
Story of David, 1 Samuel 16-31, 2 Samuel, and 1 Kings 1-2

2020
The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
Ecclesiastesfrom the Bible
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope
Stoner, by John Williams
The Trees, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter 
The Fields, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter 
The Town, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Consolation of Philosophy,by Boethius
A Madman’s Diary, by Lu Xun
Richard III,by Shakespeare


2019
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Acts of the Apostles
 Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Tin Drum, by Günter Grass
 A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul   
The King Must Die, by Mary Renault
Bull From the Sea, by Mary Renault
Mask of Apollo, by Mary Renault
The Histories, by Herodotus
Turn of The Screw, by Henry James
The Ink Dark Moon, by Onono Komachi & Izumi Shikibu


2018
Annals, by Tacitus
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
Luke, from the New Testament
Richard II, by Shakespeare
The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
Sons, by Pearl Buck
A House Divided, by Pearl Buck
Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun
The Reivers: A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner
Songs from the Slums, by Kagawa Toyohiko


2017

Silence, by Shusaku Endo
Native Son, by Richard Wright
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor
Selected song lyrics by Bob Dylan
Cymbeline, by Shakespeare
Palace Walk (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace of Desire (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
Sugar Street (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon
Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

2016

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, a translation by Anne Carson
Dream of the Red Chamber(also titled
Hónglóu Mèng (紅樓夢)), by Cao Xueqin
The Vicar of Wakefield, by Goldsmith
The Cross, by Sigrid Undset
The Wife, by Sigrid Undset
The Wreath, by Sigrid Undset
The Book of Ruth, from the Bible
Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Selected Poems, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 by Shakespeare

2015

Njáls Saga (part of Sagas of Icelanders)
The Nature of Things, by Lucretius
The Mansion, Vol. 3 of Snopes Triology, by William Faulkner
The Town, Vol. 2 of Snopes Trilogy, by William Faulkner
The Hamlet, Vol. 1 of Snopes Trilogy, by William Faulkner
King Lear, by Shakespeare
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Book of Esther, from the Bible
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King


2014

Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Future of an Illusion, by Sigmund Freud
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Ulysses, by James Joyce
A Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare
The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Song of Solomon, from the Bible
Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles
 

2013

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Medea by Euripides
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
One Thousand and One Nights (covered in three meetings)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Genesis from the Bible
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

2012

Gospel of Mark from the Bible
Epic of Gilgamesh
Anthony & Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (covered in three meetings)
Idylls of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tao te Ching, Lao-tsu
Symposium, Plato
Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Catch 22, Joseph Heller

2011

The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ecclesiastes, from the Bible
Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch (covered in three meetings)
Candide, by Voltaire
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward FitzGerald
Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
and the movie, “10 Things I Hate About You”
The Odyssey, by Homer
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

2010

Beowulf, by anonymous 
Selected Poems, by various English authors 
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu 
War and Peace, by Tolstoy (covered in three meetings)
The Tempest, by Shakespeare 
Revelation, (from the bible) 
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell 
Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich 
The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides 

2009

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
King Lear, William Shakespeare
In A Grove, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Job (from Hebrew Scriptures)
The Iliad, Homer (2nd time for the group)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

2008 

Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriett Beecher Stowe
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
Emma, by Jane Austen
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
The Koran
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus

2007

The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare
The Sayings of Confucius, by Confucius
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
The Divine Comedy, by Dante (covered in three meetings)
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather 
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Sonnets, by William Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 

2006 

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Democracy In America, by Alexis de Tocqueville
Beowulf
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville 

2005 

Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Republic, by Plato
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Pentateuch
The Alhambra, by Washington Irving 

2004 

The Aeneid by Virgil
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
The Odyssey, by Homer
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Iliad, by Homer

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