CATEGORIES IN WHICH THE BOOKS ARE DIVIDED
• Re-reading books we have read before
• A selection from the Bible.
• A selection from the Greeks
• A selection from Shakespeare
• A work of poetry
• A non-Western selection
• A selection by a female author
• A recent (1915-1965) selection
• A shorter work
• A longer work
• Unclassified (I was too lazy to place them in a category)
Some books are listed in multiple categories.
Some books are listed in multiple categories.
RE-READ BOOKS WE HAVE READ BEFORE
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy
Bleak House by Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A SELECTION FROM THE BIBLE
Book of Ruth
Acts of the Apostles
Gospel of Luke
Esther
A SELECTION FROM THE GREEKS (OR ANCIENT ROMANS)
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
Electra by Sophocles
Sappho’s poems
Gorgias by Plato
Epictetus, Discourses;
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica
A SELECTION FROM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear by Shakespeare
(Heart of America Shakespeare Festival 2015)
A WORK OF POETRY
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Houseman
The Wasteland by T.S.Eliot
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
A NON-WESTERN SELECTION
The Plum in the Golden Vase by Jin Ping Mei
(also known as THE GOLDEN LOTUS; 2 volumes) (1610)
Bhagavad Gita
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz,
A SELECTION BY A FEMALE AUTHORS
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle
Sappho’s poems
Sonnets from the Portuguese by E.B. Browning,
Ariel by Sylvia Plath,
(There are several books under the “Previously read books” category that are by women authors.)
A RECENT (1915-1965) SELECTION
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheltering_Sky
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Chronicles of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Last Puritan by George Santayana
The Life of Reason by George Santayana
The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus
Palace of Desire (1953; volume 2 in The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
East of Eden by Steinbeck
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Hardy
Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
Being and Time by Heidegger
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Snopes Trilogy by Faulkner
Cairo Trilogy by Mahfouz
USA Trilogy by Dos Passos’
Diary, Volume One (1953-56) by Polish émigré, Witold Gombrowicz
A SHORTER WORK
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Short Story or 2 from a collection, say
Holding Pattern by Jeffrey Renard Allen
Areopagiticus by John Milton
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Tractatus by Wittgenstein
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
A LONGER WORK
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens
Bleak House by Dickens
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Cairo Trilogy by Long Mahfouz
The Snopes Trilogy by Faulkner
The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos
UNCLASSIFIED (I was too lazy to place them in a category)
Njáls saga (Icelandic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njáls_saga
Njáls saga (Icelandic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njáls_saga
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream) by Francesco Colonna, c. 1599, 1999 translation by Jocelyn Godwin
The Sufferings of Young Werther (1774) by Goethe
(written when Goethe was in his 20’s; said by some to be the first “best seller”)
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
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