Bill's favorites through July 2020 from the Boulder Great Books discussions.
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance
Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov
Brian Doyle: Mink River
Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Nikki Giovanni: Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
Soren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
Doris Lessing: The Four-Gated City
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Patricia McKillip: In the Forests of Serre
Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Lycurgus)
Delmore Schwartz: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
George Bernard Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra
Pearl Buck: The Good Earth Trilogy
Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan
Ursula Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Clifford Geertz: Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Edith Pearlman: Honeydew
Milton: Paradise Lost
Gita Mehta: A River Sutra
Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries
Leonard Adleman Computing with DNA (August 1998 Scientific American)
Christopher Hill, Leon Lederman Noether's Theorem
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Rick Bass: The Hermit's Story (In Best American Short Stories 1999)
Juan Gonzales: Harvest of Empire
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