Boulder Great Books actually began in 1988,
started by Carol Heepke, for the Boulder Public Library. The group did
the readings from the five volume Great Books Discussion Series and then decided to go through that series again starting in September, 1993.
So this list actually covers all of the readings done by the group since it was founded. The home page for the group is
http://www.sackett.net/BoulderGreatBooks.htm
September 27, 1993 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
October 12 1993
Chekhov
Rothschild's
Fiddle
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 1.)
(Year parenthetical notes are selections from the Great Books 10 Year Reading Program.)October 26, 1993
Aristotle On Happiness
November 9, 1993 Great Books, Vol 7 (Year 1 # 1)
Plato The Apology
November 23, 1993
Conrad Heart of Darkness
December 7, 1993
Kant Conscience
Marx Alienated Labor
February 1, 1994
Bible Genesis
February 15, 1994 Great Books, Vol 54, pp 767-802
Freud Civilization and Its Discontents (Year 9 # 18)
March 1, 1994 Great Books, Vol 38
Rousseau The Social Contract (Year 1 # 14)
March 15, 1994
Darwin The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals
March 29, 1994 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare Othello (Year 8 # 7)
April 12, 1994 Great Books, Vol 35
Hume Of Justice and Injustice
April 19, 1994 (This was my first time at the alternate Tuesday group)
Woolf Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
April 26, 1994
Tocqueville The Power of the Majority
May 3, 1994 Delmore Schwartz
Schwartz
In
Dreams Begin Responsibilities
May 10, 1994 Georg Simmel
Simmel Individual Freedom
May 17, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 1 - 13
Plato Charmides (Temperance)
May 24, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 131 - 142
Sophocles
Antigone
(Year
2 # 3)
May 31, 1994 pp 1 - 63
Mortimer Adler Six Great Ideas
June 7, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 488-506, 583-599
Aristophanes Clouds, Lysistrata (Year 1 #2)
June 14, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 14 - 25
Plato Lysis (Friendship)
June 21, 1994 Adler pp 64 - 98
June 28, 1994 Great Books, Vol 24, pp 1 - 126
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel [Book I - II] (Year 1 #10)
July 5, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 26 - 37
Plato Laches (Courage)
July 12, 1994 Adler pp 99 - 134
July 19, 1994 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 339 - 348
Aristotle Ethics [Book I]
July 26, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 38 - 64
Plato Protagoras
August 2, 1994 Adler pp 135 - 154
August 9, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 40 - 51
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (Year 3#1)
August 16, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 65 - 84
Plato Euthydemus
August 23, 1994 Adler pp 155 - 208
August 30, 1994 Great Books, Vol 22, pp 1 - 155
Chaucer Troilus and Cressida (Year 3 #10)
September 6, 1994 Adler pp 209 - 243
September 13, 1994 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
September 20, 1994 Great Books, Vol 20, pp 205 - 239 (Year 3 # 9)
Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica [Part I - II, QQ 90 - 97]
September 27, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 200 - 219 (Year 1# 1)
Plato
The
Crito
October 4, 1994 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 105 - 245
Epictetus Discourses (Year 7 # 6)
October 11, 1994 John Dewey
Dewey The Virtues
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 2.)
October 18, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 85 - 114
Plato Cratylus
October 25, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5
Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis
November 1, 1994 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 381 - 412
Milton Aeropagitica (Year 2 # 12)
November 8, 1994 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 445-455
Aristotle Politics (Year 1 # 5)
November 15, 1994 Great Books, Vol 30, pp 1 - 55
Bacon Advancement of Learning (Year 8 # 8)
November 22, 1994
Dostoevsky Notes from Underground
November 29, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 115 - 141
Plato Phaedrus
December 6, 1994
Bible Exodus
December 13, 1994 Grace Paley - “An Interest in Life” (15 pages)
December 20, 1994 Bhagavad-Gita. Mascaro translation.
December 27, 1994 Great Books, Vol 14, pp 32-64, 540-604 (Year 1 # 6)
Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Dickinson Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (chosen by Bruce Feistner)
from T H Johnson (ed) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
January 10, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 142 - 173
Plato Ion and Symposium (Year 7 # 2)
January 17, 1995
Hobbes Origin of Government
January 24, 1995 Great Books, Vol 18, pp 1 - 61
St. Augustine Confessions [Book I - VIII] (Year 1 # 8)
January 31, 1995
Melville Billy Budd
February 7, 1995 Great Books, Vol 25, pp 55 - 80,115 - 125 (Year 1 # 11)
Montaigne Essays [Pedantry; Education of Children; Relish of Good & Evil]
February 14, 1995 Great Books, Vol 39, pp 1 - 41
Smith Wealth of Nations (Year 1 # 17)
February 21, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 174 - 199
Plato Meno and Euthyphro (Year 2 # 5)
February 28, 1995 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (Year 7# 11)
March 7, 1995 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 253 - 310
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (Year 2 # 10)
March 14, 1995
Kierkegaard The Knight of Faith
March 21, 1995 Great Books, Vol 19, pp 3 - 75
Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 1 - 13] (Year 6 # 8)
March 28, 1995 Great Books, Vol 6
Herodotus The Persian Wars (Year 3 # 2)
April 4, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 200 - 251
Plato Apology, Crito, and Phaedo (Year 1 # 1) & (Year 5 # 1)
April 11, 1995 Great Books, Vol 35
Locke Of Civil Government (Year 1 # 13)
April 18, 1995 Great Books, Vol 11, pp 811 - 848
Nicomachus Introduction to Arithmetic (Year 2 # 8)
April 25, 1995 Great Books, Vol 36
Swift Gulliver's Travels (Year 2 # 15)
May 2, 1995 Great Books, Vol 53, pp 396 - 420, 540 - 635
William James Principles of Psychology (Year 4 # 18)
May 9, 1995
Thoreau Civil Disobedience
May 16, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 252 - 294
Plato Georgias (Year 8 # 2)
May 23, 1995 Selection from Suzanne Langer's
Langer
Philosophy in a New Key
May 30, 1995 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 351-393
Shakespeare Coriolanus (Year 7 #11)
June 6, 1995 Great Books, Vol 53, pp 851-897
William James Principles of Psychology (Year 5# 18)
June 13, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 295 - 341
Plato The Republic [Books I - III] (Year 1 # 3)
June 20, 1995 Great Books, V 26, pp 597-630
Shakespeare As You Like It (Year 6 # 10)
June 27, 1995 Great Books, Vol 28, pp 197 - 210
Galileo Two New Sciences (Year 4 # 9)
July 11, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 342 - 401
Plato The Republic [Books IV - VII] (Year 4 # 2)
July 18, 1995 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 568-596
Shakespeare Julius Caesar (Year 7 # 11)
July 25, 1995 The
Way: An Ecological World View
Edward Goldsmith Chapters 1 - 13 (plus Chapters 14 - 37 as interested)
August 1, 1995 Great Books, Vol 50, pp 415-434 (Year 1 # 18)
Marx-Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party
August 8, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 401 - 441
Plato The Republic [Books VIII - X]
August 15, 1995 A
Theory of Justice
John Rawls Selections
August 22, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 442 - 485
Plato Timaeus and Critias (Year 10 # 2)
August 29, 1995 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 253-287 (Year 2 # 18)
Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
September 5, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 486 - 510
Plato Parmenides
September 12, 1995 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Sappho Selected Poems
September 19, 1995 Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni Selected Poems
September 26, 1995 John Dewey
Dewey
Habits
and Will
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 3.)
October 3, 1995 Great Books, Vol 31, pp 1 - 40
Descartes Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Year 9 # 9)
October 10, 1995 Great Books, Vol 43
Mill On Liberty (Year 2 # 18)
October 17, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 512 - 550
Plato Theaetetus (Year 4 # 3)
October 24, 1995 Woman & Fiction, Short Stories by and about Women, ed. Susan Cahill. pp 195-229.
Doris Lessing “To Room Nineteen”
October 31, 1995 Selected Influential Speeches (Pericles, Lincoln, ...)
November 7, 1995 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare Hamlet (Year 1 # 12)
November 14, 1995 Great Books, Vol 46, pp 153 - 206
Hegel Philosophy of History (Year 6 # 17)
November 21, 1995
Bible The Gospel of Mark
November 28, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 551 - 608
Plato Sophist and Statesman (Year 9 # 1) & (Year 3 # 4
December 5, 1995 Great Books, Vol 6
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War (Year 3# 3)
December 12, 1995 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 1 - 61
Lucretius On the Nature of Things [Books I-IV] (Year 2 # 9)
December 19, 1995 Tao Te Ching
Lao-Tzu
Maya Angelou Selected Poems
January 9, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 609 - 652
Plato Philebus and Laws I (Year 7 # 3)
January 10, 1996
Mario Vargas Ilosa Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
January 16, 1996
Clausewitz What is War?
January 23, 1996 Great Books, Vol 40, pp 179 - 234 (Year 1 # 15)
Gibbon Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch 15-16]
January 30, 1996
Chekhov Uncle Vanya
February 6, 1996 Great Books, Vol 8, pp 25-31
Aristotle On Interpretation [Ch 1-10] (Year 3 # 5)
February 13, 1996
Maimonides On
Evil
February 14, 1996
Juan Rolfo Pedro Paramo
February 20, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 653 - 697
Plato Laws II - V
February 27, 1996 Great Books, Vol 4
Homer The Iliad (Year 2 # 1)
March 5, 1996 Selected Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul
March 12, 1996 Great Books, Vol 38 “Spirit of Laws” Books 1, 3, and 8
Montesquieu Principles of Government (Year 9 # 13)
March 19, 1996 Great Books, Vol 22, pp 159-232, 256-295, 372-382
Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Year 10 # 8)
March 26, 1996 Great Books, Vol 22
Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Year 10 # 8)
April 2, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 697 - 757
Plato Laws VI - IX
April 9, 1996 Great Books, Vol 5
Aeschylus Agamemnon (Year 2 # 2)
April 16, 1996 Great Books, Vol 33, pp 181-4,186-9,191-2,195-200, 203, 205-10, 212-18,
Pascal pp 222-5, 227, 229-32, 237-51, 255, 259, 264-75, 277-87, 290-1, 296-302,
pp 318, 321-322, 326-327 Pensees (Year 2 # 13)
April 23, 1996
Henry James The Beast in the Jungle
April 30, 1996 Great Books, Vol 10, pp xiii-26, 44-63, 144, 154-160
Hippocrates Oath, Ancient Medicine,Airs Waters and Places, Epidemics, Law, Sacred Disease (Year 5 # 4)
May 7, 1996 Great Books, Vol 23
Machiavelli The Prince (Year 1 # 9)
May 14, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 757 - 814 (Year 6 # 3)
Plato Laws X - XII and The Seventh Letter
May 21, 1996
Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych
May 28, 1996 Great Books, Vol 43, pp 1-3, 11-20, 29-53, 62-66, 103-5, 153-6, 162-5, 205-16
Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Federalist (Year 1 # 16)
June 4, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 26-37
Plato Laches
June 11, 1996 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 352-375
Shakespeare
A
Midsummer Night's Dream
June 18, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 252-294
Plato Gorgias (Year 8 # 2)
June 25, 1996 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 205-243
Shakespeare Othello (Year 8 # 7)
July 2, 1996 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 339-348, 426-436
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and X. (Year 1 # 4)
July 9, 1996 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 406-433
Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
July 16, 1996 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 348-366 (Year 2 # 7)
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Book II; Book III, Ch. 1-12.
July 23, 1996 Great Books, Vol 17, pp 1 - 34
Plotinus First Ennead (Year 7 # 7)
July 30, 1996 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 105-138
Epictetus The Discourses, Book I. (Year 7 # 6)
August 6, 1996 Flannery O'Connor's “A Good Man is Hard to Find” &
O'Connor
“Everything That Rises Must Converge”
from The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
August 13, 1996 Great Books, Vol 19, pp 609-643 Part 1-II, QQ. 1-5
Aquinas Summa Theologica, “Treatise on the Last End” (Year 7 # 8)
August 20, 1996 Doris Lessing's “The Day Stalin Died”
Lessing
August 27, 1996 Great Books, Vol 23, pp 61-65, 66-71, 71-79, 84-96
Hobbes Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 6, 8, 10-11, 13-15. (Year 2 # 11)
September 3, 1996 Philosophy is Everybody's Business, Vol II #3, Spring 1996
Adler Mortimer Adler on Love
September 10, 1996 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Woman & Fiction, Short Stories by and about Women, ed. Susan Cahill.
Flannery O'Connor “Revelation” (and excerpts from her letters: “Habit of Being”).
September 17, 1996 Ntozake Shange's
Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
September 24, 1996
Schopenhauer
The Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 4.)
October 1, 1996 Great Books, Vol 25, pp. 28-36, 89-98, 99-100, (Year 1 # 11)
Montaigne 115-125,162-167, 200-208, 300-307, 340-343, 344-347, 388-395.
Essays: “To study philosophy,” “Moderation,” “Cannibals,”
“To avoid
pleasures,” “Relish of
good and evil,” “Drunkenness,”
“Cruelty,”
“Glory,” “Virtue,” “Anger,” “Repentance.”
October 8, 1996 Great Books, Vol 5
Euripides Medea (Year 4 # 1)
October 15, 1996 Great Books, Vol 31, pp 451-463 (Year 7 # 13)
Spinoza Ethics, Part V.
October 29, 1996 Great Books, Vol 35, pp 450 - 509 (Year 4 # 14)
Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
October 22, 1996
Weber The Spirit of Capitalism
November 5, 1996
Moliere The Misanthrope
November 12, 1996 Great Books, Vol 40, CH 1->5 & 28, pp 1 - 51, pp 630 - 634
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Year 6# 15)
November 19, 1996 Great Books, Vol 40, CH XV & XVI, pp 179-234
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Year 1# 15)
(Questions for discussion are in Vol 1 of the Great Ideas Program.)
November 26, 1996 Great Books, Vol 35, pp. 87-92, 103-112,
Locke 176-178, 188-189, 228-233, 303-304, 317-319
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
“Epistle to the Reader”; Book I, Ch. 2; Book II, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, § 42-44,
Ch. 28; Book III, Ch. 11, § 16-17; Book IV, Ch. 3, § 18-20.
December 3, 1996 Bible - The Book of Job (Year 7# 1)
December 10, 1996 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 251-287 (Year
2 # 17)
Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
December 17, 1996 Selection from the Koran: Surah 4, 18, 25, and 36.
January 7, 1997 Doris Lessing's “The Temptation of Jack Orkney”
Lessing
January 14, 1997 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 337-355 (Year 7 # 16)
Kant The Critique of Practical Reason, Part I, Book II.
January 21, 1997 Great Books, Vol 43, pp 445 - 475
Mill Utilitarianism (Chapters 2 and 4) (Year 7# 18)
January 28, 1997 Great Books, Vol 46, pp 55-63, 133-135 (Year 9 # 16)
Hegel Philosophy of Right, “The Family,” & Additions101-115.
February 4, 1997 George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Caesar
and Cleopatra
February 11, 1997 Great Books, Vol 49, pp 304-330 (Year 10 # 15)
Darwin The Descent of Man, Part I, Ch. 4-5.
February 18, 1997 Great Books, Vol 18
St. Augustine The City of God (Book 14)
February 25, 1997 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 93 - 216 (Books I -> VI)(Year 3 # 12)
Milton Paradise Lost
March 4, 1997 Great Books, Vol 7
Plato Symposium (Year 7 # 2)
March 11, 1997 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 217 - 333 (Books VII -> XII)
Milton Paradise Lost (Year 3 # 12)
March 18, 1997 Isak Dinesen's “Sorrow-Acre” in Winter' Tales
Dinesen
March 25, 1997 Isak Dinesen's “Echoes” in Last Tales and
Dinesen “The Blue Jar” in Sudden Fiction International (ed. R. Shapard)
April 1, 1997 Great Books, Vol 25, pp 516 - 543
Montaigne Essays: “Of Experience”
April 8, 1997 Great Books, Vol 25, pp 42-51,80-82, 406-434 (Year 1 # 11)
Montaigne Essays: “Custom,” “Foolishness,” “Upon some verses of Virgil.”
April 15, 1997
Diderot Rameau's Nephew
April 22, 1997 Toni Cade Bambara's
Cade Bambara “A Girl's Story,” & “The Sea Birds Are Still Alive”
April 29, 1997 Great Books, Vol 43 (Year 1 # 16)
Hamilton,Jay,Madison The Federalist Papers (1, 2, 10, 15, 51, 69, 70)
May 6, 1997 Great
Books, Vol 5, pp 225 - 236, 270 - 281, 340 - 352 (Year 4 # 1)
Euripides Hippolytus, Trojan Women, The Bacchantes
May 13, 1997 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare The Tempest
May 20, 1997 Bible
- Isaiah, Amos
(Year 7# 1)
May 27, 1997
Gogol The Overcoat
June 3, 1997 Cynthia Ozick's “The Shawl” and
Ozick & Sachs selected poems from Nelly Sachs' “O The Chimneys”
June 10, 1997 Great Books, Vol 8, pp. 499-511, 522-532, 547-548, 587-590.
Aristotle Metaphysics (Year 4 # 5)
June 17, 1997 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 285-319.
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
June 24, 1997 Great Books, Vol. 19, pp. 94-104. (Year 4 # 7)
Aquinas “Treatise on God,” Part I, QQ. XVI-XVII.
July 1, 1997 Great Treasury of Western Thought
Selection from “Philosophy and Philosophers”
July 8, 1997 Great Books, Vol. 25, pp. 208-294. (Year 4 # 8)
Montaigne The Essays, “Apology for Raimond de Sebonde”
July 15, 1997 Great Books, Vol 31, pp. 41-67. (Year 4 # 11)
Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason
July 22, 1997 Nadine Gordimer's July's People (For background, see:
Gordimer http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/ )
July 29, 1997 Great Books, Vol 52, pp. 122-137, 146-170. (Year 3 # 17)
Dostoevsky “Grand Inquisitor” & “Russian Monk” from Brothers Karamazov
August 5, 1997 Great Books, Vol 31, pp. 355-372. (Year 6 # 11)
Spinoza Ethics, Part I
August 12, 1997 Katherine Mansfield's “The Garden Party” and
Mansfield selections from her Journal
August 19, 1997 Great Books, Vol Vol. 35, pp. 307-395. (Year 6 # 14)
Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV
August 26, 1997 Journal for the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
Adler “Multiculturalism”
September 2, 1997 Great Books, Vol 35, pp. 403-444. (Year 5 # 14)
Berkeley The Principles of Human Knowledge
September 9, 1997 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Jackson Shirley Jackson's “The Lottery”
September 16, 1997 Great Books, Vol 52, pp 348-401 (The complete novel is Year 3 # 17)
Dostoevsky “A Judicial Error,” Book XII in The Brothers Karamazov
September 23, 1997 Ecclesiastes
Bible
Ch
1-6; 9:1-12; 11; 12:1-8
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 5.)
September 30, 1997 Great Books, Vol 35, pp 450-487, 488-509 (Year 4 # 14)
Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Sections I - IX, X - XII)
October 7, 1997 Great Books, Vol 5 (Year 2 # 3)
Sophocles Oedipus the King
October 14, 1997
Erdrich Louise Erdrich's “American Horse”
October 21, 1997 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 256-270 (Year 2 # 17)
Kant First Principles of Morals
October 28, 1997 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 1-33 (Year 4 # 15)
Kant Critique of Pure Reason
November 4, 1997
Freud On Dreams
November 11, 1997 Ludwig Wittgenstein's Vermischte Bemerkungen,
Wittgenstein translated by Peter Winch as Culture and Value
November 18, 1997 http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/stories/kafka-E.htm
Kafka Metamorphosis
November 25, 1997 “Modern Moral Philosophy” and
“The Question of Linguistic Idealism” in
Anscombe The Collected Philosophical Papers of G E M Anscombe
December 2, 1997 Great Books, Vol 47, pp 1-114 (Year 8 # 17)
Goethe Faust, Part 1
December 9, 1997 Great Books, Vol 47, pp 115-294 (Year 10 # 14)
Goethe Faust, Part 2
December 16, 1997 Gospel According to Saint Matthew, and
New Testament The Acts of the Apostles (Year 1 # 7)
January 6, 1998 Mary Lavin's “Happiness”
Lavin
January 13, 1998 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's “The Englishwoman”
January 20, 1998 “A Simple Heart”
Flaubert from French Stories and Tales
January 27, 1998 Great Books, Vol 13, pp 103-235 (Year 5 # 6)
Virgil The Aeneid Books I - VI
February 3, 1998 Of Personal Identity
Hume
from
“Of the Understanding” in A Treatise of Human Nature
February 10, 1998 Great Books, Vol 13, pp 236-379 (Year 5 # 6)
Virgil The Aeneid Books VII - XII
February 17, 1998 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche
Prologue and First Part
February 24, 1998 “The Flies” in No Exit and Three Other Plays
Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre's ”The Flies”
March 3, 1998 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Beauvoir Introduction and Chapter 9 (“Dreams, Fears, Idols”)
March 10, 1998 “The Choice To Be Ethical,” “Sartre's Choice,” and “The Existentialist Choice”
Barnes from Hazel Barnes' An Existentialist Ethics
March 17, 1998 Great Books, Vol 21, pp 1-52 (Year 5 # 10)
Dante The Inferno in The Divine Comedy
March 24, 1998 Great
Books, Vol 49, pp 32-64, 152-153 (Intro
-> Ch 6 & Ch 15 is Year 5 # 16)
Darwin The Origin of Species, Ch. 3-4, and a selection from Ch. 10
March 31, 1998
Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France
April 7, 1998 Selected poems from Wislawa Szymborska's
Szymborska view with a grain of sand
April 14, 1998 The Education of Henry Adams
Adams
April 21, 1998 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 542-563, 583-599 (Year 1 # 2)
Aristophanes The Birds and Lysistrata
April 28, 1998 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 244-283 (Year 8 # 7)
Shakespeare King Lear
May 5, 1998 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 327-339,
394-410, 156 -169 (Year 10 # 1)
Euripides & Sophocles Euripides: Electra and Orestes, Sophocles: Electra
May 12, 1998 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 684-689 (pp 681 - 699 is Year 2 # 6)
Aristotle On Tragedy
May 19, 1998 Christa
Wolf's Cassandra
Wolf
May 26, 1998 Great Books, Vol 7 (Books I & II are Year 1 # 3)
Plato Selection from Books II, III and IV of The Republic
June 2, 1998†◊ Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Spinoza of Market Street
Singer
June 9, 1998†◊ Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or
Kierkegaard
June 16, 1998 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 320-351 (Year 10 # 9)
Shakespeare The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
June 23, 1998†◊ Joseph
Skvorecky - Emoke
Skvorecky
June 30, 1998†◊ Flora Annie Steel - Tom-Tit-Tot and Caporushes
Steel
July 7, 1998†◊ Yukio Mishima - Patriotism
Mishima
July 14, 1998 Great Treasury of Western Thought Selection from “Love”
July 21, 1998 Great
Books, Vol 26, pp 254-284
Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost
July 28, 1998 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 149-173 (Year 7 # 2)
Plato
Symposium
August 4, 1998†◊ William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116,
Poetry Sylvia Plath - The Applicant
Gregory Corso - Marriage,
and Gwendolyn Brooks - To Be in Love
August 11, 1998†◊ Great Books, Vol 60 (of the 1990 edition)
Woolf First half of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
August 18, 1998†◊ Second half of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
August 25, 1998†◊ First half of
Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
September 1, 1998†◊ Second
half of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
†◊ reading from Love and Marriage Great Books Reading and Discussion 50th Anniversary Series.
September 8, 1998 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Gabriela Mistral Selected poetry from Desolation
September 15, 1998 Great Books, Vol 4, p v, pp 183-249 (Year 6 # 2)
Homer Homer's Odyssey Books I - XI
September 22, 1998◊◊ The Continuing Silence of a Poet
A. B. Yehoshua
September 29, 1998 Great Books, Vol 4, pp 250-322 (Year 6 # 2)
Homer Homer's Odyssey Books XII - XXIV
October 6, 1998◊◊ Gwen
and Somewhere, Belgium
Jamaica Kincaid
October 12, 1998
Jhabvala Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust
October 13, 1998 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 52-91 (Year 2 # 2)
Aeschylus Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
October 20, 1998 Great
Books, Vol 2, pp 486-514
The Idea of Family from the Syntopicon
October 27, 1998 Gateway to the Great Books, Vol 3, pp 153-193
Eliot George Eliot's “The Lifted Veil”
November 3, 1998 First half of
Phyllis Rose Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
November 9, 1998 Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk
Mahfouz
November 10, 1998 First half of
Camus Albert Camus' The Plague
November 17, 1998 Second half of
Phyllis Rose Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
November 24, 1998 Second half of
Camus
Albert
Camus' The Plague
December 1, 1998 Bhagavad-Gita
(translated by Edwin Arnold)
December 8, 1998 pp 1 - 185 (Vintage Classic, trans & abridged by E. Seidensticker)
Shikibu Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji Chapters 1 to 6
December 15, 1998 pp 186 - 360
Shikibu Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji Chapters 7 to 12
January 5, 1999 Great Books, Vol 55 (of the 1990 edition), pp 237-294
Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy
http://www.ditext.com/russell/russell.html
January 7, 1999 Great Books, Vol 2
The Idea of Good and Evil from the Syntopicon
January 12, 1999 Great Books , Vol 29, pp v-201 (Year 5 # 12)
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote First Part
January 19, 1999 Great Books, Vol 5
Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis
January 21, 1999 Great Treasury of Western Thought
Selection from “Good and Evil”
January 26, 1999 Great Books , Vol 29, pp 203-429 (Year 10 # 11)
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote Second Part
February 2, 1999 Great Books, Vol 18, pp 61-125
St. Augustine Confessions Books IX - XIII
February 4, 1999 Great Books, Vol 2
The Idea of Justice from the Syntopicon
February 9, 1999 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 337-378 (Year 6 # 12)
Milton John Milton's Samson Agonistes
February 16, 1999◊◊
Andrea Lee New African and
William Faulkner Barn Burning
February 18, 1999 Great Treasury of Western Thought
Selection from “Justice”
February 23, 1999 Great Books, Vol 37, pp v-204 (Year 9 # 12)
Fielding Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Books I - IX
March 2, 1999◊◊
Franz Kafka Letter to his Father and The Judgement
March 9, 1999 Great Books, Vol 37, pp 204-405 (Year 9 # 12)
Fielding Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Books X - XVIII
March 16, 1999◊◊ William Butler Yeats -
Poetry
Among School Children and A Prayer for my Daughter,
Derek Walcott - A Letter from Brooklyn,
Randall Jarrell - The Lost Children, and
Sharon Olds - Exclusive
March 23, 1999 Great Books, Vol 48, pp 1-209 (Year 4 # 16)
Melville Herman Melville's Moby Dick CH 1-60
April 6, 1999 Great Books, Vol 48, pp 210-420 (Year 4 # 16)
Melville Herman Melville's Moby Dick CH 61-135
April 13, 1999◊◊
Jane Austen Persuasion
April 20, 1999
Deledda Grazia Deledda's The Mother
April 27, 1999
Sandra Cisneros The
House on Mango Street
May 4, 1999 Great Ideas Today, 1967: pp 374 - 425
Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger's “What Is Life?”
May 11, 1999◊◊ First half of
Heinrich Böll Billiards at Half-Past Nine
May 18, 1999 Great Books, Vol 59 (of the 1990 edition), pp 411-466
Cather Willa Cather's A Lost Lady
May 25, 1999◊◊ Second half of
Heinrich Böll
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
◊◊ reading from Parent and Child in the Great Books Reading and Discussion 50th Anniversary Series.
June 1, 1999 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 434 - 467 (Year 10 # 9)
Shakespeare William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part I
June 8, 1999 Khushwant
Singh, Train to Pakistan
Singh (180 pages)
June 14, 1999
Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City
Calvino
June 15, 1999 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 468 - 503 (Year 10 # 9)
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part II
June 22, 1999 Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
Castillo (132 pages)
June 29, 1999 Great Treasury of Western Thought Idea of “Revolution”
July 6, 1999
1970 Great Ideas Today A. J. Toynbee, “Revolutionary
Toynbee, Illich Change,” and Ivan Illich, “The Need
for Cultural Revolution”
July 13, 1999 Claire de Duras, Ourika
de Duras (80 pages)
July 20, 1999 Schumacher Small is Beautiful
Schumacher (352 pages)
July 27, 1999 Selection from Isabella Bird's
Bird
Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
August 3, 1999 Selection from Barbara Kingsolver's High Tide in Tuscon
Kingsolver
August 10, 1999 Maxine Hong Kingston “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe”
Kingston from Woman Warriors (40 pages)
August 17, 1999 Frank Waters, The Man Who Killed the Deer
Waters (266 pages)
August 24, 1999 Ntozake Shange “oh she gotta head fulla hair”
Shange Terry McMillan “Ma' Dear”
McMillan Ann Petry “The Witness”
Petry (from Gloria Naylor's Children of the Night)
August 31, 1999 Ellyn Bache, Culture Clash (131 pages)
Bache
September 7, 1999 Nietzsche, Beyond
Good and Evil
Nietzsche
(Dover Thrift Edition - translated by Helen Zimmern)
[Note: This was a horrible translation. Get one by Walter Kaufmann instead.]
September 14, 1999 Introductory meeting and
Soyinka Selected poetry from Wole Soyinka, Mandela's Earth
September 21, 1999 1998 Great Ideas Today, pp 404 - 434, Margaret Mead -
Mead “Applied Anthropology: The State of the Art”
September 28, 1999 *† Clifford Geertz -
Geertz
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
October 5, 1999 Great Books, Vol 35, pp. 1 - 22, 380-388 (Year 8 # 11)
Locke
“A Letter Concerning Toleration” and CH 18 and 19
from “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
October 12, 1999 Katherine Mansfield -
Mansfield In a German Pension: 13 Stories
October 19, 1999 William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
James (Lectures I to X)
October 26, 1999 William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
James (Lectures XI to end)
November 2, 1999 *†
Carlos Fuentes, The Two Shores
Fuentes
November 9 1999 Gateway to the Great Books, Vol 6, pp 714 - 732
Thoreau “A Plea for Captain John Brown”
November 16, 1999 Olive Gilbert -
Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
November 23, 1999 *†
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois
November 30, 1999 Great Books V19, pp 3 - 10; V 20, pp 380 - 401
Aquinas Summa Theologica (Part I, Q1; Part II-II, QQ 1-3)
December 7, 1999 Confucius, The Analects
Confucius (Dover Thrift Edition - W. Soothill translator)
December 14, 1999 Christina Rosetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems
Rosetti (Dover Thrift Edition)
December 21, 1999 The Mabinogion
(Dover Thrift Edition - translated by Lady Charlotte Guest)
January 4, 2000 *†
Doris Lessing, The Antheap
Lessing
January 11, 2000 James Joyce, Ulysses (First half)
Joyce
January 18, 2000 James Joyce, Ulysses (Second half)
January 25, 2000 Mary Wollstonecraft -
Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
February 1, 2000 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Gilman (Dover Thrift Edition)
February 8, 2000 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Montagu
Selections from her Letters from the Levant
February 15, 2000 *† Jonathan Swift
Swift
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
February 18, 2000 Zora N. Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Reference: http://teacherweb.com/CA/NewburyParkHighSchool/bond/LookingforZora-AWalker-3.pdf.
February 22, 2000 1988 Great Ideas Today pp 406 - 467
Wharton Edith Wharton, “Ethan Frome”
February 29, 2000 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Wharton (Dover Thrift Edition)
March 7, 2000 Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Greene
March 14, 2000 *† Derek Walcott, Poetry
Walcott “The Schooner Flight” and “A Far Cry from Africa”
March 21, 2000 Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë -
Brontë Best Poems of the Bronte Sisters
March 28, 2000 Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese (Dover Thrift Edition)
April 4, 2000 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
April 11, 2000 *†
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
April 18, 2000 Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Kincaid
April 25, 2000
Selection from V. S. Naipaul, Miguel Street
May 2, 2000 Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse
Seth (307 pages (588 sonnets))
May 9, 2000 Walt Whitman, Selected Poems
Whitman (Dover Thrift Edition)
May 16, 2000 *† First half of E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
May 23, 2000 *† Second half of E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
May 30, 2000 Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
Ghosh
*† = Reading from Great Books Foundation's Clashes of Culture in the Great Books Reading and Discussion 50th Anniversary Series.
.
June 6, 2000 Clarice Lispector, Hour of the Star (96 pages)
Lispector
June 13, 2000†* Leo Tolstoy, “After the Ball”
Tolstoy
June 20, 2000 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 1 - 28 (Year 6 # 10)
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
June 27, 2000†* Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Evil, Guilt, and Power”
Nietzsche
July 11, 2000 Graham
Greene, Heart of the Matter (242 pages)
Greene
July 18, 2000†* Robert Musil, “Moosbrugger”
Musil
July 25, 2000 Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day (182 pages)
Desai
August 1, 2000†* Charles Johnson, “The Sorcerer's Apprentice”
Johnson
August 8, 2000 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (166 pages)
Shelley Frankenstein (Dover Thrift Edition)
August 15, 2000†* Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Stavrogin's Confession”
Dostoevsky
August 22, 2000 Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Coleridge†* “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Anne Sexton,
Sexton “The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts”
Eavan Boland,
Boland “The Famine Road,” “Child of Our Time,”
“The Hanging Judge”
August 29, 2000†* Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grace (151 pages)
Yourcenar
September 5, 2000 R.K. Narayan (250 pages)
Narayan
The Man-Eater of Malgudi
September 12, 2000 Introductory meeting and Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Millay
Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Thrift 66 pages)
September 19, 2000 The Writing of Fiction (128 pages)
Wharton and “The Eyes”† and “Pomegranate Seed”†
from The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
September 26, 2000 Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
Woolf (Dover Thrift Edition - 64 pages)
October 3, 2000†* John Edgar Wideman (199p)
Wideman Philadelphia Fire
†* readings are from The Evil and the Guilty Great Books Reading and Discussion Program.
October 10, 2000 °† Marcel Proust, “Overture”
Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Vol I
October 17, 2000 Mikhail Bulgakov, pp 1-180
Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
October 24, 2000 Mikhail Bulgakov, pp 181-367
Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
October 31, 2000 Derek Walcott, (325 pages)
Walcott
Omeros
November 7, 2000 °† Sigmund Freud, “The Rat Man”
Freud
November 14, 2000 Great Books Vol 54, pp 767 - 802
Freud Civilization and Its Discontents
November 21, 2000 °† Gustav Herling “The Island”
Herling
November 28, 2000 Great Books Vol 14, pp. 648-691
Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
“Agis,” “Cleomenes,” “Tiberius Gracchus,” “Caius Gracchus”
December 5, 2000 The Epic of Gilgamesh (115 pages)
December 11, 2000 J Coetzee, Disgrace
Coetzee
December 12, 2000 Jorge Luis Borges pp 3 -58 (first six stories)
Borges Selection from Labyrinths
December 19, 2000 Iris Murdoch, "On God and Good" from
Murdoch Sovereignty of Good (36 pages)
January 2, 2001 °† David Grossman, “Momik”
Grossman
January 9, 2001 Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child (133 pages)
Lessing
January 16, 2001 °† Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Dillard
January 23, 2001 Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Tagore (Dover Thrift edition, 128 pages)
January 30, 2001 Poetry:
Wordsworth °† William Wordsworth “Intimations of Immortality”
Rich °† Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck”
Lowell °† Robert Lowell, “For the Union Dead”
Walker Alice Walker, “Remember?”, & “Poem at Thirty-Nine”
Dobyns Stephen Dobyns, “Unexpected Holiday”, & “Dance Dance”
Glück Louise Glück, “Arboretum”, & “Summer Night”
Atwood Margaret Atwood, “A Woman's Issue”
Dent Tory Dent, “What Calendars Have Become”
February 6, 2001 Great Books Vol 5, pp 170 - 195
Sophocles
“Trachiniae” and “Philoctetes”
February 13, 2001 Great Books Vol 5, pp 237 - 247, pp 365 - 377
Euripides “Alcestis” and “Heracles Mad”
February 20, 2001 °† Toni Morrison, pp 1-170
Morrison Song of Solomon
February 27, 2001 °† Toni Morrison, pp 171-337
Morrison Song of Solomon
March 6, 2001 Muriel Spark, (150 pages)
Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
March 13, 2001 Mia Yun, House of the Winds (250 pages)
Yun
March 20, 2001 °† Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pp 1-190
Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
March 27, 2001 °† Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pp 191-383
Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
April 3, 2001 Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore (141 pages)
Fitzgerald
April 10, 2001 Willa Cather, O Pioneers
Cather
(Dover Thrift Edition - 128 pages)
April 17, 2001 Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop
Cather (297 pages)
April 24, 2001
Bernard
Malamud, God's Grace (221 pages)
Malamud
May 1, 2001 Great Books Vol 23, pp 3 - 37
Machiavelli The Prince
More Thomas More, Utopia (Dover Thrift 85 pages)
May 8, 2001 Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club (288 pages)
Tan
May 15, 2001 Great Books Vol 38, pp 387-439
Rousseau The Social Contract
May 22, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, (Dover Thrift Edition - 144 pages)
Tolstoy
Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
May 29, 2001 Great Books Vol 13, pp. 3 -34 (Year 10 # 5)
Virgil The Eclogues
°† Readings are from Living with the Past (questions only, for Morrison and Marquez) in the 50th Anniversary Series.
June 5, 2001 Shakespeare, “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
June 12, 2001 Ivan Turgenev “A Month in the Country”
Turgenev (135 pages)
June 19, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (first third of book) (Year 5 # 17)
June 26, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (second third of book)
July 10, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (rest of book) (Year 6 # 18)
Reference: http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy/confession/confession.html
Leo Tolstoy's Confession - Tolstoy's account of his spiritual
crisis in 1879 at age 51. This
crisis occurred after writing War
and Peace, before writing the three short stories Boulder Great Books read
in May ("The Death of Ivan Illych", "The Kruetzer Sonata",
and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?").
http://www.pushkins-poems.com/panpete.htm Pictures of St. Petersburg from the 19th century - The 1805 view shows St. Petersburg as it would have been at the start of War and Peace.
July 17, 2001 Short Stories: Anton Chekhov,
Chekhov “Ward 6”, “The Betrothed”, “Duschechka”
Bunin Ivan Bunin, “Sunstroke”
July 24, 2001 Margaret Atwood, Handmaid's Tale (311 pages)
July 31, 2001 Lermontov, A Hero for our Time
Lermentov (186 pages - Nabokov translation)
August 7, 2001 Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (256 pages)
Zamyatin
August 14, 2001 Selected Poetry - Vladimir Mayakovski & Anna Akhmatova
Mayakovski, Akhmatova
August 21, 2001 Andrei Bely - Petersburg (356 pages)
Bely
Bergholtz, Akhmadulina
September 11, 2001 Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
Brookner (184 pages)
September 18, 2001 Toni Morrison Paradise (318 pages)
Reference: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/paradise/paradise/rgg.html
Random House guide to reading Paradise - includes questions for discussion.
September 25, 2001 †† Aristotle,
“The Highest Good” Nicomachean Ethics -
Aristotle Book 1, Chapters 1-3, 5, 7-11, 13; and Book 2, Chapter 7.
October 9, 2001 Jhumpa Lahiri (198 pages) - Interpreter of Maladies:
Lahiri Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond
October 16, 2001 William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (267 pages)
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-679-73225-X&view=rg
Random House reading guide - includes questions for discussion.
Hesse (Dover Thrift Edition - 81 pages)
October 30, 2001 Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay (272 pages)
November 6, 2001 †† Gita Mehta, A River Sutra
November 13, 2001 Kamala Markandaya Nectar in a Sieve
Markandaya (190 pages)
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/nectar_in_a_sieve.pdf Glencoe Literature Library study guide - aimed at English teachers (pdf).
Reference: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14016 "The Great Narayan" - This
February 22, 2001 article in "The New York Review" by Pankaj
Mishra discusses many of
Narayan's books.
November 27, 2001 Great Books Vol 14: Plutarch pp 691 - 725, 262 - 292
Plutarch Demosthenes, Cicero, Aristedes, Marcus Cato
December 11, 2001 Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath
Undset (vol 1 of a trilogy, 283 pages)
December 18, 2001 Margaret Atwood Surfacing (224 pages)
January 8, 2002 †† John Berger, “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
”
Berger
January 15, 2002 Rudolfo A. Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Anaya (262 pages)
January 22, 2002 †† Mary Lavin, “Happiness” and Alice Munro, “Simon's Luck”
Lavin, Munro and “Friend of my Youth” from Selected Stories
January 29, 2002 Great Books Vol 18: Augustine pp 397 - 524
Augustine City of God (Books XV - XIX) (Year 6 # 7)
Pascal and Vol 33: Pascal pp 62 - 71 Provincial Letter IX
February 12, 2002 Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (286 pages)
February 19, 2002 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea (first half - pages 1 to 262)
February 26, 2002 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea (2nd half - pages 262 to 502)
http://www.sackett.net/MurdochNotes.pdf
Penguin Reading Guide - contains
discussion questions, an introduction to the book, and a brief biography of
Iris Murdoch.
When She Was Good, by Martha C. Nussbaum, an article on Iris Murdoch in the January 2002 issue of The New Republic.
Huong Ho Xuan Huong, Spring Essence
March 12, 2002 A.S. Byatt “Art Works” from The Matisse Stories
Byatt
March 26, 2002 †† George Eliot, pp 381-776
Eliot Middlemarch
Note: There is a chapter in Phyllis Rose's Parallel Lives: Five
Victorian Marriages, a book we discussed in the group a few years back,
about Mary Ann Evans and George Henry Lewes.
April 2, 2002 Great Books Vol 44: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell pp 83b-c, 107a, 118a, 144d-145a, 164d, 299b-d, 354-364,
373-384,
391-407, 423c-d, 498-515, 540b-542a, 584-587 (Year10
# 13)
April 16, 2002 Natsume Soseki, Kokoro (248 pages)
April 23, 2002 Dorothy West, The Wedding
http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/wedding_bgc.html Random House Readers Companion - questions and background on the author and book.
April 30, 2002 Great Books Vol. 54: Freud, Psycho-Analysis
Freud pp. 1-20, 38-59, 526-539, 569-585, 818-840. (Year 3 # 18)
May 7, 2002 Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
Welty (180 pages)
May 14, 2002 Feynman Lectures in Physics, “Symmetry in Physical Law”
Feynman
and
“The Principle of Least Action”
Notes:
The
February 1989 issue of "Physics Today" was devoted to Richard
Feynman.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9807044.pdf Byers, Nina "E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between
Symmetries and Conservation Laws".
May 17, 2002 V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Naipaul
May 21, 2002 †† William
Shakespeare, “As You Like It” (Year 6 # 10)
Shakespeare
May 28, 2002 Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell (153 pages)
Thomas
†† readings are from Great Books Foundation's Happiness and Discontent in the 50th Anniversary Series.
June 4, 2002 Great Books Vol. 30, pp. 105-114, 137-153
Bacon Francis Bacon “Novum Organum” (Year 4 # 10)
June 11, 2002 Great Books Vol. 27, pp 284 - 310 (Year 3 # 11)
June 18, 2002 Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar Truth and Beauty:
Chandrasekhar Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (170 pages)
June 25, 2002 “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Wigner in the Natural Sciences” Eugene Wigner (17 pages),
Weyl and the first third of Weyl's Symmetry (pp 1 - 38)
July 2, 2002 Herman Weyl Symmetry (pp 41 - 156)
Weyl (156 pages)
July 9, 2002 Flatland
: A Romance of Many Dimensions
July 16, 2002 Barbara McClintock's Nobel lecture (20 pages)
McClintock http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1983/mcclintock-lecture.html
Carson (244 pages)
July 30, 2002 Selection from Naomi Oreskes (ed.) Plate Tectonics:
August 6, 2002 Jane Goodall In the Shadow of Man
Goodall (304 pages)
August 13, 2002 Articles on Entropy in vol I of The World of Physics
Clausius Rudolf Clausius “The Second Law of Thermodynamics”
Bridgman P W Bridgman “Statistical Mechanics and the 2nd Law”
August 27, 2002 Leonard Adleman “Computing with DNA”
Adleman August 1998 Scientific American
September 10, 2002 Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah
Achebe (216 pages)
September 17, 2002 James Baldwin Giovanni's Room
Baldwin (224 pages)
September 24, 2002 ##James Baldwin The Fire Next Time
October 1, 2002 Zona Gale “Miss Lulu Bett“
Gale
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gale/lulu/lulu.html
October 8, 2002 Maya Angelou All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Angelou (210 pages)
October 15, 2002 Great Books Vol 6, pp 1-88 (Books I and II)
Herodotus The History of Herodotus (Year2 # 4)
October 22, 2002 Ama Ata Aidoo, Leila Aboulela, Ifeoma Okoye, Anna Dao in
Aidoo, Aboulela Opening
Spaces : An Anthology of Contemporary
Okoye, Dao African Women's Writings ed Yvonne Vera (186 pages)
October 29, 2002 Nella Larsen Passing
Larsen (208 pages)
November 4, 2002 Leila Aboulela The Translator
Aboulela
November 5, 2002 Ama Ata Aidoo (134 pages)
Aidoo Our Sister Killjoy : Or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint
November 12, 2002 Plato “Crito” and “Phaedo” from
Plato Trial and Death of Socrates (Dover Thrift Edition)
November 15, 2002 Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost
Ondaatje
November 19, 2002 ## Plato “Euthyphro” and “Apology” from
November 26, 2002 Great Books Vol 17, pp 252-360 (Year 5 # 8)
Plotinus Plotinus “Sixth Ennead”
December 10, 2002 Buchi Emecheta Joys of Motherhood
Emecheta (224 pages)
December 17, 2002 Great Books Vol 39 Adam Smith Wealth of Nations
Smith Introduction. Book I, Chapters 1 and 8. Book III.
Reference: W.E.B. Du Bois - http://www.bartleby.com/114/3.html “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
January 14, 2003 Octavia Butler Kindred
Butler (264 pages)
January 17, 2003 Peter Hessler River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
January 21, 2003 ## Alice Munro "A Real Life" and
Munro "The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink"
January 28, 2003 Elizabeth
Bowen House in Paris
Bowen (245 pages) Ref: Byatt in Passions of the Mind
February 11, 2003 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf (212 pages)
February 18, 2003 ## Anton Chekhov “A Dull Story”
February 25, 2003 Aleksander Pushkin Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
http://lib.ru/LITRA/PUSHKIN/ENGLISH/onegin_j.txt
March 11, 2003 J. Nozipo Maraire Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Maraire (194 pages)
March 25, 2003 ## Jane Austen, pp 224-446
Austen Emma
Nthunya The Autobiography of an African Woman (200 pages)
April 8, 2003 ## Ralph Ellison, pp 1-295 (Chapters 1 to 13)
April 15, 2003 ## Ralph Ellison, pp 296-581
Ellison Invisible Man
Freud (176 pages - Dover Thrift Edition)
April 29, 2003 Toni Morrison Beloved
Morrison (275 pages)
May 6, 2003 Maxine Clair Rattlebone
Clair (213 pages)
May 13, 2003 Rene Maran Batouala
Maran (149 pages)
May 20, 2003 Great Books Vol 50 pp 1- 84. Karl Marx (Year 8 # 16)
Marx Capital Prefaces and Parts I and II
May 27, 2003 Samuel R. Delany Babel-17 (173 pages)
Delany
## readings are from Great Books Foundation's Identity and Self-Respect in the 50th Anniversary Series.
June 10, 2003 Great Books Vol. 27, pp 29 - 72
June 17, 2003 Aphra Behn, “The Emperor of the Moon”
Behn (65 pages)
June 24, 2003 Alexander
Pushkin, “Boris Godunov”
Shaw (170 pages)
July 8, 2003 Garcia Lorca, “Blood Wedding”
July 15, 2003 Eugene O'Neill, “The Iceman Cometh”
O'Neill (196 pages)
July 22, 2003 Lorraine Hansberry, “Raisin in the Sun”
Hansberry (151 pages)
August 5, 2003 Wendy Wasserstein, “The Heidi Chronicles”
Wasserstein (95 pages)
August 12, 2003 Yasmina Reza, “Art”
Reza (96 pages)
August 26, 2003 Suzan-Lori Parks, “Topdog/Underdog”
Parks (112 pages)
Tuchman “How we entered WW I” and “If Mao had come to Washington”
Descartes, Spinoza Descartes and Spinoza on Consciousness
Descartes 2nd and 6th Meditations from Meditations on First Philosophy
Nagel
and
Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
Ref: Yujin Nagasawa, “Thomas vs. Thomas: A New Approach to Nagel's Bat Argument”
(where an argument of Aquinas' is proposed to counter Nagel)
September 23, 2003 Pat Barker Regeneration (252
pages)
September 30, 2003 Susan Hurley
Hurley Essays citing Kant and Wittgenstein on “The Myth of Giving”
October 7, 2003 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger (208 pages)
Lagerlöf The Treasure http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/thtrs10.txt
Balzac Honoré de Balzac (160 pages)
November 4, 2003 Arthur Lovejoy The Great Chain of Being (Chapters VI - XI)
Ref:
http://sackett.net/Lovejoy.pdf
November 12, 2003 #* Nikolai Gogol “The Overcoat” (42 pages)
Gogol
Graham Selected Poems
December 9, 2003 Great Books Vol 53, pp 146 - 226 (Chapters IX, X)
James William James Principles of Psychology - “The Stream of Thought”
and first half of “The Consciousness of Self”
(12th reading in Vol 9 of the Great Ideas Program)
Condensed
version at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/jimmy11.htm
Hardcastle “Attention versus Consciousness: A Distinction with a Difference”
Ref: http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/ptopic?topic=locating-consciousness
December 16, 2003 Great Books, Vol 21, pp 53-105 (Year 6 # 9)
Dante Purgatory in The Divine Comedy
Ref: http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/huge_book_of_hell.html
January 6, 2004 Doris Lessing The Four-Gated City (Parts I and II)
January 13, 2004 Doris Lessing The Four-Gated City (Parts III and IV)
Ref: http://www.harpercollins.com/readers/browseGuides.aspx?type=author&sort=lq
January 20, 2004 Patricia Smith Churchland
Churchland “Can Neurobiology Teach us Anything about Consciousness?”
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/church.neuro.html
January 27, 2004 #* Gregor von Rezzori “Troth”
von Rezzori
February 3, 2004 Pearl Buck Pavilion of Women (316 pages)
Ionesco
February 24, 2004 #* Flannery O'Connor “Greenleaf”, “Good Country
O'Connor People” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
March 2, 2004 Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Parts I - IV
Tolstoy (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation)
March 23, 2004 #* Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov (367 pages)
March 30, 2004 Great Books Vol 36 pp 183 - 382
Sterne Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Books I to IV
April 6, 2004 Great Books Vol 36 pp 383 - 556
Sterne Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Books V to IX
(Year 8 # 12 in the Great Books 10 Year Reading Program)
Kincaid (82 pages)
Ref: http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/autobiography_of_my_mother.html
April 20, 2004 Richard Feynman The Character of Physical Law
Feynman (167 pages)
April 27, 2004 #* Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Achebe (192 pages)
May 4, 2004 Gish Jen Typical American (296 pages)
May 11, 2004 Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting
Desai (228 pages)
Ref: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/desai_fasting_feasting.shtml
Mahoney
The
Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
(reference: Peter Hessler River Town: Two Years
on the Yangtze)
Lorenz (227 pages)
#* readings are from Great
Books Foundation's Order and Chaos in the 50th Anniversary Series.
Lindbergh (168 pages)
Further reading: Gift from the Sea (144 pages)
June 15, 2004 Carol Shields - Small Ceremonies
Shields
(181
pages)
Further reading: The Stone Diaries (361 pages)
June 22, 2004 Great Books Vol. 26, pp 285 - 319
July 6, 2004 Francis Bacon, “The Essays” (78 pages)
July 13, 2004 Great Books Vol. 27, pp 311 - 350
Shakespeare William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra”
July 20, 2004 John M. Synge “Playboy of the Western World” (75 pages)
Synge http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm
[Also available in a Dover Thrift Edition]
July 27, 2004 Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Or http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm
August 3, 2004 Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September
Bowen
(320
pages)
August 10, 2004 Selected
Poetry: Eavan Boland “That the
Science of Cartography is Limited
Boland http://www.nortonpoets.com/ex/bolandeinatime.htm
McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian “Gatepost” and “Open Road”
Heaney
Seamus Heaney - “Digging”
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/heaney-opened.htm
Yeats
W. B. Yeats “The Stolen
Child” (1889)
and
“An Irish Airman Foresees his Death” (1939)
http://www.emule.com/poetry/?page=overview&author=64
August 17, 2004 James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
O'Casey (86 pages)
August 31, 2004 Edna O'Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
September 7, 2004 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (336 pages)
September 14, 2004 J.
M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K (184 pages)
September 21, 2004 Seamus Heaney (ed.) Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Heaney
(215
pages)
September 28, 2004 Barbara Ehrenreich, (242 pages)
Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
October 5, 2004 Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter (156 pages)
Ondaatje
Elizabeth
Gaskell, “The Manchester
Marriage” (24
pages)
Gaskell
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gaskell/elizabeth/harrison/chapter1.html
October 19, 2004 Duong
Thu Huong, Paradise of the
Blind (272 pages)
Hawthorne
http://sackett.net/HawthorneBrown.pdf
Kipling Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”
http://sackett.net/KiplingPhantom.pdf
Saki
Saki, “Tobermory”
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/sakitobermory.html
November 2, 2004 Kate Chopin, The Awakening (125 pages - Dover Thrift Edition)
Porter
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”,
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/porterhe.html
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/kaporterjiltinggranny.html
and “Theft” (7 pages)
Reference: The Grand Inquisitor chapter in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov.
November 16, 2004
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Notes from Underground”
Dostoevsky
http://sackett.net/DostoevskyNotes.pdf
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 2.)
November 23, 2004 “Metamorphosis” and “A Hunger Artist”
Kafka
Franz
Kafka
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/kafkahungerartist.html
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/kafkametamorphosis.html
December 7, 2004
Pär
Lagerkvist, Barabbas
(140 pages)
Reference: Chapter 2 in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.
December 14, 2004 Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Swami Nikhilananda (207
pages)
January 4, 2005 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Dickens (400 pages - Dover Thrift Edition)
January 11, 2005 Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye (136 pgs)
McCullers Further reading: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (368 pages)
January 25, 2005 Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories (208 pages)
Mukherjee Further reading: Holder of the World (304 pages)
Balzac http://www.literature.org/authors/de-balzac-honore/old-maid/index.html
Related story: “Jealousies of a Country Town” (120 pages - 1837)
http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2978
February 23, 2005 Samuel Beckett, “Waiting
for Godot”
Beckett (111 pages)
March 2, 2005 Leo
Tolstoy, Hadji Murad
Tolstoy
(192
pages)
March 9, 2005 Samuel Johnson, History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (183 pages)
[Note: The rare books room at Norlin Library has a wonderful illustrated edition.]
Jewett (232 pages)
April 6, 2005 John
Steinbeck, East of Eden (pages 301 - 602)
Steinbeck Reference: Steinbeck's Journal of a Novel: the East of Eden Letters (242 pages)
Seneca (261 pages)
Nussbaum Philosophy
and Literature”, Iris Murdoch,
selection from
Murdoch “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other
Concepts”,
Hume and David Hume, “Of the Standard of Taste” [Selections are from
Aesthetics:
the Big Questions, edited by Carolyn
Korsmeyer]
Wittgenstein Ludwig
Wittgenstein, “Lecture on Ethics”
http://sackett.net/WittgensteinEthics.pdf
May 4, 2005 Sharon
Olds and Naomi Shihab Nye,
Selected Poems
Olds The
Ferryer, Take the I Out, Physics, True Love, The Solution,
The
Pope's Penis, Sex Without Love
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/205
Nye Blood, Making a Fist, San Antonio, Streets, Two Countries, Kindness
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/174
Journey, Climbing the Chagrin River, The Swan,
When Death Comes, The Dipper
May 18, 2005 Gunnar
Ekelöf, Late Arrival on Earth (47 pages - poetry)
Ekelöf
May 25, 2005
Saul
Bellow, Herzog
June 1, 2005
Jack
London, “To Build A Fire”
(30 pages) from her Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Further Reading: Proulx's The Shipping News (337 pages)
Williams interview: http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/williams.html
June 15, 2005 Henri Poincare, Science and Method
(220 pages)
June 29, 2005 William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night”
July 6, 2005 Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart (148 pages)
W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming“
http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/yeats/yeats5.html
July 13, 2005 Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory
(178 pages)
Dorothy
Canfield, “The Artist” ( 9
pages)
Gertrude Stein, “The Good Anna” (52 pages)
July 27, 2005 Colette, Break of Day (141 pages)
August 3, 2005 Honoré de Balzac, Pere Goriot (306 pages)
August 10, 2005 Selection from Vera Rubin, Bright Galaxies Dark Matters
Ref: The Vera Rubin lecture at http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
August 17, 2005 Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: the unity of knowledge
(298
pages)
(240 pages)
August 31, 2005 Lynn Margulis, Microcosmos
September 7, 2005 John Gardner, Grendel (192
pages)
September 14, 2005 && Ecclesiastes
Bible Ch 1-6; 9:1-12; 11; 12:1-8
September 21, 2005 Gail
Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden
Tsukiyama
(224
pages)
September 28, 2005 Lorrie
Moore, “You're Ugly, Too” (26 pages) and
Moore “How to Be an Other Woman” (24 pages)
Ugly is in Like Life and Other is in Self-Help
Goethe “The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily”
http://wn.rsarchive.org/RelAuthors/GoetheJW/GreenSnake.html
October 5, 2005 && Sophocles, “Oedipus the King”
October 12, 2005 Yann Martel, Life of Pi (319 pages)
October 19, 2005 && Sigmund Freud, “On Dreams”
Dickinson http://sackett.net/EmilySelections.pdf or T H Johnson (ed) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Willis Connie Willis, “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” (9 pages)
November 2, 2005 Pat Barker, Border Crossing (215 pages)
November 9, 2005 && Great Books, Vol 47, pp 1-114
Pam Durban, “Soon” (20 pages)
John Updike, “Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?” (19 pages)
November 30, 2005 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (336 pages)
December 14, 2005 Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses Chapters VI - IX
Rushdie
(547
pages)
January 4, 2006 Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter (374 pages)
January 11, 2006 && Great Books, Vol 42, pp 256-270
Kant Immanuel Kant, “First Principles of Morals”
January 18, 2006 && Gustave Flaubert, “A Simple Heart”
Flaubert from French Stories and Tales
January 25, 2006 && David Hume, “Of Personal Identity”
Hume from "Of the Understanding" in A Treatise of Human Nature
February 1, 2006 Caryl Churchill, “Cloud Nine” (87 pages)
February 8, 2006 && Thus Spoke Zarathustra Prologue and Part I
February 15, 2006 Friedrich
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Parts II, III, &
IV (Walter Kaufmann translation)
February 22, 2006 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying (288 pages)
March 1, 2006 Romain Gary, The Life Before Us (“Madame Rosa”) (182 pages)
March 8, 2006 && Dante, “The Inferno” in The Divine Comedy
Refs: http://infernodante.com
and http://italian.about.com/library/anthology/dante/blinfernoindex.htm
March 15, 2006 N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (212 pages)
Ref: R.M. Nelson, Place and Vision: The Function of Landscape in Native American Fiction
March 29, 2006 Jamaica
Kincaid, A Small Place (96 pages)
April 5, 2006 && Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
April 12, 2006 Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being (320 pages)
April 19, 2006 Luisa Valenzuela, Symmetries: Stories (167 pages)
April 26, 2006 && Aristotle, “On Tragedy” Great Books, Vol 9, pp 684-689
Selection from Simon Goldhill, Love, Sex & Tragedy
May 3, 2006 && William Shakespeare, “King Lear”
May 10, 2006 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (336 pages)
May 17, 2006 && Plato,
Selection from Books II, III and
IV of The Republic
and Selected Essays from Dancing at the Edge of the World
Ref: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html
May 31, 2006 William Gibson, Neuromancer (271 pages)
Ref: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html
&& Readings are from the Fifth Series in the Great Books Reading and Discussion Program Sets.
June 7, 2006 Patricia McKillip, In the Forests of Serre
McKillip (295 pages)
June 14, 2006 Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Piercy (369 pages)
June 28, 2006 William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
Shakespeare
July 5, 2006 Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban (125 pages)
July 12, 2006 D H Lawrence, “The
Princess” & “Odour of
Chrysanthemums”
Mary Lerner, “Little Selves” & Grace Coates,
“Wild Plums”
Story Dates: Princess 1925, Odour 1914, Selves 1916, Plums 1929
Flaubert Parts I and II (310 pages)
July 26, 2006 Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems from the Book of Hours
Rilke (51 pages)
Monastic Life:
1, 6, 7, 9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 36, 44, 63.
Pilgrimage:
7, 12, 22, 24, 25, 32, 33.
August 2, 2006 J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man
Donleavy (352 pages)
August 9, 2006 Great Books Vol. 3, pages 1102 - 1117
The Idea of Wisdom from the Syntopicon
August 16, 2006 Rebecca
West, The Fountain Overflows
(pages 1 to 250)
August 23, 2006 Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows (pages 251 to 500)
August 30, 2006 Amos Oz, The Hill of Evil Counsel
Oz (210 pages)
September 6, 2006 Bernice Rubens, The Sergeants' Tale (224 pages)
September 13, 2006 Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member (224 pages)
September 20, 2006 #† Great Books, Vol 5, pp 52-91
Aeschylus Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
September 27, 2006 Andre Malraux, Man's Fate
Malraux (368 pages)
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Condition_humaine
October 4, 2006 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 586 - 609
Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets
October 11, 2006 Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (272 pages)
October 18, 2006 #† Great Books, Vol 7, pp 191-199, 643c-644a, 683a-686b
Plato Euthyphro and selection from Laws
October 25, 2006 Gail
Tsukiyama, Women of the Silk
(288 pages)
November 1, 2006 #† Great Books, Vol 6, pp 504-508 and Vol 9, pp 376-387
Thucydides and Aristotle The
Melian Conference and Nicomachean
Ethics
Questions for Thucydides in GBF's Politics, Leadership and Justice
Reread
Canto XI in Dante's Inferno
November 15, 2006 #† Old Testament, Exodus, 19-20; Deuteronomy, 5-6
New Testament, Matthew, 15: 1-20, 22:15-40; Romans, 7-8
November 29, 2006 #† Great Books, Vol 9, pp 553-584 and Vol 14, pp 32-48, pp 64-77
Aristotle and Plutarch The Athenian Constitution and Lycurgus, Solon
December 6, 2006 William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (336 pages)
Aquinas
Summa
Theologica, Part I-II, QQ 90, 94-97
January 3, 2007 John Donne, Holy Sonnets plus “A Valediction of Weeping,”
Donne and “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
Brodsky Joseph Brodsky, “The Great Elegy to John Donne”
January 10, 2007 Zadie Smith, White Teeth (464 pages)
January 24, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 23, pp 86-96, 130-148
Hobbes Leviathon Chapters 14, 15, 26-28
February 14, 2007 A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic
Ayer
(160
pages)
February 28, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 26, pp 406-433
Shakespeare “The Merchant of Venice”
March 14, 2007
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of
an Author
Pirandello
Dover
Thrift Edition (64 pages)
March 28, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 38, pp 1-3, 102-125, 262-269
Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws Books I, XIV- XVII, XXIX
April 4, 2007 Edna
Ferber, So Big
Ferber
(272
pages)
April 18, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 38, pp 367-385, and 395-406
Rousseau “A Discourse on Political Economy” and The Social Contract Book II
May 2, 2007 Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
Pym (256 pages)
May 16, 2007 Margareta Ekstrom (98 pages)
Ekstrom The Day I Began My Studies in Philosophy and Other Stories
May 30, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 42, pp. 403-434
Kant The Science of Right
June 6, 2007 Mary Robison, Tell Me: 30 Stories
Robison (240 pages)
June 20, 2007 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 142-173
Shakespeare William
Shakespeare, “All's Well, that Ends Well”
July 18, 2007 Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
Seth (1488 pages)
August 8, 2007 Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (357 pages)
Desai Reading Guide: http://sackett.net/DesaiInheritanceGuide.pdf
August 22, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 43, pp 5-9 and 11-20
Articles
of Confederation and The United
States Constitution
and R.K. Narayan, The Guide (224 pages)
September 12, 2007 Hannah Arendt (321 pages)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
September 26, 2007 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
McCarthy (352 pages)
October 10, 2007 #† Great Books, Vol 46, pp 55-80 and 132-141
Hegel “The Ethical Life” in The Philosophy of Right
October 24, 2007 Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
Gordimer (252 pages)
November 7, 2007 Jeffrey
Bennett, On the Cosmic Horizon:
Ten Great
Mysteries for Third Millenium Astronomy (pp 1 - 98)
(Table
of Contents: http://www.jeffreybennett.com/books_cosmic_horizon.html )
November 14, 2007 #†
Great
Books, Vol 52, pp 348-401
Dostoevsky “A Judicial Error” in The Brothers Karamazov
November 28, 2007 Marilynne
Robinson, Gilead
Robinson
(247
pages)
December 5, 2007 Jeffrey
Bennett, On the Cosmic Horizon
Bennett
(pp 99 - 184)
December 12, 2007 The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises
Nikos Kazantzakis (143 pages)
#† Reading questions in The Great Ideas Program Volume 5 - “Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence.”
January 9, 2008 Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (776 pages)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear Volokhonsky translation preferred)
January 16, 2008 Mary McCarthy, The Oasis (136 pages)
January 30, 2008 The Acquisitive Society (192 pages)
R. H. Tawney [In Vol 57 of the 60 volume set of the Great Books]
February 6, 2008 Albert Camus, The Fall (160 pages)
Veblen Dover Thrift Edition (256 pages)
March 12, 2008 Monica Ali, Brick Lane (369 pages)
March 26, 2008 †# Oath, Ancient Medicine, and Sacred Disease
Hippocrates Great Books Vol. 10, pp. xiii, 1-9, 154-160 and
Camus Albert Camus, The Stranger (123 pages)
April 2, 2008 Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (343 pages)
April 16, 2008 †# Plato, “The Meno” Great Books Vol. 7, pp. 174-190
Reference: Alexandre Koyré, Discovering Plato pp 1 - 7.
April 30, 2008 Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You (400 pages)
May 14, 2008 †# Aristotle, GB V 8, pp. 642-656; V 9, pp. 161-169
Aristotle “On the Soul” and “On the Parts of Animals”
May 28, 2008 Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate (336 pages)
June 4, 2008 †# Galen, Great Books V 10, pp. 167-199
Galen “On the Natural Faculties” Books I and II
June 18, 2008 Jill Paton Walsh, A Desert in Bohemia (322 pages)
July 2, 2008 †# Aquinas,
Great Books Vol. 20, pp. 1-25
Aquinas Summa Theologica, Part I-II, QQ. XLIX-LIV.
July 16, 2008 Shakespeare, “Henry VIII”
July 30, 2008 Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety (341 pages)
August 6, 2008 †# Hobbes, Great Books Vol. 23, pp. 49-76
Hobbes Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 1-10
August 20, 2008 †# Locke, GB Vol. 35, pp.121-147, 178-186, 220-222
Locke “An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding”,
Book II
September 10, 2008 Patricia Grace, Potiki (192 pages)
Maori Glossary: http://sackett.net/GracePotikiGlossary.pdf
A talk to young writers by Patricia Grace: http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2009may/grace.html
September 24, 2008 †# Harvey,
GB Vol. 28, pp. 267-304
Harvey “On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals”
October 8, 2008 Harriet Doerr, The Tiger in the Grass: Short Stories and Other Inventions (224 pages)
October 22, 2008 †# Darwin, GB Vol 49, pp. 32-64, 255-319
Darwin The Origin of Species, Ch. 3-4 and
The Descent of Man, Ch. 1-4
November 12, 2008 Amy Herrick The Happiness Code
Herrick (310 pages )
Reading Guide: http://sackett.net/HerrickHappinessCode.pdf
November 26, 2008 †# William James, GB Vol 53, pp. 146-179,
191-194, 204-223, 743-757, 796-829
James The Principles of Psychology, Ch. 9-10, 25-26
Dec 10, 2008 The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars
Burnham Sophy Burnham (304 pages)
January
14, 2009 †# Freud,
Great Books Vol 54, pp. 1-20, 38-59,
Freud
526-539,
569-585, 818-840
Origin
and Development of Psycho-Analysis,
Ch 3 and
General Introduction to
Psycho-Analysis, Lectures 13-14,
20-21
†# Reading questions in The Great Ideas Program Volume 9 - “Biology, Psychology, and Medicine.”
January
28, 2009 Sylvia
Plath (US) The Bell Jar (288 pages)
February
4, 2009 Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala (Germany)
Jhabvala
Heat
and Dust (190 pages)
February
18, 2009 *? Gao
Xingjian (China - 2000) Soul Mountain
Xingjian
Chapters
1 to 44
March
4, 2009 *? Gao Xingjian Soul
Mountain Chapters 45 to 81
March
18, 2009 George
Eliot Daniel Deronda Books
I to IV
April
8, 2009 George
Eliot Daniel Deronda Books
V to VIII
April
22, 2009
Buddha's
“Long Discourses” (“Digha Nikaya”)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/index.html
[May
2nd is Vesak (“Buddha Day”)]
May
6, 2009 *?
Pearl
Buck (US - 1938) A House Divided
May
20, 2009
Edith Wharton (United States)
Wharton
The
House of Mirth (352
pages)
June
10, 2009
Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (288 pages)
June
24, 2009
Anne
Tyler (United States) (336
pages)
Tyler
Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant
July
8, 2009 Shakespeare's
“Hamlet”
July
22, 2009
Gita
Mehta (India) A River Sutra (304 pages)
August
12, 2009 *? Jose
Saramago (Portugal - 1998) Blindness
August
26, 2009 Willa
Cather (United States) (352 pages)
Cather
The
Great Short Works of Willa Cather
September
2, 2009 *? Paul
Heyse (Germany - 1910)
Heyse
“The
Fury” and “Andrea Delfin” (2 novellas)
[Delfin
is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3156
and Fury at
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5431]
September
16, 2009 *? Anatole
France (France - 1921)
France
The
Gods are Athirst (113 pages)
[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24010]
September
30, 2009 *? Doris
Lessing (England - 2007)
Lessing
The
Grass is Singing
October 14, 2009
Carl Jung (Switzerland)
Jung
Modern Man In Search of a Soul (252 pages)
October 28, 2009 *? Grazia
Deledda (Italy - 1926)
Deledda
The
Mother (252 pages)
November
4, 2009 Nikki
Giovanni (US) (96 pages, poetry)
Giovanni
Cotton
Candy on a Rainy Day
November 18, 2009 *? Pablo
Neruda (Chile - 1971)
Neruda
The
Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
December 2, 2009 *? Rudolf
Eucken (Germany - 1908) (30 pages)
Eucken Ethics and modern thought; a theory of their
relations
December
16, 2009 Jiddu Krishnamurti
Think on These Things
Krishnamurti (272 pages)
January
6, 2010 Simone
de Beauvoir (France) (162 pages)
de Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/index.htm
January
20, 2010 *? Jean
Paul Sartre (France - 1964)
Sartre “Existentialism is a Humanism”
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
*? Also search for the author at
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
and read the biographical material and the nobel address if they are available.
February
10, 2010 Iris
https://store.greatbooks.org/the-bell-great-books-discussion-guide.html (England) The Bell
(320 pages)
Murdoch Reading Guide: http://www.sackett.net/MurdochNotes.pdf
February 24, 2010 *$ Pride
A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor
March 10, 2010 James
Salter, American
Express, and
Salter
Via Negativa
from Dusk
and Other Stories
March 24, 2010 *$ Envy
Roman Fever, Edith Wharton
Smokers, Tobias Wolff
April 14, 2010 Shakespeare,
Othello
April 28, 2010 *$ Anger
Mary Postgate, Rudyard Kipling
Hairball, Margaret Atwood
May 12, 2010 The five-dollar smile, Shashi Tharoor
Nineteen thirty-seven, Edwidge Danticat
May 26, 2010 *$ Sloth
The House with the Mezzanine, Anton
Chekhov
Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason
June 2, 2010 Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty
http://members.multimania.co.uk/shortstories/weltyliveatpo.html
Porcelain Cups, James Branch Cabell
http://members.lycos.co.uk/shortstories/cabellporcelain.html
June 16, 2010 Shakespeare,
The Taming of the Shrew
June 30, 2010 Thornton
Wilder, Our Town
July 14, 2010 *$ Greed
The Rocking-Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence
The Inherited Clock, Elizabeth Bowen
July 28, 2010 Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot
Giraudoux (134
page play)
August 4, 2010
*$ Gluttony
Fat, Raymond Carver
Famine, Xu Xi
August 18, 2010 Great
Books, Vol 24, pp 1 - 126
Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel [Books
I and II]
September 8, 2010 *$ Lust
Not a Good Girl, Perri Klass
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,
Nathan Englander
*$ Selection is from the Great Books Foundation's Seven Deadly Sins Sampler.
September 22, 2010 Elizabeth Jenkins,
Jenkins The
Tortoise and the Hare (288 pages)
October 6, 2010 Per
Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
(258 pages)
October 20, 2010 C S Lewis, Till We Have Faces (324 pages)
November 10, 2010 Thornton Wilder, Someone from Assisi (Lust), and
The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five (Sloth),
from The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I
November 17, 2010 Louisa
May Alcott, Little Women (464 pages)
December 8, 2010 Geraldine
Brooks, March (304
pages)
December 22, 2010 Sheng Yen,
(152 pages)
Getting the Buddha Mind: On the Practice of Chan Retreat
January
12, 2011 Virginia Hamilton, In the Beginning: Creation
Stories from Around the World (176 pages)
(
reference: Barbara C. Sproul, Primal Myths)
January
26, 2011 !! Introduction
and
!! Rules for the Direction of the Mind René Descartes
February
02, 2011 !! Katahdin
and
Death
of a Pine
Henry David Thoreau
February
16, 2011 !! Man
and Nature George
Perkins Marsh
!! The
Biosphere
Vladimir
I. Vernadsky
March 02, 2011 Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See (256 pages)
March
16, 2011 !! The
Climax Concept Frederic
E. Clements
!!
The Ecosystem A.G. Tansley
March 30, 2011 Noether's Theorem
http://www.sackett.net/Noether.pdfApril
06, 2011 Poetry
-
Mary Oliver and
Gary Snyder
Mary Oliver: Wild Geese, A Visitor, Mockingbirds, The Journey,
Climbing the Chagrin River, The Swan, Herons in Winter in the Frozen
Marsh, The Dipper.
Gary Snyder: December At Yase (1992), For/From Lew (1983), For Lew Welch In A Snowfall (1992),
There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty (1986), Riprap (1959), Axe Handles (1983).
April 20, 2011 !! The Land Ethic and Odyssey Aldo Leopold
May
04, 2011 !! The
Tragedy of the Commons Garrett
Hardin
!!
The Economics of the Coming
Spaceship Earth
Kenneth
E. Boulding
May 18, 2011 Neal Stephenson, Zodiac (320 pages)
June 08, 2011 Tim Flannery, The Future Eaters : An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People (408 pages)
June 22, 2011 (A 2011 Colorado Shakespeare Festival Play)
Nikolai Gogol “The Inspector General”July
06, 2011 !! The
Closing Circle Barry
Commoner
!!
The
World's Biggest Membrane Lewis
Thomas
July
20, 2011 !! Intricacy
Annie
Dillard
!! The Recognition of Gaia
James
E. Lovelock
August 10, 2011 Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (496 pages)
August 24, 2011 Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men (320 pages)
September 14, 2011 Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (352 pages)
September
28, 2011 !!
The
End of Nature Bill
McKibben
!! The Words Nature,
Wild,
and Wilderness
Gary
Snyder
!!
Water Songs Terry
Tempest Williams
October 12, 2011 Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn (224 pages)
October
26, 2011 !! Cutover
Jan
Zita Grover
!!
The
Politics of Wilderness and the Practice of the Wild Edward Grumbine
November
02, 2011 !! Dimensions
of Deformity Gordon
L. Miller
!!
Selection is from the Great Books Foundation's
Keeping Things Whole: Readings in Environmental Science
November 16, 2011 Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone (208 pages)
November 30, 2011 David Holmgren, Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change (136 pages)
December 14, 2011 Sumbul Ali-Karamli, The Muslim Next Door (287 pages)
January
04, 2012 A. S. Byatt, “The
Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye”
(177 page story in the 275 page book of the same name)
January 18, 2012 *! Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale
February 08, 2012 Margaret Drabble, The Sea Lady (345 pages)
February 22, 2012 *! David Hume, Excerpts from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
March 14, 2012 Lawrence Durrell, Justine (256 pages)
March 28, 2012 Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (120 pages)
April
04, 2012 *! Percy
Bysshe Shelley,
A
Defence of Poetry
Linda Hogan, Journey, Inside, Rapture, To
Light, Heartland, Advice
from the Shoulder
Eavan Boland, Lava Cameo, Pomegranate
See http://sackett.net/Selection040412.htm.
April
18, 2012 *! Honoré
de Balzac, The
Unknown Masterpiece
(Also available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23060)
May
02, 2012 *! Leo
Tolstoy, Second
Epilogue to War and Peace
(This is the conclusion to War and Peace so you can also find it, for example, in Great Books Vol. 51 pp 675-696.)
May
16, 2012
*! Rudyard
Kipling,
The Man Who Would Be King
*!
Stephen
Crane, The
Open Boat
May 30, 2012 Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (205 pages)
June 06, 2012 *! Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
June
20, 2012 A Colorado Shakespeare Festival Play
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
June
27, 2012 A Shakespeare Roundtable with Ron Schwartz
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
July 18, 2012 Nicola Barker, Darkmans (838 pages)
August
08, 2012 *! Sherwood
Anderson, Death
in the Woods
*! Jorge
Luis Borges, The
Garden of Forking Paths
August 22, 2012 L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (288 pages)
September
12, 2012 *!
Simone
de Beauvoir, Introduction
to The Second Sex
and
The Second Sex,
the 13 page Conclusion at the end of the book.
September
26, 2012 *! Grace
Paley, An
Interest In Life
(
a short story from The Little Disturbances of Man) and
*! Wislawa
Szymborska, Selected
Poems
(“The
End and the Beginning”, “Hatred”, and “Reality Demands”)
October
10, 2012 Chitra
Divakaruni, Mrs. Dutta
Writes a Letter
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98apr/dutta.htm
and
Sheila Kohler, Africans
available in her One Girl: A Novel in Stories
(Both stories are in The Best American Short Stories 1999, edited by Amy Tan.
The
audio version has the stories read by their respective authors.)
October
24, 2012
*! Michel
Foucault,
Excerpt
from Discipline and Punish:
“The body of the condemned”
November 14, 2012 *! Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (392 pages)
November
28, 2012 *! Jhumpa
Lahiri, “Interpreter
of Maladies”
(If you have time, read all of the short stories in her book of the same name.)
December
12, 2012 Huston
Smith, The World's Religions
Chapter
IV - Confucianism
Chapter
IX - The Primal Religions
Chapter
X - A Final Examination
*! Selection is from the Great Books Foundation's The Great Conversations 3 (discussion guide only for Jane Eyre).
January 02, 2013 Jane Austen, Sense
and Sensibility (268 pages)
January
16, 2013 *° 2
Samuel
11-12:7, David
and Bathsheba
*° John
Donne, To
His Mistress Going to Bed
*° Andrew
Marvell, To
His Coy Mistress
January 30, 2013 Terri Windling, The Wood Wife (320 pages)
February 06, 2013 *° Sigmund Freud, Degradation in Erotic Life
February 20, 2013 Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (325 pages)
March 06, 2013 *° Fay Weldon, Sex
March 20, 2013 Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (288 pages)
April 3, 2013 Carol Shields, The Republic of Love (384 pages)
April
17, 2013 *° Margaret
Atwood,
Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing
*°
Billy
Collins,
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
e e cummings, selected
poems
(sackett.net/Selection041713.htm)
May 01, 2013 Brian Doyle, Mink River (320 pages)
May 15, 2013 Elaine Morgan, The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution (288 pages)
May 29, 2013 Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (276 pages)
June 5, 2013 *° Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Girl Advocacy Again
June
19, 2013 Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Northrop Frye's Essay, Recognition
in The Winter's Tale
July
3, 2013 A Colorado Shakespeare Festival Play
Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
July 17, 2013 Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (256 pages)
July 31, 2013 Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca (410 pages)
August
7, 2013 *° Mark
Doty, Esta
Noche
Kevin
Walzer, The
Poetry of Timothy Steele http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/tsteele/TSpage4/Walzer.html
August 21, 2013 Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (Pages 1 to 342)
September 04, 2013 Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (Pages 345 to 603)
September 18, 2013 Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights (144 pages)
October 02, 2013
*° Susan
Minot, Lust
Jane Smiley, Lily
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/84jul/lily.htm (also available at
http://www.sackett.net/SmileyLily.pdf)
October 16, 2013 Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (160 pages)
October 30, 2013
*° Louann
Brizendine, Love
and Trust
Rick
Bass, “The Hermit's Story”
(also available in The
Best American Short Stories 1999,
edited by Amy Tan)
November 06, 2013
*° Mona
Simpson, First
Love
*° Nathan
Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
November 20, 2013 Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (368 pages)
December 04, 2013 Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet (189 pages)
December 18, 2013 C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (141 pages)
*°
Selection is from the Great Books Foundation's Vital
Ideas: Sex.
January 15, 2014 $$ Harriet Jacobs, The New Master and Mistress
Alice Munro, Corrie (http://www.sackett.net/MunroCorrie.pdf)
January 29, 2014 Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (240 pages)
February 5, 2014 $$ Henry David Thoreau, Economy
$$ Karl Marx, The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society
February 19, 2014 Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (415 pages)
March 5, 2014 The Idea of Wealth,
online at sackett.net/Wealth.pdf Great Books Vol 2 (1990 edition, pp 820-848)
and Great Treasury of Western Thought (pp 791-812) online at
http://www.sackett.net/WealthGTWT.pdf
March 19, 2014 Jung Chang, Wild Swans (First half)
April 2, 2014 Jung Chang, Wild Swans (Second half)
April 16, 2014 $$ Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (Selection)
April 30, 2014 Jill Fredston, (312 pages)
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
May 7, 2014 $$ Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits
May 21, 2014 Edith Pearlman, Four short stories: Chance, Allog, Self-Reliance, Honeydew (The first three are in Pearlman's Binocular Vision)
June 4, 2014 $$ John Cheever, The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
Berg and Ostry, “Inequality and Unsustainable Growth” (20 pages)
June 18, 2014 A Colorado Shakespeare Festival Play
Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor
July 2, 2014 Joy Harjo, 10 poems from She Had Some Horses
in
How
We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2001
The ten poems are: Call It Fear,
Anchorage, For Alva Benson, The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor
Window, White Bear, Skeleton of Winter, Remember, New Orleans, She Had
Some Horses, and I Give You Back.
Reference:
Harjo, Crazy
Brave: A Memoir
July 16, 2014 Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves (352 pages)
July
30, 2014
Toni
Morrison, Home
(145
pages)
Note:
available
as an audio
book read
by Morrison.
August
6, 2014
$$
Barbara Ehrenreich, Selling
in Minnesota
$$
Paco
Underhill, Sex
and the Mall
August 20, 2014 Rudyard Kipling, Kim (240 pages)
September 3, 2014 Qiu Xiaolong, Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai (240 pages)
September 17, 2014 Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
(Victor Watts translation, 155 pages)
October 1, 2014 Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel (304 pages)
October 15, 2014 Great Books Vol. 31 (1990 edition, pp 327-367)
Racine, “Phaedra” (Samuel Solomon translation)
or online Holcombe translation
Reference (Holcombe on translating Racine)
October 29, 2014 Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (240 pages)
Angela Pneuman, “All Saints Day” (15 pages)
http://www.vqronline.org/fiction/all-saints-day/
November 5, 2014 $$ Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Selection)
$$ Katy Lederer, The Heaven-Sent Leaf
November 19, 2014 Paula Fox, Desperate Characters (192 pages)
December 3, 2014 Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar (192 pages)
December 17, 2014 The Idea of God from the Syntopicon
Great Books Vol 1 (1990 edition, pp 433-451) online
at http://www.sackett.net/God.pdf
and Great Treasury of Western Thought (pp 1310-1336) online at
http://www.sackett.net/GodGTWT.pdf
$$ Selection is from the Great Books Foundation's Vital Ideas: Money.
January
7, 2015 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus
Spoke Zarathustra
Prologue and Part I (70 pages, Walter Kaufmann translation)
January
21, 2015 Wu Cheng'en, selection
from The Journey to the West, Volume 1
Chapters I - XV of the Anthony Yu
translation (235 pages)
[Chapters I - XV in Arthur Waley's abridgement, Monkey, leaves out most of the Chinese poetry, so Yu is preferred]
February 4, 2015 ?* Lecture 19 — Wu Cheng'en's Monkey
February
18, 2015 Marguerite de Navarre, selection from The
Heptameron
Prologue for
Each Day and Stories 10, 14, 20, 21, 30, 36, 40, 44, 50, 60, 61, 70, 71, and 72 (132 pages, Penguin Edition)
March 4, 2015 ?* Lecture 20 — The Heptameron
March 18, 2015 Cao Xueqin, Chapters 1 to 8, The Story of the Stone, Volume 1
(200
pages, David Hawkes translation)
[Also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber but don't get the Chi-Chen Wang abridgement]
April 1, 2015 ?* Lecture 25 — Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone
April
15, 2015
Emily
Dickinson, selected
poems
(poems mentioned in
Poisonwood Bible,
in Lecture 32 on May 6,
and poems in the 20th fascicle).
The selection (14 pages) is at http://www.sackett.net/PoisonwoodVothEmily.pdf.
April 29, 2015 Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
May 6, 2015 ?* Lecture 32 — Dickinson's Poetry
May
20, 2015 Patricia S. Churchland
(288 pages)
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
June
3, 2015
Lecture
— P. S. Churchland, The
Brains Behind Morality
https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/The+Brains+Behind+Morality/0_4q8ty6ra
June 17, 2015 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (384 pages)
July
1, 2015 University of Wisconsin Lecture on February 2, 2010
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Lecture, and
Question and Answer Session.
July 15, 2015 Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
July 29, 2015 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
August 5, 2015 ?* Lecture 45 — Achebe's Things Fall Apart
August
19, 2015 2 stories in Robert
Danly, In the Shade of
Spring Leaves
Child's Play and The Thirteenth Night
September 2, 2015 ?* Lecture 35 — Higuchi Ichiyo's “Child's Play”
September 16, 2015 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (1st half)
September 30, 2015 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (2nd half)
October 7, 2015 ?* Lecture 44 — Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy
October
21, 2015 Anna Akhmatova, Requiem
(pages 130 to 151) in
Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova,
translated by J. Hemschemeyer
November 4, 2015 ?* Lecture 41 — Anna Akhmatova's Requiem
November 18, 2015 Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
December 2, 2015 ?* Lecture 47 — Borges' Labyrinths
December 16, 2015 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
?* Lecture from Great Courses' History of World Literature by Professor Grant L. Voth
January 6, 2016 !$ Duong Thu Huong, Paradise of the Blind (272 pages)
January 20, 2016 Ivan Illich, Toward a History of Needs (172 pages)
February 3, 2016 !$ Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address
and Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letter from Birmingham Jail (34 pages)
February 17, 2016 Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (194 pages)
March 2, 2016 Brian Doyle, The Plover (1st half (through Chapter V))
March 16, 2016 Brian Doyle, The Plover (2nd half (Chapters VI - VIII))
(Roughly 160 pages per meeting)
April 13, 2016 Kathleen Grissom, Kitchen House (384 pages)
April 20, 2016 !$ Isak Dinesen, Sorrow Acre (42 pages)
and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Headstrong Historian
(20 pages at http://sackett.net/AdichieHeadstrongHistorian.pdf )
May 4, 2016 Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate (256 pages)
May 18, 2016 !$ Wole Soyinka, Kongi's Harvest (111 pages)
June 1, 2016 Rheinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History (198 pages)
June 15, 2016 !$ Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue (17 pages)
July 6, 2016 Pearl Buck, The Good Earth (Chapters 1 - 20, 200 pages)
July 20, 2016 Pearl Buck, The Good Earth (Chapters 21 - 34, 150 pages)
August 3, 2016 !$ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
August 17, 2016 !$ Amos Oz, Longing (87 pages)
Sept. 7, 2016 Confessions of Lady Nijo (288 pages)
September 21, 2016 Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows (174 pages)
October 5, 2016 Selection from Elisabeth Bumiller,
Chapters 1, 5-7, 9-10, and 12 (167 of 306 pages)
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons:
A Journey Among the Women of India
October 19, 2016 Miriama Ba, So Long a Letter (90 pages)
November 2, 2016 !$ J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron (208 pages)
November 16, 2016 Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests (Part I - 64 pages)
December 7, 2016 Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (304 pages)
December 21, 2016 !$ Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching (25 pages) and
H.D., Tribute to the Angels in Trilogy (51 page poem)
!$ Selection from Great Books Foundation's Politics, Leadership, and Justice
January 4, 2017
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapters
1 - 5 (90 pages)
Richard Hofstadter, The
American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
Chapters
1 - 2 (44 pages)
January 18, 2017 Jennifer Michael Hecht, poetry selection from Funny
February 1, 2017
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
Chapters
1 - 5 (140 pages)
February 15, 2017 Susanna Tamaro, Follow Your Heart (208 pages)
March 1, 2017
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapters
6 - 9 (100 pages)
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition
Chapters
3 - 6 (119 pages)
March 15, 2017 The Idea of History (sackett.net/History.pdf)
from the Syntopicon
(Reference: Great Treasury of
Western Thought (sackett.net/HistoryGTWT.pdf))
April 5, 2017
Lois-Ann Yamanaka,
Blu's Hanging (260 pages)
April 19, 2017
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapters
10 - 13 (142 pages)
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition
Chapters
7 - 9 (74 pages)
May 3, 2017
Claire Vaye Watkins, 3 stories from Battleborn:
“Ghosts, Cowboys,” “The Diggings,”
and “Virginia City”
May 17, 2017
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
Chapters
6 - 9 (150 pages)
June 7, 2017
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapters
14 - 16 (77 pages)
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition
Chapters
10 - 12 (115 pages)
June 21, 2017 Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (192 pages)
July 5, 2017 Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
July 19, 2017
Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
(pages
1 to 142)
August 2, 2017
Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
(pages
143 to 323)
August 30, 2017
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
Chapters
10 - 12 (175 pages)
(1
week)
September 6, 2017
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapters
17 - 19 (93 pages)
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (110 pages)
September 20, 2017
Friedrich Nietzsche,
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
(sackett.net/NietzscheHistory.pdf)
Katherine Mansfield, The
Daughters of the Late Colonel in
The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield or sackett.net/MansfieldColonel.pdf
Joy Williams “Gurdjieff in the Sunshine State”
in Escapes or sackett.net/WilliamsGurdjieff.pdf
October 4, 2017
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapters
20 - Afterword (115 pages)
Noam Chomsky, “The
Responsibility of Intellectuals” (25 pages)
October 18, 2017 Short stories “The Shelter” by Duong Thu Huong, “The Stranded Fish” by Doan Quoc Sy, “The Color of Sorrow” by Nguyen Qui Duc, and “Remembrance of the Countryside” by Nguyen Huy Thiep from John Balaban and Nguyen Qui Duc, Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion
November 1, 2017
Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday: What
We Can Learn from Traditional Societies
Prologue through Chapter 4 (172 pages)
November 15, 2017
George Eliot, The Lifted Veil (40 pages)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2165
http://www.sackett.net/EliotVeilQs.pdf (Questions for discussion)
December 6, 2017
Milton Viorst, In the Shadow of the Prophet
Chapters 1 through 5 (186 pages)
December 20, 2017
Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday
Chapters
5 through Epilogue (308 pages)
January 3, 2018 Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted (192 pages)
January
17, 2018 Milton Viorst, In
the Shadow of the Prophet
Chapters 6 through 10 (172 pages)
February 7, 2018 Souad Mekhennet, I Was Told to Come Alone (340 pages)
February
21, 2018 David
Hume, Of
Personal Identity
Section
6 of Part IV of Book I of A
Treatise of Human Nature
(http://www.sackett.net/HumeIdentity.pdf)
The Idea of Justice from the
Syntopicon
(sackett.net/Justice.pdf)
and Great Treasury of
Western Thought (sackett.net/JusticeGTWT.pdf)
March 7, 2018 Juan Gonzales, Harvest of Empire (2nd edition) - Parts I and II
March 21, 2018 Juan Gonzales, Harvest of Empire (2nd edition) - Part III and Epilogue
April 4, 2018 Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters (249 pages)
April
18, 2018 Selection from James P. Sterba, Ethics: The Big Questions
Virginia Held, Caring
Relations and Principles of Justice
http://www.sackett.net/HeldCare.pdf
Claudia
Card, Particular Justice and
General Care
http://www.sackett.net/CardJustice.pdf
Fred
Feldman, Kantian
Ethics
http://www.sackett.net/FeldmanKant.pdf
May 2, 2018 C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (Chapters 1 to 8)
May 16, 2018 The Power Elite (Chapters 9 to end)
June 6, 2018 Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost (366 pages)
June 20, 2018 Antonya Nelson, In the Land of Men: Stories (240 pages)
July 18, 2018 Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow (462 pages)
August 1, 2018 Lynsey Addario, It's What I Do (368 pages)
August
15, 2018 Mavis
Gallant, selection from Paris
Stories
(182 pages)
“The Moslem Wife”,
“Speck's Idea”,
“The Remission”,
“August”,
Afterword
September 5, 2018 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (384 pages)
September
19, 2018
Joseph Henrich, Chapters 1 to 10 (184 pages)
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Our Evolution
October
3, 2018 Joseph Henrich, The
Secret of Our Success
Chapters 11 to 17 (150 pages)
October 17, 2018 Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake (384 pages)
November 7, 2018 Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter (342 pages)
December 5, 2018 Andre Malraux, Man's Fate (356 pages)
December 19, 2018 Nicholas Wade, The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures (320 pages)
January 3, 2019 Angela McRobbie, The Aftermath of Feminism (184 pages)
January 17, 2019 Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle (176 pages)
February 7, 2019 Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project (295 pages)
February 21, 2019 Lan Samantha Chang, Hunger (105 page novella)
March
7, 2019
Mo Yan (first half of 409 pages)
March 21, 2019 Mo
Yan (second half of 409 pages)
Sandalwood Death
April
4, 2019
Susan
Neiman (Chapter 4 - 88 pages)
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
April
18, 2019 Great Books Vol. 58,
pages ix to 71
Selection from J.G. Frazer, The
Golden Bough
May
2, 2019
Trygve
Gulbranssen (313 pages)
Beyond Sing the Woods
May
16, 2019 Jonathan
Bennett (123 pages)
Rationality: An Essay Towards an Analysis
June 6, 2019 John Judis The Populist Explosion (159 pages)
June
20, 2019 Nick Lane (first half of 360 pages)
July 3, 2019 Nick Lane (second half of 360 pages)
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
July
18, 2019
Laura
Thatcher Ulrich A
Midwife's Tale:
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
(first half of 444 pages)
August
1, 2019
Laura
Thatcher Ulrich A
Midwife's Tale:
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
(second half of 444 pages)
August 15, 2019 Carol Shields (361 pages) The Stone Diaries
September
5, 2019 Ellen Meloy (328 pages)
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
September
19, 2019
Richard
Flanagan (first half of 352 pages)
October 3, 2019 Richard Flanagan (second half of 352 pages)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
November 7, 2019 Annie Proulx, The Shipping News (355 pages)
November
21, 2019
Great Books Vol. 58, pages 397 to 455
December 5, 2019
Great Books Vol. 58, pages 455 to 527
Selection
from Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology
December 19, 2019
Selection from Khushwant Singh
A History of the Sikhs, Vol. I, Parts I and II and Appendix 2
January
2, 2020
Edward Hallett Carr (224 pages)
What is History?
January
16, 2020 Hilary Mantel, Wolf
Hall
(Parts One and Two)
February
6, 2020 Hilary Mantel, Wolf
Hall
(Parts Three and Four)
February
20, 2020 Hilary Mantel, Wolf
Hall
(Parts Five and Six)
March
5, 2020 Peter Godfrey-Smith (255 pages)
Other Minds:
The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Followup from PBS Nature: Octopus - Making Contact (available on BPL Kanopy)
April
2, 2020 Melanie Mitchell (169 pages)
Complexity:
A Guided Tour (Parts I and II)
April
16, 2020 Melanie Mitchell (171 pages)
Complexity:
A Guided Tour (Parts III through V)
May
7, 2020 Stuart Kauffman, A World Beyond Physics:
The
Emergence and Evolution of Life
May
21, 2020 Peter Turchin, Ultrasociety Chapters 1 to 5
June
4, 2020 Peter Turchin, Ultrasociety Chapters 6 to 10
June
18, 2020 William James, two essays, “The Will to Believe” and
“Great
Men and their Environment" from The Will to Believe
July
2, 2020 Henry George, Progress and Poverty
http://www.henrygeorge.org/pdfs/PandP_Drake.pdf
(Parts 1 through 4)
Reference
material: https://schalkenbach.org/henry-georges-works/
July
16, 2020 Henry George, Progress and Poverty
http://www.henrygeorge.org/pdfs/PandP_Drake.pdf
(Parts 5 to the end)
August
6, 2020 Carl Becker,
The
Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century
Philosophers
August 20, 2020
Selection from Kate Chopin's Short
Stories,
“Regret”
(4 pages), “The
Story of an Hour”
(3 pages),
“A
'Cadian Ball”
+ “The
Storm”
(16 pages), “A
No-Account Creole”
(26 pages),
“A Point at Issue!”
(13 pages), “Desiree's
Baby”
(6 pages),
“A
Vocation and a Voice”
+ “Wiser
Than a God”
(41 pages)
September 3, 2020 Gustaw Herling, “The Island” (84 pages)
September 17, 2020
Selection from Emma Goldman,
Anarchism
and Other Essays
(Essays
1-5, 7-8, and 12)
October 15,
2020 Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality
Exordium
and Chapters 1-23 (252 pages)
November 5, 2020 Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees (282 pages)
November 19, 2020 Nadine Gordimer, The Late Bourgeois World(94 pages)
December
3, 2020 Mark Moffett, The
Human Swarm (1st
half, through Chapter 13)
December 17, 2020 Mark Moffett, The Human Swarm (2nd half, Ch 14 to end)
(3 weeks)
January 7, 2021 Jane
Austen, Emma (Chapters 1 - 23, 232 pages)
January 21, 2021 Jane
Austen, Emma (Chapters 24 - 58, 214 pages)
February 4, 2021
Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
The Archaeology of Mind:
Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
Chapters 1 through 6 (245 pages)
February 18, 2021 Panksepp and Biven, Chapters 7 through 13 (256 pages)
March 4, 2021 Willa Cather, My Antonia (272 pages)
March 18,
2021 Philip Clayton, Mind and Emergence First 3 chapters
Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything First half
April 1, 2021 Clayton
and Davies (editors), The Re-Emergence of Emergence
Sections 1 and 2,
"The Physical
Sciences" and "The Biological Sciences"
Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything Second half
April 15, 2021 Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (288 pages)
(3 weeks)
May 6, 2021 Steven Strogatz, SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Preface through Chapter 5
(The paperback subtitle of this book is How
Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life)
May 20, 2021 Jane Hirshfield, Ledger: Poems (128 pages)
June 3, 2021 Steven Strogatz, SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Chapter 6 through Epilogue
June 17, 2021 Tracy
Chevalier, Burning Bright (Parts I through IV)
July 1, 2021 Tracy
Chevalier, Burning Bright (Parts V through VIII)
and William
Blake, The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
July 15, 2021 Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
(3
weeks)
August 5, 2021 Beryl
Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing (179 pages)
(this novel is available as an eBook through Hoopla)
August 19, 2021 Julia
Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies (chapters 1 through 8)
(this novel is available as an eBook through Hoopla)
September 2, 2021
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies (chapter 9
through Reader's Guide)
September 16, 2021 Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (214 pages)
(3
weeks)
October 7, 2021
Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog (173 pages)
October 21, 2021
Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies (through Part 3)
November 4, 2021
Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies (Part 4 to end)
November 18, 2021 Stephen
Bodio, Querencia (154 pages)
(this memoir is available as an eBook through Hoopla)
January 6, 2022 Robert Jones, White too Long (242 pages)
January 20, 2022 Hugo
Mercier and Dan Sperber, The
Enigma of Reason
(Chapters 1 - 10, 202 pages)
February 3, 2022
Briant will summarize for us the 2nd half of Enigma of Reason,
then we will discuss about half of
Ants Among Elephants
February 17, 2022 Sujatha Gidla, Ants Among Elephants:
An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (305 pages)
March 3, 2022
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste:
The Origins of Our Discontents
(1st half, through Chapter 14 (240 pages))
March 17, 2022 Isabel Wilkerson, Caste:
The Origins of Our Discontents
(2nd half, Chapter 15 through Epilogue)
(3 weeks)
April 7, 2022 Mark
Humphries (232 pages)
The
Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
April
21, 2022 David Graeber, The
Dawn of Everything (Chapters 1 to 4)
Adam Kuper, The
Reinvention of Primitive Society (Parts I & II)
Part I “The Idea of Primitive Society” & Part II “Ancient
Law, Ancient Society and Totemism”
May 5, 2022 Tove Jansson, The Summer Book (184 pages)
May 19, 2022
David Graeber, The
Dawn of Everything (Chapters 5 to 8)
and C.R. Hallpike, Ship
of Fools Part 1 “Talking Nonsense about Primitive Man”
June 2, 2022 Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace (172 pages)
June 16, 2022 David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything (Chapter 9 to end)
July
7, 2022 Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
(320
pages)
July
21, 2022 Haruki
Murakami, “Thailand”
(27 pages) in after the quake
Jane Pek, “The
Nine-Tailed Fox Explains” (8 pages)
Tessa Hadley, “Funny
Little Snake”
(10 pages)
August
4, 2022 Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
(208 pages)
August
18, 2022 Timothy Snyder, The
Road to Unfreedom
(1st half of 274 pages)
September 1, 2022 Timothy Snyder,
The Road to Unfreedom (2nd half)
reference:
Thomas Schelling, The
Strategy of Conflict (298 pages)
September
15, 2022
John Mearsheimer, (Chapters 1 through 4)
The
Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
October
6, 2022
Jennifer Doudna,
A Crack in Creation (246 pages) [CRISPR]
October
20, 2022
Ursula Le Guin,
The Left Hand of Darkness (217 pages)
November 3, 2022
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,
Indigenous
People's History of the United States
(236 pages)
https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/10601/An%20Indigenous%20Peoples%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Ortiz.pdf
November
17, 2022
Richard Rorty,
Philosophy as Poetry (96 pages)
December
1, 2022
John Mearsheimer, (Chapters 5 through 8)
The
Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
December 15, 2022 Eva Wong, Taoism: An Essential Guide (288 pages)
January 5, 2023 Christopher Coker, The Rise of the Civilizational State (205 pages)
January 19, 2023 Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies (242 pages)
February 2, 2023 Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (386 pages)
February 16,
2023 Briant Wolfe,
Hacking Human Nature for Good: Overcoming Human Irrationality (30 pages)
plus Robert Sapolsky,
Behave, chapters 9 - 14 (286 pages)
March 2, 2023 Orlando Patterson, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture Parts I and II (202 pages)
March 16, 2023 Orlando Patterson, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture Parts III and IV (199 pages)
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