Jan. 26, 2024— Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot
Feb. 23, 2024— The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu (Chapters 1 - 17)
Mar. 29, 2024— Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch
Apr. 26, 2024— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Anonymous
May. 24, 2024— Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
Jun. 28, 2024— Three selections from Essays, by Michel de Montaigne - "Of Cannibals," "Of Friendship," "Of The Education of Children"
Jul. 26, 2024— Democracy in America, by A. de Toqueville (first half)
Aug. 30, 2024— Democracy in America, by A. de Toqueville (second half)
Sep. 27, 2024— The Clouds, by Aristophanes
Oct. 25, 2024— The Mabinogion, by Anonymous
Dec. 6, 2024— Book Revelation (from the Bible) by John of Patmos
Dec. 13, 2024— Prepare Schedule for 2025
Jan. 27, 2023— Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Feb. 24, 2023— Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Mar. 31, 2023— To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Apr. 28, 2023— Sunday Morning and other poems, by Wallace Stevens
May. 26, 2023— MacBeth, by William Shakespeare
Jun. 30, 2023— The Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw
Jul. 28, 2023— Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw
Aug. 25, 2023— Captain Brasbounds Conversion, by George Bernard Shaw
Sep. 29, 2023— Antigone, by Sophocles
Oct. 27, 2023— Gilgamesh (2nd millennium BC epic)
Dec. 1, 2023— Book of Job (from the Bible)
Dec. 8, 2023— Prepare Schedule for 2024
Jan. 28, 2022— The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe and Volpone, by Ben Jonson
Feb. 25, 2022— The Golden Ass, by Apuleius
Mar. 25, 2022— Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night, by Marguerite Duras
Apr. 29, 2022— Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and The Wasteland, by T. S. Eliot
May. 27, 2022— The Brothers Ashkenazi, by I.J. Singer
Jun. 24, 2022— In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust
Jul. 29, 2022— In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust
Aug. 26, 2022— In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
Sep. 30, 2022— Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Walker Evans
Oct. 28, 2022— Tao Te Ching, by Lao-Tau
Dec. 2, 2022— Ezra and Nehemiah, from the Bible
Dec. 9, 2022— Prepare Schedule for 2023
The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
Othello, by Shakespeare
Lysistrata & Thesmophoriazusae, by Aristophanes
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, by Aimé Césaire
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Nikolai Leskov
The 42nd Parallel, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
1919, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
The Big Money, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Kakoro, by Natsume Soseki
Story of David, 1 Samuel 16-31, 2 Samuel, and 1 Kings 1-2
Annals, by Tacitus
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
Luke, from the New Testament
Richard II, by Shakespeare
The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
Sons, by Pearl Buck
A House Divided, by Pearl Buck
Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun
The Reivers: A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner
Songs from the Slums, by Kagawa Toyohiko
Silence, by Shusaku Endo
Native Son, by Richard Wright
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor
Selected song lyrics by Bob Dylan
Cymbeline, by Shakespeare
Palace Walk (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace of Desire (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
Sugar Street (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children , Susanna , and Bel and the Dragon
Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, a translation by Anne Carson
Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
The Vicar of Wakefield, by Goldsmith
The Cross, by Sigrid Undset
The Wife, by Sigrid Undset
The Wreath, by Sigrid Undset
The Book of Ruth, from the Bible
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Selected Poems, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 by Shakespeare
Njáls Saga, (part of Sagas of Icelanders)
Bhagavad Gita
The Nature of Things, by Lucretius
The Mansion, Vol. 3 of Snopes Triology, by William Faulkner
The Town, Vol. 2 of Snopes Trilogy, by William Faulkner
The Hamlet, Vol. 1 of Snopes Trilogy, by William Faulkner
King Lear, by Shakespeare
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Book of Esther, from the Bible
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King
Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Future of an Illusion, by Sigmund Freud
Ulysses, by James Joyce
A Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare
The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Song of Solomon, from the Bible
Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles
2 comments:
Regular attenders of our meetings are invited to nominate books for the Great Books KC group to read and discuss during 2010. We will be preparing our reading schedule for next year at our meeting on December 4, 2009. Those in attendance that evening will make the final selections.
The November 6, 2009 issue of the FYI section of the Kansas City Star newspaper has a featured movie review of Disney's new animated "A Christmas Carol." It was thoughtful of Disney Co. to release this movie at a time that coincides with our group's discussion.
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