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2024 Books
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
2023 Books
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
2022 Books
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
2021 Books
The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
Othello, by Shakespeare
Lysistrata & Thesmophoriazusae, by Aristophanes
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, by Aimé Césaire
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Nikolai Leskov
The 42nd Parallel, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
1919, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
The Big Money, The U.S.A. trilogy, by John Dos Passos
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Kakoro, by Natsume Soseki
Story of David, 1 Samuel 16-31, 2 Samuel, and 1 Kings 1-2
2020 Books
The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
Ecclesiastes, from the Bible
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope
Stoner, by John Williams
The Trees, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Fields, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Town, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius
A Madman’s Diary, by Lu Xun
Richard III, by Shakespeare
Ecclesiastes, from the Bible
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope
Stoner, by John Williams
The Trees, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Fields, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Town, from Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius
A Madman’s Diary, by Lu Xun
Richard III, by Shakespeare
2019 Books
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Acts of the Apostles
Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Tin Drum, by Günter Grass
A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
The King Must Die, by Mary Renault
Bull From the Sea, by Mary Renault
Mask of Apollo, by Mary Renault
The Histories, by Herodotus
Turn of The Screw, by Henry James
The Ink Dark Moon, by Onono Komachi & Izumi Shikibu
Acts of the Apostles
Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Tin Drum, by Günter Grass
A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
The King Must Die, by Mary Renault
Bull From the Sea, by Mary Renault
Mask of Apollo, by Mary Renault
The Histories, by Herodotus
Turn of The Screw, by Henry James
The Ink Dark Moon, by Onono Komachi & Izumi Shikibu
2018 Books
Annals, by Tacitus
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
Luke, from the New Testament
Richard II, by Shakespeare
The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
Sons, by Pearl Buck
A House Divided, by Pearl Buck
Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun
The Reivers: A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner
Songs from the Slums, by Kagawa Toyohiko
2017 Books
Silence, by Shusaku Endo
Native Son, by Richard Wright
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor
Selected song lyrics by Bob Dylan
Cymbeline, by Shakespeare
Palace Walk (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace of Desire (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
Sugar Street (Cairo Triology), by Naguib Mahfouz
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children , Susanna , and Bel and the Dragon
Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
2016 Books
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
2015 Books
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
2014 Books
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
2013 Books
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Medea by Euripides
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
As You Like It, by William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Bishop's poetry
Genesis, from the Bible
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
Medea by Euripides
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
As You Like It, by William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Bishop's poetry
Genesis, from the Bible
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
2012 Books
- Gospel of Mark, from the Bible
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Anthony & Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
- The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- Idylls of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Tao te Ching, Lao-tsu
- Symposium, Plato
- Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
- Catch 22, Joseph Heller
2011 Books
The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ecclesiastes, from the Bible
Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch
Candide, by Voltaire
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward FitzGerald
Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
The Odyssey, by Homer
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
2010 Books
Beowulf, by anonymous
Selected Poems, by various English authors
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
War and Peace, by Tolstoy
The Tempest, by Shakespeare
Revelation, (from the bible)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich
The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
Selected Poems, by various English authors
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
War and Peace, by Tolstoy
The Tempest, by Shakespeare
Revelation, (from the bible)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich
The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
2009 Books
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- King Lear, William Shakespeare
- In A Grove, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Job (from Hebrew Scriptures)
- The Iliad, Homer (2nd time for the group)
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
2008 Books
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus
- Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
- The Qu'ran
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
- Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
2007 Books
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Analects, Confucius
- The Divine Comedy, Dante
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- The Sonnets, Shakespeare
- The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare
2006 Books
- Beowulf
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
2005 Books
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- The Alhambra, Washington Irving
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Pentateuch
- The Republic, Plato
2004 Books
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- Queen Margot, Alexandre Dumas
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- The Aeneid, Virgil
- The Iliad, Homer
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- The Odyssey, Homer
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