Books Selected 2000-2007
2007 Book Selections
Henry Adams - Esther
R. H. Dana - Two Years Before the Mast
C. F. Woolson - "Miss Grief" &
"St. Clair Flats"
Henry James - The Aspern Papers
Edith Wharton - Summer &
Ethan Frome
Stephen and Paul Kendrick - Sarah's
Long Walk
2006 Book Selections
John Ferling - Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tulmutuous
Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Andrew Delbanco - Writing New England: An Anthology from the
Puritans to the Present
Megan Marshall - The Peabody
Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Gary Wills - Henry Adams and the
Making of America
Henry Adams - The History of
the United States of America During the Administration of Thomas
Jefferson
Sarah Orne Jewett - The
Country of the Pointed First
Henry Beston - The Outermost
House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Ida Hay - Science in the
Pleasure Ground: A History of the Arnold Arboretum
Zadie Smith - On Beauty (With
Howard's End by E. M. Forester)
Nicholas F. Webber - Patron Saints:
Five Rebels Who Opened America to New Art
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The
Scarlet Letter (With Essay
on the Book by D. H. Lawrence)
2005 Book Selections
Larry
McMurtry – Duane Depressed
Henry David
Thoreau - Walking
Emily
Dickinson – selected poems
Andrew
Delbanco - Writing New England, Dissident Dreamers
Simon Schama - Dead Certainties
Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
Peter Davison - The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955-60
Henry W.
Longfellow - The Song of Hiawatha
2004 Book Selections
Robert
Lowell – selected poems
John Demos
-
The Unredeemed Captive
Benjamin
Franklin - Autobiography
Henry David
Thoreau - Walden, Short Essay on Civil Obedience
William
James - Varieties of Religious Experience
Robert
Frost – selected poems
William
Dean Howells – A Hazard of New Fortunes
Henry Adams
– Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
John
Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle
2003 Book Selections
Henry James
- The Europeans
Arthur
Miller - The Crucible
Alexis de
Toqueville - Democracy in America
Mona Domosh
- Invented Cities
Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard
Edmund S.
Morgan - The Puritan Dilemma
Edmund S.
Morgan - Benjamin Franklin
Jean
Stafford - Boston Adventure
2001-2002 Book Selections
George
Santayana - The Last Puritan
Henry James
- The Bostonians
Witold
Rybczynski - A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick L. Olmstead
& America in the 19 th C.
Herman
Melville - Moby-Dick
Herman
Melville - Billy Budd
Nathaniel
Hawthorne - Blithedale Romance
Louis
Menand - The Metaphysical Club
Henry Adams
- The Education of Henry Adams
Robert
Linscott, ed.- State of Mind
Read in 2000
Edwin
O’Connor - The Last Hurrah
Nathaniel
Hawthorne – short sories
Alice Stone
Blackwell - Growing Up in Boston’s Gilded Age 1872-74
Robert B. Parker - Looking for Rachel Wallace
Dorothy
West - The Living is Easy
Henry Mayer
- All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison
J.P.Marquand
- The Late George Apley
William
Dean Howells - The Rise of Silas Lapham