Books Selected Fall 1995-2006
1995-1996 (Theme: Blind Allegience)
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nightingale's Song by Tinberg
Richard II by Shakespeare
Poems by Whitman, Yeats, Seaney & Brooke
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
1996 (Theme: The Scapegoat)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonnus
Antigone
Love: Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda
Paul Robeson: a Biography by Duberman
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1997 (Theme: Romantic Love)
Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicholson
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
Selected Sonnets
Othello
Lolita Vladimir by Nabokov
1997-1998 (Theme: Journey to the Inner Hero)
The Odyssey by Homer ( Fagles)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Light in August by William Faulkner
In her Own Right: Life of E.C. Stanton by Elizabeth Griffith
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Ulysses by James Joyce
1998-1999 (Theme: Family: TheTies that Bind)
King Lear by Shakespeare
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Washington Square by Henry James
American Requiem by James Carroll
Time After Time by Molly Keane
Dreams of My Russian Summer by Andrei Makine
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov
1999-2000 (Theme: Works of Prophecy)
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Book of Jeremiah by Old Testament
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
Twelfth Night Shakespeare
Songs of Innocense and Experience by William Blake
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
2000-2001 ( Theme: Boston)
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Selected Short Stories by Nathanial Hawhtorne
Growing up in Boston's Gilded Age by A.S. Blackwell
Looking for Rachel by Wallace R. Parker
The Living is Easy by D. West
All on Fire: W.L. Garrison & the Abolition of Slavery by
Henry Mayer
The Late George Apley by J.P. Marquand
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
2001 (Theme: Money Matters: How Money Talks)
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Native Son by Richard Wright
Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
2001-2002 (Theme: Global Perspectives: Struggles for
Identity)
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
My Children, My Africa (1989) by Athol Fugard
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
2002 (Theme: Pairs)
Antigone by Sophocles
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Book of Job Old Testament
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
Beowolf by Seamus Heaney (Trans.)
Grendel by John Gardner
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Castaway by James Gould Cozzens
2002-2003
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Man's Fate by Andre Malraux
The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell
Aspects of the Novel by E.M.Forster
Howard's End
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Budding Grove
2003-2004
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by
Martha
Nussbaum
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
2005-2006
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevski
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kanantakis
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kirekegaard
History of the World in 10 1/2 Days by Julian Barnes
Heart
of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The
History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
Fathers
and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The
Leopard by G. di Lampedusa
The
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene