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Titles Read By The Great Books Group from 1987 - 2008
* = indicates selections

Author Title Year
Achebe Things Fall Apart 1989-1990
Achebe Arrow of God 1990-1991
Achebe Anthills of the Savannah 1994-1995
Achebe Things Fall Apart 2005-2006
Adams, Franklin, Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 1992-1993
Adams, Henry The Education of Henry Adams 2005-2006
Aeschylus Agamemnon 1990-1991
Akhmatova Requiem 2000-2001
Aristophanes Lysistrata 1999-2000
Aristotle Politics 1988-1989
Aristotle On Happiness 1989-1990
Aristotle On Tragedy 1991-1992
Aristotle On Happiness 1993-1994
Aristotle Poetics* 1998-1999
Aristotle On Happiness* 2007-2008
Auden Poems* 1991-1992
Augustine, Saint The City of God* 1991-1992
Augustine, Saint Confessions* 1995-1996
Austen Sense and Sensibility 1987-1988
Austen Mansfield Park 1988-1989
Austen Persuasion 2001-2002
Baldwin The Fire Next Time 1992-1993
Balzac The Old Maid 2005-2006
Baudelaire The Flowers of Evil* 1997-1998
Bausch Nobody in Hollywood 1998-1999
Beckett Endgame 1997-1998
Bender Eternal Love 1998-1999
  Beowulf (trans. by Heaney) 2006-2007
Berlin Equality 1992-1993
Bible. N.T. The Gospel of Mark 1990-1991
Bible. O.T. Ecclesiastes 1991-1992
Bible. O.T. Job* 1994-1995
Bible. O.T. Genesis*, Psalms*, Isaiah* 2001-2002
Bible. O.T. Genesis* 2007-2008
Boccaccio The Decameron* 1996-1997
Borges The Garden of Forking Paths 1995-1996
Boyle Killing Babies 2003-2004
Buchner Woyzeck 1998-1999
Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France* 2006-2007
Byers Shipmates Down Under 1998-1999
Calderon Life Is a Dream 2000-2001
Camus The Guest 1996-1997
Castiglione The Book of the Courtier 1999-2000
Catullus Poems* 1997-1998
Cervantes Don Quixote* 1996-1997
Cervantes Don Quixote (trans. by Grossman) 2006-2007
Chateaubriand Rene 1998-1999
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales* 1990-1991
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales* 2004-2005
Chekhov Rothschild's Fiddle 1989-1990
Chekhov Uncle Vanya 1990-1991
Chekhov In Exile 1992-1993
Chekhov The Cherry Orchard 1997-1998
Chekhov Gooseberries, About Love, The Lady with the Dog, The Darling, Rothchild's Fiddle, and The Teacher of Literature 1999-2000
Chekhov Anna on the Neck, The House with the Mansard Roof, Chameleon, Oysters, A Living Chronology, and The Huntsman 2000-2001
Chekhov The Grasshopper, Misery, The Betrothed, and Vanka 2001-2002
Chekhov A Gentleman Friend, and The Teacher of Literature 2002-2003
Chekhov The Man in a Case, A Doctor's Visit, Dreams, and The Pecheneg 2003-2004
Chekhov Uncle Vanya, Anyuta, In Exile, Agatha, and The Student 2004-2005
Chekhov Grisha, and Whitebrow 2005-2006
Chekhov The Cherry Orchard, At Home, Rothschild's Fiddle, Sleepy, and A Journey by Cart 2006-2007
Chekhov My Life 2007-2008
Chopin The Awakening 2003-2004
Clausewitz What is War ? 1990-1991
Colette The Vagabond 1994-1995
Colette My Mother's House & Sido 1995-1996
Colette Cheri, and Last of Cheri 1999-2000
Conrad Heart of Darkness 1989-1990
Conrad The Secret Sharer 1991-1992
Conrad Heart of Darkness 2002-2003
Conrad Nostromo 2005-2006
Dante The Inferno 1996-1997
Dante Purgatorio, and Paradiso* 2000-2001
Darwin The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals 1989-1990
Darwin The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals 2006-2007
de Tocqueville Why Americans are So Often Restless 1992-1993
de Tocqueville Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare 1993-1994
de Tocqueville The Power of the Majority 1989-1990
de Tocqueville The Power of the Majority 2005-2006
DeLillo Pafko at the Wall 2002-2003
Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea 1997-1998
Dewey Habits and Will 1990-1991
Dewey Habits and Will 1993-1994
Diaz Fiesta 1998-1999
Dickens Our Mutual Friend 2004-2005
Diderot Rameau's Nephew* 1987-1988
Diderot Jacques the Fatalist 2004-2005
Diderot Rameau's Nephew* 2005-2006
Dinesen Sorrow-Acre 1992-1993
Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground 1995-1996
Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground 2001-2002
Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov 2003-2004
Douglass Narrative of the Life of an American Slave 2004-2005
Duras Hiroshima Mon Amour 1995-1996
Durban Soon 1998-1999
Eliot, G. Middlemarch 1987-1988
Eliot, G. Silas Marner 1988-1989
Eliot, T.S. Poems* 1991-1992
Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land, & other poems* 2001-2002
Eliot, T.S. Journey of the Magi 2003-2004
Emecheta The Family 1991-1992
Enchi Masks 1993-1994
Endo Deep River 1999-2000
Erasmus The Praise of Folly* 1997-1998
Eugenides Air Mail 1998-1999
Euripides Medea 1987-1988
Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis 1988-1989
Euripides Medea 1994-1995
Euripides Bacchae 2007-2008
Faulkner Barn Burning 1992-1993
Faulkner Go Down, Moses 1994-1995
Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! 2001-2002
Faulkner As I Lay Dying 2003-2004
Flaubert Madame Bovary 1988-1989
Flaubert A Simple Heart 2004-2005
Fontane Effi Briest 2003-2004
Freud Civilization and Its Discontents 1989-1990
Friel Molly Sweeney 2000-2001
Garcia Marquez Death Beyond Constant Love 1995-1996
Garcia Marquez Innocent Erendira 2002-2003
Gautreaux Little Frogs in a Ditch 1998-1999
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire* 1987-1988
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire* 1994-1995
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire* 2004-2005
Glasgow The Sheltered Life 1988-1989
Goethe Faust, Part One 2000-2001
Goethe Faust, Part One 2006-2007
Gogol The Overcoat 1987-1988
Gogol The Overcoat 1992-1993
Gogol The Overcoat 2005-2006
Gogol The Nose 2007-2008
Gould Wonderful Life 1995-1996
Greene Under the Garden 1991-1992
Ha Jin Saboteur 2007-2008
Hall From Willow Temple 2003-2004
Hamilton, Jay, and Madison The Federalist Papers 1987-1988
Hamilton, Jay, and Madison The Federalist Papers 1994-1995
Hawking A Brief History of Time 1994-1995
Hayek Planning and Democracy* 2007-2008
Heine, H.

Poems*

2001-2002
Herodotus The Persian Wars 1988-1989
Hobbes Origin of Government 1988-1989
Hobbes On Commonwealth 1992-1993
Homer The Iliad 1990-1991
Homer The Iliad* 1996-1997
Homer The Odyssey 1999-2000
Hugo Poems* 2001-2002
Hume Of Justice and Injustice 1989-1990
Hume Of Justice and Injustice 2005-2006
Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 1991-1992
Ibsen Hedda Gabler 1995-1996
Ingalls Mrs. Caliban 1990-1991
James, H. The Beast in the Jungle 1990-1991
James, H. What Maisie Knew 1993-1994
James, H. The Wings of the Dove 1996-1997
James, H. Daisy Miller 2003-2004
James, H. The Beast in the Jungle 2004-2005
James, W. Habit 1992-1993
Joyce Ulysses 2000-2001
Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1989-1990
Joyce The Dead 2003-2004
Kafka A Hunger Artist 1993-1994
Kafka The Metamorphosis 2000-2001
Kafka A Hunger Artist 2007-2008
Kant Conscience 1989-1990
Kant Conscience 1993-1994
Kant First Principles of Morals 2004-2005
Kawabata The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket 2007-2008
Kierkegaard The Knight of Faith 1988-1989
Lavin Happiness 1993-1994
Lawrence The Fox 2002-2003
Lessing Memoirs of a Survivor 1989-1990
Lessing The Good Terrorist 1991-1992
Lessing The Ant Heap 2003-2004
Levy The Periodic Table 2006-2007
Locke Of Civil Government 1988-1989
Locke Of Civil Government 1992-1993
Locke Of the Limits of Government 1993-1994
Lorca Lament of Ignacio Sanchez Mejias 1997-1998
Machiavelli The Prince 1990-1991
Machiavelli The Prince* 1996-1997
Machiavelli The Prince* (trans. by Seamus Heaney) 2006-2007
Mahfouz Midaq Alley 1990-1991
Mann Tonio Kroger 1991-1992
Mann Mario and the Magician 1996-1997
Mansfield The Garden-Party 2007-2008
Marguerite de Navarre The Heptameron* 1996-1997
Marguerite de Navarre The Heptameron 1997-1998
Marie de France Eliduc 1999-2000
Marx Alienated Labor 1989-1990
Marx The Communist Manifesto 2005-2006
Melville Billy Budd 1988-1989
Melville Billy Budd 2005-2006
Melville Bartleby the Scrivener 2007-2008
Michitsuna no Haha The Gossamer Years 1992-1993
Mill Utilitarianism 1987-1988
Mill On Liberty 1993-1994
Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 1991-1992
Moliere The Misanthrope 1987-1988
Moliere The Misanthrope 1994-1995
Moliere Tartuffe 1995-1996
Montaigne Of Experience 1987-1988
Montaigne Of Experience 1994-1995
Montaigne Of Cannibals, Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions, Apology for Raimond Sebond, and Of Repentence 2000-2001
Moore Who Will Run the Frog Hospital ? 1996-1997
Morrison Song of Solomon 1990-1991
Munro The Love of a Good Woman 2003-2004
Murdoch A Severed Head 1992-1993
Nabokov Ada, or Ardor 2001-2002
Nash Poems* 1991-1992
Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil 2003-2004
O'Brien The Country Girls 1989-1990
Oe A Personal Matter 1998-1999
Ormerod Butterfly Economics 2003-2004
Ovid Metamorphoses* 1995-1996
Ozick Save My Child! 1998-1999
Petrarch Poems* 1997-1998
Petronius The Satyricon* 2001-2002
Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author 1997-1998
Planck Physics and World Philosophy 2007-2008
Plato Symposium 1987-1988
Plato The Crito 1988-1989
Plato The Apology 1991-1992
Plato Crito 1993-1994
Plato Symposium 1994-1995
Plato Phaedo 2001-2002
Plato Apology 2004-2005
Plato The Republic* 2006-2007
Plato Apology 2007-2008
Plutarch The Life of Pompey 1991-1992
Poe The Fall of the House of Usher 2006-2007
Poggioli Storytelling in a Double Key 1999-2000
Porter Old Mortality 2002-2003
Proust Swann's Way 1992-1993
Pushkin Eugene Onegin 2000-2001
Pushkin The Queen of Spades 1995-1996
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel* 1995-1996
Racine Phaedra 1995-1996
Ridley The Origins of Virtue 1999-2000
Rilke Poems* 2001-2002
Robbe-Grillet The Secret Room 1998-1999
Rossetti Goblin Market 2007-2008
Roth Goodbye, Columbus 2005-2006
Rousseau The Social Contract 1989-1990
Rousseau Confessions* 1996-1997
Sappho Poems* 1997-1998
Schopenhauer The Indestructibility of our Inner Nature 1991-1992
Schwartz In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 1993-1994
Selzer Mortal Lessons 1998-1999
Shakespeare The Tempest 1987-1988
Shakespeare Othello 1989-1990
Shakespeare Hamlet 1990-1991
Shakespeare Macbeth 1991-1992
Shakespeare Coriolanus 1992-1993
Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 1993-1994
Shakespeare The Tempest 1994-1995
Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice 1995-1996
Shakespeare Hamlet 1996-1997
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 1997-1998
Shakespeare Richard II 1998-1999
Shakespeare Julius Caesar 1999-2000
Shakespeare Measure for Measure 2000-2001
Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice 2001-2002
Shakespeare Macbeth 2003-2004
Shakespeare King Lear 2004-2005
Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida 2005-2006
Shakespeare Cymbeline 2005-2006
Shakespeare Pericles 2006-2007
Shakespeare Twelfth Night 2007-2008
Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra 1987-1988
Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra 1994-1995
Shaw Saint Joan 2004-2005
Shreve The Weight of Water 1998-1999
Simmel Individual Freedom 1989-1990
Smith Wealth of Nations 1988-1989
Solzhenitsyn Matryona's Home 1995-1996
  The Song of Roland 1999-2000
Sophocles Antigone 1991-1992
Sophocles Antigone 1993-1994
Sophocles Oedipus the King 2001-2002
Sor Juana Reply to Sor Filotea… 1997-1998
Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel 1997-1998
Spence Missing Women 2003-2004
Stead The Little Hotel 1993-1994
Stendhal The Red and the Black 1993-1994
Stone Under the Pitons 1998-1999
Swift Gulliver's Travels 1988-1989
Swift A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms 2006-2007
Thomas The Lives of a Cell 1996-1997
Thoreau Civil Disobedience 1988-1989
Thoreau Civil Disobedience 2005-2006
Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War* 1990-1991
Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War* 2004-2005
Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych 1990-1991
Tolstoy After the Ball 1992-1993
Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and How Much Land Does a Man Need? 2002-2003
Tolstoy War and Peace 2007-2008
Trollope The Warden 1996-1997
Trollope Barchester Towers 1997-1998
Trollope Doctor Thorne 1999-2000
Trollope The Warden 2006-2007
Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2007-2008
Villon Ballade, and The Testament 1999-2000
Virgil The Aeneid* 1996-1997
Virgil The Aeneid* 1998-1999
Voltaire Candide 2000-2001
Weber The Spirit of Capitalism 1994-1995
Wharton Ethan Frome 2002-2003
Whitman Poems* 1991-1992
Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest 2000-2001
Woodward The Burden of Southern History 1997-1998
Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 1987-1988
Woolf A Room of One's Own 1993-1994
Woolf Powder 1998-1999
Woolf The Mark on the Wall 2007-2008
Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian 1998-1999