Boulder Great Books Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch Reading Group
2008 Reading List Even-Date Wednesday Nights from 7:30PM to 8:45PM.

January 9, 2008 Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (776 pages)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear Volokhonsky translation preferred)

January 16, 2008 Mary McCarthy, The Oasis (136 pages)

January 30, 2008 The Acquisitive Society (192 pages)

R. H. Tawney [In Vol 57 of the 60 volume set of the Great Books]

February 6, 2008 Albert Camus, The Fall (160 pages)

February 20, 2008 Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class

Veblen Dover Thrift Edition (256 pages)

March 12, 2008 Monica Ali, Brick Lane (369 pages)

March 26, 2008 ** Oath, Ancient Medicine, and Sacred Disease

Hippocrates Great Books Vol. 10, pp. xiii, 1-9, 154-160
Camus Albert Camus, The Stranger (123 pages)

April 2, 2008 Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (343 pages)

April 16, 2008 ** Plato, "The Meno" Great Books Vol. 7, pp. 174-190

April 30, 2008 Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You (400 pages)

May 14, 2008 ** Aristotle, GB V 8, pp. 642-656; V 9, pp. 161-169

Aristotle "On the Soul" and "On the Parts of Animals"

May 28, 2008 Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate (336 pages)

June 4, 2008 ** Galen, Great Books V 10, pp. 167-199

Galen "On the Natural Faculties" Books I and II

June 18, 2008 Jill Paton Walsh, A Desert in Bohemia (322 pages)

July 2, 2008 ** Aquinas, Great Books Vol. 20, pp. 1-25

Aquinas Summa Theologica, Part I-II, QQ. XLIX-LIV.

July 16, 2008 Shakespeare, "Henry VIII"

July 30, 2008 Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety (341 pages)

August 6, 2008 ** Hobbes, Great Books Vol. 23, pp. 49-76

Hobbes Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 1-10

August 20, 2008 ** Locke, GB Vol. 35, pp.121-147, 178-186, 220-222

Locke "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", Book II

September 10, 2008 Patricia Grace, Potiki (186 pages)

September 24, 2008 ** Harvey, GB Vol. 28, pp. 267-304

Harvey "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals"

October 8, 2008 Harriet Doerr, The Tiger in the Grass: Short Stories and Other Inventions (224 pages)

October 22, 2008 ** Darwin, GB Vol 49, pp. 32-64, 255-319

Darwin The Origin of Species, Ch. 3 - 4 and

The Descent of Man, Ch. 1 - 4

November 12, 2008 Amy Herrick The Happiness Code

Herrick (310 pages )

November 26, 2008 ** William James, GB Vol 53, pp. 146-179, 191-194, 204-223, 743-757, 796-829

James The Principles of Psychology, Ch. 9- 10, 25 - 26

December 10, 2008 The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars

Burnham Sophy Burnham (304 pages)