Boulder Great Books      Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch Reading Group
2009 Reading List     Even-Date Wednesday Nights from 7:30PM to 8:45PM.

January 14, 2009        Freud, Great Books Vol 54, pp. 1-20, 38-59,

 Freud                                                  526-539, 569-585, 818-840

              Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis, Ch 3 and

   General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis, Lectures 13-14, 20-21

       [Note:  Last selection of Great Ideas Program, Vol 9, “Biology, Psychology, & Medicine”]

 

January 28, 2009        Sylvia Plath (US) The Bell Jar  (288 pages)

 

February 4, 2009        Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Germany)

  Jhabvala                           Heat and Dust  (190 pages)

 

February 18, 2009 **             Gao Xingjian (China - 2000) Soul Mountain

  Xingjian                                                         Chapters 1 to 44

March 4, 2009 **          Gao  Xingjian Soul Mountain Chapters 45 to 81

 

March 18, 2009             George Eliot Daniel Deronda Books I to IV

 

April 8, 2009                    George Eliot Daniel Deronda Books V to VIII

 

April 22, 2009                  Buddha’s “Long Discourses” (“Digha Nikaya”)

                           http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/index.html   

                                                      [May 2nd is Vesak (“Buddha Day”)]

 

May 6, 2009 **               Pearl Buck (US - 1938)

  Buck                                                A House Divided             (348 pages)

 

May 20, 2009                  Edith Wharton (United States)

  Wharton                                          The House of Mirth             (352 pages)

 

June 10, 2009           Roddy Doyle (Ireland) 

  Doyle                                               Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (288 pages)

 

June 24, 2009                 Anne Tyler (United States)           (336 pages)

  Tyler                                     Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 

 

July 8, 2009                      Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”

 

July 22, 2009                   Gita Mehta (India) A River Sutra  (304 pages)

 

August 12, 2009 **     Jose Saramago (Portugal - 1998) Blindness

 

August 26, 2009          Willa Cather (United States) (352 pages)

  Cather                                 The Great Short Works of Willa Cather 

 

September 2, 2009 **           Paul Heyse (Germany - 1910)

  Heyse                                  The Fury” and “Andrea Delfin” (2 novellas)

                           [Delfin is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3156

                                          and Fury at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5431]

 

September 16, 2009 **        Anatole France (France - 1921)

  France                                              The Gods are Athirst (113 pages)

                                                      [ http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24010 ]

 

September 30, 2009 **       Doris Lessing (England - 2007)

  Lessing                                            The Grass is Singing      

 

October 14, 2009               CarlJung (Switzerland)

  Jung                                        Modern Man In Search of a Soul (252 pages)

 

October 28, 2009 **               Grazia Deledda (Italy - 1926)

  Deledda                                          The Mother  (252 pages)

 

November 4, 2009                   Nikki Giovanni (US) (96 pages, poetry)

  Giovanni                                                      Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day 

 

November 18, 2009 **         Pablo Neruda (Chile - 1971)

  Neruda                                             The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

 

December 2, 2009 **             Rudolf Eucken (Germany - 1908) (30 pages)

  Eucken   Ethics and modern thought; a theory of their relations

 

December 16, 2009                Krishnamurti Think on These Things

  Krishnamurti                                                          (272 pages)

 

January 6, 2010                     Simone de Beauvoir (France) (162 pages)

 de Beauvoir                           The Ethics of Ambiguity

          http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/index.htm

 

January 20, 2010 **               Jean Paul Sartre (France - 1964)

  Sartre                                  Existentialism is a Humanism

          http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm

 

February 10, 2010                   (3 week gap here so choose a long one)

 

February 24, 2010                   Iris Murdoch (England) The Bell (320 pages)

  Murdoch              Reading Guide: http://www.greatbooks.org/library/guides/the-bell.html



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