Nominations for 2017 Schedule for Great Books KC
• Re-reading books we have read before
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner (1959) <-also recent
Qur'an (religious text of Islam)
Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville (992 pages) <-also long
• A selection from the Bible
Book of Exodus
Ezra plus Chapter 13 of Nehemiah
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
Genesis <-also reread
• A selection from the Greeks or Romans
The Fragments, by Heraclitus
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
The Histories, by Herodotus
The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
• A selection from Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare
Macbeth, by Shakespeare
Richard III, by Shakespeare
Cymbeline, by Shakespeare
• A work of poetry
The Times They Are A Changin by Bob Dylan (1964 Album, ten tracks)
The Song of Roland, (French epic, author anonymous)
• A non-Western selection
Silence by Shusaku Endo (1966, 256 pages) <-also recent
Flowers in the Mirror, by Li Ruzhen (1830, 300 pages)
• A selection by a female author
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
O Pioneers, by Willa Cather (1913) <-also recent
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor (276 pages)
• A recent (1900-1966) selection
Herzog, by Saul Bellow (1964)
The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow (1953)
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952) <-African American author
Native Son, by Richard Wright (1940) <-African American author
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
The Trial, by Franz Kafka (1925) <-German
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
A shorter work
Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow (1956) (144 pages) <-also recent
Flatland, by Edwin Abbott (96 pages)
Candide, by Voltaire (84 pages) <-also a repeat
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli (80 pages)
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (128 pages) <-play
Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard (160 pages)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
by William Harvey (91 pages)
Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (134 pages) <-play, German
by Frederich Douglas (96 pages) <-African American author
• A Long Work (for June, July & August)
Cantos, by Ezra Pound (896 pages) <-also poetry
The Last Puritan, by George Santayana (1936, 721 pages)
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (960 pages)
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (1200 pages) (1957) <-also female author & recent
• No Particular Category
Emile or On Education, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (500 pages) <-French
