Past Readings

2019 - 2011

2019

  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  • Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel
 
2018
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • Passing by Neila Larsen
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
 
2017
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Kreutzer Sonata
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • Rise of the Robots
 
2016
  • Death of Ivan Ilych
  • Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Disgraced: A Play
  • Meaning of Human Existence
 
2015
  • August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
  • The Guide: A Novel by RK Narayan
  • The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  • The Yellow Sofa by Eca Queiros
 
2014
  • Old Mortality by Katherine Anne Porter (ISBN #9780151707553)
  • Becket or the Honor of God by Jean Anouilh (ISBN #9781573225083)
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (ISBN #9780618526413)
  • The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal (ISBN #9780312569372)
 
2013
  • Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller, 978-0936839004
  • All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West, 978-0860683582
  • Silence, Shusaku Endo, 978-0800871864
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, by Richard P. Feynman, 0465023959
 
2012
  • Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin,  978-0375406720
  • The Profressor’s House by Willa Cather, 978-067973181801
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 978-1400052189
  • Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 978-095986832
 
2011
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien,  978-0618706419; paperback, 2009
  • The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Lawrence and Lee, 978-0809012237
  • The Dead by James Joyce, 978-0974960906; paperback, Sept. 2004
  • The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan, 978-1596913431; paperback, 2007

2010-1993

2010

  • The Man Who Would be King, Rudyard Kipling
  • Phaedra, Jean Racine
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
  • The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

2009

  • A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by, Solzhenitsyn
  • Snow by,  Pamuk
  • Saint Joan by, Shaw
  • The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed -Vaillant

2008

  • Doubt, John Shanley
  • The Future of Life, Edward Wilson
  • The Summer Before Dark, Doris Lessing
  • The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene

2007

  • Candide, Voltaire
  • The End of Faith, Sam Harris
  • The Tragedy of Richard III, Shakespeare
  • Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee

2006

  • An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
  • Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe
  • Rivers Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins
  • The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

2005

  • Antigone, Sophocles
  • Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
  • The Giver, Lois Lowry
  • Billy Budd, Herman Melville

2004

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello
  • A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis and Fari Amini
  • Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

2003

  • Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn
  • Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day
  • A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
  • Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor

2002

  • Beowulf
  • Happiness by Lavin
  • The Plague by Camus
  • The True Believer by Hoffer

2001

  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • The Stranger by Camus
  • The Intuitionist by Whitehead
  • Consillience by Wilson

2000

  • Sorrow Acre by Dinesen
  • Enduring Love by McEwan
  • Gilgamesh
  • The Origins of Virtue by Ridley

1999

  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus
  • The Heart of  Darkness by Conrad
  • Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot
  • Beloved by Morrison

1998

  • The Yellow Sofa by de Queiros
  • The Grand  Inquisitor by Dostoevsky
  • Regeneration by Barker
  • Selected Poems[/one-half-first]

1997

  • The Moral Animal by Sophocles
  • The Axemaker’s Gift by Burke
  • Love and Other Demons by Marquez
  • The Spinoza of Market Street by Singer

1996

  • Pierre and Jean by deMaupassant
  • The Unconscious Civilization by Saul
  • The Green Pastures by Connelly
  • Evolution’s End by Pearce

1995

  • Care of the Soul by Moore
  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Berlin
  • The Shipping News by Proulx
  • The Disuniting of America by Schlessenger, Jr.

1994

  • Ecotopia by Callenbach
  • Technopoly s by Postman
  • All Passion Spent by Sackville-West
  • The English Patient by Ondaatje

1993

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Angelou
  • A Brief History of Time by Hawking
  • You Just  Don’t Understand by Tannen
  • Chelkash by Gorky

1992 - 1983

1992

  • The Trojan Women by Euripides
  • The Quantum Self by Zohar
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Rousseau
  • To All Appearances a Lady by Bowerman

1991

  • The Way of Life by Tse
  • The Chalice and the Blade by Eiseler
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Fear of Falling by Ehrenreich

1990

  • A Whale for the Killing by Mowat
  • Necessary Illusions by Chomsky
  • Saint Joan by Shaw
  • To Have or To Be by Fromm

1989

  • The Old Gringo by Fuentes
  • Setting Limitsby Callahan
  • Myths to Live By by Campbell
  • The Conquest of Happiness by Russell

1988

  • Oration on the Dignity of Man by Mirandola
  • What’s Bred in the Bone by Davies
  • Breakthrough by Gromyko & Hellman
  • My Dinner with Andre by Shawn & Gregory

1987

  • Zero Sum Society by Thurow
  • Ironweed by Kennedy
  • Relativity and its Roots by Hoffman
  • The Accidental Tourist by Tyler

1986

  • Medea by Euripides
  • Common Sense by Paine
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Craven
  • Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler by Thomas

1985

  • Quartet in Autumn by Pym
  • Cry the Beloved Country by Paton
  • The Nature of Man by Wilson
  • Confederacy of Dunces by Toole

1984

  • The Trial by Kafka
  • Pale Fire by Nabokov
  • The Undiscovered Self by Jung
  • Man’s Fate by Malreaux

1983

  • Gnostic Gospels by Pagels
  • Other Worlds by Davies
  • Baha Ullah and the New Era
  • Breaking Smith’s Quarterhorse by St. Pierre

1982-1973

1982

  • The River by O’Connor
  • Stress without Distress by Selye
  • Letters from Earth by Twain

1981

  • Medusa and the Snail by Thomas
  • No Man’s Land by Pinter
  • Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse
  • Mr. God, This is Anna by Fynn

1980

  • Alice in Wonderland by Carroll
  • The Uses of Enchantment by Bettelheim
  • The Double Helix by Watson
  • The Educated Imagination by Frye

1979

  • If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him by Kopp
  • Pnin by Nabokov
  • The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Florman
  • Man and Superman by Shaw

1978

  • Fifth Business by Davies
  • Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Pearce
  • Mother Night by Vonnegut
  • Adventures of Augie March by Bellow

1977
Readings were not recorded

1976

  • Lives of a Cell by Thomas
  • Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runnerby Sillitoe
  • The Castle by Kafka
  • Ecotopia by Callenbach

1975

  • Limits to Growth by Meadows
  • The Urban Prospect by Mumford
  • Scenes from a Marriage by Bergman
  • A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Solzhenitsen

1974

  • The Stone Angel by Laurence
  • Celebration of Awareness by Illich
  • Looking Backward by Bellamy
  • Sword of Golem by Rothberg

1973

  • The Irrational Man by Barrett
  • The Possessed by Camus
  • Aaron’s Rod by Lawrence
  • The Invisible Pyramid by Eisely