October - Edith Wharton: "Roman Fever," "Xingu," "The Letters," "The Other Two," "The Verdict," and "The Valley of Childish Things and Other Emblems."
September - The Well Beloved
August - Borges short stories
July - Out to Dinner
June - Art of Courtly Love
May - Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History
April - Hadji Marad
March - The City of Ladies
February - Canterbury Tales
January - The Goldern Bowl
Reading List 2009
December
November - Inferno
October - Augustine's Confessions
September - Tacitus The Annals of Rome (c 117 AD). Translation by Michael Grant, pub 1998. (I just discovered there is a newer translation by AJ Woodman that may be better, pub 2004. There are some copies at the BYU library, and Orem/Provo libraries have a Recorded Books audio version that you can download, probably for a fee) Imperial Rome, Part One: Tiberius. Chapter 1 “From Augustus to Tiberius”; Chapter 7 “Partner of My Labours” Part Two: Claudius and Nero. Chapter 11 “The Fall of Agrippina”, [FYI: Chapter 12 “Nero and His Helpers” has an account of Boudicca and the battle of the Britons], Chapter 14 “The Burning of Rome”, Chapter 15 “The Plot” and Chapter 16 “Innocent Victims”
August - The Aneid
July - Greek Poetry
June - Odysseus
May - Metamorphosis
April - Oedipus Rex
March -She got up off the couch
February -
January - Growth of the Soil - Tamara
2007 - 2008
November - The Shell Seekers - Candice,
October - Frankenstein - Emily Clark
September - Austen, Persuasion - Nancy
August - Dermout, The 10,000 Things - Mary
July - Chopin, The Awakening - Heidi
June - Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo - Jennifer
May - Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog - Alia
April - C onrad, Lord Jim - Sharon
March - Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea - Emily Clark
February - Dineson, Babett's Feast - Emily Brown
January - Dickens, Bleak House - Tamara
November - Cather, My Antonia - Nancy
October - Ford, The Good Soldier - Heidi
September - Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Sharon
August - Woolf, To the Lighthouse -
July - Eliot, Silas Marner - Elena
Books We've Read
SINCE 2002
An Immovable Feast
The Book Thief
The Alchemist
Gilead
Jane Eyre
Hotel Splendid
End of the Affair
Tess
Ivan Ilyich
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
A Man for All Seasons?
The Girl with the PEarl EArring
Cry the Beloved Country
Tartuffe
Richard III
The Tempest
Measure for Measure
Sonnets
Othello
Cymbalene
Macbeth
Twelfth Night
Sonnets
Romeo and Juliet
As You Like It
King Lear
Pere Goriot
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Invisible Man
children of Gebellawi
John Adams
As I Lay Dying
Ivanhoe
Resurrection
Silas Marner
Angle of Repose
Madame Bovary
Middlemarch
Emma
Brothers Karamsozov
Totto Chan
The Buccaneers
SINCE 1996
Death Comes to the Archbishop - Heidi
Huck Finn - Sharon
Scarlet Letter - ? Jeanne Sorensen
The Woman in White - Brenda Christensen
Wings of the Dove - Heidi
What Maisie Knew - Heidi
Washington Square - Heidi
To the LIghthouse - Sharon
Till We Have Faces - Traci Blair
Summer - Jeanne Townsend
Short Stories - Eudora Welty - Mary Lynn
Short Stories - Somerset Maugham - Brenda Christensen
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