2023 Jul-Sep : Book Recommendations

Fiction

Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

A Time Elsewhere – J.P. Das

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

Two Scorched Men – Margaret Atwood

Where Reasons End – Yiyun Li

Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy – Bertrand Russell

In Praise of Shadows – Junichirō Tanizaki

On Bullshit – Harry Frankfurt

The Art of Worldly Wisdom – Balthazar Grácian

A Summer with Montaigne – Antoine Compagnon

Biography / Memoir

Faiz – Surinder Deol

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Matsuo Basho

Marriage Story – Richard Russo

Writing into the Wound – Roxane Gay

In Search of the Free Individual – Svetlana Alexievich

Classic Plays

Persians – Aeschylus (from: The Greek Plays)

Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus (from: The Greek Plays)

Antigone – Sophocles (from: The Greek Plays)

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Shakespeare’s Plays

Roman Tragedies:

• Coriolanus
• Julius Caesar
• Antony and Cleopatra

Christian Tragedies:

• Hamlet
• Othello
• Macbeth

Pagan Tragedies:

• Timon of Athens
• Troilus and Cressida
• King Lear

The Henriad:

• Henry IV (Part I)
• Henry IV (Part II)
• Henry V

Commentary on Shakespeare

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human – Harold Bloom

Hamlet: Poem Unlimited – Harold Bloom

Shakespeare’s Rome – Paul Cantor

Shakespeare After All – Marjorie Garber

Shakespeare – Mark Van Doren

Reading and Writing

Aspects of the Novel – E.M. Foster

Lost in Thought – Zena Hitz

I’d rather be reading – Anne Bogel

The Art of Brevity – Grant Faulkner

The Art of Subtext – Charles Baxter

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