reading list

current

• Dostoevsky, Fyodor (trans. Richard Paver & Larissa Volokhonsky) -- The Brothers Karamazov
• Hamming, Richard W -- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
• The Bible -- Wisdom Books (Lent)
• Molière -- The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

upcoming

• Aeschylus (trans. Gilbert Murray) -- The Oresteia
• Ellul, Jacques (trans. John Wilkinson) -- The Technological Society

future

• Jaynes, Julian -- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Chaucer, Geoffrey -- Canterbury Tales
• Donne, John -- Complete Works
• Bunyan, John -- Pilgrim's Progress
• Homer (trans. Robert Fitzgerald) -- The Odyssey;
  Hexter, Ralph -- A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald
• Plato -- The Republic

wish list

• McCarthy, Cormac -- The Passenger & Stella Maris
• MacIntyre, Alasdair -- After Virtue
• Seneca -- Epistles
• Marcus Aurelius -- Meditations
• Weber, Max -- The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Foucault, Michel -- The Archaeology of Knowledge
• Gogol, Nikolai -- Dead Souls
• Forster, EM -- The Machine Stops
• Crane, Hart -- The Bridge
• Meadows, Donella H -- Thinking in Systems
• Hölldobler, Bert, and EO Wilson -- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
• Lovelock, James -- Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
• Lovelock, James -- Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

recent

• The Bible
• Tuchman, Barbara W -- A Distant Mirror

past

• Rand, Ayn -- Atlas Shrugged
• Banville, John -- Doctor Copernicus
• Pynchon, Thomas -- Mason & Dixon
• Michaels, Leonard -- The Collected Stories
• McCarthy, Cormac -- The Border Trilogy
• Churchill, Winston -- The Second World War (except Triumph and Tragedy)
• Smil, Vaclav -- Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
• Hamilton, Edith -- The Greek Way & The Echo of Greece