Pharos Book Club Reading List
In January, 2002, five friends and I became the charter members of the Pharos Book Club, a reading group focused on great works of literature regarded as classic, innovative, or influential. When we meet on future occasions, I'll be sure to post the gist of our discussion. For now, a list of our previous readings will have to suffice.
- Ayn Rand's "Ethics of Emergencies" in The Virtue of Selfishness; Carol Shields' "Words"
- Thornton Wilder's The Bridge on San Luis Rey
- Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
- Martin Amis' Time's Arrow
- Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray
- Homer's Odyssey
- F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Poetic Principle"
- Yann Martel's Life of Pi
- Fyodr Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
- Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
- John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Rudyard Kipling's Kim
- Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
- William Gibson's Neuromancer
- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Marjane Setrapi's Persepolis
- Jonathan's Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- James Joyce's Dubliners
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