Chris Nelson (outgoing president of St. John’s College) & I talked about a lot of books during our podcast. Here’s a list of ’em!

• The Metaphysics – Aristotle
• Summa Theologiae – Thomas Aquinas
• Critique of Pure Reason – Kant
• Phenomenology of Spirit – Hegel
• Iliad – Homer
• Odyssey – Homer
• Mythology – Edith Hamilton
• Elements – Euclid
• Apology – Plato
• Crito – Plato
• Meno – Plato
• The Republic – Plato
• Declaration of Independence
• Collected Poems – Robert Frost
• The Aeneid – Virgil
• Aeneid Book VI – Seamus Heaney
• Holy Bible (specifically Job, Genesis and Matthew)
• The Chrysanthemum and the Sword – Ruth Benedict
• Oresteia – Aeschylus
• The Complete Plays – Sophocles
• Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
• War and Peace – Tolstoy
• Middlemarch – George Eliot
• Bleak House – Charles Dickens
• Persuasion – Jane Austen
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

There’ll be even more in our Fear of a Square Planet segment next month, where we tackle what he’s hoping to read in retirement!