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!
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