I saw this on a friends reading blog, and thought it was a nice idea, so i'm going to borrow it! I'll need to get The Well Educated Mind from the library and read through it (will count that as one of my books), but i've found their list of books through a search until i can get a library card to read the book. There are 5 genres as listed in The Well-Educated Mind: fiction, autobiography, history/politics, drama, and poetry. I'm going to pick 2 books from each category to read this year, although i may read more.
Fiction:
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
Autobiography:
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself- Teresa of Avila (1588)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life- C.S. Lewis (1955)
History/Politics:
Utopia- Sire Thomas More (1516)
A MidwifeΚΌs Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary- Laura Thatcher Ulrich (1990)
Drama:
Medea- Euripides (c. 431 B.C.)
Saint Joan- George Bernard Shaw (1924)
Poetry:
The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.)
The Iliad and the Odyssey- Homer (c. 800 B.C.)
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