buy and read every title in "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" : Read dozens of major works of literature, poetry, and philosophy over the next forty years.

June – September

the Bible
^{“We assume that nearly every reader of this book will own a Bible and be at least somewhat accustomed to reading it; there is nothing we might try to say about it that would not seem presumptuous.” Well sir, an assumption and a dollar won’t get you a cup of Starbucks coffee! I’m halfway done with it, I just need to buy a new one and dive back in.}

Virginia Wolf Orlando
or
Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass
^{This will be my selection for my reading club at work.}

October

John Stuart Mill On Liberty
^{“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives” (JSM) I own it, it’s thin, and it’s essential reading. Yay!}

Other Books that I Own Already

1. Confucius, 551-479 BCE. The Analects
   
2. Plato, 428-348 BCE. Selected Works
   
3. The Bhagavad Gita
   
4. Marcus Aurelius, 121-180. Meditations
   
5. Niccolò Macchiavelli, 1469-1527. The Prince
   
6. David Hume, 1711-1776. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882. Selected Works
8. John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873. On Liberty
9. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. David Copperfield
10. Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Robert Teeter’s version of the list

and a briefer version of the list

I’m languishing in Night Town right now. Hoping to finish Ulysses and then find a couple more audio titles for the daily commute.

I better live a long, long time!

I finally finished Dead Souls. There’s apparently other good Gogol out there.

Mr. Fadiman tells me he assumes that I have a familiarity with the Bible, so I am listening to the whole deal while commuting to work. Concurrently, I am reading Dead Souls, by Gogol.

I’ve gotten off track but I’ve put a pretty good dent in the list over the years, so no worries. I’ve recently Read a number of titles not on the list (Omnivores Dilemma, Zuleika Dobson, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) and I’m onto another one not on the list: The Bible.

I am interested in a copy of this book. Anyone have a copy? I would gladly pay shipping.

I’m currently reading Pensees by Blaise Pascal.

I’ve finished The Age of Innocence as well as the House of Mirth.

I finished Orlando and As I Lay Dying. I’m a bit tired of stream-of-consciousness novels for now. What next?