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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our seventh year --
this is what we read in 2000:

  • The Odyssey, by Homer
  • Antigone, by Sophocles and Bacchae, by Euripides
  • The Psalms, from the Bible
  • The Analects, by Confucius
  • Inferno, from The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
  • Video of Henry IV, (one part) by Shakespeare
  • Henry IV (both parts), by Shakespeare
  • Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
  • The Birth of Tragedy, by Nietzsche
  • Selected poems by Emily Dickinson
  • Two Concepts of Liberty, by Isaiah Berlin
  • Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]