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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our fifteenth year --
this is what we read in 2008:

  • The Frogs by Aristophanes
  • Satyricon by Petronius
  • Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
  • The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturleson
  • Marco Polo's Travels
  • Selections from Martin Luther and Meister Eckhart
  • The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
  • The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
  • Eugenie Grandet by Balzac
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]