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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Here is how we started --
our reading list from October '93 through December '94:

  • Apology and Crito, by Plato
  • Areopagitica, by John Milton
  • The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
  • The Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
  • Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw
  • The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli
  • On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
  • Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
  • An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen
  • Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud
  • The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the U.S.A.

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]