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Below is a list of those books not assigned by the university that I have read and (for the most part) enjoyed so far this year:
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Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
Lion in the White house: a life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida Donald
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Archarnians by Aristophanes
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: books that changed the world by Alberto Manguel
Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington by Cathcart and Klein
Alexandria: City of the Modern Mind by Pollard and Reid
Augustus by Anthony Everitt
Philoctetes by Sophocles
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
Protagoras by Plato
Bring Out Your Dead: the past as revelation by Anthony Grafton
Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Alcestis by Euripides
The Form of Things by A. C. Grayling
Divus Augustus (in Latin) by Suetonius
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
A History of Histories: Epics, chronicles, romances, and inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the twentieh century by John Burrow
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish by Peter Parsons
Stefan Zweig: Great European by Jules Romains
The Lost Library: an autobiography of a culture by Walter Mehring
The Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne by Philip Mansel
Cowboys into Gentlemen: Rhodes scholars, Oxford, and the creation of an American Elite by Schaeper and Schaeper
Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living by Robert Arbor
The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the fate of his lost library by Marcus Tanner
The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
Amok and other stories by Stephan Zweig
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective by Kate Summerscale
Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000 by Christopher Stray
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960 by Christopher Stray
Classics in 19th and 20th century Cambridge : curriculum, culture and community edited by Christopher Stray
The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses by Noel Annan
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Oxford Book of Oxford compiled and edited by Jan Morris
Thoughts by Giacomo Leopardi
The Greatest Minds and Thinkers of All Time by Will Durrant
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Fantastic Night and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
The Road to Monticello: the Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Kevin J. Hayes
Life of the Mind: on the Joys and Travails of Thinking by James V. Schall
Leopardi: a study in solitude by Iris Origo
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: from ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq by Fernando Baez