The Next Selection

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Just the essay itself not the whole book)

Enjoy

What we Have Read So Far

Chekov, Uncle Vanya, the Cherry Orchard and other plays

India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das-David

De Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Twain, Roughing It

Jefferson -- notes from Va. And autobio

Musil-- man without qualities

Mann -- magic mountain

Vetruvius, Twelve Books of Architecture and Palladio, Four Books of Architecture

William James-- pragmaitism

Bulgakov -- the White Guard

Our Final Home, Rees

Persepolis, Satrapi
Watchmen, moore

The Lunar Men, Uglow

Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

The Leopard, di Lampedusa

The Federalist Papers

Solzenytsin-- First Circle

Pamuk, Museum of Innocence

Appel, Jazz Modernism

Bellow, Augie March

Rorty, achieving our country; essays by Emerson

Whittman, selections from Leaves of Grass

Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

McBeth; also, Witches and Jesuits,
Study of mcb by Gary Wills

Faith and Treason, Fraser

Readings in Aesthetics, Kandinsky, Bergson, Bell (Art), Weschler (Boggs) and others

Dorris Kearns, Team of Rivals

In A Dark Wood Wandering, Haasse

The Kite Runner, Hosseini

Thorough, Walden Pond and Civil Dis.

The metaphysical Club, Menand

Proust, Swan's Way

Proust, Within a Budding Grove

History of India

Good Soldier Shvejk, Hasek

Wittegenstein's Poker, Edmonds and Eidenow

Kind of Blue (re miles Davis), Kahn

Einstein, Isaacson

Mokyr, Gifts of Athena

From Soul to Mind, Read

Human, Gazzaniga

The Singularity--kurzweil

Watson, the Double Helix

101 Books for my Daughter

My daughter and I were in a Borders and found a book called 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. It was arranged chronologically by millennium and then century. I had read a decent number of them and my daughter had read a few. When my wife finally dragged us out of there, my daughter asked if Laura and I would put together a description of at least 100 books she should read and why. Two I know I will include for very different reasons are "The Great Gatsby" and Asimov's "Foundation".

Obviously we have very different kids at very different stages of life but if your kids asked you the same question, what would you include?