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November-December 2001
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Your Harvard Classics"What books would you choose for a twenty-first century Harvard Classics?" the editors asked readers (November-December, page 56), inviting them to submit lists of 10 books, excluding various titles and authors deemed likely consensus choices. By press time, 38 lists were in hand. The book chosen most often was James Joyce's Ulysses (six times), followed by Lectures on Physics, by Richard Feynman (four). Some examples:
The Art of War, Sun Tzu The Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus Pensées, Blaise Pascal Emma, Jane Austen Either/Or, Søren Kierkegaard The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky Le Rouge et le Noir, Stendhal War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Marcel Proust --from Percy Crosby, Ph.D. '60, of Mesa, Arizona
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen The Man Born to Be King, He That Shall Come, and Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers The Wasteland and Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot Women Artists 1550-1950, Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin Feminism and Art History, Norma Broude and Mary Garrard Rembrandt's Aristotle and Other Rembrandt Studies, Julius Held John Adams, David McCullough The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom A Marginal Jew, John P. Meier --from Alicia Craig Faxon, A.M. '53, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Childhood and Society, Erik Erikson Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes The Double Helix, James Watson Our Town, Thornton Wilder The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber The Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche Law in Modern Society, Roberto Unger The Idea of a Christian Society, T.S. Eliot Consilience, Edward O. Wilson --from Richard B. Bloom '76, of Bristol, Pennsylvania
The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio City of God, Saint Augustine Ulysses, James Joyce Meditations, Marcus Aurelius --from Drew Chuppe '83, A.M. '88, G '90, of South Bend, Indiana
Selected Poems, Sappho Selected Writings, Hildegard of Bingen The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir The Princess of Clèves, Mme. de Lafayette A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Beloved, Toni Morrison Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson --from Ann M. Moore '61, of Hampton, Virginia
The Human Comedy, Honoré de Balzac I and Thou, Martin Buber On War, Carl von Clausewitz The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez Moby Dick, Herman Melville Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Collected Poems, William Butler Yeats --from a member of the class of '68 who wishes anonymity
From other lists: D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover; Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities; Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes; Katharine Graham, Personal History; Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah; Heinrich Böll, Billiards at Half-Past Nine; Alfred C. Kinsley, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male; Tony Kushner, Angels in America; Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers; Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics; J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground; Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland; Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard.  
 
 
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