Reading Log Index

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; January 2008
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeral; Demember 2007
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; December 2007
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; November 2007
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; November 2007
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams; October 2007
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; October 2007
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway; October 2007
Faust by J.W. von Goethe; September 2007
Dali by Robert Descharnes; May 2007
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway; March 2007
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo by Plato; March 2007
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; December 2006
The Creative Brain by Nancy Andreasen; December 2006
Don Quioxte by Miguel de Cervantes; December 2006
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II; October 2006
A Doll's House by Henrich Ibsen; September 2006
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe; September 2006
Word Play by Stephan Fatsis; August 2006
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alleghieri; August 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; June 2006
The New North American Trout Fishing by John Merwin; July 2006
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; May 2006
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; May 2006
Daisy Miller by Henry James; April 2006
1776 by David McCullough; April 2006
The Crucible by Arthur Miller; March 2006
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; March 2006
Mark Twain by Ron Powers; December 2005
Bono: In Conversation by Michka Assayas; July 2005
The Color Purple by Alice Walker; August 2005
Savage Inequalitites by Jonathan Kozol; July 2005
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen; July 2005
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals; June 2005
Mosaic of Thought; June 2005
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis; April 2005
Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David Friedman; April 2005
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; April 2005
From Jerusalem to Antioch by Jerome Crowe; April 2005
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis; March 2005
The Cantebury Tales by Geoffry Chaucer; February 2005
Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel; January 2005
Candide by Voltaire; December 2004
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of a Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer; November 2004
The Call of the Wild by Jack London; November 2004
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; November 2004
Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps and the Politics of Revenge by E.J. Dionne; November 2004
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips; October 2004
Billy Budd by Herman Melville; August 2004
Hospitals: What They Are & How They Work by I. Donal Snook, Jr.; August 2004
Beowulf by Anonymous; July 2004
Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson; June 2004
The Awakening by Kate Chopin; June 2004
Booknotes on American Character by Brian Lamb; May 2004
The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston
Wealth & Democracy by Kevin Phillips; June 2004
As You Like It by William Shakespeare; April 2004
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; March 2004
Animal Farm by George Orwell; March 2004
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren; March 2004
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; February 2004
The Aeneid by Virgil; February 2004
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; January 2004
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom; December 2003
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; January 2004
Poorhouse Jed by Horatio Alger; September 2003
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown; October 2003
Left Behind by Tim LaHayne; September 2003
The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara; September 2003
Joined at the Heart by Al & Tipper Gore
Rebecca by Daphne DeMaurier; July 2003
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Mozarts Brain and the Fighter Pilot by Richard Restak
When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough by Harold Kushner; February 2003
John Adams by David McCullough; January 2003
Full of Grace by Terry Golway; November 2002
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara; November 2002
The First Billion by Christopher Reich; October 2002
Self Matters by Dr. Phillip McGraw; April 2003
Cosbeyology by Bill Cosby; August 2002
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; June 2003
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand; July 2002
Jack: Straight From the Gut by Jack Welch; May 2002
It's Only a Game by Terry Bradshaw; August 2002
Witness To Hope by George Weigel; January 2002

Beowulf

Beowulf is an epic poem of unknown authorship written in Old English. It was written between 700 - 1000 A.D.

The legendary poem is set in Scandinavia circa 500 A.D.

The poem includes ambiguous roles for both Christianity and paganism.

Literary Glossary

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Characters: Don Quixote de La Mancha; Sancho Panza; Dulcinia del Toboso