Great Books for Hard Times Series
Session One: Why Books? Why Now? and Why Paper?
Featured Titles:
- The Shallows
- The World Beyond Your Head
- The Enchanted Hour
- Oryx and Crake
- The Book Thief
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Name of the Rose
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- People of the Book
- The Little Paris Bookshop
- The Children’s Book
- The Abolition of Man
Session Two: In Search of "the Cure" ... Racism and Lesser Pandemics
Featured Titles:
- Blood Done Sign My Name
- Same Kind of Different as Me
- Just Mercy
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Roll of Thunder
- Hear My Cry
- Things Fall Apart
- There is No Me Without You
- Tattoos on the Heart
- The Cross and the Switchblade
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Christ of the Indian Road
Session Three: Some Survival Tips for Sheltering in Place
Featured Titles:
- The Hiding Place
- Born Again
- The Breadwinner
- Toujours Provence
- A Passage to India
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Art of Eating
- Home Cooking
- The Best Cook in the World
- The Food of a Younger Land
- Kisses from Katie
Session Four: Signs of End Times?
Featured Titles:
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- 1984
- Brave New World
- Animal Farm
- The Lord of the Flies
- On the Beach
- The Crucible
- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- The Hunger Games
- The Giver
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Night
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- The Screwtape Letters