Episode 33: Books that Age Like Fine Wine, defining classic books and recommending summer literature
Today we’re answering listener questions about reading “the classics.” How do we define “classic literature?” And which classic books are on our to be read piles? In addition to defining and discussing the importance of certain “cultural touchstone” books, we recommend classic literature to read in the summertime.
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Show Notes:
“Why Read the Classics” by Italo Calvino
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton