A systematic and comprehensive archive of “Great Bookiana” is beyond my ability. However, I offer here a selection of items that I have found interesting and/or useful over the years.
- Online Texts
- Reading Lists
- Organizations, Institutions and Programs
- About The Great Books Movement
- Adaptations
- In Popular Culture
Please feel free to contact me with corrections and additions.
Online Texts
- Bartleby
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Internet Classics Archive
- Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics
- Online Books
- Online Literature Library
- Perseus Digital Library
- Project Gutenberg
Reading Lists
- Great Books and Classics
- Great Books List
- Great Books Lists
- Great Books of the Western World
- Great Books and Film: A New Approach to the Classics
Organizations, Institutions and Programs
- Association for Core Texts and Courses
- Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
- Great Books Foundation [@Wikipedia]
- National Great Books Curriculum
- Columbia College, Columbia University
- Gutenberg College
- Harrison Middleton University
- Shimer College [@Wikipedia]
- St. John’s College [@Wikipedia]
- Thomas Aquinas College
- Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
- Great Conversation, St. Olaf College
- Great Books Program, Monterey Peninsula College
- Great Books Program, Oakton Community College
- Liberal Studies Program, St. Anselm College [@Professor’s Website]
- Primary Text Certificate, Kansas State University
- Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame
- Great Books Summer Program, Amherst College & Stanford University
- Angelicum Academy Home School Program
- Great Books Academy Home School Program
- Classical Homeschooling Magazine
About The Great Books Movement
- Allen, The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform [Amazon; Google Books]
- Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books [Amazon; Google Books]
- Chaddock, The Multi-Talented Mr.Erskine: Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music [Amazon; Google Books]
- Denby, Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World [Amazon; Google Books]
- Fishelov, Dialogues With/And Great Books: The Dynamics of Canon Formation [Amazon]
- Haarlow, Great Books, Honors Programs, and Hidden Origins: The Virginia Plan and the University of Virginia in the Liberal Arts Movement [Amazon; Google Books]
- Hutchins, Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education [Amazon; Google Books]
Adaptations
Coming soon …
In Popular Culture
Coming soon …