Great Books of the Western World http://www.feedbooks.com/list/296 <p>This list is based on The Great Books of the Western World, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler.</p> <p>From Wikipedia: <br />It came about as the result of a discussion among American academics and educators, starting in the 1920s and 1930s and begun by Prof. John Erskine of Columbia University, about how to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning. These academics and educators included Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Alexander Meiklejohn. The view among them was that the emphasis on narrow specialization in American colleges had harmed the quality of higher education by failing to expose students to the important products of Western civilization and thought.</p> <p>Great Books started out as a list of 100 essential primary source texts considered to constitute the Western Canon. </p> 25 85 High School Reading http://www.feedbooks.com/list/204 <p>A list of books that are commonly found on reading lists for US high school English classes.</p> 24 66 100 Greatest Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/list/307 <p>100 Greatest Novels from http://www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html</p> 1 13 Literature 101 by Sparknotes http://www.feedbooks.com/list/1318 <p>Books featured in my Sparknotes Literature 101 compilation ISBN 1-4114-0026-7. Since they are available on feedbooks for kindle and other devices, I thought they'd make good book club selections.</p> 0 59