Browse the complete list of books we’ve read in The Read Well Book Club, from Homer and Shakespeare to Dostoevsky, Morrison, Steinbeck, and more. Explore four seasons of thoughtful reading and discussion.
SEASON 1
- The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- Of Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
SEASON 2
- Walking by Henry David Thoreau
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
SEASON 3
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Odyssey by Homer
SEASON 4
- Wisdom Takes Work by Ryan Holiday
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Open Socrates by Agnes Callard
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng