Themes and Book Selections
Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy
- Scenes from The Iliad by Homer
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- The Guardians by Ana Castillo
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death
- Paula by Isabel Allende
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy
- The Dead by James Joyce
Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The History of Love by Nicole Kraus
- A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
- The Essential Rumi (poems), translated by Coleman Barks
- Atonement by Ian McEwan