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Brilliant Minds

Welcome, Brilliant Minds readers! Our course page has moved here from Typepad — you'll find all the current reading list titles and links below, just as before.

Spring 2026 Book List

These are the recommended editions for our class sessions; you're welcome to use an alternate edition, though references will be based on these.

Medea

Euripides, in Euripides I, eds. Grene & Lattimore (U Chicago)

Amazon

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Luo Guanzhong, trans. Moss Roberts (U California)

Amazon

As You Like It

Shakespeare, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger, Simon & Schuster)

Amazon

Letters of a Peruvian Woman

Françoise de Graffigny, trans. Mallinson (Oxford Classics)

Amazon

Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in The Complete Poems, ed. Keach (Penguin)

Amazon

The Known World​

Edward P. Jones (Harper)

Amazon

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