Ancient Texts:
The Odyssey, Homer
Phaedo, Plato
Republic, Plato
Hamlet, Shakespeare
The Bible: Job and Ecclesiastes
He is Jealous of the Heavens and the Earth, Petrarch
Modernism: Humanities:
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Long Ago in France, MFK Fisher
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Modernity: Sciences
On Grief and Grieving, Elisabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
Mourning and Melancholia, Freud
A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America, James McWilliams
Concentration
Animal Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Funeral Festivals in America, Jacqueline S. Thursb
A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain
America Day by Day, Simone de Beauvoir
