CASA: Creative Autism Spectrum Adults

BOOKS: FICTION

Classics

Erewhon by Samuel Butler

Penguin Island by Anatole France

Utopia by Sir Thomas More (available in various translations from the Latin)

Drama

No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean Paul Sartre (translated by Stuart Gilbert)

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

Literary Biographies

Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life by Robin Wilson

Literary Criticism

Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov

Novels

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll (Penguin edition edited by Hugh Haughton and reproducing illustrations by Sir John Tenniel)

The Box Man by Kobo Abé

The Castle by Franz Kafka (originally translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, more recently translated by Anthea Bell and edited by Richie Robertson)

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre (translated by Lloyd Alexander, with a new introduction by Richard Howard)

The Rights of Numbers: The Brownstone I by Brenda Ellen Make

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (translated by Basil Creighton)

The Stranger (sometimes published as The Outsider) by Albert Camus (originally translated by Stuart Gilbert, more recently translated by Matthew Ward)

The Trial by Franz Kafka (originally translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, more recently translated by Breon Mitchell)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (with illustrations by W.W. Denslow, in the collection The Wonderful World of Oz)

Philosophy Through Literature

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser edited by William Irwin and Richard Brian Davis

The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West edited by Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng

Short Stories

“The Country of the Blind” by H.G. Wells (in Selected Stories of H. G. Wells)

“Crazy Old Lady” by Avram Davidson (in The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection)

“The Glass Eye” by John Keir Cross (in Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow, edited by Ray Bradbury)

“The Ikon of Elijah” by Avram Davidson (in The Investigations of Avram Davidson: Collected Mysteries)

“The Metamorphosis” (sometimes published as “The Transformation”) by Franz Kafka (in The Metamorphosis: Norton Critical Editions and other anthologies, translated and edited by Stanley Corngold)

“The Schartz-Metterklume Method” by Saki [H.H. Munro] (in The Complete Saki)

“Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov (in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov)

TV Dinners: Non-Fiction About Media Fiction

The Ethics of Star Trek by Judith Barad with Ed Robertson

Jewish Themes in Star Trek: Where No Rabbi Has Gone Before by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom

Religions of Star Trek by Ross Kraemer, William Cassidy, and Susan L Schwartz

Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl

Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine edited by Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, and William Irwin

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