Here’s a look back at the books and films discussed in PhiloQuest in previous years, from 2021 to 2024. Each year featured a mix of non-fiction, fiction, and cinema that sparked engaging discussions about ideas, culture, and philosophy.
2021
March: Feline Philosophy — John Gray
April: Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
May: A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
June: Choice Theory — William Glasser
July: The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
August: The Right to Sex — Amia Srinivasan
September: Night Train to Lisbon — Pascal Mercier
October: The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
November: Rashomon — Akira Kurosawa
December: The Lorax — Chris Renaud
2022
January: Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
February: On the Road — Jack Kerouac
March: Samarkand — Amin Maalouf
April: Birds Without Wings — Louis de Bernières
May: The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow
June: The Sovereign Individual — Davidson & Rees-Mogg
July: Tampopo — Juzo Itami
August: Haider — Vishal Bhardwaj
September: Stranger Than Fiction — Marc Forster
October: Asuran — Vetrimaaran
November: Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
December: Up — Pete Docter
2023
January: Citizen Kane — Orson Welles
February: God’s Debris — Scott Adams
March: Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund
April: Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
May: Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
June: South of the Border, West of the Sun — Haruki Murakami
July: Lord of the Flies — William Golding
August: Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
September: Whatever Works — Woody Allen
October: Micromegas — Voltaire
November: Existentialism Is Humanism — Jean-Paul Sartre
December: Frozen — Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee
2024
June: Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
July: Glengarry Glen Ross — David Mamet
August: Beware of Pity — Stefan Zweig
September: Paper Moon — Peter Bogdanovich
October: The Fabric of Reality — David Deutsch
November: Travels with Epicurus — Daniel Klein
December: Inside Out — Pete Docter