Boise Public Library and the BSU Department of English have announced the Fall titles for the 2016 Literature for Lunch series. The books chosen for the monthly book discussions share the theme, "King Lear and His Daughters." The discussions are held on selected Fridays from 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. in the Main Library Hayes Auditorium, and are open to the public.

Next, on October 28, attendees will discuss Honore de Balzac's Pere Goriot. Part of the realist French writer's opus La Comedie Humaine, this novel uses the framework of Lear to illuminate the lives of an aristocrat and a father whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to ruin.

On November 18, Jane Smiley's Pulitzer-prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, takes center stage. In this one, the King Lear story is recast with an aging, successful, and increasingly drunk farmer and his three daughters.

And, finally, on December 16, Christopher Moore retells King Lear in Fool, told from the point of view of Lear's fool, Pocket. In this carnivalesque and bawdy version, Pocket and his daft apprentice, Drool, seek to sort out the chaos wrought by Lear's court.

Literature for Lunch books are available at Rediscovered Books on 8th Street between Main and Idaho at a 10% discount; and at the BSU Bookstore in the Student Union Building at a 25% discount.

For more information about the series, call the Library at 972-8255, visit www.boisepubliclibrary.org/calendar or contact BSU English Professor Cheryl Hindrichs at [email protected]. The Main Library is located at 715 South Capitol Boulevard in downtown Boise.