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Create Your Own Golden Shelf

And stock it with free books from Boyce College and Into the Wardrobe

Tyler Flatt did not develop the concept of a golden shelf, but he can help you customize one of your own for a lifetime of reading enjoyment and enlightenment. These short, but insightful videos suggest:

  • What to read
  • The 3 Habits of Great Readers
  • What to Avoid while Reading and
  • How to Remember What You Read
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Reading Well: Golden Shelf

  • Do children’s books belong on a grown-up’s shelf?
  • Should a golden shelf include obscure titles?
  • What books should be read every year?
Dr. Tyler Flatt Reading Well

Reading Well: Working at Reading

  • Expect to learn something beneficial
  • Engage your emotions
  • Track your reading–tell no one
Dr. Tyler Flatt

Reading Well: Inhibitors to Reading Well

  • E-books rather than paper books
  • Reading out of sense of duty
  • Monomania–reading too much about a topic
Dr. Tyler Flatt

Reading Well: Remembering What You Read

  • Memorize a meaningful paragraph
  • Read with a pencil in hand
  • Share insights with others

The Giveaway

Three CS Lewis Books
Boyce College gray hooded sweatshirt
Three book covers
CS Lewis coffee mug

Boyce College and Into the Wardrobe want to help you start building your own Golden Shelf. Enter your name into a random drawing for the Golden Shelf Giveaway*. The winner will receive:

  • Four C. S. Lewis titles:
    • Mere Christianity
    • Surprised by Joy
    • Till We Have Faces
    • A Preface to Paradise Lost
  • The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • A C.S. Lewis-inspired coffee mug
  • A Boyce College fleece sweatshirt

*The winner of the Golden Shelf Giveaway will be notified by email on or before March 31, 2025.

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About Dr. Tyler Flatt

Dr. Flatt is a native of Ontario, Canada, and holds a PhD from Harvard University and a MA from the University of Toronto. Flatt’s passion is teaching the classical tradition in general and Great Books I and II in particular. Dr. Flatt chairs the Humanities and General Education programs at Boyce College in Louisville, KY.

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