Reading List

Unknown                                                 Beowulf
Unknown                                                 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Unknown                                                 The Epic of Gilgamesh
Unknown                                                 Song of Roland
Unknown                                                 The Arabian Nights
Adams, Richard                                       Watership Down
Aeschylus                                                Agamemnon
Aesop                                                      Fables
Albom, Mitch                                            Tuesdays with Morrie
Alcott, Louisa May                                   Little Women
Angelou, Maya                                        I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Archimedes                                              Plane Equilibriums, Floating Bodies, The Sandreckoner
Aristophanes                                           The Frogs
Aristotle                                                   Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics, Ethics
Augustine, Aurelius                                 Confessions
Aurelius Marcus                                       Meditations
Austin, Jane                                            Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma
Babel, Isaak                                            Red Cavalry, Odessa Tales
Bacon, Francis                                         The Advancement of Learning, New Instrument
Balzac, Honoré de                                   The Human Comedy
Blok, Alexander                                       Poems
Bradbury, Ray                                         Fahrenheit 451
Bradstreet, Anne                                    Poems
Bronte, Charlotte                                    Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily                                           Wuthering Heights
Bryant, William Cullen                              Poems
Bulgakov, Mikhail                                     The Master and Margarita
Bunin, Ivan                                              The Village, Stories
Bunyan, John                                          Pilgrim’s Progress
Burgess, Anthony                                   A Clockwork Orange
Byron, Lord                                             Don Juan
Carroll, Lewis                                           Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Castiglione, Baldesar                              The Courtier
Cather, Willa                                           My Antonia, Death Comes to the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel                                   Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey                                  The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton                                      Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Ivanov, Short Stories,                                                                    One Act Plays
Chopin, Kate                                           The Awakening
Cicero                                                      Speeches
Clancy, Tom                                            The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger
Clarke, Arthur C                                      2001: A Space Odyssey
Confucius                                                The Analects
Conrad, Joseph                                       Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Cooper, James F.                                    Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans
Copernicus, Nicolaus                               On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Crane, Stephen                                       The Red Badge of Courage
cummings, e.e.                                        Poems
Dante                                                      Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Darwin, Charles                                       On the Origin of Natural Species, The Voyage of the Beagle
Defoe, Daniel                                          Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Descartes, Rene                                     Geometry, Principia Philosophiae
Dickens, Charles                                      Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Bleak House, A                                                   Christmas Carol
Dickinson, Emily                                       Poems
Donne, John                                            Meditations, Poems
Dos Passos, John                                    U.S.A., Three Soldiers
Dostoevsky, Fyodor                                Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From the Underground, The Idiot, The Devils,                                               The Double, The Gambler, Poor Folk
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan                          The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexandre                                   The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence                            Lyrics of a Lowly Life
Einstein, Albert                                        The Meaning of Relativity
Eliot, George                                           Silas Marner
Eliot, T.S.                                                The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ellison, Ralph                                           Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo                            Essays, Poems
Epictetus                                                 Golden Sayings
Erasmus, Desiderius                                The Praise of Folly
Euclid                                                       The Elements
Euripides                                                  The Cyclops, The Trojan Women
Faulkner, William                                     Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, A Light in August, As I Lay Dying
Feynman, Richard                                   The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, The Meaning of it All
Fitzgerald, F. Scott                                 The Great Gatsby
Forster, E.M.                                           A Room with a View, Passage to India, Essays
Frank, Anne                                            The Diary of Anne Frank
Franklin, Benjamin                                   The Autobiography, On Electricity
Freud, Sigmund                                       The Interpretation of Dreams
Frost, Robert                                          Poems
Galilei, Galileo                                          The Starry Messenger, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Gibbon, Edward                                       The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilbert, William                                         On the Loadstone and Other Magnetic Bodies
Von Goethe, Johann W.                          Faust
Gogol, Nikolai                                           Dead Souls, The Inspector General, The Overcoat, The Nose, Taras Bulba
Golding, William                                       The Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert                                       I, Claudius
Hammurabi                                              Code of Laws
Han Fei Tzu                                             Basic Writing
Hardy, Thomas                                        Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d’Ubervilles
Harte, Bret                                              Stories
Harvey, William                                       On the Circulation of Blood
Hawthorne, Nathaniel                             The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gable
Heinlein, Robert                                      Stranger in a Strange Land
Heisenberg, Werner                                Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
Heller, Joseph                                         Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest                                 The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms
Hesse, Hermann                                      Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
Herbert, Frank                                        Dune
Herodotus                                               The Histories
Hesiod                                                     Theogony, Works and Days
Hitler, Adolph                                          Mein Kampf
Hobbes, Thomas                                     Leviathan
Holmes, Oliver Wendell                            Poems
Homer                                                      The Iliad, The Odyssey
Horace                                                     Poems
Huges, Langston                                     Poems
Hugo, Victor                                            The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
Hurston, Zora Neale                               Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous                                        Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik                                           Peer Gynt
Irving, Washington                                 Sleepy Hollow, Rip van Winkle, The Alhambra
James, Henry                                          The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors
James, William                                         The Will to Believe
Johnson, Ben                                          Poems
Joyce, James                                          Ulysses, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
Kafka, Franz                                           The Trial, The Metamorphoses, The Castle
Karamzin, Nikolai                                     History of the Russian State
Keats, John                                             Poems
Kepler, Johannes                                    Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Concerning the Harmonies of The World
Kerouac, Jack                                          On the Road
Kesey, Ken                                              One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
King, Martin Luther                                  I Have a Dream Speech, Letter From A Birmingham Jail
Kipling, Rudyard                                      The Jungle Book, Kim
Knowles, John                                         A Separate Peace
Lao Tzu                                                    Tao-Te Ching
Lee, Harper                                             To Kill a Mockingbird
Lenin, Vladimir                                         Marxism and Revisionism, The State and Revolution
Lermontov, Mikhail                                  A Hero of Our Time, Poems
Leroux, Gaston                                       The Phantom of the Opera
Lewis, C.S.                                              Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity
Lewis, Sinclair                                          Arrowsmith, Babitt, Main Street
Lincoln, Abraham                                     The Gettysburg Address, The Emancipation Proclamation
Li Po                                                         Poems
Livy                                                          History from the Founding of the City
London, Jack                                           The Call of the Wild, White Fang
Longfellow, Henry W.                              Poems
Luther, Martin                                         The Ninety-five Theses, On the Freedom of a Christian
Machiavelli, Nicolo                                   The Prince, Discourses on the First 10 Books of Livy, On the Art of War
Malcolm X                                                 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malory, Sir Thomas                                  Le Morte d’Arthur
Mann, Thomas                                         Death in Venice
Marlowe, Christopher                             Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia                          100 Years of Solitude
Marvell, Andrew                                      Poems
Marx, Karl                                                The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, On the Jewish Question
Maupassant, Guy de                               Stories
Melville, Herman                                      Moby-Dick, Billy Budd
Michener, James                                     The Source, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, Iberia, Caravans, Poland, Caribbean, Centennial, Mexico,                                                   Covenant, Chesapeake, Space, Bridge at Andau
Miller, Arthur                                           Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Miller, Walter                                           A Canticle for Leibowitz
Milton, John                                             Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
Mitchell, Margaret                                   Gone With the Wind
Molière                                                     Don Juan, The Misanthrope
Montaigne, Michel de                               Essays
More, Sir Thomas                                    Utopia
Morrison, Toni                                         Bluest Eye
Mo Tzu                                                     The Mo Tzu
Murasaki Shikibu                                      The Tale of Genji
Nabokov, Vladimir                                    Lolita
Newton, Sir Isaac                                    Principia
Nicomachus                                             Introduction to Arithmetic
Nietzsche, Friedrich                                 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil
O. Henry                                                 Stories
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska                       The Scarlet Pimpernel
Orwell, George                                        1984, Animal Farm
Ovid                                                         Poems
Paine, Thomas                                         Common Sense, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason
Pasternak, Boris                                      Dr. Zhivago
Petrarch                                                  Sonnets
Planck, Maxwell                                       A Survey of Physical Theory, Columbia Lectures
Plato                                                        The Republic, Crito, The Apology, Phaedo, The Symposium
Plautus                                                    Amphitruo, Menaechmi, Casina
Plutarch                                                   Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Poe, Edgar Allan                                      Tales, Poems
Polo, Marco                                             The Travels of Marco Polo
Ptolemy                                                   Almagest, Geography, Optics
Pynchon, Thomas                                    The Crying of Lot 49, V
Pushkin, Alexander                                 Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman, Boris Godunov, Stories
Racine, Jean                                           Andromaque, Phèdre
Raleigh, Sir Walter                                  Poems
Rand, Ayn                                               Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, Anthem, We the Living
Remarque, Erich Maria                             All Quiet on the Western Front
Rose, Reginald                                        Twelve Angry Men
Rousseau, Jean Jacques                         On the Origins of Inequality
Salinger, J.D                                            The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Sappho                                                    Poems
Scott, Sir Walter                                      Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William                              Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus,                                                                    The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The                                                                    Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Taming of                                                                    The Shrew, King Henry V, King Richard II, King Richard III, Sonnets
Shaw, George Bernard                           Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Pygmalion
Shelly, Mary                                            Frankenstein
Sholokhov, Mikhail                                   The Quiet Don
Sidney, Sir Phillip                                     Poems
Sinclair, Upton                                         The Jungle
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander                        One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, The Gulag Archipelago,
                                                                The Red Wheel, The First Circle, Cancer Ward
Sophacles                                                Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Spenser, Edmund                                    The Faerie Queene
Steinbeck, John                                       The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl, East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis                        Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Stoker, Bram                                           Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher                          Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Sun Tzu                                                   The Art of War
Swift, Jonathon                                      Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal
Tacitus, Cornelius                                   Histories, Annals, Germania
Tennyson, Alfred Lord                            Poems
Thomas, Lewis                                        Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
Thoreau, Henry David                             Walden, Essays
Thucydides                                              The History of the Peloponnesian War
Tolkein, J.R.R.                                        The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Tolstoy, Alexei                                        Poems
Tolstoy, Leo                                            War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, How Much Land Does a                                             Man Need?
Tuchman, Barbara                                   The Guns of August
Tu Fu                                                       Poems
Turgenev, Ivan                                       Fathers and Sons, First Love, Diary of a Superfluous Man
Twain, Mark                                             Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on                                                                    the Mississippi
Updike, John                                            Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest
Uris, Leon                                                 Exodus
Various                                                    The Bible, The Koran
Various                                                    The Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights
Various                                                    The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, The Federalist Papers, The Articles                                                                    Of Confederation
Various                                                    The Man’Yoshu, The Kokinshu
Verne, Jules                                            Around the World in Eighty Days, 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, Journey to the Center                                                                    Of the Earth
Vinci, Leonardo da                                   Scientific Writings
Virgil                                                         The Aenid
Voltaire                                                    Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt                                        Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice                                           The Color Purple
Wells, H.G                                               The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man
White, T.H.                                             The Once and Future King
Whitman, Walt                                        Leaves of Grass
Whittier, John Greenleaf                         Poems
Wilde, Oscar                                            The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee                                A Streetcar Named Desire
Wordsworth, William                                Lyrical Ballads
Wright, Richard                                       Black Boy
Yeats, William Butler                                Poems