Reading List

If I'd, say, gone to St. John's College, the "great books" school, four years ago instead of Carleton, I would have read these books in that time:

• HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
• AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
• SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
• THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
• EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
• HERODOTUS: Histories
• ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
• PLATO: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
• ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
• EUCLID: Elements
• LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
• PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon
• NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic
• LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry
• HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
• THE BIBLE
• ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
• APOLLONIUS: Conics
• VIRGIL: Aeneid
• PLUTARCH: "Caesar" and "Cato the Younger"
• EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual
• TACITUS: Annals
• PTOLEMY: Almagest
• PLOTINUS: The Enneads
• AUGUSTINE: Confessions
• ST. ANSELM: Proslogium
• AQUINAS: Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles
• DANTE: Divine Comedy
• CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales
• DES PREZ: Mass
• MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses
• COPERNICUS: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
• LUTHER: The Freedom of a Christian
• RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel
• PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli
• MONTAIGNE: Essays
• VIETE: "Introduction to the Analytical Art"
• BACON: Novum Organum
• SHAKESPEARE: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets
• POEMS BY: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
• DESCARTES: Geometry, Discourse on Method
• PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections
• BACH: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
• HAYDN: Quartets
• MOZART: Operas
• BEETHOVEN: Sonatas
• SCHUBERT: Songs
• STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
• CERVANTES: Don Quixote
• GALILEO: Two New Sciences
• DESCARTES: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• MILTON: Paradise Lost
• LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maximes
• LA FONTAINE: Fables
• PASCAL: Pensees
• HUYGENS: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
• ELIOT: Middlemarch
• SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise
• LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government
• RACINE: Phaedre
• NEWTON: Principia Mathematica
• KEPLER: Epitome IV
• LEIBNIZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
• SWIFT: Gulliver's Travels
• HUME: Treatise of Human Nature
• ROUSSEAU: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
• MOLIERE: The Misanthrope
• ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations
• KANT: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
• MOZART: Don Giovanni
• JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice
• DEDEKIND: "Essay on the Theory of Numbers"
  
• Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• Supreme Court opinions
• HAMILTON, JAY, AND MADISON: The Federalist Papers
• DARWIN: Origin of Species
• HEGEL: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)
• LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels
• TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America
• LINCOLN: Selected Speeches
• KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
• MARX: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
• DOSTOEVSKI: Brothers Karamazov
• TOLSTOY: War and Peace
• MELVILLE: Benito Cereno
• TWAIN: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• O'CONNOR: Selected Stories
• FREUD: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.: Selected Writings
• DUBOIS: The Souls of Black Folk
• HEIDEGGER: What is Philosophy?
• HEISENBERG: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
• MILLIKAN: The Electron
• CONRAD: Heart of Darkness
• Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thompson, Mendeleyev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust, Faraday, J.J. Thomson, Mendel, Minkowski, Rutherford, Davisson, Schrodinger, Bohr, Maxwell, de Broigle, Dreisch, Orsted, Ampere, Boveri, Sutton, Morgan, Beadle & Tatum, Sussman, Watson & Crick, Jacob & Monod, Hardy