I will be reading through the list of books provided by Susan Wise Bauer in The Well Educated Mind. The list is below:
The Novel
Don Quixote, by Miguel Cerventes
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Native Son, by Richard Wright
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
1984, by George Orwell
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Possession, by A. S. Byatt
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Autobiography and Memoir
The Confessions, by Augustine
The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe
Essays, by Michel De Montaigne
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself, by Teresa of Avila
Meditations, by Rene Descartes
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, by John Bunyan
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration, Mary Rowlandson
Confessions, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, by Frederick Douglas
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet Jacobs
Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas Gandhi
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, by C. S. Lewis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: by Malcolm X
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Journal of Solitude, by May Sarton
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Born Again, by Charles W. Colson
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, by Richard Rodriguez
The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, by Elie Wiesel
History
The Histories, by Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
The Republic, by Plato
Lives, by Plutarch
The City of God, by Augustine
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, by Bede
The Prince, by Machiavelli
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The True End of Civil Government, by John Locke
The History of England, Volume V, by David Hume
The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, by Jacob Burckhardt
The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber
Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey
The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell
The New England Mind, by Perry Miller
The Great Crash, by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, by Eugene D Genovese
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, by Barbara Tuchman
All the President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M McPherson
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama
Drama
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Oedipus the King, by Sophocles
Medea, by Euripides
The Birds, by Aristophanes
Poetics, by Aristotle
Everyman
Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
Richard III, by William Shakespeare
Tartuffe, by Moliere
The Way of the World, William Congreve
She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
The Importance of being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov
Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw
Murder in the Cathedral, by T. S. Eliot
Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
Long Day’s Journey into Night, by Eugene O’Neil
No Exit, by Jean Paul Sartre
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
Equus, by Peter Shaffer
Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous
The Iliad, by Homer
The Odyssey, by Homer
Greek Lyricists, by multiple
Odes, Horace
Beowulf, by Anonymous
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Anonymous
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Sonnets, by William Shakespeare
John Donne
Psalms, in the King James Bible
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Christina Rossetti
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Butler Yeats
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Langston Hughes
W. H. Auden
Philip Larkin
Allen Ginsberg
Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath
Mark Strand
Mary Oliver
Seamus Heaney
Robert Pinsky
Robert Hass
Jane Kenyon
Rita Dove
Science
On Airs, Waters, and Places, by Hippocrates
Physics, by Aristotle
On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius
Commentariolus, by Nicolaus Copernicus
Novum Ogranum, by Francis Bacon
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, by Galileo Galilei
Micrographia, by Robert Hooke
“Rules” and “General Scholium” from Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, by Isaac Newton
Preliminary Discorse, by Georges Cuvier
Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
Experiments in Plant Hybridization, by Gregor Mendel
The Origin of Continents of Oceans, by Alfred Wegener
The General Theory of Relativity, by Albert Einstein
The Origin and Development of Quantum Theory, by Max Planck
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, by Julian Huxley
What is Life?, by Erwin Schrodinger
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James D Watson
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, by Steven Weinberg
On Human Nature, by E. O. Wilson
Gaia, by James Lovelock
The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick
A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
T. rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez
