[jakethebake]

One day I'm going to get through The University of Texas List of Unrequired Reading. I start again every couple of years, and I'm about halfway through at this point. This thread's timing was very good. I'm currently deciding what to read from it this summer.

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FRESHMAN
Unrequired Reading Substitutions
[Philosophy and other topics]
The Problems of Philosophy - B. Russell
The Worldly Philosophers - R. Heilbroner
The Religions of Man - H. Smith
The Republic - Plato
A History of Western Philosophy - B. Russell
The Social Contract - J.J. Rousseau

[Science]
The Double Helix - J. Watson
Awakenings - O. Sacks
The Lives of a Cell - L. Thomas
The Discoverers - D. Boorstin
The Panda's Thumb - S. Gould
King Solomon's Ring - K. Lorenz

[Literature]
The Odyssey - Homer (T.E. Lawrence translation)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Sun Also Rises - E. Hemingway
Antigone/Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Pride and Prejudice - J. Austen
Heart of Darkness - J. Conrad

[History]
The Historian's Craft - M. Bloch
The American Political Tradition - R. Hofstadter
Young Man Luther - E. Erikson
Samuel Johnson - J. Wain
The Making of the Middle Ages - R. Southern
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - B. Franklin

SOPHOMORE
[Philosophy and other topics]
The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Democracy in America - A. de Tocqueville
Genesis, Exodus, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, & Amos - Old Testament
Luke, John, Acts, Galatians, & Ephesians - New Testament The Prince - N. Machiavelli
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed - P. Hallie
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization - M. Weber

[Science]
Microbe Hunters - P. De Kruif
Science and the Modern World - A.N. Whitehead
The First Three Minutes - S. Weinberg
The Creative Explosion - J. Pfeiffer
Knowledge and Wonder - V. Weisskopf
Einstein - J. Bernstein

[Literature]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - L. Carroll
Richard II - W. Shakespeare
Moby Dick - H. Melville
Paradise Lost - J. Milton
Tom Jones - H. Fielding
Brideshead Revisited - E. Waugh

[History]
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada - G. Mattingly
This Hallowed Ground - B. Catton
Melbourne - D. Cecil
The Education of Henry Adams - H. Adams
History of the Conquest of Mexico - W. Prescott
Origins of the New South - C. Vann Woodward

JUNIOR
[Philosophy and other topics]
Utilitarianism/On Liberty - J. S. Mill
Purposes of Art, Second Edition - A. Elsen
The Varieties of Religious Experience - W. James Pragmatism - W. James
Meaning in Western Architecture - C. Norberg-Schulz
Witness - W. Chambers

[Science]
A Mathematician's Apology - G. Hardy
The Rise of Scientific Philosophy - H. Reichenbach
The Cosmic Code - H. Pagels
On Human Nature - E. O. Wilson
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution - C.P. Snow
Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems - J. Ravetz

[Literature]
Candide - F. Voltaire
Hamlet - W. Shakespeare
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition/Don Quixote - M. Cervantes
Hard Times - C. Dickens
To the Lighthouse - V. Woolf

[History]
The White Nile - A. Moorehead
The Crisis of the Old Order - A. Schlesinger
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny - A. Bullock
Huey Long - T.H. Williams
The Old Regime and the French Revolution - A. de Tocqueville
The Raven - M. James

SENIOR
[Philosophy and other topics]
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - I. Kant
The Federalist - Hamilton, Madison, & Jay
Ed. B.F. Wright
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
The Road to Serfdom - F. Hayek
The Road to Wigan Pier - G. Orwell
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - K. Marx

[Science]
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus - M. Gardner
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - T. Kuhn
Mankind Evolving - T. Dobzhansky
The Growth of Biological Thought - E. Mayr
Chance and Necessity - J. Monod
The Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air - M. Minnaert

[Literature]
A Midsummer Night's Dream - W. Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov - F.M. Dostoyevsky
Bread and Wine - I. Silone
War and Peace - L.N. Tolstoy
Light in August - W. Faulkner
The Magic Mountain - T. Mann

[History]
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin - G. Kennan
Tumultuous Years - R. Donovan
Stillwell and the American Experience in China - B. Tuchman Stalin as Revolutionary - R. Tucker
The Rebel - A. Camus
Autobiography of Malcolm X - M. Little

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