Advanced Placement |
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Anna Karennina - Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
The Bonsetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Candide - Voltaire
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Burns
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kenned Toole
Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Dracula - Bram Stoker
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Emma - Jane Austen
Executive Orders - Tom Clancy
Far From the Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Gates of the Alamo - Stephen Harrigan
Giants in the Earth - O. E. Rolvaag
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Iliad - Homer
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Native Son - Richard Wright
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
Othello - William Shakespeare
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
Passage to India - E. M. Forster
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Raisin in the Sun - Loraine Hansberry
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Saint Joan - George Bernard Shaw
Shadows on the Rock - Willa Cather
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
So Big - Edna Ferber
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Hurston
The Thornbirds - Colleen McCullough
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Winter's Tale - William Sha |
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Graduate |
The Texas List of Unrequired Reading (for college Freshman)composed by the College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin.
"This is not a list of the books we think every student should read. Rather, its purpose is to encourage reading and to provide a good starting point and plan for future reading. Alternate titles are provided because we recognize the vast differences among individuals in reading experience and taste. We encourage you to start by following your own inclinations.
The topics covered in these volumes are a good sampling of the most important ideas and events responsible for intellectual life and struggle in Western Civilization. A serious effort to examine at least selected topics in history, literature, philosophy, and science is an essential beginning in your education beyond secondary school. And this effort does not have to constitute a great burden. Only one book per month completes the reading program.
After you get well into the list, we believe you will want to explore other perspectives and opinions. If you do, we will conclude that this reading project has been a success."
Unrequired Reading List Committee:
Robert D. King, Dean of Liberal Arts
Joseph M. Horn, Committee Chairman
Warner J Barnes
W. Roger Louis
M. Gwyn Morgan
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
William M. Scott
James W. Vick
Paul B. Woodruff |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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