Suggestions for the Book List
Your book list should consist of twenty to twenty-five books. In constructing the book list, your focus should be on the concepts, issues, problems, or topics that unify the list, rather than on simply choosing books to fulfill the distribution requirement. This bibliography of authors is intended primarily as suggestive; you need not limit yourself to these authors, but it may be useful in stimulating your thoughts about possible works, and in helping you place books in appropriate categories.
I. Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Classics (Choose at least seven works written before the mid-1600s; the following are suggestions)
| Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Classics | |
| Mediterranean & Greek | South Asia |
| Gilgamesh | Upanishads |
| Book of the Dead | Mahabharata |
| Homer | Bhagavad Gita |
| Hesiod | Dhammapada |
| Sappho | Diamond Sutra |
| Pindar | China |
| Aeschylus | Confucius |
| Sophocles | Lao Tzu |
| Euripides | Chuang Tzu |
| Aristophanes | Po Chui-yi |
| Menander | Tu Fu |
| Herodotus | Li Bo |
| Thucydides | Wu Cheng-en |
| Plato | The I Ching |
| Xenophon | Tales Long Ago |
| Aristotle | Japan |
| Epicurus | Murasaki |
| Demosthenes | Basho |
|
Isocrates |
Kamo no Chomei |
| Theocritus | Murasaki Shikibu |
| Euclid | Sei Shonagon |
| Longinus | The Gossamer Years |
| Ptolemy | The Kokinshu |
| Plutarch | The Kojiki |
| Plotinus | Yoshida Kenko |
| Lucian | Medieval |
| Roman | Beowulf |
| Plautus | Aquinas |
| Terence | Boccaccio |
| Catullus | Dante |
| Cicero | Mallory |
| Lucretius | Chaucer |
| Caesar | Langland |
| Vergil | Sir Gawain |
| Horace | Renaissance |
| Ovid | Bacon |
| Tacitus | Copernicus |
| Seneca | Kepler |
| Marcus Aurelius | Galileo |
| Petronius | da Vinci |
| Juvenal | Castiglione |
| Judaic | Machiavelli |
| Hebrew Scriptures | Erasmus |
| Talmud | More |
| Midrash | Rabelais |
| Maimonides | Montaigne |
| Early Christian | Marlowe |
| New Testament | Spenser |
| Ambrose | Sidney |
| Augustine | Shakespeare |
| Boethius | Cervantes |
| Islamic | Donne |
| Quran | Marvell |
| Arabian Nights | Milton |
| Rumi | |
| Ibn Khaldun | |
II. Modernity: The Humanities (Choose at least four works written after the mid-1600s; the following are suggestions)
| Modernity: The Humanities | |
| The Arts | Literature: 20th Century |
| Brecht | Achebe |
| Artaud | Aidoo |
| Grotowski | Amado |
| Rosenberg | Angelou |
| Brook | Bachmann |
| Chaikin | Baldwin |
| Eisenstein | Beckett |
| Panofsky | Bellow |
| Wolfflin | Borges |
| Vasari | Brecht |
| Wright | Brodsky |
| Copland | Calvino |
| Duncan | Camus |
| Graham | Celan |
| Nochlin | Cesaire |
| Kirstein | Coetzee |
| Humphrey | Conde |
| Martin | Darwish |
| Laban | DeLillo |
| De Mille | Didion |
| Noverre | Diop |
| Moore | Eliot, T.S. |
| Blasis | Ellison |
| Shawn | Enchi |
| Schapiro | Faulkner |
| Greenberg | Fitzgerald |
| Kubler | Fo |
| Critical Theory | Fuentes |
| Reynolds | Gordimer |
| Coleridge | Grass |
| Arnold | Greene |
| Ruskin | Heaney |
| Pater | Hemingway |
| Santayana | Hesse |
| Hulme, T.E. | Hughes |
| Babbitt | Hurston |
| Richards | Huxley |
| Bakhtin | Joyce |
| Artaud | Kafka |
| Ransom, J.C. | Kane |
| Blackmur | Kawabata |
| Trilling | Laye |
| Brooks | Lorca |
| Wilson, E. | Lu Xun |
| Frye | Mahfouz |
| Jakobson | Mann |
| Bachelard | Marquez, Garcia |
| Barthes | Mda |
| Steiner | Mishima |
| Siegel | Mistry |
| Lotman | Momaday |
| Attali | Mori Ogai |
| Fischer | Morrison |
| Kandinsky | Munif |
| Lukacs | Murakami Haruki |
| Hirsch | Nabokov |
| Ong | Naipaul |
| Iser | Natsume Soseki |
| Poulet | Neruda |
| Foucault | Ngugi |
| Croce | O’Connor |
| Habermas | Oe |
| Marcuse | Orwell |
| Langer | Paz |
| Burke. K. | Pirandello |
| Berger | Plath |
| Sontag | Proust |
| Heilbrun | Rilke |
| Feher | Rushdie |
| Heller | Saramago |
| Krachauer | Sembene |
| Said | Shaw |
| History | Silko |
| Gibbon | Solzhenitsyn |
| Tocqueville | Soyinka |
| Macaulay | Szymborska |
| Acton | Tagore |
| Turner | Tanizaki Jun’ichiro |
| Beard | Valle Inclan |
| Burke | Walcott |
| Kitto | Wharton |
| Spengler | White |
| Toynbee | Woolf |
| Mumford | Wright, R. |
| Commager | Yeats |
| Braudel | Yoshimoto Banana |
| Finley | Philosophy |
| Moore | Descartes |
| Harrison | Hobbes |
| Hartz | Pascal |
| Du Bois | Spinoza |
| Tuchman | Locke |
| Gimbutas | Hume |
| Eisler | Diderot |
| Ehrenreich | Voltaire |
| Jabarti | Swedenborg |
|
Literature: |
Kant |
| Blake | Schopenhauer |
| Calderon | Hegel |
| Cao Xueqin | Emerson |
| Chikamatsu Monzaemon | Nietzsche |
| Defoe | Bergson |
| Diderot | Heidegger |
| Fielding | James, W. |
| Ihara Saikaku | Dewey |
| Lope de Vega | Lovejoy |
| Matsuo Basho | Spencer |
| Sterne | Adorno |
| Swift | Benjamin |
| Yosa Buson | Wittgenstein |
| Literature: 19th Century |
Sartre |
| Arnold | de Beauvoir |
| Austen | Ayer |
| Balzac | Rawls |
| Baudelaire | Fuller |
| Brontes | Moore |
| Chekhov | Derrida |
| Dickens | Ricoeur |
| Dickinson | Butler |
| Dostoyevsky | Religion |
| Eliot, G. | Bunyan |
| Futabatei Shimei | Edwards, J. |
| Flaubert | Mather |
| Goethe | Newman |
| Hardy | James, W. |
| Hawthorne | Kierkegaard |
| Higuchi Ichiyo | Chesterton |
| Hugo | Tillich |
| Ibsen | Buber |
| James | Lewis |
| Keats | Niebuhr |
| Mallarmé | Merton |
| Melville | Barth |
| Poe | Eliade |
| Pushkin | Campbell |
| Rimbaud | de Chardin |
| Sand | Wiesel |
| Shelleys | Heschel |
| Stendhal | Underhill |
| Thackeray | Suzuki |
| Tolstoy | Pagels |
| Turgenev | |
| Twain | |
| Whitman | |
| Wilde | |
| Wordsworth | |
| Zola | |
III. Modernity: Social and Natural Sciences (Choose at least four works written after the mid-1600s; the following are suggestions)
| Modernity: social and natural sciences | |
| Anthropology | Politics |
| Frazer | Hobbes |
| Boas | Locke |
| Radcliffe-Brown | Montesquieu |
| Radin | Rousseau |
| Benedict | Paine |
| Mead | Federalist Papers |
| Bateson | Crevecoeur |
| Geertz | Wollstonecraft |
| Levi-Strauss | Hegel |
| Hymes | Marx |
| Lee | Thoreau |
| Redfield | Mill |
| Douglas | Godwin |
| Bateson, M. C. | Martineau |
| Diamond | Gramsci |
| Cliffords | Gilman, C. |
| Turner | Arendt |
| Wolf | Burnham |
| McCormack | Strauss |
| Harris | Hook |
| Stack | Goldman |
| Kottak | Barnet |
| Rosaldo | Kolko |
| Bronowski | Chomsky |
| Economics | Ghandi |
| Smith | Nehru |
| Malthus | King |
| Ricardo | Malcolm X |
| Bentham | Psychology |
| Owen | James, W. |
| Marx | Freud, S. |
| Menger | Freud, A. |
| Bohm-Bawerk | Jung |
| Keynes | Adler |
| Schumpeter | Marcuse |
| Von Mises | Mead, G. H. |
| Hayek | Piaget |
| Myrdal | Skinner |
| Robinson | Vygotsky |
| Galbraith | Fromm |
| Friedman | Erikson |
| Gilman | Coles |
| Schumacher | Lifton |
| Natural Sciences & Math | Laing |
| Newton | Miller |
| Curie | Horney |
| Leibniz | Gilligan |
| Harvey | Sociology |
| Darwin | Spencer |
| Mendel | Engels |
| Comte | Veblen |
| Lyell | Simmel |
| Wallace | Mannheim |
| Bernard | Weber |
| Carnot | Durkheim |
| Franklin | Martineau |
| Hume | Merton |
| Huxley | Mills |
| La Mettrie | Parsons |
| Lavoisier | Becker |
| Maxwell | Goffman |
| Humboldt | Berger/Luckmann |
| Helmholtz | Park |
| Schelling | Bourdieu |
| Virchow | Harvey |
| Bohr | Giddens |
| Whitehead | Riesman |
| Godel | Roszak |
| Duhem | Harrington |
| Merton, R. | Bell |
| Peirce, C.S. | Lasch |
| Feyerabend | |
| Hempel | |
| Keller, E.F. | |
| Abbott | |
| Meitner | |
| Planck | |
| Einstein | |
| Feynman | |
| Heisenberg | |
| Eiseley | |
| Kuhn | |
| Popper | |
| Poincare | |
| Snow | |
| Muir | |
| Leopold | |
| Carson | |
| Lovelock | |
| Hawking | |
| Gould | |