Sorry it has taken so long to do this hit, it's research time. Below is the
information that was sent to me, some of it was duplicated so it is only
listed once. Thank you for your help.
Morganza Byrd, Librarian
West Valley High School
Hemet, CA
morganza@hotmail.com
AP Recommended Reading List:
http://www.u46.k12.il.us/bhs/library/booklists.htm
YALSA - Outstanding books for the college bound:
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/obcb/index.html
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/novels.html
Tutors' Recommended Reading List of Beyond-the-Program BooksESSAYS
* Emerson, Essays* David Foster Wallace
* Lawrence Weschler, Shapinsky's Karma, Bogg's Bills and Other True Life
Tales, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of
Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin HISTORY
* Bruce Catton, The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
* Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Stories
* Christopher Hill, The Experience of Defeat
* Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution
* Polybius, Histories Bk.6 LITERATURE* Sam Beckett, Murphy
* Saul Bellow (anything by him)* Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
* Hermann Broch, The Spell, The Sleepwalkers
* Albert Camus, The Rebel, The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall
* Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, The Secret Agent
* Pierre Delattre, Episodes (memoir)* Isak Dinesen, Winter's Tales
* Andre Dubus, The Times Are Never So Bad
* Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey* Faulkner, Sound and the Fury
* Frank Herbert, Dune* Henry James, The Tragic Muse
* William James, Essays on Pragmatism, The Will to Believe, Varieties of
Religious Experience* Janet Lewis, The Wife of Martin Guerre
* John Muir, Stickeen (memoir)
* Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find
* Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago* Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
* Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbo
* R.M. Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Bridde, Letters To a
YoungPoet
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions* Stendhal, The Charterhouse of
Parma
* H.D. Thoreau, Walden, Civil Disobedience MATH/ SCIENCES
* Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, The Feynman Lectures on
Physics (particularly Vol.3)
* Jacob Klien, Greek Mathematical Though and the Origin of Algebra
* Alexander Koyre, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
(philosophy of science)* E.F. Taylor and J.A. Wheeler, Spacetime Physics
* Richard Trudeau, Introduction to Graph TheoryPHILOSOPHY
* Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence
* John Austin, How to Do Things with Words
* A.J. Ayer, Language Truth and Logic* Cicero, Academica
* Dogen, Being-Tim ( Uji)
* The Inwood and Gerson Anthology of Hellenistic Philosophy
(HackettTrans.)
* Immanuel Kant, Doctrine of Right (or Justice; which is the first half
of the Metaphysics of Morals)* Kripke, Naming and Necessity
* Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism, A Preface to Metaphysics:
Seven Lectures on Being* Mill, On Liberty, Utilitarianism
* Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way)
* Newman Nagel, Godel's Proof* The Presocratics, Parmenides,
Heraclitus
* Quine, Selections From a Logical Point of View
* Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy, Logical Atomism
* Ludwigg Wittgenstein, Tractus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical
Investigations PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS
* Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, Human Condition* Eric Auerbach,
Mimesis
* Norman Bryson, Word and Image* Levinas, Ethics and Infinity
* A. Maclntyre, After Virtue
* G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica, Naturalistic Fallacy
* Josef Pieper, Leisure, The Basis of Culture, Criticism
* A. Prior, Critique of Moore
* Rawls, Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism
* Ian Watt, The History of the NovelOTHERS
* Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language (architecture)
* James Bellington, The Icon and the Axe* Wendell Berry, Standing By
Words
* William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
* Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
* Steve Brahms, Negotiation Games (political science)
* Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters* Laurie Cowlin, Home Cooking
* Stanely Elkin, Searches and Seizures
* Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Hypotyposes)
* Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
* Michel Foucault, The Order of Things* Nicholas Freeling (mysteries)
* David Hockney, Camera Works
* Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theater
* Beth Kobliner, Get a Financial Life
* Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression (sociobiology)
* Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise Than Being
* David Macaulay, The Way Things Work (technology)
* The Mahabharata (Indian Epic)* Mencius, Meng Zi or Meng Tzu
* Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (graphic design)
* Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking (culinary arts/ chemistry)
* Lorrie Moore, Anagrams, Self-Help, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital
* Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia
* Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
* Jose Saramago, Blindness* Shostakovich's String Quartets
* D. Sobel, Longitude* Dylan Thomas, Under Milkwood (drama/poetry)
* Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations (graphic design)
* [Unknown], The Cloud of Unknowing
* P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves Takes Charge, Leave it to Psmith, The Great
Sermon, Handicap
* Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff, The Kandy Colored Tangerine Flake,
Streamlined, Baby* Lao Zi, Dao De Jing (or Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching)
* Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu), [no accepted title]
* Slavoj Zizek, The Metastases of Enjoyment, The Plague of Fantasies
Produced by St. John's College Public Relations Office
For questions or comments: webmaster@mail.sjcsf.eduAP English titles
Contributor's Form (list #115)
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* Jane Eyre * Hamlet * Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* The House on Mango Street* King Lear * Night * Wuthering
Heights
* Sir Gawain and the Green Knight* Dubliners * Jude the Obscure
* Trifles * Antigone * Oedipus Rex * Catcher in the Rye*
Candide
* Siddhartha * A Doll's House* The Glass Menagerie
* Death of A Salesman* Beowulf * The Importance of Being Earnest
* A Midsummer Night's Dream* The Bell Jar * Slaughter House 5
* Ain't I a Woman* Emily Dickenson
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