St. John’s College Great Books Reading List
St. John’s College was founded Freshman Year Reading List Sophomore Year Reading List Pascal: Generation of Conic Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Sections Foundations of the Fear and Trembling Homer: Iliad, Odyssey Hebrew Bible in 1696 and is the third oldest Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Metaphysics of Morals Wagner: Tristan and Isolde Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation New Testament Inventions Mozart: Don Giovanni Marx: Capital, Political and Bearers, Eumenides, Aristotle: De Anima, college in the United States. Haydn: Quartets Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma Economic Manuscripts of Prometheus Bound On Interpretation, Mozart: Operas Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter 1844, The German Ideology Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Prior Analytics, Categories Following are the books on which Beethoven: Third Symphony Dedekind: Essays on the Theory of Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov Colonus, Antigone, Apollonius: Conics Schubert: Songs Numbers Tolstoy: War and Peace Philoctetes, Ajax Virgil: Aeneid the St. John’s program is based. Monteverdi: L’Orfeo Articles of Confederation, Melville: Benito Cereno Plutarch: “Caesar,” “Cato the Younger,” Thucydides: Peloponnesian War Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Declaration of Independence, O’Connor: Selected stories “Antony,” “Brutus” The great books curriculum at Euripides: Hippolytus, Bacchae Constitution of the United William James: Psychology, Briefer Course Epictetus: Discourses, Manual Herodotus: Histories States of America Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil St. John’s includes works in Tacitus: Annals Junior Year Reading List Aristophanes: Clouds Hamilton, Jay, Freud: Introductory Lectures on Ptolemy: Almagest Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Cervantes: Don Quixote and Madison: The Federalist Psychoanalysis philosophy, literature, political Plotinus: The Enneads Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Galileo: Two New Sciences Twain: The Adventures of Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal Augustine: Confessions science, psychology, classics, Symposium, Parmenides, Hobbes: Leviathan Huckleberry Finn Booker T. Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed Theaetetus, Sophist, Descartes: Meditations, Rules for the Wordsworth: The Two-Part Prelude Washington: Selected writings Anselm: Proslogium history, religion, economics, math, Timaeus, Phaedrus Direction of the Mind of 1799 Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Milton: Paradise Lost Essays by: Young, Taylor, Euler, D. Husserl: Crisis of the European chemistry, physics, biology, Dante: Divine Comedy Metaphysics, Nicomachean La Rochefoucauld: Maximes Bernoulli, Ørsted, Ampère, Sciences Ethics, On Generation and Chaucer: Canterbury Tales La Fontaine: Fables Faraday, Maxwell Heidegger: Basic Writings astronomy, music, language, Corruption, Politics, Parts Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses Pascal: Pensées Einstein: Selected papers of Animals, Generation of Copernicus: On the Revolutions of and more. Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Senior Year Reading List Conrad: Heart of Darkness Animals the Spheres Movement of Bodies Faulkner: Go Down Moses Euclid: Elements Kepler: Epitome IV Supreme Court Opinions by Impact Flaubert: Un Coeur Simple Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Livy: Early History of Rome Goethe: Faust Eliot: Middlemarch Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Plutarch: “Lycurgus,” “Solon” Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli Darwin: Origin of Species Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise Lighthouse Ptolemy: Almagest Montaigne: Essays Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, Contact Locke: Second Treatise of Poems by: Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Pascal: Treatise on the Equilibrium Viète: Introduction to the “Logic” (from the 60 College Avenue Government Stevens, Valéry, Rimbaud of Liquids Analytical Art Encyclopedia) Annapolis, MD 21401 Racine: Phèdre Essays by: Faraday, J. J. Thomson, Nicomachus: Arithmetic Bacon: Novum Organum Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels 410-263-2371 Newton: Principia Mathematica Kafka: The Metamorphosis Millikan, Minkowski, Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, The Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Rutherford, Davisson, Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Tempest, As You Like It, Plato: Phaedrus Metaphysics, Essay on Tocqueville: Democracy in America Schrödinger, Bohr, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca Blood Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Dynamics, Philosophical Documents from de Broglie, Heisenberg, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, King Lear, and Sonnets Essays, Principles of Mendel, Boveri, Sutton, 505-984-6000 Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Poems by: Marvell, Donne, and other American History Nature and Grace Hamilton, Jay, Morgan, Beadle & Tatum, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, 16th- and 17th-century Sussman, Watson & Crick, Swift: Gulliver’s Travels and Madison The Federalist Gay-Lussac, Spemann, poets Jacob & Monod, Hardy sjc.edu Hume: Treatise of Human Nature Lincoln: Selected speeches Stears, J.J. Thomson, Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin Mendeleyev, Berthollet, F. Douglass: Selected speeches Method of Inequality J.L. Proust Molière: Le Misanthrope Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
Recent preceptorial books have included: Melville: Moby Dick Dostoevsky: The Devils Essays, Poetry, For seven weeks in junior and senior years, seminar is suspended so O’Connor: Wise Blood Avicenna: The Metaphysics Music, that students may choose elective classes called preceptorials. Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall Zhuangzi: Zhuangzi and Art by: Einstein, Manet, Al-Farabi, Dickinson, of the Roman Empire Flaubert: Madame Bovary Al-Razi, Locke, Voltaire, Ibn Majja, Duchamp, Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude Heidegger: What is Metaphysics? Bach: St. Matthew Passion Ibn Sina, Hill, Hume, Al-Ghazali, Rousseau, Russell: An Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Proust: Remembrance of Things Past Feynman: QED Ibn Tufayl, Montaigne, Ibn Rushd, Herbert, Shakespeare: Measure for Measure Nietzsche: Gay Science Camus: The Stranger Donne, Hopkins, Stravinsky Laozi: Daodejing Arendt: The Human Condition Borges: Ficciones Hegel: Philosophy of Nature James: The Portrait of a Lady Lorenz: Studies in Animal and Human Behavior