{"id":151,"date":"2021-10-22T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porterpilgrimage.com\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2021-10-22T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:40:17","slug":"good-reads","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/porterpilgrimage.com\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Good Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well Educated Minds Reading List<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finally found the right reading list with which to challenge myself. I’ve read several of the novels on the list, compliments of my bachelors degree in English. However, I will read them again since novels this good have something to teach you each time you read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This list comes from The Well Educated Mind<\/a> by Susan Wise Bauer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Miguel de Cervantes<\/strong> \u2013 Don Quixote<\/em> (1605)<\/li>
  2. John Bunyan<\/strong> \u2013 Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em> (1679)<\/li>
  3. Jonathan Swift<\/strong> \u2013 Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em> (1726)<\/li>
  4. Jane Austen<\/strong> \u2013 Pride & Prejudice<\/em> (1815)<\/li>
  5. Charles Dickens<\/strong> \u2013 Oliver Twist<\/em> (1838)<\/li>
  6. Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/strong> \u2013 Jane Eyre<\/em> (1847)<\/li>
  7. Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/strong> \u2013 The Scarlet Letter<\/em> (1850)<\/li>
  8. Herman Melville<\/strong> \u2013 Moby-Dick<\/em> (1851)<\/li>
  9. Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/strong> \u2013 Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> (1851)<\/li>
  10. Gustave Flaubert<\/strong> \u2013 Madame Bovary<\/em> (1857)<\/li>
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky-<\/strong> Crime and Punishment<\/em> (1866)<\/li>
  12. Leo Tolstoy<\/strong> \u2013 Anna Karenina<\/em> (1877)<\/li>
  13. Thomas Hardy<\/strong> \u2013 The Return of the Native<\/em> (1878)<\/li>
  14. Henry James<\/strong> \u2013 The Portrait of a Lady<\/em> (1881)<\/li>
  15. Mark Twain<\/strong> \u2013 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> (1884)<\/li>
  16. Stephen Crane<\/strong> \u2013 The Red Badge of Courage<\/em> (1895)<\/li>
  17. Joseph Conrad<\/strong> \u2013 Heart of Darkness<\/em> (1902)<\/li>
  18. Edith Wharton<\/strong> \u2013 The House of Mirth<\/em> (1905)<\/li>
  19. F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong> \u2013 The Great Gatsby<\/em> (1925)<\/li>
  20. Virginia Woolf<\/strong> \u2013 Mrs. Dalloway<\/em> (1925)<\/li>
  21. Franz Kafka<\/strong> \u2013 The Trial<\/em> (1925)<\/li>
  22. Richard Wright<\/strong> \u2013 Native Son<\/em> (1940)<\/li>
  23. Albert Camus<\/strong> \u2013 The Stranger<\/em> (1942)<\/li>
  24. George Orwell<\/strong> \u2013 1984<\/em> (1949)<\/li>
  25. Ralph Ellison<\/strong> \u2013 Invisible Man<\/em> (1952)<\/li>
  26. Saul Bellow<\/strong> \u2013 Seize the Day<\/em> (1956)<\/li>
  27. Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/strong> \u2013 One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em> (1967)<\/li>
  28. Italo Calvino<\/strong> \u2013 If on a winter\u2019s night a traveler<\/em> (1972)<\/li>
  29. Toni Morrison<\/strong> \u2013 Song of Solomon<\/em> (1977)<\/li>
  30. Don DeLillo<\/strong> \u2013 White Noise<\/em> (1985)<\/li>
  31. A. S. Byatt<\/strong> \u2013 Possession<\/em> (1990)<\/li>
  32. Cormac McCarthy<\/strong> \u2013 The Road<\/em> (2006)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Autobiography & Memoir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. St. Augustine<\/strong> \u2013 The Confessions<\/em> (c. 400 AD)<\/li>
    2. Margery Kempe<\/strong> \u2013 The Book of Margery Kempe<\/em> (c. 1420)<\/li>
    3. Michel de Montaigne<\/strong> \u2013 Essays<\/em> (1580)<\/li>
    4. Teresa of \u00c1vila<\/strong> \u2013 The Life of Saint Teresa of \u00c1vila by Herself<\/em> (1588)<\/li>
    5. Ren\u00e9 Descartes<\/strong> \u2013 Meditations<\/em> (1641)<\/li>
    6. John Bunyan<\/strong> \u2013 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners<\/em> (1666)<\/li>
    7. Mary Rowlandson<\/strong> \u2013 The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration<\/em> (1682)<\/li>
    8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau<\/strong> \u2013 Confessions<\/em> (1781)<\/li>
    9. Benjamin Franklin<\/strong> \u2013 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin<\/em> (1791)<\/li>
    10. Frederick Douglass<\/strong> \u2013 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/em> (1845)<\/li>
    11. Henry David Thoreau<\/strong> \u2013 Walden<\/em> (1854)<\/li>
    12. Harriet Jacobs<\/strong> \u2013 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself<\/em> (1861)<\/li>
    13. Booker T. Washington<\/strong> \u2013 Up From Slavery<\/em> (1901)<\/li>
    14. Friederich Nietzsche<\/strong> \u2013 Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is<\/em> (1908)<\/li>
    15. Adolf Hitler<\/strong> \u2013 Mein Kampf<\/em> (1925)<\/li>
    16. Mohandas Gandi<\/strong> \u2013 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with the Truth<\/em> (1929)<\/li>
    17. Gertrude Stein<\/strong> \u2013 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas<\/em> (1933)<\/li>
    18. Thomas Merton<\/strong> \u2013 The Seven Storey Mountain<\/em> (1948)<\/li>
    19. C. S. Lewis<\/strong> \u2013 Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life<\/em> (1955)<\/li>
    20. Malcolm X<\/strong> \u2013 The Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em> (1965)<\/li>
    21. Maya Angelou<\/strong> \u2013 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/em> (1969)<\/li>
    22. May Sarton<\/strong> \u2013 Journal of a Solitude<\/em> (1973)<\/li>
    23. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn<\/strong> \u2013 The Gulag Archipelago<\/em> (1973)<\/li>
    24. Charles C. Colson<\/strong> \u2013 Born Again<\/em> (1977)<\/li>
    25. Richard Rodriguez<\/strong> \u2013 Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez<\/em> (1982)<\/li>
    26. Jill Ker Conway<\/strong> \u2013 The Road from Coorain<\/em> (1989)<\/li>
    27. Elie Wiesel<\/strong> \u2013 All Rivers Run to the Sea: A Memoir<\/em> (1995)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      History & Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Herodotus<\/strong> \u2013 The Histories<\/em> (441 BC)<\/li>
      2. Thucydides<\/strong> \u2013 The Peloponnesian War<\/em> (c. 400 BC)<\/li>
      3. Plato<\/strong> \u2013 The Republic<\/em> (c. 375 BC)<\/li>
      4. Plutarch<\/strong> \u2013 Lives<\/em> (AD 100-125)<\/li>
      5. St. Augustine<\/strong> \u2013 The City of God<\/em> (425)<\/li>
      6. Bede<\/strong> \u2013 The Ecclesiastical History of the English People<\/em> (731)<\/li>
      7. Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli <\/strong>\u2013 The Prince<\/em> (1513)<\/li>
      8. Sir Thomas More<\/strong> \u2013 Utopia<\/em> (1516)<\/li>
      9. John Locke<\/strong> \u2013 The True End of Civil Government<\/em> (1690)<\/li>
      10. David Hume<\/strong> \u2013 The History of England, Volume V<\/em> (1754)<\/li>
      11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau<\/strong> \u2013 The Social Contract<\/em> (1762)<\/li>
      12. Thomas Paine<\/strong> \u2013 Common Sense<\/em> (1776)<\/li>
      13. Edward Gibbon<\/strong> \u2013 The History of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/em> (1776-88)<\/li>
      14. Mary Wollstonecraft<\/strong> \u2013 The Vindication of the Rights of Woman<\/em> (1792)<\/li>
      15. Alexis de Tocqueville<\/strong> \u2013 Democracy in America<\/em> (1835-40)<\/li>
      16. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels<\/strong> \u2013 The Communist Manifesto<\/em> (1848)<\/li>
      17. Jacob Burckhardt<\/strong> \u2013 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy<\/em> (1860)<\/li>
      18. W. E. B. du Bois<\/strong> \u2013 The Souls of Black Folks<\/em> (1903)<\/li>
      19. Max Weber<\/strong> \u2013 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism<\/em> (1904)<\/li>
      20. Lytton Strachey<\/strong> \u2013 Queen Victoria<\/em> (1921)<\/li>
      21. George Orwell<\/strong> \u2013 The Road to Wigan Pier<\/em> (1937)<\/li>
      22. Perry Miller<\/strong> \u2013 The New England Mind<\/em> (1939)<\/li>
      23. John Kenneth Galbraith<\/strong> \u2013 The Great Crash 1929<\/em> (1955)<\/li>
      24. Cornelius Ryan<\/strong> \u2013 The Longest Day<\/em> (1959)<\/li>
      25. Betty Friedan<\/strong> \u2013 The Feminine Mystique<\/em> (1963)<\/li>
      26. Eugene D. Genovese<\/strong> \u2013 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made<\/em> (1974)<\/li>
      27. Barbara Tuchman<\/strong> \u2013 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century<\/em> (1978)<\/li>
      28. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein<\/strong> \u2013 All The President\u2019s Men<\/em> (1987)<\/li>
      29. James M. McPherson<\/strong> \u2013 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era<\/em> (1988)<\/li>
      30. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich<\/strong> \u2013 A Midwife\u2019s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812<\/em> (1990)<\/li>
      31. Francis Fukuyama<\/strong> \u2013 The End of History and The Last Man<\/em> (1992)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        1. Aeschylus<\/strong> \u2013 Agamemnon<\/em> (c. 458 BC)<\/li>
        2. Sophocles<\/strong> \u2013 Oedipus the King<\/em> (c. 450 BC)<\/li>
        3. Euripides<\/strong> \u2013 Medea<\/em> (c. 431 BC)<\/li>
        4. Aristophanes<\/strong> \u2013 The Birds<\/em> (c. 400 BC)<\/li>
        5. Aristotle<\/strong> \u2013 Poetics<\/em> (c. 330 BC)<\/li>
        6. Everyman<\/em> (14th Century)<\/li>
        7. Christopher Marlowe<\/strong> \u2013 Doctor Faustus<\/em> (1588)<\/li>
        8. William Shakespeare<\/strong> \u2013 Richard III<\/em> (1592-93)<\/li>
        9. William Shakespeare<\/strong> \u2013 A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em> (1594-95)<\/li>
        10. William Shakespeare<\/strong> \u2013 Hamlet<\/em> (1600)<\/li>
        11. Moli\u00e8re<\/strong> \u2013 Tartuffe<\/em> (1669)<\/li>
        12. William Congreve<\/strong> \u2013 The Way of the World<\/em> (1700)<\/li>
        13. Oliver Goldsmith<\/strong> \u2013 She Stoops to Conquer<\/em> (1773)<\/li>
        14. Richard Brinsley Sheridan<\/strong> \u2013 The School for Scandal<\/em> (1777)<\/li>
        15. Henrik Ibsen<\/strong> \u2013 A Doll\u2019s House<\/em> (1879)<\/li>
        16. Oscar Wilde<\/strong> \u2013 The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> (1899)<\/li>
        17. Anton Chekhov<\/strong> \u2013 The Cherry Orchard<\/em> (1904)<\/li>
        18. George Bernard Shaw<\/strong> \u2013 Saint Joan<\/em> (1924)<\/li>
        19. T.S. Eliot<\/strong> \u2013 Murder in the Cathedral<\/em> (1935)<\/li>
        20. Thornton Wilder<\/strong> \u2013 Our Town<\/em> (1938)<\/li>
        21. Eugene O\u2019Neill<\/strong> \u2013 Long Day\u2019s Journey into Night<\/em> (1940)<\/li>
        22. Jean-Paul Sartre<\/strong> \u2013 No Exit<\/em> (1944)<\/li>
        23. Tennessee Williams<\/strong> \u2013 A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em> (1947)<\/li>
        24. Arthur Miller<\/strong> \u2013 Death of a Salesman<\/em> (1949)<\/li>
        25. Samuel Beckett<\/strong> \u2013 Waiting for Godot<\/em> (1952)<\/li>
        26. Robert Bolt<\/strong> \u2013 A Man for All Seasons<\/em> (1960)<\/li>
        27. Tom Stoppard<\/strong> \u2013 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead<\/em> (1967)<\/li>
        28. Peter Shaffer<\/strong> \u2013 Equus<\/em> (1974)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Read at least the best known poems or the collected poems if available.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          1. The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em> (c. 2000 BC)<\/li>
          2. Homer<\/strong> \u2013 The Iliad<\/em> and The Odyssey<\/em> (c. 800 BC)<\/li>
          3. Greek Lyricists<\/strong> \u2013 [Greek Lyrics<\/em> trans. Richard Lattimore] (c. 600 BC)<\/li>
          4. Horace<\/strong> \u2013 The Odes<\/em> (65-68 BC)<\/li>
          5. Beowulf<\/em>  (c. 1000)<\/li>
          6. Dante Alighieri<\/strong> \u2013 Inferno<\/em> (1265-1321)<\/li>
          7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em> (c. 1350)<\/li>
          8. Geoffrey Chaucer<\/strong> \u2013 The Canterbury Tales  <\/em>(c. 1343-1400)<\/li>
          9. William Shakespeare<\/strong> \u2013 Sonnets<\/em> (1564-1616)<\/li>
          10. John Donne<\/strong> (1572-1631)<\/li>
          11. King James Bible<\/strong> \u2013 Psalms<\/em> (1611)<\/li>
          12. John Milton<\/strong> \u2013 Paradise Lost<\/em> (1608-1674)<\/li>
          13. William Blake<\/strong> \u2013 Songs of Innocence and of Experience<\/em> (1757-1827)<\/li>
          14. Williams Wordsworth<\/strong> (1770-1850)<\/li>
          15. Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/strong> (1772-1834)<\/li>
          16. John Keats<\/strong> (1795-1821)<\/li>
          17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/strong> (1807-1882)<\/li>
          18. Alfred, Lord Tennyson<\/strong> (1809-1892)<\/li>
          19. Walt Whitman<\/strong> (1819-1892)<\/li>
          20. Emily Dickinson<\/strong> (1830-1886)<\/li>
          21. Christina Rossetti<\/strong> (1830-1894)<\/li>
          22. Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/strong> (1844-1889)<\/li>
          23. William Butler Yeats<\/strong> (1865-1939)<\/li>
          24. Paul Laurence Dunbar<\/strong> (1872-1906)<\/li>
          25. Robert Frost<\/strong> (1874-1963)<\/li>
          26. Carl Sandburg<\/strong> (1878-1967)<\/li>
          27. William Carlos Williams<\/strong> (1883-1963)<\/li>
          28. Ezra Pound<\/strong> (1885-1972)<\/li>
          29. T.S. Eliot<\/strong> (1888-1965)<\/li>
          30. Langston Hughes<\/strong> (1902-1967)<\/li>
          31. W.H. Auden<\/strong> (1907-1973)<\/li>
          32. Philip Larkin<\/strong> (1922-1985)<\/li>
          33. Allen Ginsberg<\/strong> (1926-1997)<\/li>
          34. Adrienne Rich<\/strong> (1929-2012)<\/li>
          35. Sylvia Plath<\/strong> (1932-1963)<\/li>
          36. Mark Strand<\/strong> (1934-2014)<\/li>
          37. Mary Oliver<\/strong> (1935- 2019)<\/li>
          38. Seamus Heaney<\/strong> (1939-2013)<\/li>
          39. Robert Pinsky<\/strong> (1940- )<\/li>
          40. Robert Haas<\/strong> (1941- )<\/li>
          41. Jane Kenyon<\/strong> (1947-1995)<\/li>
          42. Rita Dove<\/strong> (1952- )<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            1. Hippocrates<\/strong> \u2013 On Airs, Waters, and Places <\/em>(460-370 BC)<\/li>
            2. Aristotle<\/strong> \u2013 Physics<\/em> (c. 330 BC)<\/li>
            3. Lucretius<\/strong> \u2013 On the Nature of Things <\/em>(c. 60 BC)<\/li>
            4. Nicolaus Copernicus<\/strong> \u2013 Commentariolus<\/em> (1514)<\/li>
            5. Francis Bacon<\/strong> \u2013 Novum Organum<\/em> (1620)<\/li>
            6. Galileo Galilei<\/strong> \u2013 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems <\/em>(1632)<\/li>
            7. Robert Hooke<\/strong> \u2013 Micrographia <\/em>(1665)<\/li>
            8. Isaac Newton<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cRules\u201d and \u201cGeneral Scholium\u201d from Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica<\/em> (1687\/1713\/1726)<\/li>
            9. Georges Cuvier<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cPreliminary Discourse\u201d <\/em>(1812) [Essay on the Theory on the Theory of Earth, <\/em>trans. Robert Jameson (1818)]<\/li>
            10. Charles Lyell<\/strong> \u2013 Principles of Geology<\/em> (1830-1832)<\/li>
            11. Charles Darwin<\/strong> \u2013 On the Origin of Species<\/em> (1859)<\/li>
            12. Gregor Mendel<\/strong> \u2013 Experiments in Plant Hybridization <\/em>(1865)<\/li>
            13. Alfred Wegener<\/strong> \u2013 The Origin of Continents and Oceans <\/em>(1915\/1929)<\/li>
            14. Albert Einstein<\/strong> \u2013 The General Theory of Relativity <\/em>(1916)<\/li>
            15. Max Planck<\/strong> \u2013 The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory <\/em>(1922)<\/li>
            16. Julian Huxley<\/strong> \u2013 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis <\/em>(1942)<\/li>
            17. Erwin Schrodinger<\/strong> \u2013 What is Life? <\/em>(1944)<\/li>
            18. Rachel Carson<\/strong> \u2013 Silent Spring <\/em>(1962)<\/li>
            19. Desmond Morris<\/strong>\u2013 The Naked Ape<\/em> (1967)<\/li>
            20. James D. Watson <\/strong>\u2013 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of DNA <\/em>(1968)<\/li>
            21. Richard Dawkins<\/strong> \u2013 The Selfish Gene <\/em>(1976)<\/li>
            22. Steven Weinberg<\/strong> \u2013 The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe <\/em>(1977) [updated edition: 1993]<\/li>
            23. E. O. Wilson<\/strong> \u2013 On Human Nature <\/em>(1978)<\/li>
            24. James Lovelock<\/strong> \u2013  Gaia <\/em>(1979)<\/li>
            25. Stephen Jay Gould<\/strong> \u2013 The Mismeasure of Man <\/em>(1981)<\/li>
            26. James Gleick<\/strong> \u2013 Chaos: Making a New Science <\/em>(1987)<\/li>
            27. Stephen Hawking<\/strong> \u2013 A Brief History of Time <\/em>(1988)<\/li>
            28. Walter Alvarez<\/strong>  \u2013 T. Rex and the Crater of Doom <\/em>(1997)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

              Source: The Well Educated Mind<\/a> by Susan Wise Bauer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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