Academic Program
Annapolis — Undergraduate Reading List 2012-2013
The reading lists on this page are overviews. To view the detailed reading lists with page assignments and class dates, click on the class header. This list may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean's office.
| Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
| Homer: Iliad | Bible: Genesis | Cervantes: Don Quixote | Tolstoy: War and Peace |
| Homer: The Odyssey | Bible: Exodus, Numbers (selections) | Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy | Hegel: Logic, Encyclopedia |
| Aeschylus: Agamemnon | Bible: Leviticus, Deuteronomy | Pascal: Pensées | Hegel: Phenomenology of the Spirit |
| Aeschylus: Libation Bearers, Eumenides |
Bible: Samuel I & II, Kings I | Milton: Paradise Lost | Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 |
| Plato: Gorgias | Bible: Psalms | Hobbes: Leviathan | Marx and Engels: Capital |
| Plutarch: Lives (Lycurgus, Solon) | Bible: Amos, Jonah, Isaiah | Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise | Marx: The German Ideology |
| Herodotus: The Histories | Bible: Job | Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics | Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling |
| Plato: Republic | Lucretius: De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) | Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (selections) | Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments |
| Aristophanes: Clouds | Virgil: Aeneid | Leibniz: Principles of Nature and Grace |
Melville: Benito Cereno |
| Plato: Apology & Crito | Plutarch: Lives (Caesar, Cato the Younger) | Leibinz: Monadology | Nietzsche: Use and Disadvantage of History for Life |
| Plato: Phaedo | Tacitus: Annals | George Eliot: Middlemarch | Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil |
| Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War | Epictetus: Discourses & Handbook | Hume: Treatise of Human Nature | Wagner: Tristan and Isolde |
| Plato: Symposium | Bible: Matthew | Kant: Critique of Pure Reason | Conrad: Heart of Darkness |
| Plato: Parmenides | Bible: Luke | Locke: Second Treatise on Government | William James: Psychology, A Briefer Course |
| Plato: Theaetetus | Bible: Acts | Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice | Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov |
| Plato: Sophist | Bible: Gospel of John, First Letter of John | Rousseau: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality | The Federalist Papers (selections), various Supreme Court Opinions, U.S. Constitution |
| Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics | Bible: I Corinthians | Rousseau: The Social Contract | Tocqueville: Democracy in America |
| Aristotle: Politics | Bible: Romans, James | Molière: The Misanthrope | Dred Scott Decision |
| Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus | Plotinus: selections | Mozart: Don Giovanni | Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches |
| Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus | Augustine: Confessions | Kant: Foundation of Metaphysics of Morals |
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches |
| Sophocles: Antigone | Anselm: Proslogium | Swift: Gulliver's Travels | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Plato: Timaeus | Christian Creeds | Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations | Booker T. Washington: Selected Speeches |
| Aristotle: Physics | Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae | Declaration of Independence | W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk |
| Sophocles: Philoctetes | Dante: Divine Comedy, Inferno | Articles of Confederation | Faulkner: Go Down Moses |
| Aristotle: Metaphysics | Dante: Divine Comedy, Pergatorio | U.S. Constitution | Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Euripides: Hippolytus | Dante: Divine Comedy, Paradiso | The Federalist Papers (selections) | Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations |
| Euripides: The Bacchae | Chaucer: Canterbury Tales | Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn | Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics |
| Aristotle: Poetics | Shakespeare: As You Like It | Plato: Phaedrus | |
| Aristophanes: The Frogs | Montaigne: Essays | ||
| Aristotle: On the Soul | Machiavelli: The Prince | ||
| Plato: Phaedrus | Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy | ||
| Shakespeare: Richard II | |||
| Shakespeare: Henry IV | |||
| Shakespeare: Othello | |||
| Shakespeare: Hamlet | |||
| Calvin: Institutes of Christian Religion | |||
| J.S. Bach: St. Matthew's Passion | |||
| Bacon: Novum Organum | |||
| Descartes: Discourse on Method | |||
| Shakespeare: Macbeth | |||
| Shakespeare: King Lear | |||
| Shakespeare: The Tempest |
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