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so, i've finally think i found the right college path for myself. i will probably only major in comparative literature, with a minor in russian and museum studies. i decided not to do creative writing to pursue more language classes, more specifically, portuguese, spanish, and russian. grad school will no doubt be a ph.d in comparative lit with the certificate program in museum studies, probably at michigan because michigan has the museums studies program. it excites me to know myself.

so, because i will not be taking a true literature course, only a creative writing tutorial (which does include reading), i have decided to read the books on the st. john's reading list.

it will probably take a while to do, but the good news is that i have already knocked some of them out!

my free time is really just me dreaming about how exciting life will be.

Freshman year

• Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
• Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
• Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
• Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
• Euripides: Hippolytus, The Bacchae
• Herodotus: Histories
• Aristophanes: Clouds, Birds
• Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
• Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
• Euclid: Elements
• Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
• Plutarch: Lycurgus, Solon
• Nicomachus: Arithmetic
• Antoine Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
• William Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Blood
• Essays by: Theophrastus, Galen, Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Black, John Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Edme Mariotte, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Hans Spemann, Stears, J. J. Thomson, Dmitri Mendeleev, Berthollet, Joseph Proust

[edit] Sophomore year

• The Bible
• Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
• Apollonius: Conics
• Virgil: Aeneid
• Plutarch: Caesar and Cato the Younger
• Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
• Tacitus: Annals
• Ptolemy: Almagest
• Plotinus: The Enneads
• Augustine of Hippo: Confessions
• Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion
• Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles
• Dante: Divine Comedy
• Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
• Josquin Des Prez: Mass
• Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses on Livy
• Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
• Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian
• François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
• Michel de Montaigne: Essays
• François Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art
• Francis Bacon: Novum Organum, New Atlantis
• William Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets
• Poems by: Andrew Marvell, John Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
• René Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method
• Blaise Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections
• Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
• Joseph Haydn: Quartets
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Operas
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas
• Franz Schubert: Songs
• Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

[edit] Junior year

• Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
• Galileo Galilei: Dialogues on Two New Sciences
• René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• John Milton: Paradise Lost
• François de La Rochefoucauld: Maximes
• Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
• Blaise Pascal: Pensées
• Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
• George Eliot: Middlemarch
• Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise
• John Locke: Second Treatise of Government
• Jean Racine: Phèdre
• Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica
• Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV
• Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
• David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on Origins of Inequality
• Molière: The Misanthrope
• Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
• Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Metaphysics of Morals
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
• Richard Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
• Leonhard Euler
• The Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation
• The Constitution of the United States of America
• The Federalist Papers

[edit] Senior year

• Supreme Court opinions
• Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)
• Albert Einstein: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", "Relativity: The Special and General Theory"
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels
• Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
• Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches
• Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
• Karl Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
• Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
• Herman Melville: Benito Cereno
• Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Flannery O'Connor: Parker's Back, The Artificial Nigger
• Sigmund Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
• Booker T. Washington: Selected Writings
• W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk
• Martin Heidegger: What is Philosophy?
• Werner Heisenberg: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
• Robert Millikan: The Electron
• Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
• Essays by: Michael Faraday, J. J. Thomson, Gregor Mendel, Hermann Minkowski, Ernest Rutherford, Clinton Davisson, Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell, Louis-Victor de Broglie, Dreisch, Hans Christian Ørsted, André-Marie Ampère, Theodor Boveri, Walter Sutton, Morgan, Beadle and Tatum, Gerald Jay Sussman, Watson and Crick, Jacob & Monod, G. H. Hardy