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Suggested Reading List (by Subject Area)

 Mathematics

 English

 Life Sciences

 Physical Sciences

Art & Design

 Music

 People/Sociology

 Business

 History/
Political Science

 Philosophy

 Foreign Language

 Athletics
 

 Science Fiction
 

 Mathematics

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Chaos (Gleick)
Elements (Euclid)
Principia Mathematica (Newton)

 English

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Hamlet/King Lear et al (Shakespeare)
Great Expectations/David Copperfield et al (Dickens)
Mythology (Hamilton)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
The Catcher in the Rye/Nine Stories (Salinger)
Of Mice and Men/The Grapes of Wrath et al (Steinbeck)
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test/The Right Stuff (Wolfe)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)
Fear and Loathing series (Thompson)
The Old Man and the Sea/The Sun Also Rises et al (Hemingway)
On the Road/Dharma Bums (Kerouac)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer et al (Twain)
The Tragedy of Faust (Goethe)
War and Peace/Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan)
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Dracula (Stoker)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Once and Future King (White)
Moby Dick (Melville)
Crime and Punishment/Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
The Elements of Style (Strunk & White)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Dubliners/Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
Cat's Cradle/Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Portrait of a Lady/Turn of the Screw et al (James)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
Jane Eyre (C. Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte)
The Way of All Flesh (Butler)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
The Tell-Tale Heart/The Raven et al (Poe)
The Oedipus Trilogy (Sophocles)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
Tartuffe/The Misanthrope (Moliere)
The Tales of Hans Christian Anderson (Anderson)

 Life Sciences

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Origin of the Species (Darwin)
Silent Spring (Carson)
The Double Helix (Watson)
Kon-Tiki (Heyerdahl)

 Physical Sciences

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Ideas and Opinions/Relativity (Einstein)
A Brief History of Time (Hawking)
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Feynman)
Quantum Reality (Herbert)
Worlds in Collision/Ages in Chaos (Velikovsky)
The Physical Principles Of The Quantum Theory (Heisenberg)

 Art & Design

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 Music (listening)

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The Brandenburg Concertos (Bach)
The Marriage of Figaro et al (Mozart)
Symphony #9 et al (Beethoven)
Symphony Of Psalms (Stravinsky)

 People

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Psychoanalysis/Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Animal Farm/1984/Homage to Catalonia (Orwell)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Frank)
The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois)
In Cold Blood (Capote)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Skinner)
The Miracle Worker (Gibson)
The Social Contract (Rousseau)
Sociobiology (Wilson)

 History and Political Science

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The Decameron (Boccacio)
Catch-22 (Heller)
Henry IVs/V (Shakepeare)
Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo)
The Source et al (Michener)
The Iliad/The Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Second World War (Churchill)
The Gulag Archipelago/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Solzhenitsyn)
Nicholas and Alexandra (Massie)
Mila 18/Trinity/Exodus (Uris)
The Age of Reason (Paine)
The History of the Pelopennesian War (Thucydides)
The Prince (Machiavelli)
Democracy in America (de Tocqueville)

 Philosophy

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The Dialogues/Complete Works (Plato)
Atlas Shrugged/The Fountainhead (Rand)
My Autobiography (Mill)
A Separate Reality (Casteneda)
Steppenwolf/Siddhartha (Hesse)
Brave New World/Point Counter Point/Doors of Perception (Huxley)
The Stranger/The Plague (Camus)
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
The Prophet (Gibran)
The Words/No Exit (Sartre)
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)
The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engles)
Walden (Thoreau)
Being and Time (Heidegger)
Fables (Aesop)
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Geometry/Meditations et al (Descartes)
Nature/Self-Reliance (Emerson)
On The Nature of Things (Lucretius)
Autobiography of a Yogi (Yogananda)

 Business

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The Art of War (Lao-Tze)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes)
The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
Das Kapital (Marx)
The Intelligent Investor (Graham)

 Foreign Language

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Aristophanes (any)

 Athletics

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Ball Four (Bouton)

 Computers

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 Science Fiction

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Dune series (Herbert)
Childhood's End/2001/2010 (Clarke)
I, Robot et al (Asimov)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
Neuromancer (Gibson)
Dandelion Wine/The Martian Chronicles et al (Bradbury)
The Time Machine (Wells)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller Jr.)

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