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Reading & Listening List
The Jacksonville University Reading and Listening
List is provided for JU students prepared to
continue their journey of discovery. Certainly not
designed to be exhaustive, the list suggests works
from many disciplines of which a college student
should be aware.
Students may read or listen to many of the works on
this list during their undergraduate years. Other works
will become part of the extended reading/listening list
that educated people maintain all their lives.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading; nor any
pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from
the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man.
Copland, Aaron
What to Listen for in Music
DeBono, Edward
New Think
Foster, Hal
The Anti Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
Gablik, Suzi
Has Modernism Failed?
Gardner, Helen
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages
Gogh, Vincent van
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
Greenberg, Clement
Art & Culture: Critical Essays
Herrigel, Eugen
Zen in the Art of Archery
Janson, H.W., & Janson, A.F.
History of Art
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Jellinek, George
History Through the Opera Glass
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert
Kaupelis, Robert
Experimental Drawing
It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not
marking, that I am troubled withal.
Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part I)
Meyer, Leonard
Emotion and Meaning in Music
The man who does not read good books has no
advantage over the man who can’t read.
Mark Twain
Reading List
Ristad, Eloise
A Soprano on Her Head
Rose, Barbara
American Painting: The Twentieth Century
Sadler, M. T. H.
Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Fine Arts
Schirmer Books
Music in the Western World: A History in Documents
Abraham, Gerald
Concise Oxford History of Music
Schneider Adams, Laurie
A History of Western Art
Amis, John
Words About Music
Siegel, Jeanne
Art Talk
Bernstein, Leonard
The Unanswered Question
Smagula, Howard J.
Creative Drawing
Thompson, William Irwin
Time Falling Bodies Take to Light
Science & Mathematics
Abbott, Edwin A.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The World of Mathematics, Vol. 4
Anderson, B. D., & Spielberg, N.
Seven Ideas That Shook the Universe
Atkins, P. W.
Molecules
Bass, T. A.
The Eudaemonic Pie
Bell, Eric Temple
Men of Mathematics
Bethe, Hans A.
The Road from Los Alamos
Boorse, Motz, Weaver
The Atomic Scientists: A Biographical History
Bova, B.
The Beauty of Light
Bronowski, Jacob
The Ascent of Man
Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring
Close, F.
Too Hot to Handle, the Race for Cold Fusion
Cohen, N.
Gravity’s Lens
Courant & Robbins
What Is Mathematics?
Coveney & Highfield
The Arrow of Time
Darwin, Charles
On the Origin of the Species
Davies, P.
God and the New Physics
Dunham, William
Journey Through Genius
Einstein, Albert
Out of My Later Years
The Meaning of Relativity
Feynman, Richard
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
QED, The Strange Theory of Light & Matter
The Character of Physical Law
Forward, R.
Mirror Matter
Freeman, Joan
A Passion for Physics
Glashow, Sheldon L.
The Charm of Physics
Glashow, S.
Interactions
Gleick, James
Chaos: Making a New Science
Gould, Stephen J.
The Flamingo’s Smile
"Nonmoral Nature" in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Gregory, B.
Inventing Reality: Physics as Language
Gribben, J.
In Search of the Big Bang
In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat
Hawking, Stephen
A Brief History of Time
Hazen, Robert M. & Trefil, James
Science Matters
Hill, E.
My Daughter Beatrice
Hoffmann, Roald
The Same and Not the Same
Hager, Thomas
Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling
Johnston, Ian
Measured Tones
Kitchin, Chris R,
Journeys to the Ends of the Universe
Kline, Morris
Mathematics in Western Culture
Lambourne, Shallis, Shortland
Close Encounters? Science & Science Fiction
Laurikainen, K. V.
Beyond the Atom: Philosophical Thought of Wolfgang
Pauli
Lenihan, John
The Crumbs of Creation
Science in Action
Lines, Malcolm E.
Think of a Number
Mallove, E. F.
Fire From Ice
Space, Time and Beyond
Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Language,
Literature
Bhagavad Gita
Beowulf
The Bible (King James Version, Old & New Testaments;
Oxford Study Edition in RSV or NRSV)
Celestina, La
McCormmach, R.
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
Parker, Maria, ed.
She Does Math!: Real-Life Problems from Women on
the Job
Gilgamesh
Qu’ran (Koran)
Roman de la Rose
Penrose, Roger
The Emperor’s New Mind
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Africa)
Roberts, Royston
Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science
Aeschylus
Oresteia
Sagan, Carl
Contact
Anderson, Sherwood
Winesburg, Ohio
Snow, C. P.
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Anselm, Saint
Proslogium
Squires, Euan
To Acknowledge the Wonder
The Mystery of the Quantum World
Conscious Mind in the Physical World
Aquinas, St. Thomas
The ”Five Ways” from Summa Theologiae
Swetz, Frank J., ed.
From Five Fingers to Infinity
Talbot, Michael
The Holographic Universe
Teller, Teller, & Talley
Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
Von Hippel, Franck
Citizen Scientist
Watson, James D., & Crick, F.H.C.
Double Helix
Weinberg, Steven
The First Three Minutes
Wheeler, John A.
A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime
Wolf, Fred Alan
Arguedas, Jose Maria
Deep Rivers
Aristophanes
The Clouds
Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
Asturias, Miguel Angel
Men of Maize
El Senor Presidente
Augustine, Saint
The City of God
Confessions
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Bacon, Francis
Advancement of Learning
Baudelaire
Flowers of Evil
The Meditations
Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo
Rimas
Dickenson, Emily
Collected Poems
Boccaccio
The Decameron
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Borges, Jorge Luis
Ficciones
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
Life Is a Dream
Camus, Albert
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Stranger
Castellanos, Rosario
Nine Guardians
Cela, Camilo Jose
The Family of Pascual Duarte
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Corneille
Le Cid
Dante (full name: Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
Dario, Ruben
Songs of Life and Hope
Profane Proses
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
Descartes, Rene
Discourse on Method
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Eliot, T. S.
Collected Poems
The Sacred Wood and Other Essays
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Self-Reliance
Other Essays
Erasmus
The Praise of Folly
Euripides
The Trojan Women
Faulkner, William
Light in August
Fielding, Joseph
History of Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox
The Good Soldier
Frost, Robert
Poems
Fuentes, Carlos
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Garcia Lorca, Federico
Blood Wedding
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory
Guillen, Nicolas
Songoro cosongo
West Indies, Ltd.
Keats, John
Selected Poems
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Kuhn, Thomas
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Lawrence, D. H.
Sons and Lovers
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Monadology
Hobbes, Thomas
Leviathan
Lewis, Sinclair
Arrowsmith
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Locke, John
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Second of Two Treatises of Government
Horace
Art Poetique
Lowry, Malcolm
Under the Volcano
Hume, David
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Machado, Antonio
Collected Poetry
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Husserl, E.
“Philosophy as a Rigorous Science”
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House
Hedda Gabler
James, Henry
Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Dubliners
Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sor
First Dream
Answer to Sor Filotea
Kafka, Franz
The Castle
The Trial
Kant, Immanuel
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Introduction to The Critique of Pure Reason
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Zorba the Greek
Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Prince
Malory, Sir Thomas
Le Morte D’Arthur
Mann, Thomas
Death in Venice
Marlowe, Christopher
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Marx & Engels
The Communist Manifesto
Maugham, Somerset
Of Human Bondage
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick
Mill, John Stuart
Autobiography
On Liberty
Utilitarianism
Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman
Milton, John
Paradise Lost
Mistral, Gabriela
Desolation
More, Sir Thomas
Utopia
Morrison, Toni
Song of Solomon
Neruda, Pablo
Twenty Love Poems
Residence in the Land
General Song
Elementary Odes
Newman, John Henry
The Idea of a University
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Oates, Joyce Carol
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
O’Connor, Flannery
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” or other short story
O’Neill, Eugene
Desire Under the Elms
Long Day’s Journey into Night
The Iceman Cometh
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Paz, Octavio
The Collected Poetry of Octavio Paz
Labyrinth of Solitude
Petronius, Arbiter
The Sartyricon
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Plato
The Republic
Apology
The Collected Dialogues (ed. Cairns and Hamilton)
Poe, Edgar Allen
“The Raven,” or other poems
“The Cask of Amontillado,” or other stories
Pope, Alexander
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man
Proust, Marcel
Remembrance of Things Past
Puig, Manuel
The Kiss of the Spider Woman
Quiroga, Horacio
The De-headed Chicken and Other Stories
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys, Jean
Good Morning, Midnight
Quartet
Rulfo, Juan
Pedro Paramo
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
Russell, Bertrand
The Problems of Philosophy
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Shakespeare, William
Plays and Poems, any
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Sophocles
Antigone
Electra
Spark, Muriel
Memento Mori
Spenser, Edmund
The Faerie Queene, Book I
Spinoza, B.
Short Treatise on God
Man and His Well-Being
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Stevens, Wallace
Poems
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan
“A Modest Proposal”
Gulliver’s Travels
Talbot, Michael
The Holographic Universe
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 (French)
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Lazarillo de Tormes
Twain, Mark
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Magna Carta, 1215
Mayflower Compact, 1620
State of the World, 1996
Vallejo, Cesar
The Black Heralds
Trilce
Human Poems
Spain, let this cup pass from me
Virgil
The Aeneid
Voltaire
Candide
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams, Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1947
Whole Earth Catalog
Abler, R., Marcus, M., & Olson, J.
Geography’s Inner Worlds: Pervasive Themes in
Contemporary
American Geography
Alberti
Your Perfect Right
Aristotle
Politics
Aronson
The Social Animal
Bass & Davis
The Courage to Heal
Wollstonecraft, Mary
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Beard, Charles
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One’s Own
To the Lighthouse
Beck
Anxiety Disorders and Phobias
Cognitive Therapy and Emotional Disorders
Wordsworth, William
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
The Prelude and Other Poems (1798-1807)
Bellah, R.N., et al.
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in
American
Life
Wright, Richard
Native Son
Yeats, William Butler
Selected Poems
Zola, Emile
Germinal
History, Psychology, Sociology, Geography,
Political Science, Economics
Charter of the United Nations, 1945
Constitution of the United States of America
Benson
The Relaxation Response
Burke, Edmund
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burns
Feeling Good
Capra
The Turning Point
Casas, Bartolome de las
History of the Indies
Clark, John M.
Alternative to Serfdom
The Worldly Philosophers
Connelly, Thomas L.
The Marble Man
Henry, Patrick
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (Speech)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Flow
Herodotus
History
de Blij, H. J., & Muller, P.
Geography
James, William
The Moral Equivalent of War
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Democracy in America
Jefferson, Thomas
Declaration of Independence
First Inaugural Address
Diaz del Castillo, Bernal
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Douglass, Frederick
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ellis & Harper
The New Guide for Rational Living
Equiano, Olaudah
The Life of Gustavus Vassa
Fischer & Ury
Getting to Yes
Frankel, Viktor
Man’s Search for Meaning
Franklin, Benjamin
Autobiography
Freeman, Douglas Southall
Robert E. Lee
Friedman, Milton
Capitalism and Freedom
Fromm, Erich
The Art of Loving
Escape from Freedom
Galbraith, John K.
The New Industrial State
Getis, A., Getis, J., & Fellman, J.
Introduction to Geography
Ginott
Between Parent and Child
Gore, Al
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Haley
Uncommon Therapy
Heilbroner, Robert L.
Jung, Carl
Memories
Dreams and Reflections
Kennedy, John F.
“Berlin Wall” (Speech)
Keynes, John Maynard
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Kincaid, Jamaica
A Small Place
King, Martin Luther “I Have a Dream” (Speech)
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
On Death and Dying
Leuctenburg, William E.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Levinson
Seasons of a Man’s Life
Lincoln, Abraham
The Gettysburg Address
Locke, John
On Civil Government (Two Treatises)
Lowi, Theodore
The End of Liberalism
Luther, Martin 95 Theses
Madison, James
Federalist Papers # 10 and # 51
Malthus, Thomas
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Manchester, William
A World Lit Only By Fire
Neustadt, Richard E.
Presidential Power in the Politics of Leadership From
FDR to Bush
Gregorian Chants, any
OKun, Arthur
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff
Renaissance Dances, any
Ornstein, Robert
The Psychology of Consciousness
Paine, Thomas
Age of Reason
Common Sense
Polanyi, Karl
The Great Transformation
Rostow, W. W.
The Stages of Economic Growth
Schumpeter, Joseph
Ten Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes
Seligman
Learned Optimism
Singer
Boundries of the Soul
Skinner, B. F.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Smith, Adam
Wealth of Nations
Stampp, Kenneth M.
The Peculiar Institution
Thoreau, Henry D.
Civil Disobedience
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian War
Vega, Garcilaso de la
Royal Commentaries of the Inca
Gardner, Howard
The Mind’s New Science
Washington, George
The Farewell Address
First Inaugural Address
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
Troubadour Songs, any
Bach, J. S.
B minor Mass
Brandenburg Concertos (any)
Organ Fugue in G minor
Passion According to St. Matthew
Barber
Knoxville Summer of 1915
Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
Music for String Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta
Suite, Opus 14
Beethoven
Quartet, Opus 18, No. 4
Piano Sonata No. 8 (”Pathetique”)
String Quartet, Opus 59, No. 1
Symphony No. 3 (”Eroica”)
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 9
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Bernstein
Fancy Free
Kaddish Symphony
Overture to Candide
West Side Story
Bingen, Hildegard von
A Feather on the Breath of God
Bizet
Carmen
Brahms
Any symphony, particularly Symphony No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 2
Requiem
Piano Pieces, Opus 118
Chopin
Etudes, Sonatas, Waltzs, Nocturnes, Mazurkas
Polonaise in A-Flat Major
Copland
Billy the Kid
Fanfare for the Common Man
Jacksonville University
Listening List
Crawford
String Quartet
Davis, Miles
Birth of the Cool
Debussy “Clair de Lune”
Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
Delius
On Hearing the First Cukoo in Spring
Dufay
Any work
Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 From “The New World”
Ellington
Creole Rhapsody “Ko-Ko,” Concerto for Cootie
Violin Concerto
Milhaud
The Creation of the World
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto, K 622
Don Giovanni
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Piano Concerto in C minor
Symphony No. 40 (G minor)
Palestrina
Any work
Prez, Josquin des
Any work
Falla
El Amor brujo (Love the Magician)
Prokofiev
Classical Symphony
Lt. Kiji Suite
Gershwin
Porgy and Bess
Rhapsody in Blue
Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3
Glass
Glassworks
Koyaanisqatsi
Gorecki
Symphony No. 3
Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite
Piano Concerto
Handel
The Messiah
Haydn
Symphony No.104 (London)
Any String Quartet
Symphony No. 94 (”Surprise”)
Hoskins
Ballad of the Trumpet Boy
Ives
Three Places in New England
The Unanswered Question
Machaut
Any work
Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
Symphony No. 2
Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture
Incidental Music from “A Midsummer Night”s Dream”
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe Suite
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Satie
Gymnopedies
Schirmer
String Quartet #48
Piano Sonata #44
Schoenberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra
A Survivor from Warsaw
Schubert
Die Schone Mullerein (”The Beautiful Miller-Maid”)
The Trout Quintet
Wintereise
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Stockhausen
Gesang der Junglinge (song of the Youths)
Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Don Juan
Death and Transfiguration
Stravinsky
Rite of Spring
Petrushka
Pulcinella Suite
Symphony of Psalms
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake
Symphony No. 6 (”Pathetique”)
Varese
Ionisation
Poeme Electronique
Verdi
Requiem
Rigoletto
Vivaldi
The Seasons
Wagner
Das Rheingold “Siegfried”s Rhine Journey” from Twilight
of the Gods Tristran and Isolde, particularly “Prelude
and Love Death”
Zwillich
Symphony No. 3