Book Lists

Students should check carefully that they are consulting the book list featuring their
discussion section professor.
Alpha Booklist Fall 2026
Faculty: Barnes, Charara, Dawson, Garner, Houlihan, Sisman, Trninic, Vollrath
Team Leader: Iain Morrison
The Complete Essays, Montaigne. Penguin Classics, trans. Screech, ISBN 978-0140446029
Othello, Shakespeare. Penguin (Pelican), ISBN 978-0143128618
Second Discourse, Rousseau. Bedford/St. Martin’s, trans. Masters and Masters,
ISBN 978-0312694401
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology, Applebaum (ed.) Dover Thrift, ISBN 978-0486292823
The Awakening, Chopin. Dover Thrift, ISBN 978-0486277868
The Crucible, Miller. Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0142437339
Beloved, Morrison. Vintage Books, ISBN 978-1400033416
Omega Booklist Spring 2026
Faculty: Ferguson, Ford, Frith, Gish, Lyke, Rayneard, Tierney
Team Leader: Carol Cooper
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare. Pelican, ISBN 9780143128588
Discourse on Method, Descartes. trans. Cress, Hackett, ISBN 9780872204225
Discourse on Inequality, in The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau. trans. Scott, Chicago, ISBN 9780226151311
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake. Dover Thrift, ISBN 9780486270517
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville. trans. Mansfield and Winthrop, Chicago, ISBN 9780226805368
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass. Dover Thrift,
ISBN 9780486284996
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, Frederick Douglass
The Declaration of Independence
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean. Chicago, ISBN 9780226472065
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga. Graywolf Press, ISBN 9781644450710