I will put up here what books I’m reading, what books I recommend and why, and maybe some reflections or links to posts about reflections these books have given me.
Currently Reading or Studying
- SØREN KIERKEGAARD. Fear and Trembling
- Old Testament prophets
- Leibniz’s Monadologie (translating from French)
Some Recommendations
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St. John’s College Reading List
For my undergraduate degree I study at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. To read more about the “The Great Books Program” around which the whole College operates, Wikipedia has a fair article here. To see the Program and Reading List used particularly at the College, go here. These are the books through which (I claim) I’ve learned how to read well. I have a deep appreciation for them, and my list of “favorite” writers is filled with many whom I first encountered at the College.
What I Have Thoroughly Enjoyed Reading
- The Holy Bible
- ARISTOTLE. Rhetoric
- AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. Confessions
- BLAISE PASCAL. Pensées
- C. S. LEWIS. The Abolition of Man, Till We Have Faces, Surprised by Joy
- EUCLID. Elements
- EURIPIDES. Hippolytus, Medea
- FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (Maximes)
- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. Human All Too Human
- GENE EDWARDS. A Tale of Three Kings
- GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ. “Discourse on Metaphysics”
- HOMER. Iliad
- JEAN RACINE. Phèdre
- JOHN MILTON. Paradise Lost
- JONATHAN EDWARDS. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” “Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners”
- PLATO. Apology, Gorgias, Meno, Phædrus
- RAY BRADBURY. The Illustrated Man
- RENÉ DESCARTES. Géométrie
- SOPHOCLES. Antigone
- SØREN KIERKEGAARD. Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
- THUCYDIDES. Peloponnesian War
- VIRGIL. Æneid
- VIRGINIA WOOLF. The Waves
- WATCHMAN NEE. Sit Walk Stand
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. King Lear, Macbeth
