College of Southern Idaho HONORS PROGRAM
July 2001 Archived Copy of Material That Was Previously On: http://www.csi.edu/ip/hon/readings.ht
Recommended College Readings--Arranged By Discipline
Goal of Honors Readings: To introduce students to key works of critical thinking in many
disciplines and cultures as well as provide students with opportunities to meet one-on-one with faculty and staff.
AGRICULTURE
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. and “The Land Ethic.”
Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
Strange, Marty. Family Farming: A New Economics Version.
BUSINESS
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Peters, Tom. In Search of Excellence.
EDUCATION
Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind.
Dewey, John. Democracy and Education. or On Experience, Nature, and Freedom.
Durkheim, Emile. Education and Sociology. or Moral Education.
Highet, Gilbert. The Art of Teaching.
Kidder, Tracy. Among School Children.
Kozal, Jonathan. Illiterate America. or On Being a Teacher.
Pipher, Mary, Ph.D. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography.
Rogers, Carl. Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become.
ENGLISH
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire.
Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits. or Paula.
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Austen, Jane. Emma. or Pride and Prejudice. or Sense and Sensibility.
Beowulf. Trans. Frederick Rebsamen or Seamus Heaney.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's Progress.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Cervantes. Don Quixote.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
The Classic Fairy Tales. Edited by Iona and Peter Opie.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Delillio, Dom. White Noise.
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. or Great Expectations. or Hard Times. or A Tale of Two Cities.
Dickey, James. Deliverance.
Dickinson, Emily. Final Harvest.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Dorris, Michael. Yellow Raft in Blue Water.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. or Brother’s Karamazov.
Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
The Epic of Gilgamesh. Trans. Maureen Gallery Kovacs.
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. or Love Medicine
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate.
Fitzgerald, Edward. The Great Gatsby.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Faulkner, William. Sound and the Fury.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von. Faust.
Golden, Arthur S. Memoirs of a Geisha.
Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the Durbervilles.
Harper, Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. and Farewell to Arms.
Hesse, Hermann. Narcissus and Goldmund. and Siddhartha. and Steppenwolf.
Homer. The Iliad. or The Odyssey.
Hulme, Keri. The Bone People.
Hugo, Victor. Le
Hurton, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams.
Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image. or The Screwtape Letters.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior.
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. or Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. 100 Years of Solitude.
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. or Moby Dick.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost.
McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes.
Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain.
More, Thomas. Utopia.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Murasaki, Lady. Tale of Genji.
Niehardt, John. Black Elk Speaks.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. or 1984.
Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient.
Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News.
The Ramayana. Trans. by William Buck.
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Sallinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Shakespeare, William. The Works of William Shakespeare.
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich. The Gulag Archipelago. or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose. or Crossing to Safety.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. or Of Mice and Men.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Resistance to Civil Government.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge.
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. or War and Peace.
Turgenev. Fathers and Sons.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Voltaire. Candide.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men.
Welch, James. Fool’s Crow.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
FINE ARTS (VISUAL ART, MUSIC, and THEATER) and COMMUNICATIONS
Aronson, Marc. Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde.
Aristotle. The Poetics.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.
Bernstein, Leonard. The Joy of Music.
Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard.
Clark, Kenneth. The Nude. and What is a Masterpiece?
Cooke, Mervyn. The Chronicle of Jazz.
Fugard, Athol. Master Harold and the Boys.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.
Hofstadter, Doug. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler.
Longinus. On the Sublime.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Plato. Phaedrus.
Shakespeare, William. The Works of William Shakespeare.
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion and Heartbreak House and Major Barbara.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Oedipus at Colonus. and Antigone.
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation
Uhry, Alfred. Driving Miss Daisy.
Wilde, Oscar. Importance of Being Earnest.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. and The Glass Menagerie. and Streetcar Named Desire.
Wilson, August. Fences.
Wolf, Tom. The Painted Word.
HEALTH SCIENCES and HUMAN SERVICES
Langone, John. Vital Signs: The Way We Die in America.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Birth. or The American Way of Death.
Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing.
Northrup, Christiane, M.D. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional
Health and Healing.
Pipher, Mary, Ph.D. Hunger Pains: The American Women’s Tragic Quest for Thinness. or Reviving
Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as a Metaphor.
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the
Structure of DNA.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.
MATH and ENGINEERING/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Einstein, Albert. Out of My Later Years.
Beckmann, Petr. A History of Pi.
Berlinski, David. A Tour of the Calculus.
Clawson, Calvin. Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers.
Cole, K. C. The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty.
Hofstadter, Doug. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero.
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine.
McPhee, John. The Control of Nature.
Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things. or To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.
Postman, Neil. Technopoly.
Singh, Simon. Fermat’s Enigma.
Wolf, Tom. From Bauhaus to Our House.
Whitehead, Alfred North. An Introduction to Mathematics.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. or Poetics.
Augustine. Confessions.
Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination.
The Bible, with the Apochrypha.
The Bhagavad-Gita.
Camus, Albert. The Fall. and The Plague. and The Stranger.
Confucius. Analects.
Derrida, Jacques. On Grammatology.
Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial.
Kant. Essential Writings.
Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling and Sickness Unto Death.
Kojiki.
Machiavelli. The Prince.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto.
Mill, John Stuart. Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women.
Plato. The Complete Works. Selections from The Apology, Symposium, Republic, etc.
Quran.
The Ramayana. Trans. by William Buck.
Rig-Veda.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions. or Basic Political Writings.
Tzu, Lao. Tao Te Ching.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Asinof, Eliot. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series.
Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle.
Langone, John. Vital Signs: The Way We Die in America.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Birth. or The American Way of Death.
Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing.
Northrup, Christiane, M.D. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional
Health and Healing.
Pipher, Mary, Ph.D. Hunger Pains: The American Women’s Tragic Quest for Thinness. or Reviving
Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Ryan, Joan. Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and
Figure Skaters.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as a Metaphor.
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the
Structure of DNA.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.
SCIENCES (LIFE SCIENCE and PHYSICAL SCIENCE)
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire.
Alvarez, Walter. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom.
Bodanis, David. The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds
and Bodies.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring.
Curie, Eve. Madam Curie: A Biography.
Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle.
Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene.
Diamond, Jared. The Third Chimpanzee.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Eiseley, Loren. The Immense Journey.
Feynman, Richard. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character.
Fortey, Richard. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac.
Mullis, Kary. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field.
Plotkin, Mark. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in
the Amazon Rain Forest.
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals.
Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher or The Fragile Species.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the
Structure of DNA.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge.
Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature. or The Diversity of Life.
Wilson, Frank R. The Hand: How its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture.
SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES
Auel, Jane. Clan of the Cave Bear.
Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life.
Lane, Harlan. When the Mind Hears.
Neisser, Arden. The Other Side of Silence.
Padden, Carol and Tom Humphries. Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture.
Van Cleve, John and Barry Crouch. A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community
in America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening
of the American West.
Bellah, Robert. Habits of the Heart: Individualism & Commitment in American Life.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.
Coles, Robert. The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord.
de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America.
Erlich, Paul. Population Bomb.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl.
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams.
Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.
Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
James, Williams. Principles of Psychology.
Jiang, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution.
Jung, C. G. The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List.
Khanga, Yelena. Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992.
Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind.
Locke. Second Treatise on Civil Government.
Maslow, Abraham. Toward a Psychology of Being.
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Birth. or The American Way of Death.
Robertson, James I. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend.
Rogers, Carl. On Becoming a Person.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions. or Basic Political Writings.
Skinner, B. F. Walden Two.
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class.
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands. or Friends from the Other Side.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Behn, Aphra. Oronooko.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! or My Antonia.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Davidson, Robyn. Tracks.
De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. or Tracks.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl.
Freidan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique.
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. and “The Yellow Wall-paper.”
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Jacob, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Jordan, Teresa and James Hepworth, eds. The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write
About the West.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior.
Mill, John Stuart. Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women.
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Birth. or The American Way of Death.
Morrison, Toni. The Song of Solomon. or Beloved.
Pipher, Mary, Ph.D. Hunger Pains: The American Women’s Tragic Quest for Thinness. or Reviving
Orphelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. or In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. or A Room of One’s Own.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
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