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