Core Reading List
“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”
~Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses
All texts are available at the BU Barnes & Noble in Kenmore Square. This book list may be changed at any time; it is likely that additional titles may be substituted or added as the faculty make their final adjustments to the syllabi for the coming semester in the last weeks of the summer. All books are required reading unless otherwise indicated.
Additional books for the semester will be posted as they are confirmed by the faculty.
Required Reading for Spring 2012 Courses
| CC102 | required | NRSV Bible | 9780452006478 | |
| CC102 | required | The Analects of Confucius | tr. Simon Leys | 9780393316995 |
| CC102 | required | The Daodejing of Laotzi | tr. Phillip Ivanhoe | 9780872207011 |
| CC102 | required | Paradiso | Dante | 9780553212044 |
| CC102 | required | Inferno | Dante | 9780553213393 |
| CC102 | required | Purgatorio | Dante | 9780553213447 |
| CC102 | required | Aeneid | Virgil, trans. Fitzgerald | 9780679729525 |
| CC102 | required | Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle, trans. Ostwald | 9780023895302 |
| CC102 | required | The Bhagavad-Gita | trans. Stoler Miller | 9780553213652 |
| CC102 | required | The Life of the Buddha | Ashvaghosha | 9780814762165 |
| CC106 | optional | Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Richard Wrangham | 9780465020416 |
| CC106 | optional | Guns, Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond | 9780393317558 |
| CC106 | optional | Life Ascending. The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution | Nick Lane | 9780393338669 |
| CC106 | optional | Collapse | Jared Diamond | 9780143117001 |
| CC106 | required | Turing response card “clicker” | 9781934931394 | |
| CC202 | required | Gulliver’s Travels | Students should have this text from CC201 | |
| CC202 | required | Candide | Voltaire, trans. David Wootton | 9780872205468 |
| CC202 | required | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 9780141439518 |
| CC202 | required | English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology | ed. Stanley Applebaum | 9780486292823 |
| CC202 | required | The Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 9780140440331 |
| CC202 | required | Whitman: Poetry and Prose | Walt Whitman | 9781883011352 |
| CC202 | required | Nature and Other Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 9780486469478 |
| CC202 | required | Selected Poems | Emily Dickinson | 9780486264660 |
| CC202 | required | Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | coursepacket |
| CC202 | required | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men | Mary Shelley Wollstonecroft | 9780199555468 |
| CC202 | required | Chekhov: The Essential Plays | Anton Chekhov | 9780375761348 |
| CC202 | required | Faust: Part 1 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Luke | 9780199536214 |
| CC202 | required | On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo | Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann | 9780679724629 |
| CC202 | required | Walden and Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau | 9780140390445 |
| CC202 | required | Tartuffe | Moliere, trans. Richard Wilbur | 9780156881807 |
| CC204 | required | The Chosen |
Jerome Karabel | 9780618773558 |
| CC204 | required | Categorically Unequal. The American Stratification System | Douglas Massey | 9780871545848 |
| CC204 | required | The Mismeasure of Man | Stephen Jay Gould | 9780393314250 |
| CC204 | required | Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life | Annette Lareau | 9780520271425 |
| CC204 | required | The Hidden Cost of Being African American | Thomas Shapiro | 9780195181388 |
| CC204 | required | The Second Shift | Arlie Hochschild | 9780142002926 |
| CC204 | required | When Affirmative Action Was White | Ira Katznelson | 9780393328516 |