Ongoing reading list for people who like to learn

Note : the ones I have read, used, or are familiar with are in boldface. the others are ones that have been strongly recommended or that I have used minimally so far. 😀

Again : non-comprehensive and ongoing 😀😀

Thanks, in part, to Angela Carstensen’s ongoing Outstanding Books for the College Bound: Titles and Programs for a New Generation

Arts & Humanities

The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland
Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde by Marc Aronson
The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Photography: An Illustrated History by Martin Sandler
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich

Art History

The Stories of the Mona Lisa: An Imaginary Museum Tale About the History of Modern Art - Piotr Barsony (2012)

English, Literature, Language Arts

Shakespeare: The World As Stage by Bill Bryson

Science & Technology

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

Social Sciences

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

Social Studies, Histories, Cultures

The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained by John Bowker

Assorted fiction that everyone should read at some point in their life

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Assorted non-fiction that everyone should read at some point in their life

coming soon