The Books of This Semester

This was a long semester. Lots of reading and writing of papers. (I think I wrote about 20 papers). But I thought I'd post the list of books read for my classes this semester. It's a pretty impressive list. Took a lot of time to get through, but I'm glad I got through each book. 

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Republic by Plato

Poetics by Aristotle

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides

Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

New Science by Giambattista Vico

The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson Edited by Thomas H. Johnson

Short Stories by Hawthorne

Course in General Linguistics by Saussure

Ethics by Benedict De Spinoza

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Discourse on Metaphysics by Leibniz

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

Banito Cereno by Herman Melville

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass

Deaf In America by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Dissemination by Jacques Derrida

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

That is a total of 25 books. Lots and lots of reading. Next semester will probably be even more. But for now, during the summer, I'm going to take it easy. Less books and books I want to read. Should be good. I'm starting with my dads book, again, because I want to actually write a paper dealing with the Hell he describes and freewill. Should be good.