Dr. Maier's Recommended Summer Reading.
General Interest:
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
David Allen, Getting Things Done
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
History:
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
C. Van Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Theology/Spirituality:
Ignatius of Loyola, Autobiography: A Pilgrim’s Journey
James Martin: Jesus: A Pilgrimage
James Martin: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost ) Everything
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas
Science:
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Pedro Ferreira, The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
The New York Times Book of Science
Philosophy:
Plato, Symposium
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Robert Heilbronner, The Worldly Philosophers
J.S. Mill, On Liberty
Literature:
Shakespeare, King Henry V, Macbeth
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Eumenides)
Euripides, Bacchae; Medea
Homer, The Iliad (Fagles translation)
Cervantes, Don Quixote (Part I)
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
General Interest:
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
David Allen, Getting Things Done
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
History:
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
C. Van Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Theology/Spirituality:
Ignatius of Loyola, Autobiography: A Pilgrim’s Journey
James Martin: Jesus: A Pilgrimage
James Martin: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost ) Everything
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas
Science:
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Pedro Ferreira, The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
The New York Times Book of Science
Philosophy:
Plato, Symposium
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Robert Heilbronner, The Worldly Philosophers
J.S. Mill, On Liberty
Literature:
Shakespeare, King Henry V, Macbeth
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Eumenides)
Euripides, Bacchae; Medea
Homer, The Iliad (Fagles translation)
Cervantes, Don Quixote (Part I)
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye