Book List

This is the history book list from Susan Wise Bauer's Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, which I am following and writing about:

• The Histories by Herodotus
• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• The Republic by Plato
• Lives by Plutarch
• The City of God by Augustine
• The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Utopia by Thomas More
• The True End of Civil Government by John Locke
• The History of England, Volume V by David Hume
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
• The Soul of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
• The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
• The New England Mind by Perry Miller
• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Kalbraith
• The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman
• All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. Mchperson
• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

More On History

• The Lessons of History by Will Durant
• A Student's Guide to Studying History by James Lukacs