Books Recommended by Stephen R. C. Hicks
Literature
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables.Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac.
L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables.
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead.
Elliott Arnold: White Falcon.
Historical Fiction
Mary Renault: The Persian Boy. (Part of Series)Robert Harris: The Cicero Trilogy. (Series)
Conn Iggulden: The Genghis Khan Trilogy. (Series, Now Expanded)
Irving Stone: The Agony and the Ecstasy.
David Nevin: Dream West. (Part of Series)
David Nevin: Eagle’s Cry. (Part of Series)
Alistair MacLean: The Guns of Navarone. (Part of Series)
Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March.
Taylor Caldwell: Captains and the Kings.
Ken Follett: World Without End. (Part of Series)
History and Society
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War.William Manchester: A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance.
Peter Gay: The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. (2 Vols)
Gerald Gunderson: The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States.
Ludwig von Mises: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis.
Science
Armand Marie Leroi: The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science.Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina.
James Watson: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
Richard Feynman: "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character.
Sherwin Nuland: Doctors: The Biography of Medicine.
Biography and Autobiography
Anthony Holden: Tchaikovsky: A Biography.Robert Massie: Peter the Great: His Life and World.
Adrian Desmond and James Moore: Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist.
James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small.
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself.
Philosophy — Histories
W. T. Jones: A History of Western Philosophy. (5 Vols)
Frederick Copleston: A History of Philosophy. (9 Vols + 2 Vols)
Wilhelm Windelband: The History of Philosophy. (2 Vols)
Bertrand Russell: A History of Western Philosophy.
Leonard Peikoff: History of Philosophy.
Philosophy — General
Plato: Apology and Crito.Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics.
John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration.
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic.
Philosophy — Technical
David Kelley: The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception. [Epistemology]Tara Smith: Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist. [Ethics]
Ayn Rand: The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature. [Aesthetics]
Leonard Peikoff: The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America. [Philosophy of History]
George Smith: Atheism: The Case Against God. [Philosophy of Religion]
Philosophy — Postmodern
John Ellis: Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. [Literature]Keith Windschuttle: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past. [History]
Noretta Koertge (Editor): A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science. [Science]
Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry: Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law. [Law]
