I use this page to track books and papers I’ve read that are used in Fall 2026 Princeton classes
I compiled this from publicly available information from the online bookstore and course webpages

General →

Engineering →

Humanities & the Arts →

Social Sciences →

General

Exploring the Graphic Novel FRS 111

  • Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • Watchmen by Moore & Gibbons

What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search FRS 121

  • Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (my highlights)

History of Freedom FRS 137

  • Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Marx in the 21st Century FRS 167

  • The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels

American & Russian Science Fiction: Story-Worlds in Dialogue FRS 189

  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (my highlights)
  • Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky & Strugatsky (my highlights)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Engineering

I’ve read the following:

Technical Leadership in Engineering CBE/EGR 531

  • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Burnett & Evans (my highlights)

Algorithms & Data Structures COS 226

Functional Programming & Formal Methods COS 326

Advanced Programming Techniques COS 333

  • The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike

Computer Architecture & Organization COS/ECE 375

  • Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware Software Interface by Patterson & Hennessy (my highlights)

Humanities & the Arts

I’ve read the following:

Modern Art: Science & Its Fictions in the Long 19th Century ART/HUM 577

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (my highlights)

Classical Mythology CLA/HUM/GSS/HLS 212

  • Jason & the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of Rhodes

The Trojan War: A Linguistic Intro. CLA 307 / TRA 306 / LIN 259

  • The Trojan War: A Very Short Intro. by Eric H. Cline

Socrates CLG 105

  • Apology by Plato

The Modern Period COM 318 / ECS 319 / LAS 308

Anarchism, Nihilism, Utopia: Art, Literature & Radical Politics COM 351

American Literature: 1930-Present ENG 368 / AMS 340

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature & the Arts HUM 216

  • The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  • Apology by Plato

East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations HUM/EAS/COM 233

Between Selves: Living Letters from Antiquity to the Present HUM 416 / CLA 415 / ENG 410

Introduction to Theater Making MTD/THR 101

  • Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett (my highlights)

Social Sciences

I’ve read the following:

African American Studies & the Philosophy of Race AAS 201 / PHI 291

The Souls of Black Folk – Reading W.E.B. Du Bois AAS 231 / ENG 245 / URB 231

  • Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois (my highlights)

Toni Morrison & Her Circle AAS/ENG 320

Art, Apartheid & South Africa AAS 411 / ART 471 / AFS 411

  • Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Violence ANT/HUM 264

  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Landmarks of European Identity EPS/ECS 302

The Byzantine Empire HIS/MED 205 / HUM 204 / HLS 209

  • Byzantium: A Very Short Intro. by Peter Sarris

Europe from Antiquity to 1700 HIS/MED 211

American Origins: The Colonization of North America HIS 371

World After Empire HIS 411 / AAS 416

  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois (my highlights)

The Age of Democratic Revolutions HIS 487

  • The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89 by Edmund S. Morgan (my highlights)

The Just Society POL/CHV 307

  • The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels