🐯 Princeton Art & Archaeology unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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The Art & Archaeology of the Ancient Near East & Egypt ART 200
- Art of Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani
Art & Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica ART 267
- The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec by Mary Ellen Miller
Girls & Dolls ART 307
- The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright
- What Maisie Knew by Henry James
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
- Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng
History of Architectural Theory ART 328
- Race & Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Cheng et al.
- Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Venturi et al.
Curatorial Time: Historic American Art & its 21st Century Audiences ART 362
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections by James Christen Steward
- Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection by Dana Miller
- Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art by Stephanie Sparling Williams
Everyday Writing in the Roman World ART 366
- Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Roger S. Bagnall
The Heike as History & Art ART 403
- The Tale of the Heike
- The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan by Royall Tyler
19th-Century European Art: Painting & Literature in 19th C. France and England ART 450
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Masterpiece by Émile Zola
- The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
- Like Death by Guy de Maupassant
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Art, Apartheid & South Africa ART 471
- ✔️ Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Holistic Analysis of Heritage Structures ART 538
- Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context by Lynne C. Lancaster
- Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire: 1st to 4th Centuries CE by Lynne C. Lancaster
- Building Construction Before Mechanization by John Fitchen
- The Oxford Handbook of Engineering & Technology in the Classical World by John Peter Oleson
Modern Art: Science & Its Fictions in the Long 19th Century ART 577
- ✔️ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- ✔️ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
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✔️ The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (my highlights)