Works recommended for Freshman Studies from the humanities
- The Bhagavad-Gita
- Li Bo and Du Fu, selected poems
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
- Dante, The Inferno
- Natalie Z. Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
- W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
- Jan Gross, Neighbors
- Homer, The Iliad
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Franz Kafka, selected tales
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, selected short stories
- Toni Morrison, Sula
- Plato, Apology/Crito/Phaedo
- Selections from the Quran
- Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood
- Sima Qian, selections from Records of the Grand Historian
- Elie Wiesel, Night
These works, all taught previously, may also be used in the course:
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems
- Jorge Luis Borges, selected short stories
- Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night
- Chuang Tzu, Basic Writings
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Book of Job
- Plato, The Republic
- Voltaire, Candide
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
This list was prepared by Lawrence's humanities faculty and revised in March of 2007. There are five divisional lists, and the syllabus for Freshman Studies must include at least one work from each of them.
