Books read in Middle and High School List Updated
Elementary School — I graduated in May 2003 from 5th Grade
· Harry Potter books 1–4 — J.K. Rowling
· The Hobbit — Tolkien
· The Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum
· Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
· The Jungle Book
· Hatchet — Gary Paulsen
· Bridge to Terabithia — Katherine Paterson
· Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne
Middle School/ High School:
· The Giver — Maybe elementary school
· Animal Farm — George Orwell (8th grade)
· The Old Man and the Sea — Steinbeck
· The Pearl — Steinbeck. Finished October 27, 2006 at 7:17AM.
· Of Mice and Men — Steinbeck
· Shipwrecked Sailor — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
· The Jungle — Upton Sinclair (Terri Rushfeldt class). Purchased on February 5, 2009 at 5:25PM from Barnes & Noble.
· The Crucible — Arthur Miller.
· Romeo & Juliet — William Shakespeare (9th grade)
· Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare (9th or 10th grade)
· The Odyssey — Homer (Terri Rushfeldt class)
· Candide — Voltaire (read in high school)
· The Most Dangerous Game — Richard Connel (9th or 10th grade)
· Bless Me Ultima — Rodolfo Anaya (didn’t finish)
· Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne (12th grade)
· Several Sherlock Holmes stories
· The Scarlett Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
· The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux (likely 11th grade)
· American History — Alan Brinkley (11th grade US History — read about 90% of the book) 2008–2009 school year
· The Supreme Court — William H. Rehnquist (11th or 12th grade as an extracurricular activity)
· Wuthering Heights — 11th Grade AP English. Maybe 12th Grade AP English.
· Beowulf — translated by Seamus Heaney (12th grade AP English)
· T.S. Elliot — Poems (for 12th grade AP English and personal pleasure in summer before)
Harvard Summer 2008:
· Night — Elie Wiesel
Harvard Summer 2009:
· The Fellowship of the Ring — Tolkien
· The Two Towers — Tolkien
· Discovering the Cosmos — Robert C. Bless (not completed — but went through the whole book for a course — Introduction to Astronomy)
College:
St. John’s College — Freshman — Year August 2010-May 2011:
1. Homer:
a. Iliad,
b. Odyssey
2. Aeschylus:
a. Agamemnon,
b. Libation Bearers,
c. The Eumenides,
d. Prometheus Bound
3. Sophocles:
a. Oedipus Rex,
b. Oedipus at Colonus,
c. Antigone,
d. Philoctetes,
e. Ajax
4. Thucydides:
a. Peloponnesian War
5. Euripides:
a. Hippolytus,
b. The Bacchae
6. Herodotus:
a. Histories
7. Aristophanes:
a. Clouds,
b. Frogs
8. Plato:
a. Meno,
b. Gorgias,
c. Republic,
d. Apology,
e. Crito,
f. Phaedo,
g. Symposium,
h. Parmenides,
i. Theaetetus,
j. Sophist,
k. Timaeus,
l. Phaedrus
9. Aristotle:
a. Poetics,
b. Physics,
c. Metaphysics,
d. Nicomachean Ethics,
e. On Generation and Corruption,
f. Politics,
g. Parts of Animals,
h. Generation of Animals
10. Euclid:
a. Elements
11. Lucretius:
a. On the Nature of Things
12. Plutarch:
a. “Lycurgus” and “Solon” from the Parallel Lives
13. Ptolemy:
a. Almagest
14. Blaise Pascal:
a. Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids
15. Nicomachus:
a. Arithmetic
16. Antoine Lavoisier:
a. Elements of Chemistry
17. William Harvey:
a. Motion of the Heart and Blood
18. Essays by: Archimedes, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Amedeo Avogadro, John Dalton, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Rudolf Virchow, Edme Mariotte, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Hans Spemann, Guy Beckley Stearns, J. J. Thomson, Dmitri Mendeleev, Claude Louis Berthollet, Joseph Proust
· Other books during Freshman year:
o The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
Freshman Summer — summer of 2011:
· Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
· ABC of Relativity — Bertrand Russel
· How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading — Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Harvard: Sophomore Year First Semester — Fall 2011
· “Housing Policy In The United States: An Introduction” Alex F. Schwartz
· “From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America” John F. Bauman
· “Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America)” D. Bradford Hunt
· “House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America’s Urban Neighborhoods” Alexander von Hoffman
· Code: Version 2.0 — Lawrence Lessig.
Harvard: Sophomore Year second semester — Spring 2012
· The Hobbit — Tolkien
· Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions (Faith Meets Faith Series) Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
· Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and Constraints Epstein L, Walker T
· Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court Charles Fried
· Letter to a Christian Nation — Sam Harris
· Anthology of Living Religions (3rd Edition) Mary Pat Fisher, Lee W. Bailey
· Living Religions (8th Edition) Mary Pat Fisher
· Business Communication (Harvard Business Essentials) Harvard Business School Press
Summer 2012:
· Dracula — Bram Stoker (Barnes & Nobel Edition) finished at 12:08AM Saturday August 19, 2012.
· Finished The Bible from cover to cover before birthday in August 2012.
Harvard Fall 2012:
· The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco.
· The Dynamic Constitution: An Introduction to American Constitutional Law — Richard H. Fallon, Jr.
Harvard: Junior Year/Senior Year — Spring 2013
· A World Connecting: 1870–1945 (A History of the World) Emily S. Rosenberg, et al
· The Quiet American — Graham Greene
· The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
· Middlemarch — George Elliot
· Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
· Tess of the d’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
· The Time Machine — H.G. Wells
1st Year of Law School:
· Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems, Third Edition Arthur Best (Fall semester 2013)
· Mastering Statutory Interpretation, Second Edition Linda D. Jellum
· Cases and Materials on Contracts: Making and Doing Deals, 3d (American Casebooks) David G. Epstein (Spring semester 2014)
· The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company- And Won Stern, Gerald M. (Spring semester 2014)
· Property, 7th Edition Jesse Dukeminier (Spring semester 2014)
· Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (Aspen Casebook) Joseph W. Glannon (Spring semester 2014)
2nd year of Law School:
· Maggs and Smith’s Constitutional Law: A Contemporary Approach, 2d (Interactive Casebook Series) (English and English Edition) Maggs, Gregory (Fall semester 2014)
· Texas Courts: A Survey (2014–2015) — Alex Wilson Albright (Fall semester 2014)
3rd year of Law School
· Texas Wills and Estates: Cases and Materials: Seventh Edition Beyer, Gerry W.
· Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy Making Process, 3rd Edition Smith, Catherine F.
· Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model, Second Edition (Aspen Casebook Series) Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow
· Getting to Yes Book — Roger Fisher and William Ury
· Jurisprudence: Theory and Context 6th (sixth) Edition by Brian Bix published by Carolina Academic Press (2012)
· Analytic Jurisprudence Anthology (Anthology Series) Anthony D’Amato
· Primer on the Texas Law of Oil and Gas Joseph Shade
· Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, 3rd Edition Lisa G. Lerman
· Evidence Under the Rules (Aspen Casebook Series) Christopher B. Mueller
· Understanding Secured Transactions William H. Lawrence
· Several Sherlock Holmes stories
Summer after graduating law school:
· Barbri books for the July 2016 Texas Bar Exam
University of Amsterdam LL.M. in International Tax Law
· OECD Model Income Tax Convention and Commentary
· UN Model Income Tax Convention and Commentary
· Comparative Income Taxation: A Structural Analysis — Hugh Ault
· EU Tax Law — Terra/ Wattel — most of the book
Boston University Tax LL.M.
· Partnership Tax Law textbook
· Corporate Tax Law textbook
· Federal Income Tax Law textbook
· Comparative Income Taxation: A Structural Analysis — Hugh Ault
Summer after Boston University
· Barbri UBE
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