Books read in Middle and High School List Updated

Charles Lincon
5 min readJan 20, 2021

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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

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV

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Charles Lincon
Charles Lincon

Written by Charles Lincon

Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Hegelian dialectics, Attic Greek, masters University of Amsterdam.

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