List of good books for teaching philosophy (from the AAPT 2000 conference)
Compiled by Sara Goering


Book/short story title        
Flatland 
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 
The Dispossessed 
The Nine Clone 
The Lathe of Heaven 
In a Grove 
Inferno 
Assembly Line 
Notes from Underground 
The Brothers Karamozov
Ceremony 
Beloved 
Sula 
Death in Venice 
The Turn of the Screw 
The Spoils of Paynton 
The Real Thing 
Figure in the Carpet 
Anna Karenina 
Miriam 
Nausea 
No Exit 
The Rocking Horse Winner
The Country of the Blind 
The Machine Stops 
The Mysterious Stranger 
The Mole People 
Journalist and the Murderer
Rodrigo Chronicles
End of the Road
Herland/Yellow Wallpaper 
Slaughterhouse Five 
Bluebeard 
Harrison Bergeron 
Earth 
The Stranger/The Outsider 
The Plague 
Johnny Got His Gun 
A Death in the Family 
The Heart of the Matter 
Billy Budd 
Bartley 
Midsummer Night’s Dream 
Sense and Sensibility 
There Are No Children Here
Nervous Conditions 
Things Fall Apart 
Devil on a Cross 
Oedipus Rex 
Antigone 
Silas Marner 
Music of Chance 
The Enormous Radio 
Brave New World 
Walden Two 
The Grasshopper 
Disturbances in the Field 
Death of Ivan Ilyich 
Lord of the Flies 
Black Like Me 
Heart of Darkness 
Candide 
In Cold Blood 
Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)
The Lives of Animals 
Waterland 
Here I Stand Ironing  
Night 
Clockwork Orange 
Magic Mountain 
Middlemarch
Author  
Abbott 
LeGuin 
LeGuin 
LeGuin 
LeGuin 
Akutagawa 
Dante 
Traven 
Dostoevsky 
Dostoevsky 
Silko 
Morrison 
Morrison 
Mann 
H. James 
H. James 
H. James 
H. James 
Tolstoy 
Capote 
Sartre 
Sartre 
D.H. Lawrence 
H.G. Wells 
E.M. Forster 
Twain 
Toth 
Malcolm 
Delgado 
Bodett 
Gilman 
Vonnegut, Jr.  
Vonnegut, Jr. 
Vonnegut, Jr. 
Brin 
Camus 
Camus 
Trumbo 
Agee 
Greene 
Melville 
Melville 
Shakespeare 
Austen
Kotlowitz 
Dangarembga 
Achebe 
Wa Thiongo 
Sophocles 
Sophocles 
Eliot 
Auster 
Cheever 
Huxley 
Skinner 
Hoppedaway 
Schwartz 
Tolstoy 
Golding 
Griffin 
Conrad 
Voltaire 
Capote 
Hesse 
Coetzee 
G. Swift 
T. Olsen 
Wiesel 
Burgess 
Mann 
Eliot
How Used 
Epistemology 
Ethics/Utilitarianism
Soc/pol./anarchism 
Cloning/individuality 
Epistemology/existentialism 
Epistemology/gender 
Ethics 
Ethics 
Ethics/Freedom 
Problem of evil/ethics 
Phil of Lit/Ethics/Soc./Pol. 
Phil of Lit/race issues/ethics 
Epistemic privilege/race issues/ethics 
Phil of Lit/linked to Phaedrus 
The intentional fallacy 
Ethics/aesthetics 
Metaphysics/reality 
The search for meaning 
Truth in fiction/ethics 
Metaphysics/existence vs. reality 
Existentialism Existentialism 
Epistemology (knowing that vs. how) 
Ethics/disability 
bioethics 
Philosophy of technology 
??? 
Existentialism/meaning of life/homelessness 
Media ethics 
Race theory/critical legal theory 
Existentialism 
Feminism/Pol. Phil. 
Time theory/ethics 
Aesthetics Ethics/equality 
Phil of technology 
Ethics/existentialism 
Existentialism 
Existentialism
War and morality 
Death/existentialism 
Ethics/phil. of religion  
Professional ethics/utilitarianism  
Depression/meaning of life  
Compare Plato on reason/S. on imagination  
Feminist ethics  
Philosophy of education/soc/pol phil.  
African philosophy/feminist philosophy  
African philosophy/cultural relativism  
African philosophy/political philosophy  Fate/fortune/luck/Aristotelean vices 
Political philosophy 
Fate/fortune/luck  
Fate/fortune/luck  
Appearance vs. Reality/Plato’s Cave
Ethics/Utilitarianism/Free will  
Free will/determinism  
Meaning of life  
History of philosophy/meaning of life  
Ethics/meaning of life/existentialism  
Hobbes/political philosophy  
Race theory/soc/pol phil./ethics  
Ethics/cultural relativism  
Free will/determinism/Leibniz  
Free will/determinism/ethics  
Soc/pol phil./Plato’s Cave  
Animal rights/ethics  
Hegel  
Use with Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking  
Problem of evil/ethics 
Free will/determinism/ethics  
History of ideas/church vs. science  
Society vs. the individual

 
Collections of stories/
texts with stories 
Virtuous Persons, Vicious Deeds 
The Moral of the Story 
The Moral Life 
Intro to Philosophy through Short Stories 
Trials, Tribulations and Celebrations 
What Happened to You? 
The Doctor Stories 
The Tyranny of the Normal 
Editor(s)  

Hooke 
Rosenstand 
Pojman 
Davis 
Secundy 
Keith 
W.C. Williams 
Donley and Buckley 

General description 

Ethics anthology with numerous stories
Intro ethics with movies and stories 
Introductory reader in ethics and literature 
General intro reader with stories 
Bioethics/race 
Writings by women with disabilities 
Doctor/patient stories 
Disability/bioethics 


 
General books on phil and lit
Love’s Knowledge 
Ethics, Evil and Fiction
Literature and Philosophy
Author/editor 
Nussbaum 
McGinn 
Ross 
General description
arg. for literature as a form of philosophy 
discussion of evil in phil and fiction 
theory and analysis for 5/6 novels 

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