THESE ARE JUST SOME SUGGESTIONS BASED ON EITHER BOOKS WE HAVE READ, STUDIED OR RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OTHER STUDENTS WHO HAVE STUDIED THESE SUBJECTS.

OF COURSE WE CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR EVERYONE’S WIDE AND VARIED INTERESTS! This list is just us providing some suggestions if you’re looking for somewhere to start from and we will add some more as we go along!

We have also linked each book’s Amazon (UK) page

 

ARCHITECTURE

Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South (After the Postcolonial) - AbdouMaliq Simone

classics

The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition - Robert Graves

ECONOMICS

Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa - Dambisa Moyo
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Engineering & Technology

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code - Ruha Benjamin
The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature’s Book - Peter Forbes
The Simple Science of Flight - Henk Tennekes

English Language & Literature

Sula - Toni Morrison

Geography

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor - Rob Nixon

History

Taking Haiti: Military Occupation of US Imperialism 1915-1940 - Mary Renda
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

LAW

The Secret Barrister - The Secret Barrister
Eve was framed: Women and British Justice - Helena Kennedy
Letters to a Law Student: A guide to studying law at university - Nicholas J McBride

MATHS

Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence - Erica N. Walker

Medicine & Natural Sciences

Politics, International Relations & Sociology

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
Male Daughters, Female Husbands - Ifi Amadiume
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class - Owen Jones
HUMAN, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE ALTERNATIVE READING LIST (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)

Philosophy, Theology & Religion

 

Any other suggestions? Let us know here!