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University Reading List
The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means
The Crunch
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Great Crash 1929
The Undercover Economist
The Logic of Life - Uncovering the New Economics
The Truth About Markets: Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Remain Poor
Freakonomics
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, etc.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Death of Money
Free Lunch
The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order
The Wisdom of Crowds
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Money: A Suicide Note
In Defence of Globalization
The European Union - A Citizen's Guide
China Inc.
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life
The Naked Trader: How Anyone Can Make Money Trading Shares
The Everything Store and the Age of Amazon
Business the Richard Branson Way: 10 Secrets of the World's Greatest Brand Builder
Business Nightmares - When Entrepreneurs Hit Crisis Point
Conquer the Chaos: How to Successfully Grow a Small Business Without Going Crazy
Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
A Mind For Business
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Understanding Michael Porter
The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs Should Do
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
The 'Financial Times' Guide to Start-Up 2010
How Google Works
One Click
Good for Computer Science students to stay up to date on news.
YouTube channel covering lots of in-depth technical topics for wider reading.
Hawkins Wright - Annual Conference (PulpWeek)
Hawkins Wright are economists to the international pulp and paper industry. They run an annual conference in London every November - this year held on Zoom. Access covers all the talks (some sessions are quite niche), including two of particular interest:
Log in using: post@hawkinswright.com Password: HWSymp2020
Aimed at Cambridge applicants, but useful for other engineering courses too.
- Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma
- Middlemarch, Adam Bede
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Hard Times
- Wuthering Heights
- Jane Eyre
- The Turn of the Screw
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Howards End
- To the Lighthouse, Orlando
- Brighton Rock
- Dubliners, Ulysses
- The Great Gatsby
- Rebecca
- The God of Small Things
- Cold Mountain
- No Country for Old Men, The Road
- Station Eleven
- The Kite Runner
- White Teeth
- Atonement, Enduring Love, Chesil Beach
- Spies
Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Alan Bennett
- Anthology of Poetry, Seamus Heaney (ed), Ted Hughes (ed)
Chaucer, Milton, Donne, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Clare, Hardy, Tennyson, Hopkins, Hughes, Heaney, Sheers, Paterson, Frost, Thomas (both Dylan and Edward), Duffy, Armitage
- Doing English (2017)
- Literature: Why It Matters (2019)
- The Art of Fiction (2011)
Mrs Sparks has provided some suggested titles for summer reading. A wonderful way to keep up your French and gain cultural knowledge. You all should read at least one book in French over the holidays. If you are applying for languages, then you really should read 3 or more.
Molière – Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Voltaire – Candide ou l’Optimisme
Madame de La Fayette – La Princesse de Clèves
La Fontaine – Les Fables
Camus – L’Etranger
Flaubert - Madame de Bovari
Maupassant – Boule de Suif
St Exupéry - Le Petit Prince
Joseph Joffo – Un sac de billes
Delphine de Vigan – No et moi
The talk below may also be of interest. The University of Dundee have created this one but many of the universities do similar so it is worth you keeping an eye out for them.
Good site to search for course-related talks and events.
Aimed at Cambridge applicants, but useful for other maths courses too.
An Introduction to Music Studies’: Harper-Scott, J.P.E & Samson, J. (2009). Cambridge University Press.
Look in to possible Summer Schools e.g. at the Purcell School of Music (London)
www.unitasterdays.com is a good search engine to find these opportunities
Attend concerts and recitals
Be involved in performances and music groups/orchestras
Look at suggestions for Music in the 'Geek Out' section for Music in the Subject Library in Unifrog
Useful for any PPE course - but check the preliminary reading for the specific courses you're applying to as well. Scroll down to the 'preliminary reading' section on the page.
