Supplemental Essay #6 Book List

gibby
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:34:45 +0000

Some of the books on your list were assigned reading in my son and daughter’s high school literature classes – so that’s the way I’m tending to look at them. Not sure if an Admissions Director would feel the same way. I think Harvard is interested in books you’ve read on your own, rather than a recitation of books you’ve been assigned at your high school. (Not sure if this is the case with your list, but FWIW: These books include)

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Moby Dick – Herman Melville