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I'm a high school student of British and Gambian descent who lives in a small town in Ontario, Canada.

After I finish high school in 2009, I plan to pursue a joint honours degree in either political science and economics at McGill University.

LSE reading lists for prospective students

The general character of politics
  • B Crick, In Defence of Politics (1962, later reprints)
  • E Luttwak, Turbocapitalism: winners and losers in the global economy (1998)
  • K Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction (2000)
Political thought
  • Machiavelli, The Prince
  • J S Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
  • J S Mill, On Liberty
Political analysis and political institutions
  • A H Birch, The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy (2nd edition, 2001)
  • P Dunleavy and B O'Leary, Theories of the State (1987)
  • L Le Duc, R Niemi and P Norris (Eds), Comparing Democracies 2: new challenges in the study of elections and voting (2002)
Philosophy
  • R Descartes, Meditations or Discourse on Method (any edition)
  • T Nagel, What Does it All Mean? (Oxford University Press, 1987)
  • Bernard Williams, Morality: An introduction to ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1972; revised edition Canto, 1993)
Economics
  • D Begg, S Fischer and R Dornbusch, Foundations of Economics (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002)
  • P Heyne, P J Boettke and D L Prychitko, The Economic Way of Thinking (11th edition, Prentice Hall, 2006)
Sociology
  • P Abbot and C Wallace, An Introduction to Sociology: feminist perspectives (2nd edition, Routledge, 1996)
  • N Abercrombie et al, Contemporary British Society (3rd edition, Polity Press, 2000)
  • P Berger, Invitation to Sociology: a humanistic perspective (Penguin, 1988)
  • J Elster, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
  • A Giddens, Sociology (4th edition, Polity Press, 2001)
  • S Hall and B Gieben (Eds), Formations of Modernity (Polity Press, 1992)
  • C Jenks (Ed) Core Sociological Dichotomies (Sage, 1998)
  • K Morrison, Marx, Durkheim and Weber: foundations of modern social thought (Sage, 1997)
  • C F Seale (Ed), Researching Society and Culture (Sage, 1998)

Fiction

  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
  • Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games
  • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  • Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov and Idiot
  • Umberto Ecco, Foucault's Pendulum
  • E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed'
  • Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
  • Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
  • John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
  • Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute, Sunjata
  • William Thackeray, Vanity Fair
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace and Anna Karenina
  • Volatire, Candide
  • Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence


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