Psychology reading list: Oxford, Somerville College (Experimental Psychology)
Oxford, Somerville College (Experimental Psychology) lists 7 books for students about to start the course in Psychology. The list starts with The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Quiet by Susan Cain and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. 2 of the books also appear on other Oxford and Cambridge lists we collected.
Experimental Psychology Pre-arrival reading list 2018 (University of Oxford), PDF. www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Experimental-Psychology-Pre-arrival-reading-list-2018.pdf
Retrieved 3 October 2026. Check the source for the current year's version.
The 7 books
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- 1.The Undoing ProjectMichael LewisSpelling corrected; the source prints “Martin Lewis”.
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- 3.The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatOliver Sacks
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Other Psychology lists
How this list was made
We fetched the list from the institution's own page or PDF on the date shown and recorded each title and author as printed. We did not add books, and we copied no descriptions. Obvious misprints are corrected and marked. The extraction was done with AI assistance and checked against the source. Lists change every year, so check the source page before you buy anything.