This page contains pre-course reading lists for Undergraduate Freshers who are due to join St Peter's in October 2026.
Page updated 11 August 2026
Please download the reading list for your subject using the links below. If you are reading for a joint school please ensure you download the list for each subject in the school. Please note that reading lists are not intended for exhaustive study but rather, in your own interests, to improve your background knowledge of the field you propose to pursue at Oxford.
If there is no document currently showing for your subject, please check back periodically to see if it has been added.
- Archaeology and Anthropology
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Chemistry: Letter; Assumed Knowledge; Study Skills
- Czech: Letter; Prelims handbook
- Earth Sciences
- Economics
- Engineering: information will be sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
- English
- French: Letter; Prelims handbook
- Geography
- German
- History [NB response required by 28 August]
- History (for those doing History and Modern Languages) [NB response required by 28 August]
- History (for those doing History and Economics) [NB response required by 28 August]
- History (for those doing History and Politics) [NB response required by 28 August]
- History of Art: Letter; Induction document
- Italian
- Law: Letter; Survival kit;
- Management
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics: Induction Programme, Notes for Incoming Freshers 2026 - 2027, Introduction to Computing
- Politics
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Theology and Religion