Freshman Year
Great Books
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Gilgamesh
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Odyssey (Homer)
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Code of Hammurabi
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Oresteia (Aeschylus)
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Alcestis and Medea (Euripides)
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Histories (Herodotus)
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Last Days of Socrates
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Early History Rome (Livy)
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Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
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Plutarch’s Lives
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Aeneid (Virgil)
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Metamorphoses (Ovid)
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Books of the Bible
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Genesis
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Exodus
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Joshua
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Judges
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Ruth
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1-2 Samuel
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1-2 Kings
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Ezra
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Nehemiah
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Job
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Psalms
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Proverbs
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Other Books
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The Magician’s Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
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Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
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The Best Things in Life (Peter Kreeft)
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The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis)
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Unaborted Socrates (Peter Kreeft)
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Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
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Perelandra (C.S. Lewis)
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That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis)
Sophomore Year
Great Books
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The Jewish War (Josephus)
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The Annals (Tacitus)
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Church History (Eusebius)
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Confessions (St. Augustine)
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On the Incarnation (Athanasius)
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Ecclesiastical History (Bede)
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Beowulf
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The Song of Roland
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History of Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth)
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Divine Comedy Inferno (Dante)
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Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
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Bondage of the Will (Luther)
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Books of the Bible
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Isaiah
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Jeremiah
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Daniel
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Hosea-Malachi
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Matthew
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Luke
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Acts
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Romans
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Galatians-Colossians
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1-2 Peter
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1-3 John
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Jude
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Other Books
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Deeds of the Divine Augustus
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The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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The Nine Tailors (Dorothy Sayers)
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The Rule of St. Benedict
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Creeds
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Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
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Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
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Macbeth (Shakespeare)
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Junior Year
Great Books
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Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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Dracula (Bram Stoker)
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Common Sense (Paine)
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)
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Laws of Planetary Motion (Kepler)
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo Galilei)
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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Isaac Newton)
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Pensées (Pascal)
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Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)
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Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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Books of the Bible
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1-2 Chronicles
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Esther
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Mark
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John
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1-2 Corinthians
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1-2 Thessalonians
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1-2 Timothy
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Titus
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Philemon
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Hebrews
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James
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Other Books
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Fox’s Book of Martyrs
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Autobiography of Ben Franklin
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
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Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
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Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
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The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allan Poe)
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Selected Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
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Slave Narratives
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Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
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Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
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1984 (George Orwell)
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Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Senior Year
Great Books
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Republic (Plato)
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Nicomachean Ethics
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Meditations (Aurelius)
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On Duties (Cicero)
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Bacchae (Euripides)
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Clouds (Aristophanes)
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The Prince (Machiavelli)
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Poetics (Aristotle)
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Eclogues and Georgics (Vergil)
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Don Quixote (Cervantes)
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Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
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Social Contract (Rousseau)
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Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
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Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
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Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
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Books of the Bible
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Leviticus
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Numbers
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Deuteronomy
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Ecclesiastes
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Song of Solomon
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Lamentations
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Ezekiel
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Revelation
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Other Books
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The Apocrypha
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Foundational American Documents
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Saga of the Volsungs
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The Koran
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Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
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The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
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Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
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How Should We Then Live? (Schaeffer)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues (Jules Verne)
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Postmodern Times (Gene Edward Veith)
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Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)