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Required Reading

Primary

• Genesis
• Iliad by Homer
• Exodus
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The History (all nine Books) by Herodotus
• Oresteia by Aaeschylus
• Theban Triology by Sophocles
• I and II Samuel
• I and II Kings
• Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology and Crito by Plato
• Livy I
• Livy II
• Livy III
• Livy IV – V
• Luke and Acts
• Aeneid by Virgil
• The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

secondary

• Chosen by God by Sproul, R. C.
• The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
• Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
• Till We Have Faces by Lewis, C. S.
• The Magician’s Nephew by Lewis, C. S.
• Horse and His Boy by Lewis, C. S.
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis, C. S.
• Prince Caspian by Lewis, C. S.
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Lewis, C. S.
• The Silver Chair by Lewis, C. S.
• The Last Battle by Lewis, C. S.
• Plutarch’s Lives
• Best Things in Life by Kreeft, Peter
• Unaborted Socrates by Kreeft, Peter
• Eagle of the Ninth by Sutcliff, Rosemary
• Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, William
• Screwtape Letters by Lewis, C. S.

Books for the Medieval Period

• Beowulf
• Bible
• Canterbury Tales, The by Chaucer
• Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville and Villehardouin
• Confessions by Augustine
• Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede
• Eusebius: The Church History by Eusebius
• Fellowship of the Rings, The by Tolkien
• Governor of England, The
• Henry V by Shakespeare
• Hobbit, The by J.R. Tolkien
• In Freedom’s Cause by Henty, G. A.
• Inferno by Dante
• King Lear by Shakespeare
• King’s Shadow, The by Alder
• Life of John Calvin, The by Beza
• MacBeth by Shakespeare, William
• Nine Tailors, The by Sayers
• On the Bondage of the Will by Luther, Martin
• On the Incarnation of Our Lord by Athanasius
• Paradise Lost by Milton
• Paradise by Dante
• Purgatory by Dante
• Return of the King, The by Tolkien, J. R. R.
• Romance of Protestantism, The by Alcock
• Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict
• St. Anselm: Basic Writings
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Song of Roland, The
• Two Towers, The by Tolkien, J. R. R.