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Reading List
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
- Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
- Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
- Kate Seredy, The Singing Tree
- Selected poetry and short stories
- Jack Schaefer, Shane
- Alfred Lansing, Endurance
- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
- Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Selected poetry
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- Beowulf
- William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
- Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
- Chaim Potok, The Chosen
- Selected poetry
- The Federalist Papers (selections)
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (selections)
- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience
- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Willa Cather, My Antonia
- Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Thornton Wilder, Our Town
- Selected American poetry and short stories
- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government (selections)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (selections)
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Frederick Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (selections)
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- Selected British and European poetry and short stories
- Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Sophocles, The Theban Plays
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Plato, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo and Republi
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Augustine, Confessions
- Athanasius, On the Incarnation
- Gregory of Nazianzus, On God in Christ
- Selected poetry
- Augustine, “The Spirit and the Letter”
- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (selections)
- Shakespeare, Macbeth and Hamlet
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract
- Dante, The Inferno
- James Agee, A Death in the Family
- Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- Michel de Montaigne, “In Defense of Raymond Sebond”
- René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- G.W.F. Hegel, Reason in History
- Karl Marx, “Alienated Labor”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Selected poetry and short stories
