READING LIST

Junior High

6th Grade

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

7th Grade

Jack Schaefer, Shane

Alfred Lansing, Endurance

Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer

Richard Adams, Watership Down

Selected poetry

8th Grade

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

High School

9th Grade

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

10th Grade

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

11th Grade

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 Republic

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Augustine, Confessions

Athanasius, On the Incarnation

Gregory of Nazianzus, On God in Christ

Selected poetry

12th Grade

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