High School Literature List

Freshman Year – Great Books

  1. Gilgamesh
  2. Code of Hammurabi
  3. Iliad (Homer)
  4. Histories (Herodotus)
  5. Oresteia (Aeschylus)
  6. Plutarch’s Lives
  7. Oedipus (Sophocles)
  8. Last Days of Socrates
  9. Medea (Euripides)
  10. Early History Rome (Livy)
  11. Aenied (Virgil)
  12. Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Freshman Year – Books of the Bible

  1. Genesis
  2. Exodus
  3. Joshua
  4. Judges
  5. Ruth
  6. 1-2 Samuel
  7. 1-2 Kings
  8. 1-2 Chronicles
  9. Ezra
  10. Nehemiah
  11. Esther
  12. Job
  13. Psalms
  14. Proverbs

Freshman Year – Other Books

  1. Best Things in Life (Peter Kreeft)
  2. Unaborted Socrates (Peter Kreeft)
  3. The Magician’s Nephew
  4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  5. Screwtape Letters
  6. Horse & His Boy
  7. Out of the Silent Planet
  8. Perelandra
  9. That Hideous Strength
  10. Julius Caesar

Sophomore Year – Great Books

  1. The Annals (Tacitus)
  2. The Jewish War (Josephus)
  3. The Church History
  4. Confessions
  5. On the Incarnation
  6. The Ecclesiastical History
  7. Beowulf
  8. The Song of Roland
  9. History of Kings of Britain
  10. Divine Comedy (Inferno)
  11. Canterbury Tales
  12. Bondage of the Will
  13. Robin Hood

Sophomore Year – Books of the Bible

  1. Isaiah
  2. Jeremiah
  3. Ezekiel-Malachi
  4. Matthew
  5. Luke
  6. Acts
  7. Romans
  8. 1-2 Corinthians
  9. Galatians-Colossians
  10. 1-2 Timothy
  11. 1-2 Peter
  12. 1-3 John
  13. Jude

Sophomore Year – Other Books

  1. The Lord of the Rings
  2. The Creeds
  3. The Rule of St. Benedict
  4. Macbeth
  5. Midsummer Night’s Dream
  6. Troilus & Cressida

Junior Year – Great Books

  1. Pilgrim’s Progress
  2. Of Plymouth Plantation
  3. Common Sense
  4. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)
  5. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Kepler)
  6. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo Galilei)
  7. Pensess (Pascal)
  8. Reflections on the Revolution in France
  9. Gulliver’s Travels

Junior Year – Books of the Bible

  1. Mark
  2. John
  3. 1-2 Thessalonians
  4. Titus
  5. Philemon
  6. Hebrews
  7. James

Junior Year – Other Books

  1. Dracula
  2. Fox’s Book of Martyrs
  3. Pit and Pendulum
  4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  5. Slave Narratives
  6. Pride and Prejudice
  7. Little Women
  8. Autobiography of Ben Franklin
  9. Animal Farm
  10. Death of a Salesman
  11. Nineteen Eighty-Four
  12. Old Man & the Sea
  13. Tom Sawyer
  14. Tale of Two Cities

Senior Year – Great Books

  1. Republic
  2. Nicomachean Ethics
  3. Meditations
  4. On Duties (Cicero)
  5. Bacchae (Euripides)
  6. Clouds (Aristophanes)
  7. The Prince
  8. Poetics
  9. Eclogues & Georgics
  10. Consolation of Philosophy
  11. Social Contract
  12. Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
  13. Don Quixote
  14. Democracy in America
  15. Paradise Lost
  16. Communist Manifesto
  17. Twenty Thousand Leagues
  18. The Lost World
  19. Wealth of Nations

Senior Year – Books of the Bible

  1. Leviticus
  2. Numbers
  3. Deuteronomy
  4. Ecclesiastes
  5. Song of Solomon
  6. Lamentations
  7. Revelation

Senior Year – Other Books

  1. Mere Christianity
  2. Foundational American Documents
  3. Saga of the Volsungs
  4. The Koran
  5. Apocrypha
  6. How Should We Then Live?
  7. Postmodern Times
  8. Mein Kampf
  9. The Great Divorce
  10. Civil Disobedience
  11. Self-Reliance