High School Reading List

Faith Lutheran High School Book List

(For easy printing, this list is also available for download here)

Freshman Year

Great Books

  1. Gilgamesh
  2. Odyssey (Homer)
  3. Code of Hammurabi
  4. Oresteia (Aeschylus)
  5. Alcestis and Medea (Euripides)
  6. Histories (Herodotus)
  7. Last Days of Socrates
  8. Early History Rome (Livy)
  9. Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
  10. Plutarch’s Lives
  11. Aeneid (Virgil)
  12. Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Books of the Bible

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

Other Books

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

Sophomore Year

Great Books

  1. The Jewish War (Josephus)
  2. The Annals (Tacitus)
  3. Church History (Eusebius)
  4. Confessions (St. Augustine)
  5. On the Incarnation (Athanasius)
  6. Ecclesiastical History (Bede)
  7. Beowulf
  8. The Song of Roland
  9. History of Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth)
  10. Divine Comedy Inferno (Dante)
  11. Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
  12. Bondage of the Will (Luther)

Books of the Bible

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

Other Books

  1. Deeds of the Divine Augustus
  2. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
  3. The Nine Tailors (Dorothy Sayers)
  4. The Rule of St. Benedict
  5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  6. The Creeds
  7. Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
  8. Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
  9. Macbeth (Shakespeare)

Junior Year

Great Books

  1. Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)
  2. Of Plymouth Plantation
  3. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
  4. Common Sense (Paine)
  5. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)
  6. Laws of Planetary Motion (Kepler)
  7. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo Galilei)
  8. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Isaac Newton)
  9. Pensées (Pascal)
  10. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)
  11. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
  12. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Books of the Bible

  1. 1-2 Chronicles
  2. Esther
  3. Mark
  4. John
  5. 1-2 Corinthians
  6. 1-2 Thessalonians
  7. 1-2 Timothy
  8. Titus
  9. Philemon
  10. Hebrews
  11. James

Other Books

  1. Fox’s Book of Martyrs
  2. Autobiography of Ben Franklin
  3. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
  4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
  5. Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
  6. Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
  7. The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allan Poe)
  8. Selected Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
  9. Slave Narratives
  10. Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
  11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
  12. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
  13. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
  14. Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
  15. 1984 (George Orwell)
  16. Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

Senior Year

Great Books

  1. Republic (Plato)
  2. Nicomachean Ethics
  3. Meditations (Aurelius)
  4. On Duties (Cicero)
  5. Bacchae (Euripides)
  6. Clouds (Aristophanes)
  7. The Prince (Machiavelli)
  8. Poetics (Aristotle)
  9. Eclogues and Georgics (Vergil)
  10. Don Quixote (Cervantes)
  11. Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
  12. Social Contract (Rousseau)
  13. Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
  14. Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
  15. Paradise Lost (John Milton)
  16. Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
  17. Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)

Books of the Bible

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

Other Books

  1. The Apocrypha
  2. Foundational American Documents
  3. Saga of the Volsungs
  4. The Koran
  5. Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
  6. The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
  7. Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
  8. How Should We Then Live? (Schaeffer)
  9. Twenty Thousand Leagues (Jules Verne)
  10. Postmodern Times (Gene Edward Veith)
  11. Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
  12. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)