Faith Lutheran High School Book List
(For easy printing, this list is also available for download here)
Freshman Year
Great Books
- Gilgamesh
- Odyssey (Homer)
- Code of Hammurabi
- Oresteia (Aeschylus)
- Alcestis and Medea (Euripides)
- Histories (Herodotus)
- Last Days of Socrates
- Early History Rome (Livy)
- Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
- Plutarch’s Lives
- Aeneid (Virgil)
- Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Books of the Bible
- Genesis
- Exodus
- Joshua
- Judges
- Ruth
- 1-2 Samuel
- 1-2 Kings
- Ezra
- Nehemiah
- Job
- Psalms
- Proverbs
Other Books
- The Magician’s Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
- Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
- The Best Things in Life (Peter Kreeft)
- The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis)
- Unaborted Socrates (Peter Kreeft)
- Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
- Perelandra (C.S. Lewis)
- That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis)
Sophomore Year
Great Books
- The Jewish War (Josephus)
- The Annals (Tacitus)
- Church History (Eusebius)
- Confessions (St. Augustine)
- On the Incarnation (Athanasius)
- Ecclesiastical History (Bede)
- Beowulf
- The Song of Roland
- History of Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth)
- Divine Comedy Inferno (Dante)
- Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
- Bondage of the Will (Luther)
Books of the Bible
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Daniel
- Hosea-Malachi
- Matthew
- Luke
- Acts
- Romans
- Galatians-Colossians
- 1-2 Peter
- 1-3 John
- Jude
Other Books
- Deeds of the Divine Augustus
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- The Nine Tailors (Dorothy Sayers)
- The Rule of St. Benedict
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Creeds
- Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
- Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
- Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Junior Year
Great Books
- Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- Common Sense (Paine)
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)
- Laws of Planetary Motion (Kepler)
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo Galilei)
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Isaac Newton)
- Pensées (Pascal)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)
- Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Books of the Bible
- 1-2 Chronicles
- Esther
- Mark
- John
- 1-2 Corinthians
- 1-2 Thessalonians
- 1-2 Timothy
- Titus
- Philemon
- Hebrews
- James
Other Books
- Fox’s Book of Martyrs
- Autobiography of Ben Franklin
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
- Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
- Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
- The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allan Poe)
- Selected Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
- Slave Narratives
- Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
- Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Senior Year
Great Books
- Republic (Plato)
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Meditations (Aurelius)
- On Duties (Cicero)
- Bacchae (Euripides)
- Clouds (Aristophanes)
- The Prince (Machiavelli)
- Poetics (Aristotle)
- Eclogues and Georgics (Vergil)
- Don Quixote (Cervantes)
- Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
- Social Contract (Rousseau)
- Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
- Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
- Paradise Lost (John Milton)
- Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
- Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
Books of the Bible
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
- Ecclesiastes
- Song of Solomon
- Lamentations
- Ezekiel
- Revelation
Other Books
- The Apocrypha
- Foundational American Documents
- Saga of the Volsungs
- The Koran
- Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
- The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
- Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
- How Should We Then Live? (Schaeffer)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues (Jules Verne)
- Postmodern Times (Gene Edward Veith)
- Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)