7th Grade Literature

Required Reading

Primary

  • Genesis
  • Iliad by Homer
  • Exodus
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The History (all nine Books) by Herodotus
  • Oresteia by Aaeschylus
  • Theban Triology by Sophocles
  • I and II Samuel
  • I and II Kings
  • Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology and Crito by Plato
  • Livy I
  • Livy II
  • Livy III
  • Livy IV – V
  • Luke and Acts
  • Aeneid by Virgil
  • The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

secondary

  • Chosen by God by Sproul, R. C.
  • The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
  • Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
  • Till We Have Faces by Lewis, C. S.
  • The Magician’s Nephew by Lewis, C. S.
  • Horse and His Boy by Lewis, C. S.
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis, C. S.
  • Prince Caspian by Lewis, C. S.
  • Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Lewis, C. S.
  • The Silver Chair by Lewis, C. S.
  • The Last Battle by Lewis, C. S.
  • Plutarch’s Lives
  • Best Things in Life by Kreeft, Peter
  • Unaborted Socrates by Kreeft, Peter
  • Eagle of the Ninth by Sutcliff, Rosemary
  • Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, William
  • Screwtape Letters by Lewis, C. S.

Books for the Medieval Period

  • Beowulf
  • Bible
  • Canterbury Tales, The by Chaucer
  • Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville and Villehardouin
  • Confessions by Augustine
  • Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede
  • Eusebius: The Church History by Eusebius
  • Fellowship of the Rings, The by Tolkien
  • Governor of England, The
  • Henry V by Shakespeare
  • Hobbit, The by J.R. Tolkien
  • In Freedom’s Cause by Henty, G. A.
  • Inferno by Dante
  • King Lear by Shakespeare
  • King’s Shadow, The by Alder
  • Life of John Calvin, The by Beza
  • MacBeth by Shakespeare, William
  • Nine Tailors, The by Sayers
  • On the Bondage of the Will by Luther, Martin
  • On the Incarnation of Our Lord by Athanasius
  • Paradise Lost by Milton
  • Paradise by Dante
  • Purgatory by Dante
  • Return of the King, The by Tolkien, J. R. R.
  • Romance of Protestantism, The by Alcock
  • Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict
  • St. Anselm: Basic Writings
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Song of Roland, The
  • Two Towers, The by Tolkien, J. R. R.

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