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.
