Reading List
Up to date concerning public schools in America:
- Peter Hegseth and David Goodwin:
Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
Lutheran Perspectives:
- Thomas Korcok:
Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future - Thomas Korcok:
Serpents in the Classroom: The Poisoning of Modern Education and How the Church Can Cure It - E. Christian Kopf:
The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
Modern Classics Concerning Education
- Douglas Wilson:
Repairing the Ruins: The Classical and Christian Challenge to Modern Education - C.S. Lewis:
The Abolition of Man - Neil Postman:
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Allan Bloom:
The Closing of the American Mind
Major Literature In Our Classroom:
The Pillars of Epic Poetry
- Homer:
The Odyssey, The Iliad - Virgil:
The Aeneid - Dante:
The Divine Comedy - Goethe:
Faust
Playwrights
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Aristophanes
- Euripides
- Shakespeare
Philosophy
- Plato:
The Republic - Aristotle:
The Organon, The Nichomachean Ethics - Cicero:
On Duties - Marcus Aurelius:
Meditations - Augustine:
Confessions - Boethius:
The Consolation of Philosophy - Thomas Aquinas:
The Summa Theologae - Blaise Pascal:
Pensées - René Descartes:
Meditations on First Philosophy - Alexis de Tocqueville:
Democracy in America
Modern Poets
- Poe
- Wordsworth
- Coleridge
- Byron
- Shelley
- Keats
- Whitman
- Kipling
- Hardy
Dystopian Writers
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
George Orwell: 1984 - Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Fiction
- Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Crusoe - Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The Scarlet Letter - Alexander Dumas:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Mark Twain:
Huckleberry Finn - Stephen Crane:
The Red Badge of Courage - Charles Dickens:
A Tale of Two Cities - Dostoevsky:
Crime and Punishment - Herman Melville:
Moby Dick - Scott Fitzgerald:
The Great Gatsby - Flannery O’Connor:
The Violent Bear it Away