Reading List.
T
he Anderson Private School extends appreciation to Dr. James Patrick, a Senior Fellow of the Walsingham Society of Christian Culture and Western Civilization and one of the Founders of the College of Saint Thomas More and to Oxford University for assistance in the compilation of the required reading list.
These works are classical, philosophical and historical in nature. The knowledge to be gained from them is the foundation for a lifetime of learning. Please assist your child in making selections from the list for required reading. Consult with Mrs. Anderson if you have questions or need assistance. The list is not comprehensive and is subject to change.
In lieu of homework, the Anderson Private School requires scholars to read (or be read to) for at least one hour each day. Please utilize the following list in the fulfillment of this requirement.
Reading List:
Achebe, ChinuaThings Fall Apart
Adler, AlfredUnderstanding Human Nature
AeschylusAgamemnon
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
Alcott, Louisa MayLittle Women
Alighieri, DanteInferno
Angelo, MayaI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
AnonymousBeowulf
Epic of Gilgamesh, The
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
St. Thomas AquinasSumma Theologiae
Treatise on the Active and Contemplative Life
On Being and Essence
Summa Contra Gentiles
On Kingship
AristotleMetaphysics
Nichomachean Ethics
Physics
On Interpretation
Categories
AristophanesAcharnians
Clouds
Frogs
Birds
Peace
Atwood, MargareteHandmaid’s Tale, The
St. AugustineAgainst the Sceptics
City of God
Confessions
On Baptism
Against the Donatists
On Free Choice of the Will
On the Teacher
On the Trinity
Aurelius, MarcusMeditations
Austin, JaneEmma
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Bacon, FrancisNovum Organum
Bateson, GeorgeSteps to an Ecology of Mind
Beckett, SamuelWaiting for Godot
Bernard of ClairvauxThe Steps of Humility
The Bible
Boethius, AnciusThe Consolation of Philosophy
Bolt, RobertMan for All Seasons, A
Bossuet, Jacques-BenigneDiscourse on Universal History
Bradbury, RayFarenheit 451
Bradley, Francis HerbertEthical Studies
St. BonaventureThe Journey of the Mind to God
Retracing the Arts to Theology
Bronte, CharlottJane Eyre
Bronte, EmilyWuthering, Heights
Brooks, CleanthThe Well Wrought Urn
Modern Poetry and the Tradition
Buber, MartinI and Thou
Between Man and Man
Buck, PearlThe Good Earth
Brugess, AnthonyA Clockwork Orange
Burke, EdmundReflections on the Revolution in France
Camus, AlbertThe Plague
The Stranger
Carroll, LewisAlice in Wonderland
Cather, WillaMy Antonia
Cary, JoyceThe Horses Mouth
Cervantes, Miguel deDon Quixote
Chaucer, GeoffreyCanterbury Tales, The
Chopin, KateThe Awakening
Cicero, Marcus TulliusDe Officiis
Somnium Scipionis
Cisneros, SandraHouse on Mango Street, The
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Collingwood, R. G.Autobiography
The Idea of History
The Idea of Nature
Principles of Art
Congreve, WilliamThe Way of the World
Conrad, JosephLord Jim
Heart of Darkness
Cooper, Joseph FennimoreLast of the Mohicans, The
Cox, HarveyThe Secular City
Crane, StephenRed Badge of Courage, The
Dante, AleghieriDivine Comedy
La Vita Nuova
Davidson, DonaldStill Rebels, Still Yankees (essay)
Defoe, DanielRobinson Crusoe
Descartes, ReneDiscourse on Method
Meditations
Didache
Dickens, CharlesDavid Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, FyodorThe Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Douglass, FredrickNarrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
Dumas, AlexandraCount of Monte Cristo, The
Durkheim, EmileRules of Sociological Method
Einhart of FuldaLife of Charlemagne
Eliot, GeorgeSilas Marner
Eliot, T. S.The Cocktail Party
Murder in the Cathedral
The Waste Land
Clark Lectures
Ellison, RalphInvisible Man
John Scotus ErigenaDe Divisione Naturae
EuclidThe Elements
EuripidesMedea
The Bacchae
EusebiusChurch History
Life of Constantine
Everyman
Faulkner, WilliamAs I Lay Dying
Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
Go Down, Moses
The Hamlet
The Town
The Mansion
The Reivers
Fergusson, FrancisThe Idea of a Theater
Fitzgerald, F. ScottGreat Gatsby, The
Flaubert, GustauveMadame Bovary
Frank, AnneDiary of a Young Girl, The
Frankl, Viktor EmilMans Search for Meaning
Freud, SigmundFuture of an Illusion
General Psychological Theory
Gardner, JohnGrendel
Gibbon, EdwardDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilson, EtienneThe Arts of the Beautiful
The Unity of Philosophical Experience
Gogol, NikaoloaDead Souls
Golding, WilliamLord of the Flies, The
Gordon, CarolineThe Women on the Porch
Collected Stories
Hansberry, LorraineRaisin in the Sun, A
Hamilton, Jay and MadisonThe Federalist Papers
Hardy, ThomasFar from the Maddening Crowd
Mayor of Casterbridge, The
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, NathanielHouse of Seven Gables
Scarlet Letter, The
Heller, JosephCatch-22
Hemingway, ErnestFarewell to Arms, A
Old Man and the Sea, The
Sun Also Rises, The
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichPhilosophy of History
Introductory Lectures in Aesthetics
Heidegger, MartinBeing and Time
HerodotusThe Histories
Hess, HermanSiddharta
Hilton, WalterThe Ladder of Perfection
Hinton, S. E.Outsiders, The
Hobbes, ThomasLeviathan
HomerThis Iliad
The Odyssey
Hugo, VictorLes Miserables
Hume, DavidA Treatise on Human Nature
Huxley, AldousBrave New World
Ibsen, HenrikDoll House, the
Hedda Gabler
James, HenryTurn of the Screw, The
Josephus, FlaviusThe Jewish Wars
Joyce, JamesDubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Jung, Carl GustavMan and His Symbols
Kafka, FranzMetamorphosis
Kant, ImmanuelCritique of Pure Reason
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Idea for a Universal History From a Cosmopolitan point of View
Kerouac, JackOn the Road
Kesey, KenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kerenyi, KarlThe Gods of the Greeks
The Heroes of the Greeks
The Religion of the Greeks and Romans
Kierkegaard, SorenFear and Trembling
Sickness Unto Death
Knowles, JohnSeparate Peace, A
Knox, RonaldEnthusiasm
Kuhn, ThomasStructure of Scientific Revolutions
Laing, R. D.Sanity, Madness, and the Family
Self and Others
The Divided Self
Langland, JohnPiers Plowman
Lee, HarperTo Kill a Mockingbird
Locke, JohnSecond Treatise on Civil Government
London, JackCall of the Wild
Luther, MartinAppeal to the German Nobility
On the Bondage of the Will
Machiavelli, NiccoloThe Prince
Marcel, GabrielThe Mystery of Being
Being and Having
The Philosophy of Existentialism
Maritain, JacquesArt and Scholasticism (essay)
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
Introduction to Philosophy
Three Reformers
Maslow, Abraham H.Toward a Psychology of Being
Marlowe, ChristopherDr. Faustus
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Melville, HermanBilly Bud
Moby Dick
Mill, John StuartUtilitarianism
Miller, AuthurCrucible, The
Death of a Salesman
Milton, JohnParadise Lost
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)The Misanthrope
MontaigneEssays
Montesquieu, Charles deSpirit of the Laws
Moore, George EdwardPrincipia Ethica
More, St. ThomasDialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
Letters
Utopia
Morrison, ToniBeloved
Song of Solomon
Niebuhr, ReinholdMoral Man and Immoral Society
Nichomachus, Caius AsiniusArithmetic
Nietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmBeyond Good and Evil
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Oakeshott, MichaelExperience and Its Modes
On Human Conduct
O‘Brien, TimThings They Carried, The
Ockam, William ofQuodlibetal Questions
O’Connor, FlanneryWise Blood
A Good Man is Hard to Find
The Violent Bear it Away
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Mystery and Manners
Orwell, George1984
Animal Farm
PascalPenses
Paton, AlanCry, the Beloved Country
Pico della MirandolaOration on the Dignity of Man
Plath, SylviaBell Jar, The
PlatoWorks
PlotinusEnneads
PolybiusUniversal History
Potok, ChaimChosen, The
Pugin, Augustus Welby NorthmoreContrasts
The Quest of the Holy Grail
Rand, AynFountainhead, The
Ransom, John CroweSelected Poems
The Worlds Body
Remarque, Erich MariaAll Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, EdmondCyrano
Rousseau, Jean JacquesSocial Contract
The Second Shepherds Play
Salinger, J. D.Catcher in the Rye, The
Shakespeare, WilliamWorks
Shaw, George BernardPygmalion
Shelley, MaryFrankenstein
Sinclair, UptonJungle, The
Solzhenitsyn, AleksandrOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
SophoclesOedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Spener, Philipp JakobPia Desideria
Steinbeck, JohnGrapes of Wrath, The
Of Mice and Men
Pearl, The
Stevenson, Robert LouisDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, BramDracula
Stowe, Harriet BeecherUncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, JonathanGulliver’s Travels
Tan, AmyJoy Luck Club, The
Tate, AllenCollected Poems
Essays of Four Decades
Tauler, JohannesOn Disinterest
Thoreau, Henry DavidWalden
ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War
Tocqueville, Alexis deDemocracy in America
Tolkien, J. R. R.Hobbit, The
Tolstoy, LeoAnna Karenina
War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan SergeevichFathers and Sons
Twain, MarkHuckleberry Finn, The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of
VirgilThe Aeneid
VoltairCandide
Vonnegut, KurtSlaughterhouse Five
Walker, AliceColor Purple, The
Warren, Robert PennAll the Kings Men
Welty, EudoraCollected Stories
Losing Battles
The Optimists Daughter
Delta Wedding
The Eye of the Story
Wesley, JohnHymns
Wharton, EdithEthan Frome
Wiesel, EliNight
Wilde, OscarThe Importance of Being Earnest
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Wilder, ThorntonOur Town
Williams, TennesseGlass Managerie, The
Streetcar Names Desire, A
Wood, MichaelArt of the Western World
Wolf, VirginiaMrs. Dalloway
Room of One’s Own, A
To the Lighthouse
Wright, RichardBlack Boy
Native son
XenophonAnabasis
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