Humanities A Reading List
Author Title
Poem of The Cid Adler Aristotle for Everybody
Aristotle Ethics Aeschylus Any plays
Aristotle De Anima Aquinas Summa Theologica
Aristotle Poetics Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles
Austen Emma Aristophanes Any plays
Boccaccio The Decameron Augustine The Confessions
Boethius Consolation of Philosophy Augustine City of God
Borges Labyrinths Aurelius Meditations
Bradbury Farenheit 451 Bible Selected books
Brown Augustine Gilson History of Medieval Philosophy
Byron Don Juan Cicero On the Laws
Calvin Institutes of the Christian ReligionHorace
Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Calvino Invisible Cities
Calvino Italian Folktales
Camus Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
Cantor Medieval Lives
Cervantes Don Quixote
Chesterton St. Thomas Aquinas
Conrad Heart of Darkness
Dante Purgatorio
Dante Paradiso
Dawson Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
Dawson The Making of Europe
Defoe Moll Flanders
Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens David Copperfield
Dinesen Seven Gothic Tales
Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamozof
Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Euripides Any plays
Garcia-Marquez 100 Years of Solitude
Garcia-Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilbran The Prophet
Goethe Faust
Greene A Burnt Out Case
Hamilton The Roman Way
Hesse Siddartha
Hobbes Leviathan
Homer The Iliad
Hugo Les Miserables
Huxley Brave New World
Huysmans The Cathedral
Lewis 'Til We Have Faces
Luther Three Treatises
Marlow Doctor Faustus
Meeks The Moral World of the First Christians
Melville Moby Dick
Menander Dyskolos
Milton Paradise Lost
Milton Areopogitica
Milton Comus
Milton Samson Agonistes
Milton Paradise Regained
Morrison Beloved
Morrison Song of Solomon
O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Connor The Violent Bear it Away
Ovid Metamorphoses
Pascal Pensees
Plato The Republic
Plato Dialogues
Pressfield Gates of Fire:…
Rousseau Confessions
Ruiz Shadow of the Wind
Scott Rob Roy
Shakespeare Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare King Lear
Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare Othello
Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare The Winter's Tale
Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Shaw Pygmalion
St. John of the Cross Dark Night of the Soul / Ascent to Mount Carmel
Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Suetonius On the Life of the Caesars
Swift Gulliver's Travels
Tagore Gitanji
Thucydides The History of the Peloponesian War
Tolstoy War and Peace
Twain Joan of Arc
Undset Kristin Lavransdatter
Unknown Song of Roland
Voltaire Cándide
Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5
Walpole The Castle Otranto
Xenophon Conversations of Socrates
Philokalia
Bhagavad Gita
Koran (selected sections)
Thousand and One Nights / Arabian Nights