F=Recommended by Mr. Ferguson
H=Recommended by Mrs. Hidore
I=Intellectually challenging work
L=Long work; talk to your teacher about reading options
M=Recommended by Mrs. Milner
R=Recommended by Dr. Ross
P=Contains profanity and/or adult themes; requires parent approval
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| Remains of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus |
Anabasis (The Persian Expedition), Xenophon (ca. 430–354 BC)
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Annals of Imperial Rome, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56–117)
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Church History, Eusebius of Caesarea (263–339)R
Confessions, Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
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The Histories, Herodotus (ca.484-425 BC)
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Jason and the Argonauts (Argonautica), Apollonius of Rhodes (ca. 300–240 BC)
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Lives of the Caesars (de Vita Caesarum), Suetonius (ca. 70–130)
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On the Incarnation, Athanasius of Alexandria (293–373)
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Metamorphoses (The Golden ***), Apuleius (ca. 125–180)
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Medieval Works (500 to 1450)
The Alexiad, Anna Comnena (1083–1153)
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The Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe (1373–after 1438)
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Life of St. Columba, Adomnan of Iona (627–704)
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The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis (1370–1471)
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Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
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Why God Became Man, Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
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| Library at Melk Abbey in Austria |
Book of Martyrs, John Foxe (1517–1587)
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Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
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The Freedom of a Christian, Martin Luther (1483)–1546)
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, John Bunyan (1628–1688)
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Henry V, William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin (1509–1564)
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Journal, John Winthrop (1587–1649)
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King Lear, William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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Othello, William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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Pensées, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
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The Pilgrim's Progress (normal version, Part I.), John Bunyan (1628–1688)
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The Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556)
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| The modern Library of Alexandria, Egypt |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
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All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque (1898–1970)
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Autobiography of George Müller, George Müller (1805–1898)
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Carry On, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
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Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (1919–2010)
M P
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris (1845–1908)
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The Confession of a Fool (Le plaidoyer d'un fou), August Strindberg (1849–1912)
F P
The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945)
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The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
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Emma, Jane Austen (1775–1817)
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A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) R
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
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The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)
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Green Mansions, W.H. Hudson (1841–1922)
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The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973)
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Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell (1903–1950)
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How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie (1888–1955)
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Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, Geraldine Taylor (1865–1949)
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Ivanhoe, Walter Scott (1771–1832)
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Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
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Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
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Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
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Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
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Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It, Mark Twain (1835–1910)
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973)
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Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (1775–1817)
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Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George (1943– )
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)
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The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper (1902–1994)
R I L
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
H P
Poems (Everymans Library), Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
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Prayer, Ole Hallesby (1879–1961)
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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1775–1817)
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Bonar (1810–1892)
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The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas (1877–1951)
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Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon, B.H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970)
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Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1775–1817)
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The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973)
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Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1925–2006)
F P
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
M P
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)
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The Trial, Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
R I P
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1816–1855)
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| An electronic reading device |
Postmodern and Contemporary Works (1950 to present)
A Chance to Die: the Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Elisabeth Elliott (1926– )
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, John Piper (1946– )
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Knowing God, J.I. Packer (1926– )
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Life of Pi, Yann Martel (1963– )
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Radical, David Platt (1977– )
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Revolution in World Missions, K.P. Yohannan (1950– )
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Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1930– )
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The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1946– )
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