SUGGESTED READING

 

  • 21-Day Dad’s Challenge: Three Weeks to a Better Relationship with Your Kids, Carey Casey (PARENTS)
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain
  • A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • A Girl After God’s Own Heart: A Tween Adventure with God, Elizabeth George
  • A Song for Harlem, Patricia C. McKissack
  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
  • A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
  • Abarat, Clive Barker
  • Al Capone Does My Shirts, Gennifer Choldenko
  • Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
  • An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  • Antigone, Sophocles
  • Arabella, Georgette Heyer
  • Arabian Nights, Unknown
  • Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Edited by Edward Corbett
  • August 1914, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education, Stratford Caldecott (PARENTS)
  • Being Real > Being Perfect, Justin Davis
  • Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
  • Beowulf, Unknown
  • Beyond High Performance. What Great Coaches Know about How the Best Get Better, Jason Jaggard
  • Big Shoes to Fill, Gavin Adams
  • Billy Budd, Herman Melville
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Bringing up Girls, James Dobson
  • Bucking the Sarge, Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Tricia Goyer
  • Call of the Wild, Jack London
  • “Casey at the Bat”, Ernest Lawrence Thayer
  • Championship Fathering: How to Win at Being a Dad, Carey Casey (PARENTS)
  • Choosing to See, Mary Beth Chapman
  • Choruses From the Rock, S. Elliot
  • City of God, Augustine
  • Climbing Parnassus, Tracy Lee Simmons
  • Common Sense, Thomas Paine
  • Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain, Mark Twain
  • Crank, Ellen Hopkins
  • Crazy Love, Francis Chan with Danae Yankoski
  • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths, D’Aulaiers
  • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  • Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
  • Deep Work, Cal Newport
  • Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
  • Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
  • Eat Smarter, Shawn Stevenson
  • Eclogue 4, Virgil
  • Educated, Tara Westover
  • Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson
  • Emma, Jane Austen
  • Eternity is Now in Session, John Ortberg
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  • Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase, Arthur Quinn
  • Found in Translation, Roger Bruner with Kristi Rae Bruner
  • Four Thousand Weeks. Time Management for Mere Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Ben Carson & Cecil Murphey
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • Great Tales and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
  • Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  • Hidden Potential, Adam Grant
  • Hold Me Tight. Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson
  • How to Read a Book: A Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
  • How to Stay Christian in College, Budziszewski
  • How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, Stanley Fish (ACADEMIC)
  • I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet, Shauna Niequist
  • I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • “In Memoriam”, Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
  • It’s Your Kid, not a Gerbil, Kevin Leman (PARENTS)
  • Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
  • Jane Austen Four Novels, Jane Austen
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • Jayber Crowe, Wendell Berry
  • Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
  • R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings), J.R.R. Tolkien
  • King: A Life, Jonathan Eig
  • Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
  • Lead Your Family Like Jesus, Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges, and Tricia Goyer (PARENTS)
  • Leading from the Heart, Coach Mike Krzyzewski
  • Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture that Brings Out the Best in People, Donna Hicks
  • Learning, Karen Kingsbury
  • Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  • Lincoln’s Last Days, O’Reilly and Zimmerman
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  • LOL with God: Devotional Messages of Hope and Humor for Women, Pam Farrel (PARENTS)
  • Longing, Karen Kingsbury
  • Looking for Alaska, John Green
  • Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  • Lost Horizon, James Hilton
  • Love and Work, Marcus Buckingham
  • Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food, Lysa Terkeurst
  • Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
  • Major Works of Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics Set), Charles Dickens
  • Matched, Ally Condie
  • Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
  • Moby Dick, Herman Melville
  • Murder in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Conner
  • Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Frederick Douglas
  • Night, Elie Wiesel
  • Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
  • Not as a Stranger, Morton Thompson
  • Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner, Lois Lowry
  • Henry Short Stories, O. Henry
  • Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • On Fairy Stories, R.R. Tolkien
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Our Town, Thornton Wilder
  • Out Live Your Life, Max Lucado
  • Paradise Lost, John Milton
  • Perfect, Max Amato
  • Perfectly Dateless, Kristin Billerbeck
  • Plugged-In Parenting: How to Raise Media-Savvy Kids with Love, Not War, Bob Waliszewski (PARENTS)
  • Politics, Aristotle
  • Pretties, Scott Westerfeld
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
  • Prom and Prejudice, Elizabeth Eulberg
  • Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
  • Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Raising a Modern-Day Knight, Robert Lewis (PARENTS)
  • Raising a Modern-Day Princess, Pam Farrel (PARENTS)
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • Roadside Assistance, Amy Clipston
  • Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
  • Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare
  • Roots, Alex Haley
  • Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
  • Shattered: Struck Down but Not Destroyed, Carey Casey
  • She Walks in Beauty, Siri Mitchell
  • Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sink or Sit. One Couple’s Journey of Answering God’s Call to Step out of the Boat, Haley & Jason Bilotti
  • Sleep, It Does a Family Good, Archibald D. Hart (PARENTS)
  • Soul Care, Rob Reimer
  • Strengthening Your Grop. How to be Grounded in a Chaotic World, Charles Swindoll
  • Swipe, Evan Angler
  • Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  • Ten Plays by Euripides, Euripides
  • Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolen (PARENTS)
  • Thanks for the Feedback. The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well, Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen
  • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman
  • The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication, John C. Maxwell
  • The Abolition of Man, S. Lewis
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  • The Aenid, Virgil
  • The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  • The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, Ben Franklin
  • The Autobiography of Malcom X, Malcom X, with Alex Haley
  • The Ballad of the White Horse, K. Chesterton
  • The Blessed, Ann H. Gabhart
  • The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
  • The Cadfael Chronicles, Ellis Peters
  • The Chance, Karen Kingsbury
  • The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
  • The Chosen, Chaim Potok
  • The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans
  • The Christmas List: A Novel, Richard Paul Evans
  • The Chronicles of Narnia, S. Lewis
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  • The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, Leigh A. Bortins (PARENTS)
  • The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet
  • The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
  • The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
  • The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30), Mark Bauerlein (PARENTS)
  • The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults, Mark Bauerlein (PARENTS)
  • The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliffe
  • The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (ACADEMIC)
  • The Fairy-Tale Detectives, Michael Buckley
  • The Father Brown Mysteries, K. Chesterton
  • The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, et al.
  • The Four Loves, S. Lewis
  • The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain
  • The Giver, Lois Lowry
  • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
  • The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 years of the West’s Classic Literature, Anthony O’Hear
  • The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Help, Kathryn Stockett
  • The Hobbit, R.R. Tolken
  • The Iliad, Homer
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
  • The Ins and Outs of In-n-Out Burger, Lynsi Snyder
  • The Jungle, Sinclair Upton
  • The Kingdom Series, Chuck Black
  • The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
  • The Letter, Richard Paul Evans
  • The Light Princess, George MacDonald
  • The Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson
  • The Lord of the Rings, R.R. Tolken
  • The Lord Peter Wimsey Series, Dorothy Sayers
  • The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
  • The Man Who Was Thursday, K. Chesterton
  • The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
  • The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Odyssey, Homer
  • The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  • The Oresteia, Aeschylus
  • The Outsiders, E. Hinton
  • The Pearl, John Steinbeck
  • The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
  • The President and The Freedom Fighter. Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul, Brian Kilmeade
  • The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
  • The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
  • The Question: Teaching Your Child the Essentials of a Classical Education, Leigh A. Bortins (PARENTS)
  • The Real Benjamin Franklin, Andrew M. Allison
  • The Real George Washington, Jay A. Parry
  • The Real Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison
  • The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
  • The Red House Mystery, A. Milne
  • The Republic, Plato
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
  • The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • The Screwtape Letters, S. Lewis
  • The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Sherlock Holmes Series, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Song of Rolland, Unknown
  • The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Surprising Way to a Stronger Marriage, Michael Smalley
  • The Survivor’s Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life, Ben Sherwood
  • The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Sophocles
  • The Time Machine, G. Wells
  • The Trojan War, Olivia Coolidge
  • The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
  • The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education at Home, Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise
  • The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise (PARENTS)
  • The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  • Till We Have Faces, S. Lewis
  • Time for the Stars, Robert A. Heinlein
  • TJ and the Time Stumblers, Bill Myers
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
  • Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Uncommon Greatness, Mark Miller
  • Unlocked, Karen Kingsbury
  • Unoffendable, Brant Hansen
  • Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara
  • Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
  • Waiting for Anya, Michael Morpurgo
  • War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  • War of the Worlds, G. Wells
  • War Horse, Michael Morpurgo
  • What’s Here Now? How to Stop Rehashing the Past, Rehearsing the Future and Start Receiving the Present, Jeanne Stevens
  • Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
  • Winning the War in Your Mind, Craig Groeschel
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  • You are What You Love. The Spiritual Power of Habit, James Smith
  • You Can’t Take It with You, George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart