Robyn Skaley

Lots of you have asked for our reading list, so here are a bunch of the key texts we'll be selecting from. Note: this also includes the 14 we've already read. The books in this image (chronological): Homer — The Iliad Homer — The Odyssey Aeschylus — The Oresteia Aeschylus — Prometheus Bound and Other Plays Sophocles — The Three Theban Plays Euripides — Electra and Other Plays Aristophanes — The Complete Plays Herodotus — The Histories Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War Plato — Complete Works Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle — Metaphysics Aristotle — Physics Aristotle — De Anima Aristotle — Rhetoric Cicero — On Obligations Cicero — The Republic and The Laws Livy — The Early History of Rome Virgil — The Aeneid Ovid — Metamorphoses Plutarch — Lives, Volume II Marcus Aurelius — Meditations Augustine — Confessions Augustine — On Christian Teaching Augustine — City of God Boethius — The Consolation of Philosophy Beowulf The Song of Roland Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica (Summary) Dante — The Divine Comedy Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales Malory — Le Morte d’Arthur Machiavelli — The Prince Shakespeare — Complete Works / Hamlet Cervantes — Don Quixote Milton — Paradise Lost Bunyan — The Pilgrim’s Progress The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers Austen — Pride and Prejudice Tocqueville — Democracy in America Dumas — The Count of Monte Cristo Brontë — Wuthering Heights Poe — The Complete Tales and Poems Melville — Moby-Dick Tolstoy — War and Peace Tolstoy — The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky — The Idiot Dostoevsky — Demons Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov Melville — Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray Chesterton — The Everlasting Man Hemingway — The Sun Also Rises Lewis — The Screwtape Letters Lewis — The Abolition of Man Tolkien — The Lord of the Rings Solzhenitsyn — The Gulag Archipelago McCarthy — Blood Meridian