Book List for Great Book Series
[Red = Already taught]
[Blue = Books to be taught next]
• = Good synthesis of artistic merit and spiritual themes
•• = Great synthesis of artistic merit and spiritual themes
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•Abandonment to Divine Providence (de Caussade)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Alice in Wonderland
Analects of Confucius
••Anna Karinina
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
Beowulf
Bleak House
Book of Martyrs (John Foxe)
Brave New World
••The Brothers Karamazov
Candide (Voltaire)
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
Christian Perfection (Fénelon)
•The Chronicles of Narnia
•The City of God (Augustine)
The Cloud of Unknowing
••Confessions (Augustine)
The Cost of Discipleship (Bonhoeffer)
The Count of Monte Cristo
••Crime and Punishment
•The Dark Night of the Soul
•David Copperfield
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)
•Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Donne)
Dialogues of Plato (e.g., Symposium, Crito, Gorgias, Republic)
••The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
•East of Eden
Essay on Man and Other Poems (Alexander Pope)
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
The Faërie Queene
•Faust (Goethe)
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)
The Federalist Papers
The Four Loves (C. S. Lewis)
Frankenstein
•The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis)
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Gulliver’s Travels
•Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Samuel Johnson)
Huckleberry Finn
The Iliad
••The Imitation of Christ
•Institutes of the Christian Religion
•Interior Castle (Teresa of Ávila)
Introduction to the Devout Life (Francis de Sales)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
•Jane Eyre
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
The Jungle Books (Kipling)
•Knowing God (Packer)
•The Knowledge of the Holy (A. W. Tozer)
Kristen Lavernsdatter (Sigrid Undset)
The Last of the Mohicans Le Morte D’Arthur
••Les Miserables
Little Women
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Lord Jim
••The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
•The Love of God (Bernard of Clairvaux)
Madame Bovary
The Mahabharata
•Mere Christianity
•Middlemarch
•Moby Dick
My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
New Seeds of Contemplation (Thomas Merton)
The Nibelungenlied
Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
•The Odyssey
•Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton)
••Paradise Lost
••Pensées
Phantastes (George MacDonald)
••The Pilgrim’s Progress
Plays of Aeschylus
Plays of Aristophanes
Plays of Chekhov
Plays of Euripides
Plays of Ibsen
Plays of Moliere
Plays of Sophocles (Antigone)
••Plays of Shakespeare
Histories
Tragedies
Comedies
Plays of George Bernard Shaw
•Poems of Emily Dickinson
•Poems of John Donne
Poems of T. S. Eliot
••Poems of George Herbert (The Temple)
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems of John Keats
Poems of Sir Philip Sidney
Poems of Edmund Spenser
Poems of Walt Whitman
Poems of William Wordsworth
Poems of William Butler Yeats
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
•The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
•The Practice of the Presence of God
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
••Pride and Prejudice
The Prince (Machiavelli)
Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing (Kierkegaard)
•The Pursuit of God (A. W. Tozer)
The Qur’an
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment (Jeremiah Burroughs)
The Red and the Black
•The Return of the Prodigal Son (Henri Nouwen)
Revelations of Divine Love (Julian of Norwich)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Robinson Crusoe
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
•The Scarlet Letter
•The Screwtape Letters
•The Second Coming (Walker Percy)
•Sense and Sensibility
•A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (William Law)
•Short stories of Flannery O’Connor
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Soul’s Journey Into God (Bonaventure)
•The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Summa Theologica (Aquinas)
•Table-Talk (Luther)
A Tale of Two Cities
Treasure Island
•A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards)
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
The Two Treatises of Government (Locke)
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
The Vanity of Human Wishes (Samuel Johnson)
Walden
••War and Peace
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
Wuthering Heights
