All Grades
Herbert poetry (all) CD
Hopkins poetry (all) CA
Tolstoy short stories (all) CA
7th-8th Grades
Adams,
Watership Down (7th, 8th) CA
Alcott,
Little Women (8th- ladies) CH
Alexander,
Endurance (7th-9th) CH
Arthurian Legend (7th and 8th) CA
Hilton,
Goodbye Mr. Chips (7th) CA
Lewis, C. S.,
The Chronicles of Narnia (7th and 8th) JL, CH, CA
Montgomery,
Anne of Green Gables (7th, non-curric) CA
St. Exupery,
The Little Prince (8th) CA
Tolkein,
The Lord of the Rings (8th),
The Hobbit (7th) CA
9th-12th Grades
Adler,
How to Read a Book (10th-12th) MV
Austen,
Emma,
Sense and Sensibility (12th) CD,
Pride and Prejudice (11th-12th) KC
Benson, Robert Hugh,
Come Rack, Come Rope (10th-12th) JL
Bernanos,
Diary of a Country Priest (11th-12th) JL
Berry, Wendell,
Jayber Crow (11th, 12th), poetry, essays, short stories ("Pray Without Ceasing," "A Consent," "A Jonquil for Mary Penn," "Making it Home," and "Watch with me") (9th-12th) AS
Bolt,
A Man for All Seasons (10th) JL
Brittain, Vera,
Testament of Youth (10th-12th) RH
Bronte,
Jane Eyre (11th-12th) CD
Buck, Pearl S.,
The Dragon Seed (10th-12th) RH
Capote, Truman, "A Christmas Memory" (11th-12th) KC
Cather, Willa,
Death Comes for the Archbishop (11th-12th) JL
Chesterton, Father Brown short stories,
The Man Who Was Thursday,
The Ball and the Cross (9th-12th) MV, JL
Claudel,
The Satin Slipper, poetry (11th-12th) CA
Collins, Billy, poetry (9th-12th) CA
Corti, Eugenio,
The Red Horse (11th-12th) AS
Courtenay,
The Power of One (9th-12th) CH
Dante,
The Inferno (10th-12th) CD
Day,
The Long Loneliness (9th-12th) CH
De Wohl, Louis,
The Spear (10th-12th) JL
Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities (9th-12th) AD
Dostoyevsky,
Notes from Underground,
Crime and Punishment,
The Brothers Karamazov (10th-12th)
Doyle,
Sherlock Holmes (9th-12th)
Dumas,
The Three Musketeers,
The Count of Monte Cristo (9th-12th) JH
Eliot, George,
The Mill on the Floss (11th, 12th) CD
Eliot, T. S., poetry (
The Hollow Men,
The Four Quartets), plays (
The Rock) (10th-12th) CD
Endo,
Silence JL, CD,
A Life of Jesus KC,
The Samurai RH (11th-12th)
Faulkner,
Go Down, Moses (11th-12th) KC
Gordon,
Joan of Arc (9th-12th)
Greene,
The Power and the Glory CA, CH,
The Heart of the Matter JL,
The End of the Affair CD (11th, 12th)
Hill, Geoffrey, poetry (
Lachrimae) (12th) AS
Hugo,
Les Miserables (11th-12th) AS
Hurston, Zora Neale, "Moses, Man of the Mountain," "Jonah's Gourd Vine" (11th-12th) KC
Le Fort, Gertrud von,
The Song at the Scaffold (9th-12th) JL
Lewis, C. S., The Space Trilogy,
Till We Have Faces,
The Great Divorce, "Essay on Milton" (10th-12th) JL, CH, CA
MacDonald, George, novels, poetry (11th-12th) CA
Manzoni,
The Betrothed (9th-12th) JL
Maugham,
The Painted Veil (11th-12th) CD
McCarthy, Cormack,
All the Pretty Horses (12th, AP) KC
McClean, Norman,
A River Runs Through It (10th-12th) AS
Miller, Walter,
A Canticle for Leibowitz (9th-12th) JL
Milton,
Paradise Lost (11th-12th) CA
O'Connor, short stories ("Revelation," "The Violent Bear It Away," "A Good Man is Hard to Find"), essays from
Mystery and Manners (10th-12th) CA, CD
Orczy,
The Scarlet Pimpernel (9th-12th) JH, CH
Paton,
Cry the Beloved Country (10th-12th) CH
Percy,
The Moviegoer (10th-12th),
Love in the Ruins (10th-12th) CA
Rice, Anne,
Christ Our Lord: Out of Egypt (9th-12th) AS
Rice, Anne,
Christ Our Lord: Road to Cana (9th-12th) AS
Rilke, poetry (10th-12th) CA
Robinson,
Gilead (11th-12th) CH
Salinger,
Franny and Zooey (10th-12th) JS
Shakespeare,
King Lear,
Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet (9th-12th) JL, CD
Sienkiewicz,
Quo Vadis CA, CH,
The Teutonic Knights RH (10th-12th)
Therese of Lisieux,
Story of a Soul (9th-12th) KC
Thompson, Frances,
The Hound of Heaven, other poetry (9th-12th)
Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina (mature 12th) AS
Twain,
Joan of Arc (9th-12th) KC, RH
Undset, Sigrid,
Kristin Lavransdatter (12th) JL, CD
Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited (12th) MB
Williams, Charles,
Descent Into Hell (12th) CS
Wojtyla,
The Jeweler's Shop (9th-12th) JL, CD
College and Beyond
The Great Books (college and sabbatical years) CA
Bloom, Allan,
The Closing of the American Mind (ages 20 and 30) CA
Dostoyevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov (once a year) CA
Ladinsky,
Love Poems from God (ages 20-30; 60-120) CA
Lewis,
Till We Have Faces (ages 18, 21, 25, 30, and 60),
The Chronicles of Narnia (see note for The Lord of the Rings below) CA
Romero,
The Violence of Love (whenever one needs to remember the point of it all) CA
Tolkein,
The Lord of the Rings (ages 14, 21, and just before the 10th birthday of one's first child so that when one reads it aloud, it will be with conviction) CA
Tolstoy,
War and Peace (whenever possible) CA