New College Franklin Provisional Reading List Not a Comprehensive Book List

LIST BY GENERAL CATEGORY Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution, Michael J. Crowe Liberal Arts (Trivium, Quadrivium, etc.) They Say, I Say: Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Cathy Birkenstein S. Schneider Timaeus, Plato A Concise History of Western Music, Paul Griffiths Universe, Geller, Freedman, et, al. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Who Needs Classical Music, Julian Johnson Dissertations, Kate L. Turabian Workbook t/a Music in Theory and Practice, Volume I, Aeneid, Virgil Bruce Benward An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis Assorted Aristotle: Moral Philosophy & Poetics Excerpts from: On the Heavens; Parts of Animals; Prior A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Analytics; Posterior Analytics; Categories; On All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren Interpretation Apology, Plato Beauty for Truth’s Sake, Stratford Caldecott Bacchae, Euripedes Beauty: A Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton Beowulf, Anonymous Classical Rhetoric for Modern Students, Edward P. J. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Corbett Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Commentary on De Trinitate, Thomas Aquinas City of God, Augustine Elements, Euclid Confessions, City of God Artistic Anatomy: The Great French Classic on Artistic Consolation of Philosophy, Ancius Boethius Anatomy, Dr. Paul Richer Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Michael Enuma Elish Pollan Evening in the Palace of Reason, James R. Gaines Crito, Plato Excerpts from the History of Mathematics Descent into Hell, Charles Williams Excerpts from the History of Astronomy: Divine Comedy, Dante Ptolemy, Kepler, Galileo, Newton Emma, Jane Austen Leisure: the basis of culture, Josef Pieper Enchiridion, Augustine Meno, Plato Erasmus, Excerpts Music and Morals, Basil Cole Euthyphro, Plato On Christian Doctrine, Augustine Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, (primary sources) On Copia of Words and Ideas, Erasmus Walter Kaufman Q.E.D., Richard Feynman Faery Queene Socratic Logic, Peter Kreeft Gilead, Marilynne Robinson Solfège de Solfèges, Book 1, A. Dannhauser Gorgias, Plato Te Deum: The Church and Music, Paul Westermeyer Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Thank you for Arguing, Jay Heinrichs Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare Theaetetus, Plato Iliad, Homer The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis Inventing Human Rights, Lynn Hunt The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin The Elizabethan World Picture, Eustace M. Tillyard Leaf by Niggle, J. R. R. Tolkien The Liberal Arts Tradition, Clark and Jain Letter against Pelagius, Augustine The Intellectual Life, OP, A.G. Sertillanges Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes The Making of a Story, Alice LaPlante Luther, excerpts The Order of Things, James V. Schall Manalive: A Novel, G.K. Chesterton The Practice and Science of Drawing, Harold Speed Meditations, Marcus Aurelius The Stars: A New Way to See Them, H.A. Rey Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes The Story of the Cosmos, Daniel Ray & Paul Gould Metaphysics, Aristotle The Theology of Arithmetic, Iambilichus Metaphysical Poets Monologion, Anselm of Canterbury New College Franklin Provisional Reading List Not a Comprehensive Book List

Nicomachaen Ethics, Aristotle In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky Henri Nouwen Odyssey, Homer Knowing God, J. I. Packer Oedipus Trilogy, Sophocles Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian On Being and Essence, Thomas Aquinas Perspective, Henri Nouwen On Grace and Free Will, Augsutine Seeing Christ in All of Scripture, Beale, Duguid, & On the Incarnation, Athanasius Poythress On the Teacher, Augustine Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof Oresteia, Aeschylus The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher Phaedo, Plato The Doctrine of God, Gerald L. Bray Peace Like a River, Leif Enger To Change the World, James Davidson Hunter Pelagius, a letter, Pelagius You are What You Love, James K. A. Smith Pensées, Pascal Persuasion, Jane Austen Physics, Aristotle Poetics, Aristotle MAJOR NON-BIBLICAL AUTHORS & WORKS Politics, Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Pre Socratic Exerpts Thomas Aquinas Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus Plato Proslogion, Anselm of Canterbury Aristotle Republic, Plato Calvin Rule of St. Benedict Hobbes Second Treatise of Government, John Locke Locke Sex and Virtue, John Grabowski Rouesseau Steward of God’s Covenant: Selected Writings, John Calvin Galileo Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas Tolkien The Supper of the Lamb, Robert Farrar Capon C.S. Lewis Surprised by Oxford, Carolyn Weber Anselm of Canterbury Tales from the Perilous Realm, J. R. R. Tolkien Descaertes The End of the Affair, Graham Greene Hume The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis Kant The Greater Trumps, Charles Williams Josef Conrad The Place of the Lion, Charles Williams Euclid The Portable Enlightenment Reader, Isaac Kramnick Homer The Power and the Gorly, Graham Greene Benedict of Nursia The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli Charles Williams Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis Early Church Fathers Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett Machiavelli Why God became Man, Anselm of Canterbury Iambilichus Samuel Beckett Graham Greene Theology Boethius A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Virgil Old Testament in the New, G. K. Beale Aeschylus Basics of Biblical Greek, Text and Workbook, William Sophocles Mounce Athanasius Bible Bach Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments, Geerhardus Beethoven Vos Joschan Delighting in the Trinity, Michael Reeves