KOLBE ACADEMY Recommended Reading List

 

AGES 15-20

Adams, Henry:
History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison
Adams, John, & Jefferson, Thomas:
Letters
Aeschylus:
Prometheus Bound;
The Oresteian Trilogy;
Seven Against Thebes

Aristophanes:
Clouds;
Birds;
Frogs

Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics, Book I;
Politics, Book I;
On the Art of Poetry

Arnold, Matthew:
The Study of Poetry;
Sweetness and Light

Auden, W. H.:
Collected Poems

St. Augustine:
Confessions;
City of God

Austen, Jane:
Pride and Prejudice;
Emma;
Sense and Sensibility;
Northanger

Bacon, Francis:
Of Beauty;
Of Discourse;
Of Great Places;
Of Studies;
Of Marriage and the Single Life;
Of Parents and Children;
Of Seditions and Troubles;
Of Youth and Age

Balzac, Honoré:
Pere Goriot
Bellamy, Edward:
Looking Backward
St. Bede the Venerable:
History of the English Church and People
Bernanos, George:
Diary of a Country Priest
Blackmore, Richard:
Lorna Doone
Blake, William:
Songs of Innocence;
Songs of Experience

St. Bonaventure:
Life of St. Francis
Borrows, George:
Romany Rye
Boswell, James
Life of Samuel Johnson
Bradbury, Ray:
The Martian Chronicles;
Dandelion Wine;
Something Wicked This Way Comes;
Short Stories

Brontë, Charlotte:
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily:
Wuthering Heights
Browning, Robert:
The Poetical Works
Buchan, John:
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buck, Pearl:
The Good Earth
Buckley, William F.:
God and Man at Yale;
Up From Liberalism

Burke, Edmund:
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burns, Robert:
The Poetical Works
Byrd, Richard:
Alone
Cather, Willa:
My Antonia;
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cervantes, Miguel de:
Don Quixote
Chambers, Whittaker:
Witness;
Ghosts on the Roof

Chaucer, Geoffrey:
The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton:
The Cherry Orchard;
Uncle Vanya
Chesterton, G. K.:
Father Brown Series;
The Everlasting Man;
Orthodoxy;
The Man Who Was Thursday

Churchill, Winston:
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples;
Marlborough: His Life and Times

Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
On Old Age;
On Friendship

Ciszek, Walter:
He Leadeth Me;
With God in Russia
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor:
Poems
Collins, Wilkie:
Moonstone
Columbus, Christopher:
Four Voyages to the New World
Conrad, Joseph:
Lord Jim;
Heart of Darkness

Cook, James:
Captain Cook's Explorations
Cooper, James Fenimore:
The Deerslayer;
The Pioneers;
The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen:
The Red Badge of Courage;
The Open Boat

Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de:
Letters from an American Farmer;
Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

Curie, Eve:
Madame Curie
Dampier, William:
A Voyage Around the World
Dante Alighieri:
The Divine Comedy;
La Vita Nuova

Defoe, Daniel:
Moll Flanders;
Journal of the Plague Year;
Robinson Crusoe

De Kruif, Paul:
Microbe Hunters
De Maupassant, Guy:
The Necklace;
Selected Stories

De Wohl, Louise:
Lay Siege to Heaven;
Set All Afire

Dickens, Charles:
Bleak House;
Barnaby Rudge;
Our Mutual Friend;
Martin Chuzzlewitt;
Nicholas Nickleby;
The Old Curiosity Shop;
A Christmas Carol;
David Copperfield;
Oliver Twist;
A Tale of Two Cities;
Great Expectations

Donne, John:
Poetry
Dostoevsky, Fyodor:
Crime and Punishment;
The Brothers Karamazov;
The Devils;
Notes from Undeground

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan:
The White Company;
The Sherlock Holmes Series

Dryden, John:
Poems
Du Maurier, Daphne:
George Trilby
Dumas, Alexandre:
The Three Musketeers
Eggleston, Edward
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Eliot, George:
Silas Marner;
Adam Bede;
Mill on the Floss

Eliot, T. S.:
Complete Poems and Plays 1909-50
Epictetus:
Enchiridion;
Discourses

Euclid:
The Elements
Euripides:
Medea;
The Trojan Women;
The Bacchae;
Hippolytus

Eusebius of Caesarea
History of the Church
Fabre, Henri:
The Life of the Fly;
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles;
The Sacred Beetle

Farrand, Max:
The Framing of the Constitution
Faulkner, William:
The Bear;
Intruder in the Dust

Fielding, Henry:
Tom Jones;
Jonathan Wilde

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave:
Madame Bovary
Frankl, Viktor:
Man's Search for Meaning
Franklin, Benjamin:
The Autobiography
Frost, Robert:
Poetry
Gilbreth, Frank & Ernestine:
Cheaper by the Dozen;
Belles on Their Toes

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von:
Faust
Golding, William:
Lord of the Flies

Grant, Ulysses Simpson:
Personal Memoirs
St. Gregory of Tours:
History of the Franks
Haggard, H. Rider:
King Solomon's Mines
Hakluyt, Richard:
Voyages to the New World
Hale, E. E.:
The Man Without a Country
Hamilton, Alexander; Madison, James; & Jay, John:
The Federalist Papers
Hardy, Thomas:
The Complete Poems;
The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hawkins, Anthony Hope:
The Prisoner of Zenda
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
The Scarlet Letter;
Twice-Told Tales;
The House of the Seven Gables

Hemingway, Ernest:
The Old Man and the Sea
Hills Like White Elephants

Herodotus:
The Histories
Heyerdahl, Thor:
Kon-Tiki;
The Ra Expeditions

Homer:
The Iliad;
The Odyssey

Hopkins, Gerard Manley:
Poems and Prose
Hudson, W. H.:
The Purple Land;
Green Mansions

Hughes, Thomas:
Tom Brown's School Days;
Tom Brown at Oxford

Hugo, Victor:
Quatre-Vingt-Treize;
Les Miserables;
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Huxley, Aldous:
Brave New World
Ibañez, Blasco:
Blood and Sand;
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Ibsen, Henrik:
An Enemy of the People
Irving, Washington:
Life of Columbus;
Conquest of Granada;
Life of Washington

Jackson, Helen Hunt:
Ramona
James, Henry:
The American;
The Ambassadors;
Portrait of a Lady

Johnson, Samuel:
Rasselas;
Poems

John Paul II, Pope:
The Place Within;
The Jeweller's Shop;
Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Johnson, Paul:
Modern Times
Joinville, Jean de:
Life of St. Louis IX
Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Keats, John:
Poems
Lewis, C. S.:
Out of the Silent Planet;
Perelandra;
That Hideous Strength;

The Screwtape Letters;
The Great Divorce;
Mere Christianity;
Miracles;
Till We Have Faces;
The Abolition of Man

Lindbergh, Charles A.:
The Spirit of St. Louis
London, Jack:
The Call of the Wild;
The Sea Wolf;
White Fang

Loti, Pierre:
Iceland Fisherman
Manzoni, Alessandro:
The Betrothed
Meehan, Dr. Bernard:
The Book of Durrow
Melville, Herman:
Moby Dick;
Billy Budd

Milton, John:
Paradise Lost;
Paradise Regained

Moliere, Jean B.:
The Misanthrope
Montaigne, Michel de:
Essays
Montgomery, Lucy:
Anne of Green Gables
Moore, Tom:
Lalla Rookh
Morris, William:
News from Nowhere
Nagai, Takashi:
The Bells of Nagasaki
O'Connor, Flannery:
The Complete Stories;
Three

Orwell, George:
1984;
Animal Farm;
Burmese Days

Orezy:
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Ovid:
Metamorphoses
Paine, Thomas:
Common Sense
Park, Mungo:
Travels in Africa
Parkman, Francis:
Oregon Trail
Plato:
Ion;
Euthyphro;
Apology;
Crito;
Phaedrus;
Phaedo;
Republic

Plautus
Prisoners;
Menaechmi

Plutarch
Parallel Lives (Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans)
Poe, Edgar Allan:
Tales and Poems
Polo, Marco:
Travels
Pope, Alexander:
Poems
Pound, Ezra:
Selected Poems;
Selected Cantos;
ABC of Reading

Pushkin, Alexander:
Prose Tales
Rawicz, Slavomir:
The Long Walk
Reade, Charles
The Cloister and the Hearth
Scott, Robert:
Scott's Last Expedition
Scott, Sir Walter:
Ivanhoe;
Rob Roy;
The Antiquary

Shakespeare, William:
King Lear;
Othello;
Hamlet;
The Taming of the Shrew;
Macbeth;
The Merchant of Venice,
Julius Caesar;
As You Like It;
Romeo and Juliet;
Richard II;
I Henry IV,
II Henry IV;
Henry V;
The Tempest;
Sonnets

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft:
Frankenstein
Smith, Adam:
The Wealth of Nations
Sophocles:
The Theban Tragedies;
Philoctetes

Southwell, St. Robert:
Poems
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton:
How I Found Livingston
Stendahl:
The Red and the Black;
The Charter House at Parma

Swift, Jonathan:
Gulliver's Travels
Tacitus:
The Annals of Imperial Rome;
Agricola;
Germania;
The Histories

Tennyson, Alfred Lord:
Poems
Thackeray, William Makepeace:
Vanity Fair;
Henry Esmond

Thompson, Francis:
Hound of Heaven
Thucydides:
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thurber, James:
My World - And Welcome to It
Tocqueville, Alexis de:
Democracy in America
Tolkein, J. R. R.:
The Hobbit;
The Lord of the Rings

Tolstoy, Leo:
War and Peace;
The Death of Ivan Ilyich;
Anna Karenina;
Father Sergius;
The Kreutzer Sonata

Trollope, Anthony:
Barchester Series
Turgenev, Ivan:
Fathers and Sons;
A Nest of Gentlefolk

Twain, Mark:
Tom Sawyer;
Huckleberry Finn;
The Prince and the Pauper;
Joan of Arc

Undset, Sigrid:
Kristin Lavransdatter
Vallery-Radot, Rene:
The Life of Pasteur
Van Doren, Carl:
Benjamin Franklin
Verga, Giovanni:
The House by the Medlar Tree
Verne, Jules:
Around the World in 80 Days;
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Virgil:
The Aeneid;
The Georgics

Wallace, Edgar:
Four Just Men;
Sanders of the River

Washington, Booker T.:
Up From Slavery
Wells, H. G.:
The Time Machine;
The Invisible Man

White, T. H.:
The Once and Future King
Williams, Charles:
All Hallows's Eve;
Descent into Hell
Many Dimensions;
The Greater Trumps;
War in Heaven;
Shadows of Ecstasy;
The Place of the Lion

Wister, Owen:
The Virginian
Wodehouse, P. G.:
The Jeeves Series
Wordsworth, William:
Poetical Works
Xenophon:
Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)
Yeats, William Butler:
Collected Poems