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Apollonius – On Conic Sections
Apuleius – The Metamorphoses
d’Aquilers – History of the Franks Who Journeyed to Jerusalem
St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles, Disputed Questions on Truth, Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima
Aristotle – De Anima, Categories, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Interpretation, Poetics, Politics
Aristophanes – Acharnians, The Frogs, Lysistrata, Peace
St. Athanasius – On the Councils, On the Incarnation
St. Augustine – Against the Academicians, City of God, Confessions, On Free Choice of the Will, On the Teacher, On the Trinity
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Averroes – The Decisive Treatise Determining the Relation between Religion and Philosophy
Bacon – Novum Organum
Beckett – Waiting for Godot
St. Benedict – The Rule of St. Benedict
Beowulf
The Bible
Boethius – The Consolation of Philosophy
Bossuet – Discourse on Universal History
Calvin – Institutes of Religion
Calderon de la Barca – La Vida es Sueño
Cervantes – Don Quixote
Chateaubriand – The Genius of Christianity
Chesterton – Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man
St. Bernard of Clairvaux – The Steps of Humility
St. Clement of Rome – Letter to the Corinthians
Cicero – De Officiis, The Dream of Scipio
The Code of Justinian
Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Collingwood – The Idea of History
Confucius – Analects
Conrad – Lord Jim
Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
Dante – Divine Comedy, Letter to Can Grande
Darwin – On the Origin of the Species
Descartes – Discourse on Method, Meditations
Deor
Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Idiot
The Dream of the Rood
Einhart of Fulda – Life of Charlemagne
Einstein – Relativity
Eliot – The Cocktail Party, The Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, The Waste Land
Euclid – The Elements
Euripides – Medea, The Bacchae
Eusebius – Church History
Faulkner – Light in August
Feurerbach – The Old Faith and the New
Minucius Felix – Octavius
Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Flaubert – Madame Bovary
St. Francis de Sales – Introduction to the Devout Life
Galileo – Dialogue on the Great World Systems
Gibbon – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilson – The Unity of Philosophical Experience, Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Guardini – The Spirit of the Liturgy
Hamilton, Jay, and Madison – The Federalist Papers
Hegel – Philosophy of History
Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon
Herbert – De Religione Gentilium
Herodotus – The Histories
Hobbes – Leviathan
Hesiod – Theogony
Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
Hume – A Treatise on Human Nature, Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion, Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Husserl – Logical Investigations
Huygens – Treatise on Light
St. Ignatius of Antioch – The Seven Letters
St. Ignatius of Loyala – Spiritual Exercises
St. Irenaeus – The Refutation of Knowledge Falsely-So-Called
James – The Wings of the Dove
St. John of Damascus – On Images, On the Orthodox Faith
John Paul II – The Acting Person, Love and Responsibility, Veritatis Splendor, Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Josephus – The Jewish Wars
Joyce – Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
St. Justin Martyr – Dialogue with Trypho the Jew
Kant – Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, A Critique of Practical Judgment, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
St. Thomas á Kempis – The Imitation of Christ
Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
Locke – Second Treatise on Civil Government
Letters of Heloise and Abelard
Lewis – Till We Have Faces, The Abolition of Man
Luther – On the Bondage of the Will
Machiavelli – The Prince
Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur
Marcel – The Mystery of Being
Marlowe – Dr. Faustus
Maritain – Christianity and Democracy, Man and the State, Introduction to Philosophy
St. Maximus the Confessor – On Charity
Melville – Moby Dick
Milton – Paradise Lost
Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws
Moore – Principia Ethica
St. Thomas More – Dialogue of Comfort, Utopia
Newman – Apologia Pro Vita Sua, The Idea of A University, Lectures on Justification, Letters, On Consulting the Faithful, Sermons
Nichomachus – Arithmetic
Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
Newton – The Mathematical Principles of Nature‘
Occam – Quodlibetal Questions
Origen – On Prayer
Pascal – Pensées
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Pico della Mirandola – Oration on the Dignity of Man
Pieper – Leisure the Basis of Culture
Plato – Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Laws, Meno, Phaedo, Protagoras, Republic, Symposium
Polybius – Universal History
Pugin – Contrasts
Rousseau – Social Contracts, Emile
The Rule of St. Augustine
Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Song of Roland
Shaw – Saint Joan
Sophocles – Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus
Blessed Henry Suso – The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Tolkien – Letters
Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Unamuno – The Tragic Sense of Life
Virgil – The Aeneid
von Hildebrand – Ethics, What is Philosophy
