Acton, The History of Freedom

John Adams, “Thoughts on Government”

Aquinas, “On Kingship”

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle, Politics

Aristotle, Rhetoric

Augustine, The City of God

Aurelius, Meditations

Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Bacon, Novum Organum

Bastiat, The Law

Bastiat, “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen”

Benson, “The Proper Role of Government”

The Bible [click here for an itemized list of stories from the Bible]

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Bronte, Jane Eyre

Carson, The American Tradition

Capra, The Tao of Physics

Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Churchill, Collected Speeches

Cicero, The Republic and The Laws

Clausewitz, On War

Confucius, The Analects

Constitution of the United States

Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Dante, The Divine Comedy

The Declaration of Independence

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Descartes, A Discourse on the Method

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens, Great Expectations

Douglas, Magnificent Obsession

Durant, The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)

Einstein, Relativity

Emerson, Essays

Euclid, Elements

Frank, Alas, Babylon

Franklin, Letters and Writings

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Galileo, Two New Sciences

Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Goethe, Faust

Hobbes, Leviathan

Homer, The Iliad

Homer, The Odyssey

Hugo, Les Miserables

Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Jefferson, Letters, Speeches and Writings

Keegan, A History of Warfare

Kepler, Epitome

Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speeches

Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry

Lewis, Mere Christianity

Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Lincoln, Great Speeches

Locke, Second Treatise Of Government

Machiavelli, The Prince

Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers

Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto

More, Utopia

The Magna Charta

Mill, On Liberty

Milton, Paradise Regained

Mises, Human Action

The Monroe Doctrine

Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

Newton, Mathematical Principles

Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Northwest Ordinance

Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Plato, Complete Works

Polybius, The Histories

Potok, The Chosen

Plutarch, Lives

Ptolemy, Almagest

Shakespeare, Complete Works

Skousen, The 5000 Year Leap

Skousen, The Majesty of God’s Law

Skousen, The Making of America

Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Solzhenitsyn, “A World Split Apart”

Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Sophocles, The Oedipus Trilogy

Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Thoreau, Walden

Tolstoy, War And Peace

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Washington, Letters, Speeches and Writings

Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress

Wister, The Virginian