GRADES 9 – 12 READING LIST à Kempis, Thomas Imitation of Christ Alcott, Louisa May Little Women series Armstrong, John Five Great Evangelists Athanasius On the Incarnation of the Word Augustine Confessions The City of God Austen, Jane Emma Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Baker, C.D. A Journey of Souls Blackmore, Richard D. Lorna Doone Bloom, Allan The Closing of the American Mind Bowen, Marjorie The Governor of England The Soldier of Virginia The William and Mary Trilogy series

Bunyan, John The Holy War The Pilgrim’s Progress Burke, Edmund Reflections on the Revolution in France Burnett, Frances Hodgson A Little Princess Burnham, James Suicide of the West Cather, Willa My Antonia O Pioneers! Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Don Quixote Chambers, Whittaker Witness Chesterton, G.K. Father Brown mysteries series Churchill, Robert K. Lest We Forget Clark, Gordon H. Christian View of Men and Things Colson, Charles W. Born Again Loving God

Bradford, M.E. A Better Guide Than Reason A Worthy Company

Cooper, James Fenimore The Leatherstocking Tales series The Pilot The Red Rover The Spy

Bradford, William Of Plymouth Plantation

Coulanges, Fustel de The Ancient City

Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre Villette

Crane, Stephen Red Badge of Courage

Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights

D’Aubigne, J.H. Merle Oliver Cromwell, the Protector

Buchan, John The Thirty-Nine Steps

Dabney, Robert, L. The Life and Campaigns of Lieutenant General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson

Buckley, William F., Jr. God and Man at Yale

Dana, Richard Henry Two Years Before the Mast

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GRADES 9 – 12 READING LIST Davidheiser, Bolton Evolution and Christian Faith

Hackett, John Winthrop I Was a Stranger

De Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy in America

Harrison, Frank The Life and Letters of John Bunyan

Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Tanglewood Tales

Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Great Expectations Martin Chuzzelwitt Nicholas Nickleby Oliver Twist

Hayek, F.A. The Road to Serfdom

Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers Eliot, George Adam Bede Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Elliot, Elisabeth Passion and Purity Quest for Love Through Gates of Splendor Ellis, Edward The Life of Kit Carson Evans, Augusta Jane St. Elmo Finley, Martha Elsie Dinsmore series Mildred Keith series Freeman, Douglas Southall Robert E. Lee: A Biography Washington: A Biography Gerstner, Edna Idelette Jonathan and Sarah: An Uncommon Union Song by the River

Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea Henty, G.A. A Knight of the White Cross A Tale of the Western Plains Beric the Briton Bonnie Prince Charlie By Pike and Dyke By England’s Aid By Right of Conquest Facing Death For the Temple In the Heart of the Rockies In the Reign of Terror St. Bartholomew’s Eve St. George for England The Cat of Bubastes The Dash for Khartoum The Dragon and the Raven The Lion of St. Mark The Lion of the North The Tiger of Mysore The Young Carthaginian True to the Old Flag Under Drake’s Flag Winning His Spurs With Lee in Virginia With Wolfe in Canada Won by the Sword Wulf the Saxon Heyerdahl, Thor Kon–Tiki Hilton, James Good–bye Mr. Chips

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Hope, Anthony The Prisoner of Zenda

Guinness, Os The Gravedigger File

Horne, C. Silvester David Livingstone: Man of Prayer and Action

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GRADES 9 – 12 READING LIST Houghton, S.M., ed. Five Pioneer Missionaries Howie, John The Scots Worthies Hugo, Victor Les Misérables Hulse, Erroll A Marvelous Ministry Hunt, John The Conquest of Everest Ingram, T. Robert The World Under God’s Law Irving, Washington The Sketch Book Johnson, Phillip E. Darwin on Trial Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education Johnson, William George Washington, the Christian Robert E. Lee, the Christian

London, Jack Call of the Wild Sea Wolf White Fang Luther, Martin The Bondage of the Will Machen, J. Gresham Christianity and Liberalism Marshall, Catherine Christy Marshall, Peter From Sea to Shining Sea Sounding Forth the Trumpet The Light and the Glory Meroff, Deborah Coronation of Glory Milton, John Paradise Lost Montgomery, Lucy M. Anne of Green Gables series Morris, Henry The Remarkable Record of Job The Twilight of Evolution

Jones, J. William Christ in the Camp The Life and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Murray, Iain Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography

Kingsley, Charles Hypatia

Nordoff, Charles Mutiny on the Bounty series

Kirk, Russell The Conservative Mind The Roots of American Order

Oke, Janette Love Comes Softly series

Kuyper, Abraham Christianity: A Total World and Life System

Olasky, Marvin The Tragedy of American Compassion

Lansing, Alfred Endurance

Optic, Oliver The Blue and the Gray series The Lake Shore series

Lawhead, Stephen Byzantium

Orczy, Emmuska The Scarlet Pimpernel

Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity The Great Divorce The Screwtape Letters The Space Trilogy series

Orwell, George Animal Farm

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Packer, J.I. Knowing God

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GRADES 9 – 12 READING LIST Parkman, Francis The Conspiracy of Pontiac The Oregon Trail Phillips, John B. Your God Is Too Small Pink, Arthur The Sovereignty of God Prentiss, Elizabeth Stepping Heavenward Rawlings, Marjorie K. The Yearling Rhodes, Robert Hunt All for the Union Rian, Edwin H. The Presbyterian Conflict Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac Rushdoony, Rousas John The Foundations of Social Order The Mythology of Science Sabatini, Rafael Captain Blood Scaramouche Sea Hawk Schaeffer, Francis A. A Christian Manifesto Escape from Reason How Should We Then Live? The God Who Is There The Great Evangelical Disaster Schlossberg, Herbert Idols for Destruction Scott, Otto The Secret Six Scott, Sir Walter The Waverly series Shaara, Jeff Gods and Generals The Last Full Measure Shaara, Michael Killer Angels

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Shakespeare, William All plays Sheldon, Charles In His Steps Smith, Adam The Wealth of Nations Solzhenitsyn, Alexander The Gulag Archipelago series Sproul, R.C. The Holiness of God Stonehouse, Ned J. Gresham Machen Stubbs, Denise A Burning and Shining Light Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels Thackeray, William M. Vanity Fair Thoene, Bodie Zion Chronicles series Tolkein, J.R.R. The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings series Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace Tuchman, Barbara The Guns of August Twain, Mark Life on the Mississippi Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Pudd’nhead Wilson The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Van Halsema, Thea This Was John Calvin Van Til, Cornelius The Defense of the Faith Wallace, Lew Ben Hur Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery

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GRADES 9 – 12 READING LIST Weaver, Richard M. Ideas Have Consequences Whitcomb, John C. Early Earth The Moon: Its Creation, Form, and Significance The World That Perished Wilder, Thornton Our Town The Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilkins, J. Stephen Call of Duty Woiwode, Larry Acts Wyss, Johann D. The Swiss Family Robinson York, Alvin Sergeant York and the Great War

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