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Additional Reading List for Students

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URPOSE: The works listed below have been selected in accordance with the Academys mission statement
and may be recommended to a student for independent or individual reading. They are not assigned as part
of the regular coursework or summer reading lists at Hillsdale Academy.
PLEASE NOTE: The editions used at the Academy are selected with reliability, availability, and cost in mind. In most
cases, other editions could easily be substituted with due care taken to avoid revisions, adaptations or tendentious
introductions and commentary. Instructors should not consider this a comprehensive list.
Out-of-print books can be located through a number of Web sites (e.g. www.addall.com, www.abebooks.com, www.
booknder.com, www.bibliond.com, www.alibris.com, www.fetchbook.info, www.booklook.com, www.ebay.com).
Kempis, Thomas. The Imitation of Christ. London: Penguin, 1952.
Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles van Doren. How to Read a Book. Carmichael, CA: Touchstone, 1972.
Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persians. Translated by Philip Vellacott. New
York: Viking, 1961.
Aldred, Cyril. The Egyptians. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Allen, W.B., ed. George Washington: A Collection. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1988.
Athanasius. On the Incarnation. Translated and edited by Sister Penelope Lawson. New York: MacMillan, 1981.
Augustine. City of God. Translated by Henry Bettenson. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Aurelius, Marcus. The Emperors Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations. Translated by David Hicks and
C. Scot Hicks. New York: Scribner, 2002.
Bennett, William J. The Book of Virtues. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
------. Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems and Speeches. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1997.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966.
Bradley, Gerard V. A Students Guide to the Study of Law. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2004.
Bradford, M.E. Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution, 2nd ed. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1994.
Brookhiser, Richard, ed. Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Celebration of Love. New York: St. Martins Press, 1986.
Cather, Willa. My ntonia. New York: Mariner Books, 1995.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
Chesterton, Gilbert K. Orthodoxy. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
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Cicero. The Republic and The Laws. Translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Columbus, Christopher. The Four Voyages. Translated and edited by J.M. Cohen. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. New York: Penguin, 1989.
Cook, Roy Jay, ed. One Hundred and One Famous Poems. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. New York: Penguin, 1994.
Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Davies, W.V. Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
De-la-Noy, Michael. Scott of the Antarctic. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997.
Dickens, Charles. David Coppereld. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies. New York: Library of America, 1994.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. New York: Gramercy, 2002.
Eliot, George. Silas Marner. New York: Bantam Books, 1981.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, 2nd ed. New York: Vintage, 1995.
Eusebius. The History of the Church. Translated by G.A. Williamson. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Frohnen, Bruce. The American Republic: Primary Sources. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2002.
Fry, T., ed. Benedict: The Rule of St. Benedict. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. New York: Penguin, 2003.
Gummere, Richard M. The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition: Essays in Comparative Culture.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Harrison, G.B., ed. A Book of English Poetry. New York: Penguin, 1988. (out of print)
Henrie, Mark C. A Students Guide to the Core Curriculum. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000.
Heyne, Paul. A Students Guide to Economics. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000.
Hollingdale, Stuart. Makers of Mathematics. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, revised ed. New York: Harper Perennial,
1992.
Josephus. The Jewish War. Translated by G.A. Williamson. New York: Viking Press, 1984.
Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Kirk, Russell. Roots of American Order. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1974.
Kremer, Gary R., ed. George Washington Carver in His Own Words. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
Lewis, C.S. The Abolition of Man. San Francisco, CA: Harper, 2001.
Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. New York: Mentor, 1964.
Lukacs, John. A Students Guide to the Study of History. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000.
Manseld, Harvey C. A Students Guide to Political Philosophy. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001.
McClay, Wilfred M. A Students Guide to U. S. History. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000.
McDonald, Forrest. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd and Other Stories. New York: Penguin, 1989.
------. Moby Dick. New York: Penguin, 1994.
Murphy, Edward F. Heroes of WWII. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Novak, Michael. On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding. San Francisco, CA:
Encounter Books, 2001.
Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail. New York: Signet Classic, 1978.
Pascal, Blaise. Penses. New York: Penguin, 1995.
Plutarch. Nine Lives. Translated and edited by Ian-Scott Kilvert. New York: Viking Press, 1965.
Ravitch, Diane. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.
Richard, Carl J. The Founders and the Classics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
-----. Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littleeld, 2003.
Robinson, Daniel N. A Students Guide to Psychology. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002.
Saggs, H.W.F. The Greatness That Was Babylon. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1988.
Schall, James V. A Students Guide to Liberal Learning. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000.
Simpson, William K. The Literature of Ancient Egypt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
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Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Sowell, Thomas. Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, 2nd ed. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Spalding, Matthew. The Founders Almanac. Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 2002.
Story, Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States. Lake Bluff, IL: Regnery Gateway, 1986.
Swift, Jonathan. Gullivers Travels. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2001.
Thornton, Bruce S. A Students Guide to Classics. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Harvey C. Manseld and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, annotated ed. New York: Houghton Mifin, 2002.
------. The Lord of the Rings, 2nd ed. New York: Houghton Mifin, 1974.
Twain, Mark. Mississippi Writings: Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn and Puddnhead Wilson.
New York: Library of America, 1982.
Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter. New York: Knopf, 1951.
Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York: Viking Press, 1938.
Walker, C.B.F. Cuneiform. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Werfel, Franz. The Song of Bernadette. New York: St. Martins Press, 1970.
West, Thomas G. Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littleeld, 1997.
Wolfram, Gary. Towards a Free Society: An Introduction to Markets and the Political System, 3rd ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing, 2000.
Xenophon. The Persian Expedition. Translated by Rex Warner. New York: Viking Press, 1970.
Young, R.V. A Students Guide to Literature. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000.