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- 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
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- 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
