College Bound Reading Lists

Visit your local library, bookstore, or online book dealer to locate and enjoy these titles.
The Bible (any version)Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.Cervantes, Miguel. Don QuixoteTwain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn and/or Tom Sawyer.Lewis, C. S. The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe and/or The Magicians Newphew. [Chronicles of Narnia series], and Mere Christianity.Tocqueville, Alex de. Democracy in America.Chesterton, G.K. Orthodoxy.Townsend, Robert. Up the organization.Plato. The Republic.Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings.Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.Hughes, Langston. Any poetry selections.Anon. Beowulf at < http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/beowulf/bl-beowulf-all.htm>Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.Wesley, John. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection at http://wesley.nnu.edu/John_Wesley/plain_account/index.htmMerton, Tom. Seven Story Mountain.Edwards, Jonathan. A Sinner in the hands of an angry God at <http://edwards.yale.edu/images/pdf/sinners.pdf>Khayyam, Omar. The Ribaiyat.Arterburn, Stephen. Every Young Man’s Struggle.Jenkins, Phillip. The Next Christendo and/or Silence.Endo, Shusako. Life of Jesus.Schaeffer, Francis. How then should we live?Richardson, Don. Eternity in our hearts.Oden, Thomas. Re-birth of orthodoxy.Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales.Shakespeare, William. Any selections at < http://shakespeare.mit.edu>Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings.Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations.U.S. Gov. Declaration of Independence.U.S. Govt. The Constitution.Packer, J.I. Knowing God.McGrath, Alistair. In the beginning.Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Cost of discipleship.Luther, Martin. Bondage of the Will.Augustine, Saint. Confessions and/or City of God.Hurnard, Hannah. Hinds feet in high places.Tozer, . Knowledge of the holy.Murray, Andrew. Humility.Fowler, James. Stages of faith.Yancy, Philip. What’s so amazing about Grace? and/or Where is God When it Hurts?Dayton, Donald. Theological roots of Pentecostalism.Wilson, Sandra. Hurt people, hurt people and/or The high Cost of Holiness.Keller, Philip. A shepherd’s look at the 23rd psalm.Colson, Chuck. Loving God.Kennedy, James. What they believed.Eliot, Elizabeth. Through gates of splendor.Hurston, Zorah Neale. Their eyes were watching God.