First Year
| Aeschylus Agememnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides |
Euclid Elements |
Plato Meno, Gorgias, Symposium, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Theaetetus, Republic, Phaedrus |
| Aristophanes Clouds, Birds |
Euripides Hippolytus, Bacchae |
Sappho |
| Aristotle Poetics, Ethics, Politics, Physics, Metaphysics |
Herodotus Histories, selections |
Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus the King |
| Moliere Tartuffe |
Homer Iliad, Odyssey |
Thucydides Peloponnesian Wars, selections |
| Voltaire Candide |
| St. Anselm selections |
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales selections |
New Testament selections |
| St. Thomas Aquinas Principles of Nature, Exposition on Boethius on Trinity, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae |
Dante Divine Comedy |
Old Testament selections |
| Aristotle De Anima, Prior Analytics, Categories, and others |
Epictetus Enchiridion |
Plutarch Lives of Alexander, Caesar |
| St. Augustine Confessions |
Johannes Kepler Epitome of Copernican Astronomy |
Ptolemy Almagest |
| Copernicus On the Motions of Heavenly Bodies |
Lucretius On the Nature of Things |
William Shakespeare selections |
| Apollonius Conics, selections |
Machiavelli The Prince |
Tacitus Annals |
| John Calvin Institutes |
Montaigne Essays selections |
Vergil Aeneid |
| Voltaire Candide |
Moliere Tartuffe |
Third Year
| Jane Austen Emma |
Federalist Papers | Montaigne Apology |
| George Berkeley Three Dialogues |
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews |
Blaise Pascal Pensees |
| Voltaire Candide |
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan |
Racine Phedre |
| William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience |
David Hume Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
Rousseau Discourse on Inequality, Inequity |
| Moliere Tartuffe |
St. John of the Cross Spiritual Canticle |
Adam Smith Wealth of Nations |
| Calderon de la Barca Life is a Dream |
Immanuel Kant Metaphysics of Morals |
Benedict Spinoza Ethics |
| Cervantes Don Quixote |
Leibniz Vindication of God's Justice, Monadology |
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels |
| Rene Descartes Meditations |
John Locke Second Treatise of Civil Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
de Tocqueville Democracy in America |
| Diderot Rameau's Nephew |
John Milton Paradise Lost |
Giovanni Vico New Sciences |
| Sir Isaac Newton Principia Mathematica |
Fourth Year
| Bhagavad Gita | Georg Hegel Philosophy of History |
Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals |
| Jose Luis Borges Labyrinths, selections |
Martin Heidegger Question Concerning Technology |
Plato Phaedrus |
| Emily Dickinson Selected Poems |
William James Psychology |
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace |
| Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov |
James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
Twain Huckleberry Finn |
| Flaubert Madame Bovary |
Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling |
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching |
| Freud On Psychoanalysis |
Marx Capital |
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway A Room of One's Own |
| Goethe Faust |
Voltaire Candide |
Moliere Tartuffe |
| James Baldwin Fire Next Time |
William Faulkner Go Down Moses |