Recommended Reading List

* = Strongly recommended

Books on Books and Reading

Invitation to the Classics, Louise Cowan & Os Guinness

A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Childs’s Mind, Michael O’Brien

* How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler

How to Read Slowly, James Sire

* Great Books of the Western World, Mortimer Jerome Adler, Britannica Editors  (we particularly recommend volumes II and III, the Syntopicon)

Harvard Classics

Books on Classical and Christian Education

The Lost Tools of Learning, Dorothy Sayers

* Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Douglas Wilson

The Great Tradition:  Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being, Edited by Richard M. Gamble

 The Case for Classical Education, Douglas Wilson

Repairing the Ruins, Douglas Wilson, editor

The Paideia of God, Douglas Wilson

On Education, John Milton

The Seven Laws of Teaching, John Gregory

On Secular Education, R.L. Dabney

* Classical Education, Gene Veith & Andrew Kern

Norms and Nobility, David Hicks

Building the Christian Academy, Arthur Holmes

Angels in the Architecture, Douglas Wilson

Ideas Have Consequences, Richard M. Weaver

Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, Gene Edward Veith

Foundations of Christian Scholarship, Gary North, Ed.

Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, Victor David Hanson & John Heath

The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition, E. Christian Kopff

* From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 Years of Western Cultural Life, Jacques Barzun

Under the Influence: How Christianity Transformed Civilization, Alvin Schmidt

* Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey

Family and Child Rearing

* Future Men, Douglas Wilson

* Ending the Homework Hassle, John Rosemond

Additional Books

The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis

On Christian Doctrine, Augustine

Why Johnny Can’t Read, Rudolph Flesch

State of the Arts, Gene Edward Veith

Reading Between the Lines, Gene Edward Veith

Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

The End of Education, Neil Postman

All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes, Ken Meyers

The Universe Next Door, James Sire

The Consequences of Ideas, R.C. Sproul

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark A. Noll