Though subject to minor changes year-to-year, the following texts are typical for a standard Center year. (Additional texts of interest to individual students can be added and studied during one-on-one tutorial time.) The Center also informs all incoming students on what specific editions and versions to buy so that every one is (literally) on the same page.

Fall Semester

Lewis, Abolition of Man

https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Man-C-S-Lewis/dp/B00HTK25Y8/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=abolition+of+man&qid=1593545710&sr=8-5

Homer, Odyssey - Fagles translation.

https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Homer/dp/0140268863/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=odyssey%2C+fagles&qid=1593545647&sr=8-2

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

https://www.amazon.com/Oedipus-Rex-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486268772/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=oedipus+the+king&qid=1593545917&sr=8-13

Plato Republic

https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Penguin-Classics-Plato/dp/0140455116/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1YLNQNCBMMD0E&dchild=1&keywords=plato+republic+penguin+classics&qid=1593637754&sprefix=plato+republic%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-4

Aristotle Ethics

https://www.amazon.com/Nicomachean-Ethics-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199213615/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=ethics+aristotle&qid=1593546178&s=books&sr=1-7

Stark Rise of Christianity

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Christianity-Marginal-Religious-Centuries/dp/0060677015/ref=sr_1_2?crid=MRP5BCBEKPND&dchild=1&keywords=stark+rise+of+christianity&qid=1593546375&s=books&sprefix=Stark+rise+of+%2Cstripbooks%2C166&sr=1-2

Augustine Confessions

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-Augustine/dp/0199537828/ref=sr_1_2?crid=155CB8LCC3MJL&dchild=1&keywords=augustine+confessions&qid=1593546401&s=books&sprefix=augustine+conf%2Cstripbooks%2C165&sr=1-2

Bonaventure Mind’s Journey

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Mind-God-Hackett-Classics/dp/0872202003/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21F9436NOTGSF&dchild=1&keywords=bonaventure+journey+of+the+mind+to+god&qid=1593546673&s=books&sprefix=bonaventure+mind%27s+%2Cstripbooks%2C163&sr=1-1

Dante Inferno, Esolen Translation

https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Divine-Comedy-Dante/dp/0812970063/ref=sr_1_14?crid=DJ3MI58EFJLH&dchild=1&keywords=dantes+inferno&qid=1593546788&s=books&sprefix=dante%2Cstripbooks%2C171&sr=1-14

Spring Semester

Shakespeare (any editions)

King Lear

Hamlet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Spenser Fairy Queene (Book 1)

https://www.amazon.com/Faerie-Queene-Book-Hackett-Classics/dp/0872208079/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=fairy+queene&qid=1593546917&s=books&sr=1-10

Rousseau Social Contract

https://www.amazon.com/Social-Contract-Dover-Thrift-Editions-ebook/dp/B00A62Y3DC/ref=sr_1_19?crid=1L0ADB893TURB&dchild=1&keywords=rousseau+social+contract&qid=1593637836&s=books&sprefix=rousseau+so%2Caps%2C166&sr=1-19

Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France

https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Revolution-France-Editions-2006-02-10/dp/B01NH08IGY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=burke+reflections+on+the+revolution+in+france+dover&qid=1593692429&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr

Marx Communist Manifesto

https://www.amazon.com/Communist-Manifesto-Chiron-Academic-Press-ebook/dp/B01BK936SC/ref=sr_1_12?crid=RA48W59IP2RD&dchild=1&keywords=marx+communist+manifesto&qid=1593547170&s=books&sprefix=marx+%2Cstripbooks%2C174&sr=1-12

Bastiat The Law

https://www.amazon.com/Law-Frederic-Bastiat/dp/1614270570/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=bastiat+the+law&qid=1593547393&s=books&sr=1-3

BT Washington Up From Slavery

https://www.amazon.com/Up-Slavery-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486287386/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=up+from+slavery&qid=1593547536&s=books&sr=1-4

Conrad Heart of Darkness

https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Darkness-Joseph-Conrad-dp-1945644346/dp/1945644346/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593548278

O’Connor Short Stories

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-FSG-Classics/dp/0374515360/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1AKCKTN1TKIX&dchild=1&keywords=flannery+o%27connor+the+complete+stories&qid=1593548437&s=books&sprefix=flannery%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-2

Eliot poems: Wasteland and Four Quartets

https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-1909-1962-Faber-Poetry/dp/0571105483/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593548663&sr=1-5

Postmodern theory/poems - TBA

Lewis Four Loves

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Loves-C-S-Lewis/dp/0062565397/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=lewis+four+loves&qid=1593548716&s=books&sr=1-2

And on discussion days, I would like to have a special ongoing session for key books:

Kirk Roots of American Order

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1882926994/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&sprefix=kirk+roots%2Cstripbooks%2C199&crid=UHMKXT0TP075&keywords=russell+kirk+the+roots+of+american+order&qid=1593548791&sr=1-2&dchild=1

Weaver Ideas Have Consequences (offers diagnosis of Western decline)

https://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Have-Consequences-Richard-Weaver/dp/022609006X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=weaver+ideas+have&qid=1593548832&s=books&sr=1-1

Chesterton Orthodoxy

https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-G-K-Chesterton/dp/1515241394/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2JBL4KQG74HSK&dchild=1&keywords=chesterton+orthodoxy&qid=1593548923&s=books&sprefix=chesterton+%2Cstripbooks%2C180&sr=1-4

Fleming Arts and Ideas, 9th edition

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0155011049/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

And we will have various articles and chapters for our Thursday discussions as well.