Reading List

The following books are included in the MCA curriculum. The curriculum is subject to constant review and revision. Many works are read only in part.

Curriculum by level/grade:

Level I – 7th Grade
Level II – 8th Grade
Level III – 9th Grade
Level IV – 10th Grade
Level V – 11th Grade
Level VI – 12th Grade

Level I – 7th Grade

The Bible

The Pentateuch

Howard Hendricks

Living by the Book

Short Stories and Poetry by:

Nathanial Hawthorne
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Aesop
Rudyard Kipling
James Thurber
F. Scott Fitzgerald
C.S. Lewis
Flanery O’Conner
Shakespeare

Compositions by

Bach
Vivaldi
Handel

Text and Reference

Transitional Math
The Ancient World
Quantum Learning
Pathways in Science
The Gift of Music

Level II – 8th Grade

The Bible

The Old Testament

Homer

The Iliad
The Odyssey

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone

Aeschylus

The Oresteia

Plato

Gorgias
Euphyphro
The Republic

Aristotle

Poetica

Clement of Alexandria

Exhortation to the Greeks
Beowolf

Herodotus

The Histories

Thucydides

The Peloponnesian War

Plutarch

The Lives of the Nobel Grecians and Romans

Text and Reference

Logic
Advanced Logic
Greece & Rome
Latin & Greek Roots
Algebra

Level III – 9th Grade

The Bible

The New Testament

Aristotle

Physics
Metaphysics
De Anima Nichomachean Ethics
Parts of Animals
On the Soul

Virgil

The Aeneid

Cicero

Selected Works

Darwin

The Origin of the Species

Bacon

Causes of Error

Athanasius

On the Incarnation

Augustine

Confessions
City of God

Anselm

Proslogium
Monologium
Cur Deus Homo

Shakespeare

Selected Plays

Josephus

Antiquities of the Jews

Erasmus

On Free Will

Luther

The Bondage of the Will
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

Tacitus

The Annals of Imperial Rome

Suetonius

The Twelve Caesars

Behe

Darwin's Black Box

Harvey

Anatomical Disquisition

Text and Reference

Biology
Beginning Greek
Advanced Algebra
The Medieval World

Level IV – 10th Grade

The Bible

Selections

Aquinas

Summa Theologica

Dante

Inferno

Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Spenser

Faerie Queene

Calvin

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Donne

Selected Poems

Shakespeare

Hamlet

Milton

Paradise Lost

Marx

The Communist Manifesto

Machiavelli

The Prince

Napoleon

Selected Portions

Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Columbus

The Four Voyages

Knox

History of the Reformation in Scotland

Locke

Two Treatises of Government

Schaeffer

How Should We Then Live?

Hobbes

Leviathan

Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Bunyan

Pilgrim’s Progress

St John

Selected portions (Koine Greek)

Essays by:

Archimedes
D. Bernoulli
Faraday
Maxwell
Ampere

Text and Reference

Conceptual Physics
Plane Trigonometry
Beginning Greek

Level V – 11th Grade

The Bible

The New Testament
Selections
(Koine Greek)

More

Utopia

Montaigne

Essays

Swift

Gulliver’s Travels

Pascal

Pensees

[Cicero]

Ad Herenium

Cicero

De Oratore
Rhetorica as Herennium
De Inventione

Aristotle

On Rhetoric

Euclid

The Elements

Plato

Meno
Ion
Gorgias
Phaedrus

Goethe

Faust

Quintilian

Institutio Oratoria

Kant

Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, Foundations to the Metaphysics of Morals

Rousseau

The Social Contract

Dickens

Great Expectations

Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

Hume

Treatise on Human Nature

Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Robert Fritz

Creating

Wilde

The Ideal Husband

Byron

Selected Poems

Millikan

The Electron

Lavoisier

Elements of Chemistry

Lobachevski

Theory of Parallels

Essays by:

Fahrenheit
Avogadro
J.J. Thompson
Mendeleyev

Compositions by:

Mozart
Beethoven
Bach
Handel
Copeland
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky
Wagner
Brahms

Text and Reference

Chemistry

Level VI – 12th Grade

The Bible

Selections

Aristotle

Physics

Adam Smith

Wealth of Nations

Founding Fathers

Declaration of Independence
The Constitution

Hamilton, Jay and Madison

The Federalist Papers

Tocqueville

Democracy in America

Lincoln

Selected Speeches

Martin Luther King

March on Washington Address

Twain

Selected Writings

Melville

Moby Dick

T. S. Eliot

Selected Poems

C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity

Shelley

Frankenstein

Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Ptolemy

Almagest

Churchill

Selected Works

Copernicus

On the Revolutions of the Spheres

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

Pascal

Pensees

Einstein

Selected works

Galileo

Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems

Newton

Principia
Mathematica

Descartes

Geometry

Pascal

Generation of Conic Sections

Euclid

The Elements

Text and Reference

Statistics