Athos Rex

Sapere Aude, Plus Ultra

Dare to Know, Further Beyond

Suggested Readings & Free PDFs

This is not a definitive list and is always open to expansion. More subjects and literature will be added in due time.

Note: Ideally, many of the listed literary pieces will be accompanied by a link that allows access to them for free. Of course, if the books are more modern in origin, or more profitable, it will be harder to find these links. We humbly apologize for any inconvenience.

Anthropology

History

Philosophy

Theology

English Literature

  • Beowulf – Unknown Poet
  • Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Mallory
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Unknown Poet
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • Paradise Lost – John Milton
  • Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  • Clarissa Harlowe – Samuel Richardson
  • Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelley
  • King Solomon’s Mines

Scottish & Irish Literature

  • The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
  • Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • Ulysses – James Joyce

French Literature

  • The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  • The Entirety of the D’Artagnan Cycle – Alexandre Dumas (We strongly suggest the Lawrence Ellsworth translations.)
  • The Black Tulip – Alexandre Dumas
  • From Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
  • Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
  • The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
  • Les Misérables – VIctor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  • Candide – Voltaire
  • Don Juan – Moliere
  • Tartuffe – Moliere
  • The Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire

American Literature

  • A Divine and Supernatural Light – Jonathan Edwards
  • Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One – Benjamin Franklin
  • Common Sense – Thomas Paine
  • Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram – Red Jacket
  • Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving
  • To a Waterfowl – William Cullen Bryant
  • The Pioneers – James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
  • An American Slave – Frederick Douglass
  • Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Civil Disobedience – Henry Thoreau
  • Walden – Henry Thoreau
  • Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  • The Ambassadors – Henry James
  • The New Colossus – Emma Lazarus
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham – William Dean Howells
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge – Ambrose Bierce
  • We Wear the Mask – Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • The Waste Land – T.S. Elliot
  • Spring and All – William Carlos Williams
  • Mending Wall – Robert Frost
  • The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
  • Thirteen Way of Looking at a Blackbird – Wallace Stevens
  • Poetry – Marianne Moore
  • Anyone who lived on a pretty how town – e.e. cummings
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemmingway
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Light in August – William Faulkner
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • The Boy Who Was Almost a Man – Richard Wright
  • Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
  • Finding the Mother Tree – Suzanne Simard

Spanish Literature

  • La Galatea – Miguel de Cervantes
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha – Miguel de Cervantes
  • La Regenta – Leopoldo Alas

Russian Literature

  • A Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  • The Captain’s Daughter – Alexander Pushkin
  • Dubrovsky – Alexander Pushkin
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Three Hermits – Leo Tolstoy
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ivanov – Anton Chekhov