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Cambridge Lists - Supplementary Reading Lists

This page contains lists of optional reading for Cambridge students. The following is optional but recommended reading for Cambridge students:

[ Literature ] [ Apologetics ] [ Theology ]
[ Philosophy ] [ History ] [ Miscellaneous ]

Literature

• Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Ernest Hemingway

• A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway

• Light in August, William Faulkner

• The Bear, William Faulkner

• Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor

• Love of Life, Jack London

• 1984, George Orwell

• The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

• The Stranger, Albert Camus

• The Fall, Albert Camus

• The Guest, Albert Camus

• The Trial, Franz Kafka

• The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

• Two Years Before the Mast, R. H. Dana

• Billy Budd, Herman Melville

• Bartelby the Scrivener, Herman Melville

• Emma, Jane Austen

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

• Paradise Lost, John Milton

• The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Aeneid, Virgil

• The Iliad, Homer

• The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis

• On Moral Fiction, John Gardner

• Living by Fiction, Annie Dillard

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Apologetics

• How Should We Then Live?, Francis Schaeffer

• Postmodern Times, Gene Veith

• Discipleship of the Mind, James Sire

• Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen

• Always Ready, Greg Bahnsen

• Van Til’s Apologetic, Greg Bahnsen

• Van Til and the Use of Evidence, Thom Notaro

• A Christian Theory of Knowledge, Cornelius Van Til

• Christian Apologetics, Cornelius Van Til 

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Theology

• Putting the Amazing Back into Grace, Michael Horton

• In the Face of God, Michael Horton

• The Biblical View of Self Esteem, Jay Adams

• A Heart for God, Sinclair Ferguson

• Grow in Grace, Sinclair Ferguson

• Pundit’s Folly, Sinclair Ferguson

• Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis

• Christian Counter-Culture, John Stott

• Involvement: Being a Responsible Christian in a Non-Christian Society, John Stott

• Tell the Truth, Will Metzger

• God Centered Evangelism, R. B. Kuiper

• The Plan of Salvation, B. B. Warfield

• Living in Christ’s Church, Edmund Clowney

• The Glorious Body of Christ, R. B. Kuiper

• The History of Christian Doctrine, Louis Berkhof

• The Confession of Faith, A. A. Hodge

• Introduction to the Science of Missions, J. H. Bavinck

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Philosophy

• The Republic, Plato

• Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle

• Candide, Francois Voltaire

• Pensees, Blaise Pascal

• Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard

• Pragmatism, William James

• Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre

• Consequences of Pragmatism, Richard Rorty

• The One and the Many, R. J. Rushdoony

• Thales to Dewey, Gordon Clark

• Christianity and Western Thought, Colin Brown

• A History of Philosophy, Frederick Copelston 

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History

• The Church in History, B. K. Kuiper

• The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon

• The Confessions, St. Augustine

• The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Roland Bainton

• Here I Stand, Roland Bainton

• John Calvin, T. H. L. Parker

• Jonathan Edwards, Iain Murray

• The French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle

• Revival and Revivalism, Iain Murray

• Abraham Kuyper, Frank Vanden Berg

• Defending the Faith, D. G. Hart

• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

• A History of the American People, Paul Johnson

• The Birth of the Modern, Paul Johnson

• War Through the Ages, Lynn Montross

• The Idea of Progress, J. B. Bury

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Miscellaneous

• The Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin

• Darwin’s Black Box, Michael Behe

• The Origins of Modern Science, Herbert Butterfield

• A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

• On War, Karl Von Clausewitz

• The Intellectuals, Paul Johnson

• American Visions, Robert Hughes

• The Gift of Art, Gene Veith, Jr

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neal Postman

• Leisure, the Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper

• Culture Wars, Michael Horton

• How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler

• How to Speak, How to Listen, Mortimer Adler

• Reforming Education, Mortimer Adler

• Foundations of Christian Education, Louis Berkhof and Cornelius Van Til

• Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis

• The Closing of the American MindAllan Bloom

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