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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