Books Read for Omnibus
The Omnibus Classroom follows a four year cycle, and students in 9th through 12th grade attend class together
Omnibus I
LITERATURE:
Genesis
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
Till We Have Faces, by CS Lewis
The Odyssey, by Homer
Theban Trilogy, by Sophocles
The Bacchae and Other Plays, by Euripides
Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
Augustus Caesar’s World, by Genevieve Foster
The Aeneid, by Virgil
The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff
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HISTORY:
Exploring World History - Part 1: Creation Through the Middle Ages, by Ray Notgrass
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Exploring World History - Part 2: The Renaissance to the Present, by Ray Notgrass
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DOCTRINE & THEOLOGY:
The Magician’s Nephew, by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by Lewis
The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis
The Unaborted Socrates, by Peter Kreeft
Chosen by God, by R.C. Sproul
Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
Omnibus II
LITERATURE:
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf, Translated by Seamus Heaney
King Arthur and His Knights, by Roger Green
Idylls of the King, by Tennyson
The Inferno, by Dante
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Henry V, by William Shakespeare
Richard III, by William Shakespeare
The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers
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HISTORY:
On the Incarnation, by St. Athanasius
The Creeds
Confessions, by St. Augustine
The Rule of St. Benedict
The Song of Roland
The Dragon and the Raven, by G.A. Henty
Winning His Spurs, by G.A. Henty
Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle
Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings
The Poetry of George Herbert
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DOCTRINE & THEOLOGY:
Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith, by Wayne Grudem
Omnibus III
LITERATURE:
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Killer Angles, by Michael Shaara
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea, by Earnest Hemingway
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HISTORY:
Exploring America - Part 1: Columbus Through Reconstruction, by Ray Notgrass
Exploring America - Part 2: Late 1800s Through Present, by Ray Notgrass
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DOCTRINE & THEOLOGY:
Bible Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem
Foxes's Book of Martyrs
The Westminster Confession
Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
Christianity and Liberalism, by J. G. Machen
How Should We Then Live?, by Francis Schaeffer
The Epistles of John
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Omnibus IV
LITERATURE:
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Emma, by Jane Austen
Self Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, by R.L. Stevenson
Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
All Quiet on the Western Front, by E. Remarque
Notes from the Underground, by F. Dostoyevsky
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HISTORY:
Exploring Government, by Ray Notgrass
Exploring Economics, by Ray Notgrass
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DOCTRINE & THEOLOGY:
The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength, by C.S. Lewis
Desiring God, by John Piper
Knowing God, by J.I. Packer
Art and the Bible, by Francis Schaeffer
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by M.L. King Jr.
Ecclesiastes