Reading ๐Ÿ“š

Always learning, always reading.

About

I'm a classical education kid โ€” four years at Atlanta Classical Academy means I've read everything from Homer to Hamlet, Plato to Flannery O'Connor. 60+ books and counting, plus primary sources, the Bible, and more. Reading shaped how I think about everything.

The ACA Reading List

Every book I read at Atlanta Classical Academy:

The Scarlet Letter • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • Song of Myself • Julius Caesar • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies • Confessions of Saint Augustine • The Trial and Death of Socrates • Tales of Ancient Egypt • Two Lives of Charlemagne • To Kill a Mockingbird • Mendelssohn on the Roof • Twelfth Night • Hamlet • Their Eyes Were Watching God • The Sea-Wolf • The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor • The Remains of the Day • Self-Reliance and Other Essays • The Wind in the Willows • Infinite Powers • The Bridge of San Luis Rey • Man's Search for Meaning • The Prince and the Pauper • Paradise Lost • Tom Sawyer • The Call of the Wild • The Awakening • Winesburg, Ohio • The Canterbury Tales • Homer (Iliad & Odyssey) • The Giver • Don Quixote • The Secret Garden • Animal Farm • All Quiet on the Western Front • The Worldly Philosophers • The Fall • Economics in One Lesson • Lord of the Flies • The Scarlet Pimpernel • Frankenstein • The Great Gatsby • Old Yeller • The Hobbit • Cyrano de Bergerac • The Comedy of Errors • Much Ado About Nothing • Pride and Prejudice • Plutarch's Greek Lives • Plutarch's Roman Lives • Realms of Gold • Bad Days in History • All the King's Men • Brave New World • The Abolition of Man • Ancient Greece (Thomas R. Martin) • Sophocles • A Short History of the United States • A Midsummer Night's Dream • American Heritage (Hillsdale Reader) • The Aeneid • Nicomachean Ethics • The Republic of Plato • Early History of Rome • Jews, God, and History • Democracy in America • On Bullshit

Beyond the Classroom

Plus the entire Harry Potter series, most of the How to Train Your Dragon books, the Bible, and a stack of primary source documents. Reading never stops.