Classics and Christian writers, in the order of history. Read the Bible beside each era.

Links go to free scans of old, public-domain editions on Archive.org. Each page has a PDF download (under "Download Options"). "Borrow free" links go to newer books. You borrow them with a free Archive.org account, and they have no PDF.

Used AI to make this list, can't guarantee every book. I plan on reading many of these first.

Ancient Greece

• Homer — The Iliad and The Odyssey — free scans (Butler's prose): Iliad, Odyssey *
• Hesiod — Works and Days — free scan (Loeb, Evelyn-White, 1914)
• Sophocles — Antigone, Oedipus the King — free scan (Loeb, Storr, vol. 1, 1916; has both plays) *
• Herodotus — Histories (the Persian Wars) — free scans (Loeb, Godley, 1921): vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 *
• Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (start with Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book 2) — free scan (Crawley, 1914) *
• Plato — Apology, Crito, Phaedo (the trial and death of Socrates) — free scan (Church, The Trial and Death of Socrates, 1895)
• Plato — Meno, Republic — free scans (Jowett): Meno (in vol. 2 of the Dialogues, 1892), Republic (1888)
• Xenophon — Oeconomicus (how to run a home and a farm), Memorabilia, Anabasis — free scans: Oeconomicus (Wedderburn, The Economist of Xenophon, 1876), Memorabilia and Anabasis (Watson, 1875)
• Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics, Politics (Book 1 is about the household), Poetics — free scans: Ethics (Peters, 1886), Politics (Jowett, 1905), Poetics (Butcher, 1922)

Rome

• Cicero — On Duties, On Friendship — free scan (Peabody, Ethical Writings of Cicero, 1887; has both)
• Virgil — The Aeneid — free scan (Conington, 1904) *
• Livy — The Early History of Rome (Books 1–5) — free scan (Spillan, vol. 1, 1864; Books 1–8) *
• Seneca — Letters — free scans (Loeb, Gummere, 1917–25): vol. 1, 2, 3
• Josephus — The Jewish War — free scans (Loeb, Thackeray, 1927–28): Books 1–3, Books 4–7 *
• Tacitus — Agricola — free scan (Church and Brodribb, 1885; also has the Germania)
• Plutarch — Lives (start with Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Alexander, Caesar) — free scans (Loeb, Perrin, 1914–19): vol. 1 (Lycurgus, Solon), vol. 3 (Pericles), vol. 7 (Alexander, Caesar) *
• Marcus Aurelius — Meditations — free scan (Long, 1910)

The Early Church

• The Didache — free scan (Loeb, Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, 1912)
• The Letters of Ignatius, The Martyrdom of Polycarp — free scans (Loeb, Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, 1912–13): Ignatius (vol. 1, with the Didache), Martyrdom of Polycarp (vol. 2).
• Justin Martyr — First Apology — free scan (Roberts and Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, 1885)
• Eusebius — Church History — free scan (McGiffert, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 1, 1890).
• Athanasius — On the Incarnation (with C. S. Lewis's preface) — free scan (Robertson, 1891; an older translation, without Lewis's preface)
• Augustine — Confessions; City of God (selections) — free scans: Confessions (Pusey, Harvard Classics, 1909; also has The Imitation of Christ), City of God (Dods, 1871–72): vol. 1 (Books 1–13), 2 (Books 14–22) *
• Boethius — The Consolation of Philosophy — free scan (James, 1897)
• Benedict — The Rule — free scan (Hunter Blair, 1906; Latin and English)

The Middle Ages

• Patrick — Confession (c. 450; short, and good for younger students too) — free scan (Wright, The Writings of Saint Patrick, 1894)
• Gregory the Great — The Book of Pastoral Care (c. 590) — free scan (Barmby, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 12, 1895)
• Gregory of Tours — A History of the Franks (c. 594) — free scan (Brehaut, 1916; selections) *
• Beowulf — free scan (Tinker, 1905; prose) *
• Bede — Ecclesiastical History of the English People — free scan (Sellar, 1912)
• Einhard — Life of Charlemagne — free scan (Grant, Early Lives of Charlemagne, 1907; also has the Monk of St. Gall's stories of Charlemagne)
• Asser — Life of King Alfred (893). The Penguin edition by Keynes and Lapidge adds Alfred's own writings and parts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — free scan (Cook, 1906; Asser only)
• Anselm — Proslogion, Why God Became Man — free scan (Deane, 1910; has both)
• The Song of Roland — free scan (Butler, 1904; prose) *
• Fulcher of Chartres and others — The First Crusade (ed. Edward Peters; the eyewitness chronicles) — free scan (Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants, 1921; an older collection of the same chronicles) *
• Bernard of Clairvaux — On Loving God — free scan (Patmore, Saint Bernard on the Love of God, 1884)
• Anna Komnene — The Alexiad (the First Crusade as seen from Constantinople, by a Byzantine princess) — free scan (Dawes, 1928) *
• Magna Carta (1215) — free scan (McKechnie, 1914; the text, a translation, and a commentary on each chapter)
• Thomas Aquinas — Summa (selections; try Peter Kreeft's A Summa of the Summa) — free scan (English Dominican Fathers, vol. 1, 1912; Part 1, Questions 1–26, on God)
• James I of Aragon — The Book of Deeds (13th century; the king's own story of the Reconquista, and his conquest of Majorca and Valencia) — free scans (Forster, The Chronicle of James I, King of Aragon, 1883): vol. 1, 2 *
• Villehardouin and Joinville — Chronicles of the Crusades (the Fourth Crusade, and the life of Saint Louis) — free scan (Marzials, Memoirs of the Crusades, 1908) *
• Marco Polo — The Travels — free scan (Marsden, Everyman's Library, 1908)
• Dante — The Divine Comedy — free scan (Longfellow, 1867; all three parts in one volume). **
• John Wycliffe — On the Truth of Holy Scripture (1378)
• Jean Froissart — Chronicles (the Hundred Years' War; selections) — free scan (Berners, ed. Macaulay, 1899; one volume of selections) *
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (try Tolkien's translation) — free scan (Weston, 1907; retold in prose)
• Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales (selections) — free scans: modern English (Tatlock and MacKaye, 1912), retold for children (Darton, Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 1908) *
• Jan Hus — The Church (1413; David Schaff's 1915 translation is in the public domain) — free scan (Schaff, 1915)
• Thomas à Kempis — The Imitation of Christ — free scan (Harvard Classics, 1909; the same book as Augustine's Confessions above)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc (1431; the court record) — free scan (Murray, Jeanne d'Arc, 1902; the records of her trial and retrial) *
• Thomas Malory — Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) — free scan (Strachey, 1897; Caxton's text in modern spelling) *
• Everyman (a short morality play, c. 1500) — free scan (Rhys, Everyman's Library, 1909; with other early plays)

Knighthood and Chivalry

Read these beside The Song of Roland, Gawain, Joinville, Froissart, and Malory above, and Spenser's Faerie Queene below.

• John of Salisbury — Policraticus, Books 4–6 (1159; the duties of princes and knights) — free scan (Dickinson, The Statesman's Book of John of Salisbury, 1927)
• Ramon Llull — The Book of the Order of Chivalry (c. 1275; a short handbook on what a knight is for) — free scan (Caxton's English translation, ed. Byles, 1926; old spelling)
• Geoffroy de la Tour Landry — The Book of the Knight of the Tower (1371; a knight's lessons for his daughters) — free scan (ed. Wright, 1868; old spelling) *
• Kenelm Digby — The Broad Stone of Honour (1822; chivalry as a rule of life for Christian gentlemen) — free scan (1823)
• Léon Gautier — Chivalry (1884; has his "Ten Commandments of Chivalry") — free scan (Frith, 1891)

Reformation and After

• Erasmus — The Praise of Folly (1511) — free scan (John Wilson's 1668 translation, ed. Allen, Oxford, 1913)
• Machiavelli — The Prince (1513) — free scan (Harvard Classics vol. 36, 1910; the same book has More and Luther)
• Thomas More — Utopia — free scan (Harvard Classics vol. 36, 1910; the same book as The Prince)
• Martin Luther — The Ninety-Five Theses (1517), The Freedom of a Christian (1520) — free scan (Harvard Classics vol. 36, 1910; Freedom is titled "Concerning Christian Liberty")
• Erasmus and Luther — On Free Will (1524) and The Bondage of the Will (1525). Read them as a debate; for older students — Luther: free scan (Cole's translation, 1823). I found no free English translation of Erasmus's half
• William Tyndale — The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) — free scan (Doctrinal Treatises, Parker Society, 1848; the Obedience starts on p. 127)
• Martin Luther — The Small Catechism (1529) — free scan (a literal translation, 1872; 22 pages)
• John Calvin — Reply to Sadoleto (1539; short and readable) — free scan (Beveridge, Tracts, vol. 1, 1844; the first tract in the book)
• John Calvin — Institutes (selections) — free scans (Beveridge, 1845–46): vol. 1, 2, 3
• Council of Trent — Decree on Justification (1547; the Roman Catholic answer to the Reformers) — free scan (Waterworth, 1848; Session VI)
• Thomas Cranmer — The Book of Common Prayer (1549; the 1662 edition is the classic) — free scan (the Church of England's 1662 book, Collins, Glasgow, 1900)
• The Heidelberg Catechism (1563) — free scan (German and English, London, 1900)
• John Foxe — Book of Martyrs (1563; use an abridged edition) — free scan (Forbush's abridged edition, 1926) *
• John Knox — The History of the Reformation in Scotland — free scan (modernized by Lennox, 1905; also has Knox's Confession and the Book of Discipline) *
• Edmund Spenser — The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (1590) — free scan (ed. Percival, with notes, 1899)
• Shakespeare — Julius Caesar, Henry V — free scans (Rolfe's school editions): Julius Caesar (1898), Henry V (1905) *
• The King James Bible translators — "The Translators to the Reader" (1611; their preface) — free scan (a pamphlet printing, London, 1852)
• William Bradford — Of Plymouth Plantation — free scan (ed. Davis, 1908) *
• John Winthrop — "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) — free scan (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, vol. 7, 1838; near the start of the book)
• George Herbert — The Temple (1633; poems) — free scan (ed. Waller, 1902; also has A Priest to the Temple)
• Samuel Rutherford — Lex, Rex (1644) — free scan (Edinburgh, 1843)
• The Westminster Confession of Faith and Shorter Catechism (1646–47) — free scan (Edinburgh, 1874; also has the Larger Catechism, with Scripture proofs)
• Milton — Areopagitica (1644), Paradise Lost (1667) — free scans: Areopagitica (ed. Hales, Oxford, 1894), Paradise Lost (ed. Verity, Cambridge, 1910) *
• Richard Baxter — The Saints' Everlasting Rest, A Call to the Unconverted, The Reformed Pastor — free scans: Saints' Everlasting Rest (London, 1907), Call to the Unconverted (1842), Reformed Pastor (abridged by Brown, 1850)
• Pascal — Pensées — free scan (Trotter's translation, Harvard Classics vol. 48, 1910)
• John Bunyan — Grace Abounding (1666), The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) — free scan (ed. Brown, Cambridge, 1907; has both)
• Francis Turretin — Institutes of Elenctic Theology (selections; Princeton Seminary taught theology from it until the 1870s) — free scan (only his chapters on the atonement, tr. Willson, 1859; the rest has no free English translation)
• Thomas Watson — A Body of Divinity (1692; sermons on the Shorter Catechism) — free scan (Glasgow, 1859)

The Founding of America

• Jonathan Edwards — "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) and other sermons of the Great Awakening — free scan (Gardiner, Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards, 1904)
• John Dickinson — Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767–68) — free scan (ed. Halsey, 1903)
• Edmund Burke — Speech on Conciliation with America (1775; a British statesman pleads for the colonies) — free scan (ed. Newsom, 1918)
• Thomas Paine — Common Sense (1776) — free scan (a first printing, Philadelphia, 1776)
• John Witherspoon — "The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men" (1776; a sermon by the only minister who signed the Declaration) — free scan (a 1776 printing)
• The Declaration of Independence (1776), the Articles of Confederation (1777), the Constitution (1787) — free scan (American Historical Documents, Harvard Classics, 1910)
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur — Letters from an American Farmer (1782; "What Is an American?") — free scan (ed. Trent, 1904) *
• Thomas Jefferson — Notes on the State of Virginia (1785; Query 19 praises the farmer) — free scan (London, 1787)
• Hamilton, Madison, and Jay — The Federalist (1787–88; start with Nos. 1, 10, and 51) — free scan (1901)
• The Anti-Federalists — the "Federal Farmer," "Cato," and "Agrippa" letters (1787–88; the case against the Constitution) — free scans (ed. Ford): Federal Farmer (in Pamphlets on the Constitution, 1888), Cato and Agrippa (in Essays on the Constitution, 1892)
• Benjamin Franklin — Autobiography — free scan (Harvard Classics, 1909; also has John Woolman's Journal and William Penn's Fruits of Solitude)
• George Washington — Farewell Address (1796) — free scan (American Historical Documents, Harvard Classics, 1910; the same book as the Declaration)
• Alexis de Tocqueville — Democracy in America (1835–40; the young republic seen by a French visitor) — free scans (Reeve, 1899): vol. 1, 2
• M. E. Bradford — A Worthy Company (1982; short lives of the men who wrote the Constitution) — borrow free (Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982)
• Russell Kirk — The Roots of American Order (1974; from Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and London to Philadelphia)

The British Aristocracy

• Thomas Elyot — The Book Named the Governor (1531; how to raise a boy to govern) — free scan (Everyman's Library, 1907)
• Henry Peacham — The Complete Gentleman (1622) — free scan (the 1634 text, ed. Gordon, 1906)
• Lucy Hutchinson — Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (written in the 1660s; a Puritan gentleman in the Civil War, by his wife) — free scan (ed. Firth, 1906)
• Lord Chesterfield — Letters to His Son (1774; selections, for older students: his manners are better than his morals) — free scan (selections, 1900)
• Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790; his defense of inherited rank and the "age of chivalry") — free scan (ed. Sampson, c. 1900)
• Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice (1813), Persuasion (1817) — free scans: Pride and Prejudice (with Hugh Thomson's pictures, 1894), Persuasion (1905)
• William Cobbett — Rural Rides (1830; the countryside and its landlords, seen from the saddle) — free scans (Everyman's Library, 1912): vol. 1, 2
• Benjamin Disraeli — Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845; a novel about what the nobility owes the poor) — free scan (1920)
• Anthony Trollope — Doctor Thorne (1858; a novel of the landed gentry) — free scan (c. 1909)
• Walter Bagehot — The English Constitution (1867; read the chapters on the monarchy and the House of Lords) — free scan (1888)
• Evelyn Waugh — Brideshead Revisited (1945; a Catholic noble family between the wars; for older students) — borrow free (Little, Brown, 1945; 1 hour at a time, and you can renew)
• Mark Girouard — Life in the English Country House (1978) — borrow free (Yale, 1978; 14 days)
• David Cannadine — The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990)

The Nineteenth Century

• Bishop William Meade — Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (1857; the colonial Virginia church and its leading families) — free scans (Lippincott, 1861): vol. 1, 2
• James Henley Thornwell — Discourses on Truth (his ethics lectures at South Carolina College) — free scan (New York: Carter, 1855)
• James Henley Thornwell — Collected Writings (selections): his essays on the church, and his sermons "The Rights and the Duties of Masters" (1850) and "The State of the Country" (1860) — free scans: Collected Writings, vol. 4 (1873; the whole volume is on the church, and the 1850 sermon is on p. 398, titled "The Christian Doctrine of Slavery" here), "The State of the Country" (a pamphlet, Columbia, S.C., 1861)
• Benjamin Morgan Palmer — The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell (1875; read beside Thornwell) — free scan (Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1875)
• Benjamin Morgan Palmer — Thanksgiving Sermon of 1860, "The South: Her Peril and Her Duty" — free scan (New Orleans, 1860; 24 pages)
• Benjamin Morgan Palmer — The Formation of Character (1889; lectures to young people) — free scan (New Orleans, 1889)
• Robert Lewis Dabney — Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson — free scan (New York: Blelock, 1866)
• Robert Lewis Dabney — Systematic Theology (selections) — free scan (Syllabus and Notes of the Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology, St. Louis, 1878)
• Robert Lewis Dabney — A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South (1867) — free scan (New York: Hale, 1867)
• Abram J. Ryan — Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous (1880; the Catholic priest-poet of the Confederacy) — free scan (Baltimore: Piet, an 1884 printing)
• Sidney Lanier — Poems (1884) — free scan (ed. by his wife, with a memorial by Ward; New York: Scribner, 1884)
• J. William Jones — Christ in the Camp, or Religion in Lee's Army (1887; the revivals in Lee's army) — free scan (Richmond: B. F. Johnson, 1887)
• James P. Boyce — Abstract of Systematic Theology (1887; the Southern Baptist counterpart to Dabney) — free scan (Baltimore, 1887)
• Mary Anna Jackson — Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (1892; his widow's life of him, told through his letters; read beside Dabney and Tate) — free scan (New York: Harper, 1892)
• Robert E. Lee Jr. — Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (1904; Lee's faith, and his years as a college president after the war) — free scan (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904)

The Southern Agrarians (1930s)

• Twelve Southerners — I'll Take My Stand (1930). Start with the "Statement of Principles," then Ransom's "Reconstructed but Unregenerate," Lytle's "The Hind Tit," and Tate's "Remarks on the Southern Religion" — free scan (the first edition, 1930)
• Herbert Agar and Allen Tate, eds. — Who Owns America? (1936), the Agrarians beside Belloc and the English distributists (read with Chesterton) — borrow free (Houghton Mifflin, 1936)
• John Crowe Ransom — God Without Thunder (a defense of orthodox faith) — free scan (Harcourt, Brace, 1930)
• Allen Tate — Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier (read beside Dabney's Jackson) — free scan (Minton, Balch, 1928)
• Allen Tate — The Fathers (1938; a novel about an old Virginia family at the start of the war; for older students) — borrow free (Swallow Press reprint) *
• Andrew Lytle — Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company — borrow free (Minton, Balch, 1931) *
• Frank Owsley — Plain Folk of the Old South (the small farmers of the South) — borrow free (Louisiana State University Press, 1949)
• Donald Davidson — The Tennessee (2 vols., a history of the river and its people) — borrow free: vol. 1 (Rinehart, 1946), 2 (1948)
• Robert Penn Warren — All the King's Men (a novel; for older students) — borrow free (1946) *

Modern Writers in the Same Tradition

• G. K. Chesterton — Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man — free scans: Orthodoxy (Bodley Head, 1908), The Everlasting Man (Dodd, Mead, 1925)
• C. S. Lewis — Mere Christianity, The Abolition of Man — borrow free: The Abolition of Man (Macmillan, 1947). Mere Christianity first came out as three short books: The Case for Christianity (1944), Christian Behaviour (Macmillan, 1943), Beyond Personality (Macmillan, 1945)
• Josef Pieper — Leisure: The Basis of Culture — borrow free (Pantheon, 1952)
• Richard Weaver — Ideas Have Consequences, The Southern Tradition at Bay — Ideas Have Consequences: borrow free (1948)
• Wendell Berry — The Unsettling of America; the novels Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter — The Unsettling of America: borrow free (Sierra Club, 1977)

Logic and Rhetoric

• Aristotle — the Organon (start with the Categories, and the Sophistical Refutations on fallacies) — free scans (Owen, 1889–90): vol. 1 (Categories to Prior Analytics), 2 (Posterior Analytics, Topics, Sophistical Refutations)
• Arnauld and Nicole — The Port-Royal Logic (1662; the standard school logic for two centuries) — free scan (Baynes, 1850)
• Isaac Watts — Logic, or The Right Use of Reason (1724; by the hymn writer, and long a standard college text) — free scan (1819)
• Richard Whately — Elements of Logic (1826) — free scan (1859)
• W. Stanley Jevons — Elementary Lessons in Logic (1870; short lessons with exercises) — free scan (1898)
• Lewis Carroll — The Game of Logic (1886; syllogisms as a game, for younger students) — free scan (1887)
• Aristotle — Rhetoric — free scan (Jebb, ed. Sandys, 1909)
• Cicero — On the Orator (55 BC) — free scan (Watson, Cicero on Oratory and Orators, 1875)
• Quintilian — The Education of an Orator (c. 95; read Book 1, on teaching children, and Book 12, on the good man who speaks well) — free scans (Loeb, Butler, 1920–22): vol. 1 (Books 1–3), vol. 4 (Books 10–12)
• Augustine — On Christian Doctrine (Book 4 is about preaching: rhetoric for Christians) — free scan (Shaw, 1873; also has the Enchiridion)
• Longinus — On the Sublime — free scan (Havell, 1890)
• Hugh Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783) — free scan (1847)
• Richard Whately — Elements of Rhetoric (1828) — free scan (1861)
• John A. Broadus — A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870; it taught American preachers for a century; read beside Augustine's Book 4) — free scan (the first edition, 1870)
• Sister Miriam Joseph — The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (1937; a modern guide to all three)

For Younger Readers

• D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
• Padraic Colum — The Children's Homer — free scan (Macmillan, 1918)
• Rosemary Sutcliff — Black Ships Before Troy, The Wanderings of Odysseus — The Wanderings of Odysseus: borrow free (Delacorte, 1996) *
• Marguerite de Angeli — The Door in the Wall (the Middle Ages)
• Howard Pyle — Otto of the Silver Hand, Men of Iron (the Middle Ages) — free scans: Otto of the Silver Hand (Scribner, 1888), Men of Iron (Harper, 1892) *
• Howard Pyle — The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (knighthood) — free scan (Scribner, 1904)
• Sidney Lanier — The Boy's King Arthur, The Boy's Froissart (knighthood) — free scans: The Boy's King Arthur (Scribner, 1880), The Boy's Froissart (Scribner, 1879) *
• G. A. Henty — Winning His Spurs (the Crusades), St. Bartholomew's Eve (the Huguenots), By Pike and Dyke (the Dutch Reformation) — free scans: Winning His Spurs (Sampson Low, 1897), St. Bartholomew's Eve (Blackie, 1890s), By Pike and Dyke (Blackie, about 1889) *
• Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire — George Washington, Benjamin Franklin (the Founding) — borrow free: George Washington (Doubleday, 1936), Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 1950)
• Esther Forbes — Johnny Tremain (the Founding) — borrow free (Houghton Mifflin, 1943)
• Frances Hodgson Burnett — Little Lord Fauntleroy (the British aristocracy) — free scan (Scribner, 1887)
• Richard Hannula — Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History
• Simonetta Carr — Christian Biographies for Young Readers (Calvin, Luther, Knox, and others)
• Susan Wise Bauer — The Story of the World (a history spine)

For the Parent

• Dorothy Sayers — The Lost Tools of Learning (a short essay) — borrow free (CrossReach, 2017; about 50 pages)
• C. S. Lewis — "On the Reading of Old Books" (his preface to On the Incarnation) — borrow free (St. Athanasius on the Incarnation, St. Vladimir's, 1953; the translation Lewis wrote it for)
• Hugh of St. Victor — Didascalicon (c. 1125; a medieval guide to how to study and read) — free scan (Taylor, Columbia University Press, 1961)
• Susan Wise Bauer — The Well-Trained Mind
• Richard Baxter — The Godly Home (his chapters on family life, from A Christian Directory) — free scan (Practical Works, vol. 1, London, 1845; Part 2 of A Christian Directory, "Christian Economics," starts on p. 394)
• Robert Lewis Dabney — On Secular Education (a short essay on who should teach children) — free scan (Discussions, vol. 4, 1897; the essay starts on p. 225, titled "Secularized Education" here)
• Benjamin Morgan Palmer — The Family, in Its Civil and Churchly Aspects (1876; read with Baxter's The Godly Home and Xenophon's Oeconomicus) — free scan (Richmond, 1876)
• Douglas Kelly — Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (1992; short lives of Daniel Baker, Thornwell, Palmer, and Girardeau) — borrow free (Banner of Truth, 1992)

Books marked * may be graphic or crude in places. Read ahead before you assign them.