Reading Lists

Aeschylus

Aesop

Aquinas

Augustine

Jane Austen

Natalie Babbitt

Beowulf

Wendell Berry

Michael Bond

Bradbury

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cather

Chaucer

Carlo Collodi

D'Aulaire

Dante

Tomie dePaola

de Tocqueville

Dickens

Dostoyevsky

Douglass

Du Bois

Emerson

Euripides

Exodus

Fitzgerald

Genesis

Gospel of John

Kenneth Grahame

Hawthorne

Hemingway

Herodotus

James Herriot

Homer

Norton Juster

Ezra Jack Keats

Keller

King Jr.

Lee

Letter to the Romans

C. S. Lewis

Arnold Lobel

London

George MacDonald

Patricia MacLachlan

Robert McCloskey

A. A. Milne

E. Nesbit

O'Connor

Plato

Plutarch

Beatrix Potter

Wilson Rawls

H. A. Rey

Shakespeare

Sophocles

Johanna Spyri

R. L. Stevenson

Thoreau

Tolkien

Ivan Turgenev

Twain

Virgil

Booker T. Washington

E. B. White

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Margery Williams

Aeschylus ⋅ Aesop ⋅ Aquinas ⋅ Augustine ⋅ Jane Austen ⋅ Natalie Babbitt ⋅ Beowulf ⋅ Wendell Berry ⋅ Michael Bond ⋅ Bradbury ⋅ Frances Hodgson Burnett ⋅ Cather ⋅ Chaucer ⋅ Carlo Collodi ⋅ D'Aulaire ⋅ Dante ⋅ Tomie dePaola ⋅ de Tocqueville ⋅ Dickens ⋅ Dostoyevsky ⋅ Douglass ⋅ Du Bois ⋅ Emerson ⋅ Euripides ⋅ Exodus ⋅ Fitzgerald ⋅ Genesis ⋅ Gospel of John ⋅ Kenneth Grahame ⋅ Hawthorne ⋅ Hemingway ⋅ Herodotus ⋅ James Herriot ⋅ Homer ⋅ Norton Juster ⋅ Ezra Jack Keats ⋅ Keller ⋅ King Jr. ⋅ Lee ⋅ Letter to the Romans ⋅ C. S. Lewis ⋅ Arnold Lobel ⋅ London ⋅ George MacDonald ⋅ Patricia MacLachlan ⋅ ⋅ Robert McCloskey ⋅ A. A. Milne ⋅ E. Nesbit ⋅ O'Connor ⋅ Plato ⋅ Plutarch ⋅ Beatrix Potter ⋅ Wilson Rawls ⋅ H. A. Rey ⋅ Shakespeare ⋅ Sophocles ⋅ Johanna Spyri ⋅ R. L. Stevenson ⋅ Thoreau ⋅ Tolkien ⋅ Ivan Turgenev ⋅ Twain ⋅ Virgil ⋅ Booker T. Washington ⋅ E. B. White ⋅ Laura Ingalls Wilder ⋅ Margery Williams ⋅

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Grades 6-12

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– C.S. Lewis 

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Valor Reading Lists: Joining the Great Conversation

The Great Conversation

Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins, co-founders of the Great Books Foundation, spoke frequently of the "great conversation," viewing the classic texts and authors of the tradition as being in dialogue with one another, taking part in an ongoing conversation about some of the most important human questions:

What constitutes happiness?
What is the nature of justice?
What does it mean to be a good citizen?
How should one live?

Adler and Hutchins strongly believed that a truly democratic education should make the study of the Great Books a part of every student’s experience. Valor believes with Adler that “there are no unteachable children” and that “all children deserve the same quality of education, not just the same quantity.” Valor is passionate about providing students of all backgrounds and abilities access to the riches of the classical heritage and the ideas it has generated.

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