The Daniel Leadership Institute Library
and Three -year Reading Program
In support of the Learning goal which is to grow in wisdom, knowledge and freedom by
cultivating the habits of reading, study and reflection
Reading Guide
(1) Daily Bible Reading
(2) Major books to be read on a one per month basis:
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman; ISBN 0140094385
Jesus the Teacher: Examining His Expertise in Education, by H.H. Horne; ISBN 0825428599
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis; ISBN 0060652934
Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis; ISBN 0060652942
The Making of America by Dr. W. Cleon Skousen; ISBN 0880800178
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer; ISBN 0060608528
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville; ISBN 0451528123
The Call by Os Guiness; ISBN 0849944376
Escape from Reason by Francis Schaeffer; ISBN 0-87784-538-7
Church History In Plain Language (2nd Edition) by Bruce L Shelly; ISBN 0849938619
Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Benjamin Franklin; ISBN 0743255062
Pensées by Blaise Pascal; ISBN 0140446451
Confessions of St Augustine by St. Augustine; ISBN 0800787242
Plutarch's Lives (Volume I) by Plutarch; ISBN 0375756760
Plutarch's Lives (Volume II) by Plutarch; ISBN 0375756779
Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan; ISBN 0883680963
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis; ISBN 00-0652926
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston; ISBN 0872201562
Plato’s Five Dialogues, translated by Grube; ISBN 0915145227
The Law by Frederic Bastiat; ISBN 1599869756
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie; ISBN 0-671-72365-0
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster; ISBN 0-06-062839-1
Universe Next Door (4th Edition) by James Sire; ISBN 0-8308-2780-3
Dedication of Leadership by Douglas Hyde; ISBN 0268000735
Four Centuries of American Education by David Barton; ISBN 1932225323
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; ISBN 0060929871
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt ; ISBN-10: 0226320553
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek; ISBN-10: 0517548232
Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey ISBN-10: 1433502208
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(3) Trinity Collection: Read one per month
Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man by Elton Trueblood
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Celestial Rail-Road by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Confessions of a Wandering Soul by Alonzo L. McDonald
The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How Much Land Does A Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
Jesus: A Layman’s Primer by Alonzo L. McDonald
Joy Cometh in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lessons from History by Will & Ariel Durant
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On Friendship by Cicero
One Word of Truth: A Portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by David Aikman
Painting As a Pastime by Winston S. Churchill
Poor Man’s Earl by John Pollock
The Purchase of a Soul by Victor Hugo
Reflections on the Millennium by Alonzo L. McDonald
Revelation by Flannery O’Connor
Surprised by Goodness by Philip Hallie
Shantung Compound by Langdon Gilkey
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
Two Old Men by Leo Tolstoy
Telling Truth to Kings by Reinhold Schneider
A Time to Stand: Letters of Courage, Hope, and Faith by Helmuth James von Moltke
To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Liberty by Paul F. Boller
The Wager by Blaise Pascal
The White Mare by Michael McLaverty
A World Split Apart by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times by John Pollock
(4) Little Books: Short Readings
New England Primer published by WallBuilder Press; ISBN 0-925279-17-X
Tyranny of the Urgent by Charles Hummel; ISBN 0830865926
Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence; ISBN 0-88368-105-6
My Heart Christ’s Home by Robert Boyd Munger
The Small Catechism by Martin Luther; ISBN 080661076X
Born to Reproduce by Dawson Trotman; ISBN 9900732219
Student's Guide to Liberal Learning by James Schall; ISBN 9781882926534
How to Have a Quiet Time by Warren & Ruth Myers; ISBN 891095683
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