Foundational Literature for the Modern Student
Available for 2027–2028

Omnibus VI, designed for grades 10 and up and for students who have completed Omnibus III, is the capstone course of the Omnibus curriculum. This course explores modern U.S. and British history through the lens of the greatest works of Western Civilization. Students are challenged with more advanced texts and engage deeply with ideas, developing higher-level critical thinking, analysis, and rhetorical skills. Secondary readings supplement the primary works, adding variety, depth, and perspective to the study.

Through Omnibus VI, students refine their composition, rhetoric, and analytical skills while cultivating wisdom, discernment, and a thoughtful approach to truth, beauty, and goodness. Daily readings, assignments, and discussion-based activities provide an intellectually rigorous yet enjoyable experience, helping students synthesize historical, literary, and philosophical insights through a Biblical worldview.

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Booklist Highlights – The Modern World (Omnibus VI)

Students engage with a selection of the following works (alongside Bible readings and other short selections):

• Paradise Lost (Milton)
• Leviathan (Hobbes, selections)
• Pensées (Pascal, selections)
• The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Kramnick, ed.)
• Emma (Austen)
• Hamlet (Shakespeare)
• Common Sense (Paine)
• Foundational American Documents
• Self-Reliance (Emerson)
• Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
• American and French Revolutions (von Gentz)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
• The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
• Lee: The Last Years (Flood)
• Moby-Dick (Melville)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
• Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
• The Guns of August (Tuchman)
• Christianity and Liberalism (Machen)
• Perelandra (Lewis)
• Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)
• That Hideous Strength (Lewis)
• Day of Infamy (Lord)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail (King)
• The Poetry of T.S. Eliot (selections)
• The Elements of Style, 4th edition (Strunk & White)

*This represents the list from which readings are selected and the relative order in which they are presented. Bible books and some short selections are not listed. An official booklist will be provided to registered students.