Here is the freshman year one reading list from Thomas Aquinas College (a legitimate, but very expensive liberal arts college based on The Great Books) with convenient links to online, audiobook/MP3, and print editions (cheap & nice) of the texts, as available.
You can use this as the basis of a DIY liberal arts degree, for interest/entertainment, or to profitably occupy your commuting/walking/working time with quality audio book MP3 content from the greatest minds that ever lived.
| Category | Author | Title | Online | Audio Book | Print-Cheap | Print-Nice | Notes |
| Theology | The Holy Bible | ||||||
| Philosophy | Plato | Meno | http:/ | https: | http: | ||
| Philosophy | Plato | Protagoras | http:/ | https: | |||
| Philosophy | Plato | Gorgias | http:/ | https: | |||
| Philosophy | Plato | Apology | http:/ | https: | |||
| Philosophy | Plato | Crito | http:/ | https: | |||
| Philosophy | Plato | Phaedo | http:/ | https: | http:/ | http: | |
| Philosophy | Porphyry | On the Predicaments (Isagoge) | |||||
| Philosophy | Aristotle | Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics | |||||
| Philosophy | St. Thomas Aquinas | Proemium to the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics | http:/ | ||||
| Natural Science | Aristotle | Parts of Animals | https: | https: | |||
| Natural Science | DeKoninck | The Lifeless World of Biology | http:/ | ||||
| Natural Science | Fabre | Souvenirs Entomologiques | https: | https: | Book link is a | ||
| Natural Science | Galen | On the Natural Faculties | https: | ||||
| Natural Science | Harvey | On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals | http:/ | ||||
| Natural Science | Linnaeus | Systema Naturae | https: | ||||
| Natural Science | Pascal | On the Equilibrium of Liquids | https: | ||||
| Natural Science | Archimedes | On Floating Bodies | https: | ||||
| Natural Science | Mendel | Plant Hybridization | https: | https: | |||
| Natural Science | Various Authors | Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et alia | |||||
| Natural Science | Measurements Manual | ||||||
| Mathematics | Euclid | Elements | http:/ | ||||
| Language | A Primer in Latin Morphology According to the “Stem Method” | ||||||
| Latin Readings According to the “Stem Method” | |||||||
| Language | Nesfield | Aids to the Study and Composition of English | |||||
| Seminar | Homer | Iliad | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Homer | Odyssey | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Plato | Ion | http:/ | https: | |||
| Seminar | Plato | Symposium | http:/ | https: | |||
| Seminar | Plato | Republic | http:/ | https: | http:/ | http: | |
| Seminar | Aeschylus | Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides | |||||
| Seminar | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone | |||||
| Seminar | Herodotus | Histories | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Plutarch | Lives – Lycurgus | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Plutarch | Lives – Pericles | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Plutarch | Lives – Aristides | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Plutarch | Lives – Alcibiades | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Plutarch | Lives – Alexander | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Aristotle | Poetics | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Aristotle | Rhetoric | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Euripides | Hippolytus | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Aristophanes | The Birds | http:/ | ||||
| Seminar | Aristophanes | The Clouds | http:/ |