AO_HEO Book List by Author
Years 1 - 11
AO_HEO BOOK LIST BY AUTHOR
Still under consideration
Out of print, not online
* Online
AUTHOR
TITLE
Blake, William
Bolland, Hal
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Coleridge, Samuel
Conkling, Hilda
Costeau, Jacques
Cowper, William
de la Mare, Walter
Dickenson, Emily
Dillard, Annie
Dunbar, John Lawrence
Dunne, John
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Field, Eugene
Frost, Robert
Gouki, Stephen Jay
Keats, William
Kipling, Rudyard
Longfellow, Henry W.
Milton, John
Noyes, Alfred
Pope, Alexander
Riley, James Whitcomb
Rossetti, Christina
Sandburg, Carl
Shakespeare, William
Spenser, Edmund
Teasdale, Sara
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Wheatley, Phyllis
Whitman, Walter
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wordsworth, William
Alexander Hamilton (a biography of)
Artist biographies for young children
Bible reference books
Books of paintings
Composer biographies for young children
Field guides
Florence Nightingale (a biography of)
Folksong books
Hymn books
Jane Austen (a biography of)
Michael Faraday (a biography of)
Napoleon Bonaparte (a biography of)
Ponce de Leon or Peter the Great (a biography
of)
Robert E. Lee (a biography of---perhaps Virginia’s
General – Robert E. Lee and the Civil War by Albert
Marrin)
Stonewall Jackson (a biography of)
1
SUBJECT
YEAR
Poetry
Nature Study
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Nature Study
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Nature Study
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Nature Study
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Literature
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Biography
Art
Bible
Art
Music
Nature Study
Biography
Music
Music
Biography
Biography
Biography
3
11
10
10
10
3
11
9
2
4
11
5
8
10
2
6
11
7
5
3&5
8
6
9
2
2
6
4 – 10
8
3
4
9
10
5
4
9
1-6
1-6
1-6
1-6
1-6
10
1-6
1-6
10
10
9
Biography
9
Biography
10
Biography
10
AO_HEO Book List by Author
Years 1 - 11
The Caedmon Poetry Collection (optional)
Poetry
11
Composition & Grammar
Biography
Biography
Biography
Devotional
History
Biography
Literature
11
10
9
9
10
9
10
7
Literature
9
Logic
History
Geography
7 – 10
11
9
Literature
1
Work & Life Skills
9 - 11
Work & Life Skills
9 - 11
Biography
Literature
Nature Study
7
9
9
History
5-6
Citizenship
Government & Economics
Geography
History
8
9
2
1
The following books should be read with this book:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*
Frankenstein*
Worldview
10
The Great Astronomers*
More Hours in My Day (and others) (one option)
The Law*
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern
Nature Study
Work & Life Skills
Government & Economics
8 – 10
9 – 11
10
History
5–6
History
History
History
Science
Biography
History
Nature Study
7
11
6
11
6
9
11
History
11
Logic
Logic
History
Geography
10
11
4
7
Biography
11
History
Devotional
Government & Economics
Biography
8
11
11
9
Biography
9
History
Literature
9
11
(audio)
a Kempis, Thomas
Abbott, John
Abbott, John S. C.
Adams, Richard
Addison, Joseph, Richard
Steele, & Eustace Budgell
Adler, Mortimer
Allen, Frederick
Ambrose, Stephen B.
Andersen, Hans Christian
Aslett, Don
Aslett, Don
Asser
Austen, Jane
Austin, Mary
Axelrod, Alan and Charles
Phillips
Bacon, Francis
Bagehot, Walter
Bagley, William C., Jr.
Baldwin, James, retold by
Baldwin, Jeff
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Shelley, Mary
Ball, R. S.
Barnes, Emilie
Bastiat, Frederic
Bauer, Susan Wise
Bede
Bedoukian, Kerop
Beechick, Ruth
Behe, Michael
Bendick, Jeanne
Berton, Pierre
Beston, Henry
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, editor
Bluedorn, Nathaniel & Hans
Bluedorn, Nathaniel & Hans
Bober, Natalie S.
Bodger, Joan
The Little, Brown, Handbook (one option)
Thomas Edison (a biography of)
Thomas Jefferson (a biography of)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (a biography of)
The Imitation of Christ* (one option)
Napoleon Bonaparte* (one option)
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures*
Watership Down
The Coverly Papers* (alternate for Days with Sir
Roger DeCoverly)
How to Read a Book
Only Yesterday (supplemental)
Undaunted Courage (one suggestion)
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales* (fairy
tale alternate)
Do I Dust or Vacuum First? (one option)
Who Says It’s A Woman’s Job to Clean (one
option---particularly useful with boys)
The Life of King Alfred*
Pride and Prejudice*
The Land of Little Rain* (one option)
What Everyone Should Know About the 20th
Century: 200 Events That Shaped the World
(alternate)
Essays*
The English Constitution*
To Far Cathay (Marco Polo---one option)
Fifty Famous Stories Retold*
The Deadliest Monster
Age
Ecclesiastical History of the English People*
Some of Us Survived (supplemental)
Genesis, Finding Our Roots
Darwin’s Black Box (optional)
Archimedes and the Door of Science
The Invasion of Canada
The Outermost House
Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children*
(supplemental)
The Fallacy Detective
The Thinking Toolbox (one possibility)
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
How the Heather Looks
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The
Bok, Edward
Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After*
(one option)
Bolt, Robert
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Bork, Robert
Boswell, James
A Man for All Seasons
The Cost of Discipleship
Slouching Towards Gomorrah (alternate)
The Life of Samuel Johnson*
John Adams and the American Revolution (one
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Bradbury, Ray
option)
Miracle at Philadelphia
Fahrenheit 451
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Bradbury, Ray
Bradbury, Ray
Bradford, William
Brand, Paul
Breese, David
Bridges, Jerry
Brittain, Vera
Brokaw, Tom
Brookiser, Richard
Brother Lawrence
Brown, Dee Alexander
Buckley, Arabella
Bulatovich, Alexander
Bulfinch, Thomas
Bulfinch, Thomas
Bunyan, John
Bunyan, John
Bunyan, John
Burgess, Thornton
Burgess, Thornton
Burke, Edmund
Burkett, Larry
Burnford, Sheila
Campbell, Jeff
Carson, Clarence B.
Carson, Rachel
Carson, Rachel
Chambers, Whittaker
Cheng, Nien
Chesterton, G. K.
Chestnut, Mary
Churchill, Sir Winston
Churchill, Sir Winston
Churchill, Sir Winston
Churchill, Sir Winston
Clark, Suzanne
Years 1 - 11
Something Wicked this Way Comes
(supplemental option)
The Illustrated Man
(supplemental option)
A History of Plymouth Plantation* (partial)
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the
Grave
The Pursuit of Holiness
Testament of Youth (supplemental---preferred)
The Greatest Generation (supplemental)
Founding Father (one option)
The Practice of the Presence of God* (alternate
for The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian
History of the American West (supplemental)
The Fairy-Land of Science*
Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes* (supplemental
option)
The Age of Chivalry*
The Age of Fable*
The Holy War*
The Pilgrim’s Progress* (one option)
The Pilgrim’s Progress*
The Burgess Animal Book for Children*
The Burgess Bird Book for Children*
Reflections on the Revolution in France*
How to Manage Your Money (and others---one
option)
The Incredible Journey
Speed Cleaning (one option---particularly useful
with boys)
A Basic History of the United States (one
option):
The Colonial Experience 1607-1774
The Beginning of the Republic 1775-1825
The Sections and the Civil War 1826-1877
The Growth of America 1878-1928
The Welfare State 1929-1985
America: From Gridlock to Deadlock 1985-2001
The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us: A Special Edition for
Young Readers (alternate)
Witness
Life and Death in Shanghai
Essays*
A Diary from Dixie* (optional)
The Age of Revolution (Volume 3 of History of
the English Speaking Peoples) (one option)
The Birth of Britain (Volume 1 of History of the
English Speaking Peoples)
The Great Democracies (Volume 4 History of the
English Speaking Peoples) (one option)
The New World (Volume 2 of History of the
English Speaking Peoples)
The Roar on the Other Side (read in Year 9 if
not read in Year 8)
Comstock, Anna Botsford
Handbook of Nature Study (parent resource)
Conrad, Joseph
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, Susan Fenimore
Heart of Darkness* (supplemental option)
Lord Jim* (supplemental option)
Rural Hours* (alternate)
Streams in the Desert (alternate for The
Cowper, Mrs. Charles
Critical Thinking Press
Pleasures of God)
Critical Thinking in United States History
3
Literature
11
Literature
11
History
Health
8
7 or 8
Worldview
11
Devotional
History
History
Biography
7
11
11
9
Devotional
9
History
10
Science
5
History
11
Literature
Literature
Literature
Devotional
Literature
Natural History
Natural History
Government & Economics
7
4–6
8
10
2–3
2
1
9
Work & Life Skills
9 – 11
Literature
4
Work & Life Skills
9 – 11
History
9 - 11
Natural History
6
Natural History
6
Biography
Biography
Literature
History
11
11
10
10
History
9
History
7
History
10
History
8
Poetry
8–9
Natural History
Nature Study
Literature
Literature
Nature Study
1 – 12
11
11
7–8
Devotional
11
Logic
10
AO_HEO Book List by Author
Crowley, Deborah, editor
Cwiklik, Robert
D’Aulaire, Ingri &
D’Aulaire, Ingri &
D’Aulaire, Ingri &
D’Aulaire, Ingri &
D’Aulaire, Ingri &
Dacyczyn, Amy
Edgar
Edgar
Edgar
Edgar
Edgar
Danziger, Paula
Daugherty, James
Daugherty, James
Daugherty, James
Dava Sobel
Davidson, Robyn
de Kruif, Paul
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Defoe, Daniel
DeMar, Gary
Denton, Jeremiah A., Jr.
Dickens, Charles
Dorling Kindersley (publisher)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Frederick
Dumas, Alexandre
Duncan, Dayton & Ken Burns
Durrell, Gerald
Edmund Burke
Einarrson, Robert
Eliot, George
Ellis, Joseph J.
Ellmann, Richard
Years 1 - 11
Georges Vanier: Soldier The Wartime Letters
Biography
11
Biography
American History
American History
American History
American History
American History
Work & Life Skills
6
1
1
2
1
2
9 – 11
Geography
9 – 12
Biography
5
Biography
4
American History
3
History
Geography
Nature Study
8
9 – 12
9 - 11
Government & Economics
10
Robinson Crusoe*
War of the Worldviews
When Hell Was in Session
Oliver Twist*
The 20th Century Day by Day (preferred) OR
The 20th Century Year by Year (out of print)
The Brothers Karamazov*
Literature
Worldview
Biography
Literature
4
9
11
5
History
11
Literature
11
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass*
Essays*
The Count of Monte Cristo*
Lewis and Clark (one suggestion)
My Family and Other Animals (one suggestion)
A Letter to a Noble Lord* (advanced student
Biography
Literature
Literature
Geography
Geography
10
10
9
9
9 – 12
Government & Economics
9
Composition & Grammar
9 - 11
Literature
History
10
9
Poetry
11
Literature
10
Literature
10
Math
Nature Study
Nature Study
Nature Study
Nature Study
Science
Nature Study
Nature Study
10 – 11
9 - 11
9 - 11
9 - 11
9 - 11
7
9 - 11
9 - 11
Nature Study
9 - 11
Geography
Devotional
9 – 12
9
History
8
Literature
Literature
Science
2
11
6
and Diaries, 1915-1919
Albert Einstein and Theory of Relativity
Benjamin Franklin
Buffalo Bill
Columbus (alternate)
George Washington
Leif the Lucky (alternate)
The Tightwad Gazette
Remember Me to Harold Square (one
suggestion)
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent
with Lewis and Clark
Poor Richard
The Landing of the Pilgrims (Landmark)
(alternate)
Galileo’s Daughter
Tracks (one suggestion)
The Microbe Hunters
Democracy in America* (if you need a stronger
emphasis on economics)
(supplemental option)
option)
Dr. Robert Einarrson’s Grammar Handouts
(one option)
Silas Marner*
Founding Brothers
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry OR The
Norton Anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition,
Volume 2
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Erskine, John
Euclid
Fabre,
Fabre,
Fabre,
Fabre,
Fabre,
Fabre,
Fabre,
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
Henri
Henri
Henri
Henri
Henri
Henri
Henri
Fabre, J. Henri
Feiler, Bruce
Ferfuson, Sinclair
Firth, Sir Charles
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fleisher, Paul
Essays*
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent*
(optional essay)
Euclid’s Elements*
Bramble-Bees and Others* (one option)
More Hunting Wasps* (one option)
The Life of the Caterpillar* (one option)
The Life of the Fly* (one option)
The Life of the Spider*
The Mason-Bees* (one option)
The Story-Book of Science (one option)*
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the
Psychology of Insects* (one option)
Walking the Bible (one suggestion)
Christian Life
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans
in England* (partial)
Understood Betsy*
The Great Gatsby
Secrets of the Universe
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Flexner, James Thomas
Foster, Genevieve
Foster, Genevieve
Foster, Genevieve
Frank, Anne
Franklin, Benjamin
Freynman, Richard P.
Friedhoffer, Robert
Friedhoffer, Robert
Friedhoffer, Robert
Gaarder, Jostein
Gatty, Margaret
Gibbs, Philip
Gilbert, Martin
Gingerich, Owen
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Golding, William
Goldsmith, Oliver
Goldsmith, Oliver
Gough, Russell
Graham, Billy
Graham, Robin Lee
Grahame, Kenneth
Grant, George
Green, Carol
Guerber, H. A., edited by
Christine Miller
Guerber, H. A., edited by
Christine Miller
Hahn, Emily
Hakluyt, Richard
Hale, Edward Everett
Hall, Jennie
Halliburton, Richard
Halliburton, Richard
Halliburton,Richard
Ham, Ken
Hamilton, Alexander, James
Madison, & John Jay
Hannula, Richard
Hardyment, Christina
Hayek, F. A.
Hazlitt, Henry
Hazlitt, William
Henry, Carl F. H.
Henry, Matthew
Henty, G. A.
Herriot, James
Heyerdahl, Thor
Heyerdahl, Thor
Hillyer, V. M.
Hillyer, V. M.
Hitler, Adolf
Years 1 - 11
Washington: The Indispensable Man (one
option)
Abraham Lincoln’s World
Augustus Caesar’s World
George Washington’s World
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin*
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained
by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store
Physics Lab in the Home
Science Lab in a Supermarket
The Christmas Mystery (one suggestion)
Parables from Nature*
Now It Can Be Told* (alternate for Testament of
Youth)
A History of the Twentieth Century: The
Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
(Option One/Primary text)
The Book Nobody Read – Chasing the
Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
Faust, Book I*
Lord of the Flies
(supplemental option)
She Stoops to Conquer* (one option)
The Vicar of Wakefield* (one option)
Character is Destiny
Just As I Am (optional)
Dove (one suggestion)
The Wind in the Willows*
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of
Teddy Roosevelt
Marco Polo: Voyager to the Orient (one option)
The Story of the Greeks* (only the original is
online---the one edited by Christine Miller will need
to be purchased)
The Story of the Romans* (only the original is
online---the one edited by Christine Miller will need
to be purchased)
Leonardo da Vinci (Landmark)
The Discovery of Muscovy, Etc.*
The Life of Christopher Columbus* (alternate
for Christopher Columbus, Mariner)
Viking Tales*
Royal Road to Romance (one suggestion)
The Complete Book of Marvels
New Worlds to Conquer: America’s Most Dashing
1920s Adventurer Explores South America
One Blood*
The Federalist Papers* (advanced student
option)
Trial and Triumph
Heidi’s Alp (one suggestion)
The Road to Serfdom (alternate)
Economics in One Lesson*
The Spirit of the Age*
God, Revelation and Authority (one option)
Matthew Henry’s Commentary* (one option)
In Freedom’s Cause*
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
Kon Tiki
Kon-Tiki for Young People (alternate)
A Child’s Geography of the World (alternate)
A Child’s History of the World
Mein Kampf* (supplemental)
5
Biography
9
History
History
History
Biography
Biography
5
6
4
11
9
Science
10 – 11
Science
Science
Science
Geography
Literature
5
4
3
9 – 12
1–3
History
11
History
11
Science
11
Literature
9
Literature
11
Literature
Literature
Citizenship
Biography
Geography
Literature
9
9
10
11
9 - 12
2
Biography
5
Geography
2
History
6
History
6
Biography
Geography
3
8
Geography
8
History
Geography
Geography
1
9 – 10
5
Geography
5
Citizenship
10
Government & Economics
9
History
Geography
Government & Economics
Government & Economics
Biography
Devotional
Bible
History
Natural History
Geography
Geography
Geography
History
History
1-6
9 – 12
11
11
10
10
9 – 11
7
1
4
4
5
2–3
11
AO_HEO Book List by Author
Holden, Edward
Holling, Holling C.
Holling, Holling C.
Holling, Holling C.
Holling, Holling C.
Holling, Holling C.
Homer (various translators)
Howarth, David
Hugo, Victor
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Irving, Washington
Irving, Washington
Irving, Washington
Janson, H. W.
Janson, H. W.
Jenkins, Peter
Jenkins, Peter
Jenkins, Peter
Jenkins, Peter & Barbara
Jensen, Frode
Johnson, Paul
Johnson, Paul
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Samuel
Keeling, Anne E.
Kengor, Paul
Kilpatrick, William Kirk
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kinglake, Alexander
Kinglake, Alexander
Kingsley, Charles
Kingsley, Charles
Kingsley, Charles
Kipling, Rudyard
Kipling, Rudyard
Kipling, Rudyard
Komroff, Manuel
Lamb, Charles & Mary
Lang, Andrew, editor
Lang, Andrew. editor
Lansing, Alfred
LaRocque, Paula
Lawrence, T. E.
Leacock, Stephen
Lee, Harper
Legget, William
Years 1 - 11
The Sciences* (alternate)
Minn of the Mississippi
Paddle to the Sea
Pagoo
Seabird
Tree in the Trail
The Iliad*
The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish Story
Les Miserables*
William Harvey and the Discovery of the
Circulation of the Blood*
George Washington: A Biography (one option)
Rip Van Winkle*
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*
History of Art (one option)
The Story of Painting (one option)
Looking for Alaska (one suggestion)
Walk Across America (one suggestion)
Walk Across China (one suggestion)
The Walk West (one suggestion)
Jensen’s Grammar (alternate)
Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the
Twenties to the Nineties (Option Two)
The History of the American People (one
option)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland*
(one suggestion)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia*
Great Britain and Her Queen*
God and Ronald Reagan (optional)
Psychological Seduction (alternate)
Why We Can’t Wait (supplemental)
Eothen* (one suggestion)
Essays*
Madam How and Lady Why*
The Heroes*
Westward Ho!*
Just So Stories*
Kim*
The Jungle Book*
(The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book)
Marco Polo (Messner) (one option)
Tales from Shakespeare* (alternate for Beautiful
Stories from Shakespeare in Years 1 – 2)
The Blue Fairy Book*
The Tales of Troy* (alternate)
Endurance (one option)
The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to
Writing Well
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (optional)
Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages
of Jacques Cartier* (one suggestion)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy*
(optional essay)
Legros, G. V.
Fabre, Poet of Science* (optional)
Leithart, Peter J.
Brightest Heaven of Invention
Leon, L.
Lettis, Richard & William
Morris
Lewellen, John
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate* (optional*
The Hungarian Revolt* (supplemental)
The Boy Scientist (alternate)
Essays (optional essays)
Mere Christianity
6
Science
Geography
Geography
Geography
Geography
Geography
Literature
History
Literature
6
3
1
2
1
1
6
8
10
Science
8
Biography
Literature
Literature
Drawing & Art
Drawing & Art
Geography
Geography
Geography
Geography
Composition & Grammar
9
7
9
9
9
9
7
9
4
4
– 11
– 11
– 12
– 12
– 12
– 12
– 11
History
11
History
9
Geography
9
Literature
Biography
Biography
Government & Economics
History
Geography
Geography
Natural History
Literature
Literature
Literature
Literature
9 – 10
10
11
11
11
10
10
4
3
8
1
5
Literature
3
Geography
2
Literature
1–3
Literature
Literature
Geography
1
6
11
Composition & Grammar
10
Biography
11
Geography
9
Literature
11
Literature
10
Biography
Literature/
Shakespeare
History
11
10 – 11
History
11
Science
Literature
Devotional
6
10
7
10
AO_HEO Book List by Author
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Charles
Livingstone, David
Long, William J.
Long, William J.
Longfellow, Henry W.
Lord Chesterfield
Lord, John
Ludwig, Charles
Lunt, Dolly Sumner
(Mrs. Thomas Burge)
Lyall, Edna
Lyman, Darius
MacDonald, George
MacLaren, Ian
Malcolmson, Anne
Mansfield, Stephen
Manzoni, Alessandro
Marcet, Jane Haldimand
Marrin, Albert
Marrin, Albert
Marrin, Albert
Marryat, F.
Marshall, H. E.
Marshall, H. E.
Marshall, H. E.
Mason, Charlotte
Massie, Robert K.
Matthews, Tom L.
Maybury, Richard
Maybury, Richard
Maybury, Richard
Maybury, Richard
Mayes, Francis
McCullough, David
McDowell, Josh
McDowell, Josh
McHugh, Michael J.
McHugh, Michael J.
McPherson, Stephanie
Medved, Michael
Melville, Herman
Mendelsohn, Cheryl
Mill, John Stuart
Years 1 - 11
Mere Christianity
The Four Loves
The Problem of Pain (if already read Mere
Worldview
Citizenship
9
9
Worldview
9
Biography
Biography
Biography
Biography
Biography
Biography
Geography
Natural History
Natural History
Literature
History
11
11
11
11
11
11
6
6
3
4
9
http://www.amblesideonline.org/10bks.shtml for
details)
Biography
10
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics
Biography
5
A Woman’s Wartime Journal* (optional)
History
10
Government & Economics
History
Literature
Literature
Literature
Biography
Literature
11
10
3
10
7
6
8
Government & Economics
9
Biography
10
Biography
11
Biography
10
Literature
History
Literature
History
Citizenship
Biography
Science
Government & Economics
3
1-5
7 – 10
2-5
7 – 12
11
5
9
Government & Economics
10
Government & Economics
Government & Economics
Geography
Biography
Devotional
8
7
9 – 12
9
8
Devotional
7
Science
5
Science
3
Biography
History
Literature
Work & Life Skills
Government & Economics
6
9
10
9 – 11
10
Christianity)
Bring Me a Unicorn (optional)
Hour of Gold (optional)
Hour of Lead (optional)
North with the Orient (optional)
War Within and Without (optional)
Spirit of St. Louis (optional)
Missionary Travels*
School of the Woods*
Secrets of the Woods*
Paul Revere’s Ride*
Letters to His Son*
Beacon Lights of History* (see
The Autobiography of a Slander* (short story)
Leaven for Doughfaces* (optional)
The Princess and the Goblin*
Books and Bookmen* (optional essay)
A Taste of Chaucer
Never Give In (Winston Churchill)
I Promessi Sposi* (The Betrothed)
Essays:*
A Fairy Tale
Patty’s Marriage
The Treacherous Friend
The Wedding Gown
Commander in Chief (one option for biography of
Abraham Lincoln)
Mao Tse-Tung and His China
Unconditional Surrender – U. S. Grant and the
Civil War
The Children of the New Forest*
An / Our Island Story*
English Literature for Boys and Girls*
This Country of Ours*
Ourselves*
Nicholas and Alexandra (optional)
Always Inventing (one option)
Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused?
Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson
Think About This?
Whatever Happened to Justice?
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
Under the Tuscan Sun (one suggestion)
John Adams (one option)
Evidence that Demands a Verdict (one option)
More Than a Carpenter (alternate for Mere
Christianity)
Christian Liberty Nature Reader #5
The Story of Inventions (or Great Inventors and
Their Inventions* by Frank J. Bachman)
Ordinary Genius (alternate)
First-Person American History Series (audio)
Moby Dick*
Home Comforts (one option)
On Liberty*
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AO_HEO Book List by Author
Miller, William Lee
Milne, A. A.
Milne, A. A.
Milton, John
Mitchell, Richard
Mitchell, Richard
Montaigne
More, Sir Thomas
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morris, Jan
Muhlback, Louise
Muir, John
Muir, John
Murphy, Dervia
Nesbit, E.
Nichols, David
Years 1 - 11
Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and
the Great Battle in the United States Congress
(strongly suggested as a must read)
Now We Are Six
When We Were Very Young
Paradise Lost* (see
http://www.amblesideonline.org/08bks.shtml for
details)
Less Than Words Can Say*
The Graves of Academe*
Essays*
Utopia*
Christopher Columbus, Mariner
The Oxford Book of American History (one
option)
The Oxford History of the American People
(Option Three: Volume 3)
The World: Travels 1950-2000 (one option)
Marie Antoinette and Her Son*
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Our National Parks
Full Tilt (and others) (one suggestion)
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare*
Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II
Dispatches (one option)
History
10
Poetry
Poetry
1
1
Poetry
8
Composition & Grammar
Government & Economics
Literature
Citizenship
Geography
11
10
10
8
8
History
9 – 10
History
11
Geography
Biography
Nature Study
Nature Study
Geography
Literature
11
9
11
11
9 – 12
1-2
History
11
History
10
Biography
10
Noebel, David A.
Noonan, Peggy
Olasky, Marvin
Opie, Iona and Peter, editors
Orwell, George
Otto, Donna
Owen, David
Packer, J. I.
Paine, Thomas
Paine, Thomas
Parker, Shonda
Parker, Shonda
Parker, Shonda
Parkman, Francis
Paton, Alan
PBS Documentary
Pepys, Samuel
Peterson, Houston, selected
The Boys’ Life of Abraham (one option for
biography of Abraham Lincoln)*
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (one option for
biography of Abraham Lincoln)*
A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and
Tales* (parent resource)
Thinking Like a Christian (the teaching textbook)
When Character Was King (optional)
Books (alternate)
The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse
Animal Farm*
Get More Done in Less Time (one option)
The Walls Around Us (one option)
Knowing God
Common Sense*
The Rights of Man*
Mommy Diagnostics (one option)
The Naturally Healthy Pregnancy (one option)
The Naturally Healthy Woman (one option)
The Oregon Trail* (one suggestion)
Cry, the Beloved Country (one suggestion)
Liberty, the American Revolution (video)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys*
A Treasury of the World’s Great Speeches
and edited by
(parent resource)
Pickens, William
Pink, A. W.
Piper, John
Piper, John
Plutarch (various translators---
The Heir of Slaves* (optional)
The Attributes of God*
Desiring God
The Pleasures of God
History
Devotional
Devotional
Devotional
10
10
8
11
check for North or Dryden with
editing done by Clough)
Plutarch’s Lives*
Citizenship
4 – 12
Pope, Alexander
Postman, Neil
Potok, Chaim
An Essay on Man*
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Chosen
All About Famous Inventors and Their
Inventions (alternate)
Marco Polo: A Story of the Middle Ages
Citizenship
Worldview
Literature
9
11
11
Science
3
Geography
2
Nicolay, Helen
Nicolay, John George
Nield, Jonathan
Pratt, Fletcher
Preston, Edna Mitchell
(one option)
8
Resource
Worldview
Biography
Government & Economics
Poetry
Literature
Work & Life Skills
Work & Life Skills
Devotional
Government & Economics
Government & Economics
Health
Health
Health
Geography
Geography
History
Literature
9
9
9
9
9
9
10
11
11
1
6
– 11
– 11
10
9
9
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– 10
– 10
10
– 12
9
8
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AO_HEO Book List by Author
Pyle, Ernie
Pyle, Howard
Pyle, Howard
Pyle, Howard
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
(editor)
Raffel, Burton
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ramsey, David
Read, Leonard
Remarque, Erich Marie
Richards, Lawrence
Riis, Jacob
Riis, Jacob A.
Rockness, Miriam Huffman
Roper, William
Rosen, Sidney
Ruskin, John
Sarah Tytler
Saroyan, William
Sayers, Dorothy
Schaeffer, Edith
Schaeffer, Francis
Years 1 - 11
Here Is Your War: Story of G. I. Joe (or others--one option
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood*
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights*
The Wonder Clock* (fairy tale alternate)
Essays*
The Oxford Book of English Verse*
How to Read a Poem (optional)
The Discovery of Guiana*
The Life of George Washington* (one option)
I, Pencil* (essay)
All Quiet on the Western Front
It Couldn’t Just Happen
The Making of an American (optional)
How the Other Half Lives
(supplemental option)
Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias
Trotter
The Life of Sir Thomas More (alternate for A
Man for All Seasons)*
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
Sesame and Lilies*
Queen Victoria* (one option)
Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
(supplemental option)
The Mind of the Maker
The Hidden Art of Homemaking (one option)
How Should We Then Live (one option)
Video series also available.
Schaeffer, Francis
Schreiber, Bernhard
Schulman, Max
Scott, Sir Walter
Sebranek, Patrick
Seton, Ernest Thompson
Severin, Tim
Shaara, Michael
Shackleton, Sir Ernest
The God Who is There
The Men Behind Hitler* (supplemental)
Love is a Fallacy* (short story)
Ivanhoe* (Waverly---Richard I)
Writer’s Inc. (one option)
Wild Animals I Have Known*
The Brendan Voyage
Killer Angels (supplemental)
South* (one option)
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare’s Sonnets*
Sharp, Dallas Lore
Shelley, Mary
Sheridan, Richard
Simonds, Edward
Sire, James
Skot, John
The Lay of the Land*
Frankenstein*
The School for Scandal*
Student’s History of American Literature*
How to Read Slowly
Everyman, A Morality Play*
Sailing Alone Around the World* (one
Slocum, Joshua
Smith, Adam
Smith, Hannah Whitall
Southey, Robert
Sowell, Thomas
Sowell, Thomas
Sowell, Thomas
Spenser, Edmund, updated
and annotated by Roy Maynard
Sproul, R. C.
Stanley, Diane
Stanley, Diane
suggestion)
The Wealth of Nations* (advanced student
option)
The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life*
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson*
Controversial Essays* (alternate)
Race and Culture (alternate)
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation
as the Basis for Public Policy
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves (Færie Queene
Book I) (see
http://www.amblesideonline.org/08bks.shtml for
details)
The Holiness of God
Good Queen Bess (alternate)
Joan of Arc
9
History
11
Literature
Literature
Literature
Literature
2
5
1
10
Poetry
7 – 10
Poetry
Geography
Biography
Economics
Literature
Science
Biography
10
8
9
8
11
4
11
Literature
11
Biography
5
History
8
Biography
Citizenship
Biography
6
10
10
Literature
11
Devotional
Work & Life Skills
8
9 – 11
Worldview
10
Devotional
History
Logic
Literature
Composition & Grammar
Natural History
Geography
History
Geography
Literature/
Shakespeare
Nature Study
Literature
Literature
Literature
Logic
Literature
9
11
9
7
11
5
7
10
11
7
10
9
8 – 10
10
8
Geography
9 – 10
Government & Economics
9
Devotional
Biography
Government & Economics
Government & Economics
9
9
10
11
Government & Economics
10
Poetry
8
Devotional
Biography
Biography
11
3
2
8
AO_HEO Book List by Author
Stanley, Diane
Steele, Richard
Steele, Richard
Stevenson, O. J.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoutenburg, Adrien
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strobel, Lee
Strobel, Lee
Strobel, Lee
Strunk, William Jr. & E. B.
White
Sullivan, Richard
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Swift, Jonathan
Swift, Jonathan
Swift, Jonathan
Synge, M. B.
Synge, M. B.
Szilagyi, Arpad
Teale, Edwin
ten Boom, Corrie
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Tey, Josephine
Thayer, W.
Thoreau, Henry David
Tiner, John H.
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolstoy, Lee
Tolstoy, Lee
Tozer, A. W.
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Tyre, William
Van Loon, Hendrick
Van Loon, Hendrik
Van Loon, Hendrik
Various
Various
Veith, Gene Edward
Veith, Gene Edward
Vennema, Peter and Diane
Stanley
Walsh, R. J.
Walton, Izaak
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Waugh, Evelyn
Years 1 - 11
Michelangelo (alternate)
Days with Sir Roger DeCoverly*
Isaac Bickerstaff*
The Talking Wire (one option)
A Child’s Garden of Verses*
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*
In the South Seas* (one suggestion)
Kidnapped*
American Tall Tales
Uncle Tom’s Cabin*
The Case for a Creator (optional)
The Case for Christ (alternate for Evidence That
Demands a Verdict)
The Case for Christ (one option)
The Elements of Style
A Short History of Western Civilization (Option
Five)
Black Ships Before Troy (alternate)
A Tale of a Tub*
Gulliver’s Travels*
The Battle of the Books*
The Awakening of Europe* (alternate)
The Discovery of New Worlds* (alternate)
Victim: Imprisonment Because of the
Hungarian Revolution 1956* (supplemental)
Circle of the Seasons (or others by same author)
(alternate)
The Hiding Place
Idylls of the King
The Daughter of Time
Abraham Lincoln* (one option for biography of
Abraham Lincoln)
Walden*
Johannes Kepler (Sower Series---one option)
The Hobbit
Anna Karenina* (supplemental option)
Crime and Punishment*
(supplemental option)
The Pursuit of God*
Guns of August (alternate for Testament of
Youth)
Following the Equator* (one suggestion)
Joan of Arc*
A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea*
(document)
The
The
The
Boy
Story of Mankind*
Arts (one option)
Story of America (one option)
Scout Merit Badge Handbooks (check out
http://www.usscouts.org/usscouts/mb/wkbks/list.ht
ml for worksheets to download)
Insight Guides travel guides (one suggestion)
Modern Fascism
Postmodern Times
Bard of Avon: The Story of William
Shakespeare
Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo
(Landmark) (one option)
The Life of Dr. Donne*
Up From Slavery*
110 Rules of Civility* (optional)
Brideshead Revisited
10
Biography
Literature
Literature
Biography
Poetry
Literature
Geography
Literature
Literature
Literature
Science
3
9
9
5
1
10
9 – 10
4
3
10
11
Devotional
8
Devotional
11
Composition & Grammar
9
History
10 – 11
Literature
Literature
Literature
Literature
History
History
6
9
9
9
3
2-3
History
11
Nature Study
7-8
Biography
Poetry
History
11
7
7
History
10
Nature Study
History
Literature
Literature
10
8
6
11
Literature
11
Devotional
7
History
11
Geography
Biography
9 - 10
7
History
7
History
Drawing & Art
History
4–6
9 – 10
9
Work & Life Skills
7 - 12
Geography
Worldview
Worldview
9 – 12
11
9
Biography
3
Geography
2
History
Biography
Biography
Literature
8
10
9
11
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Wedgwood, C. V.
White, Gilbert
White, T. H.
Whitling, Matt
Wile, Dr. Jay
William of Malmesbury
Wilson, E. O.
Wilson, Nancy
Winter, Milo
Woods, Donald
Wright, Richard
Yonge, Charlotte
Ziner, Feenie
Zinsser, William
Years 1 - 11
A Coffin for King Charles (also titled The Trial of
King Charles I)
The Natural History of Selborne* (one option)
The Once and Future King
The Grammar of Poetry
Apologia science materials
The Battle of Hastings* (document)
Naturalist (one suggestion)
Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to
English Grammar (one option)
The Æsop for Children*
Biko (optional)
Black Boy
The Little Duke*
Squanto (1965 edition – Dark Pilgrim)
On Writing Well
Biography
8
Nature Study
Literature
Poetry
Science
History
Geography
9
7
7
7 - 12
7
9 – 12
Composition & Grammar
7 – 11
Literature
Biography
Biography
Biography
Biography
Composition & Grammar
1
11
11
2
3
11
ADDITIONAL READING
Years 1 – 6
Alcott, Louisa May
Alcott, Louisa May
Alcott, Louisa May
Andersen, Hans Christian
Andrew, Brother
Atwater, Richard
Barrie, James M.
Benary-Isbert, Margo
Brink, Carol Ryrie
Browning, Robert
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Lewis
Caudill, Rebecca
Clooney, Barbara (1 version)
Collodi, Carlo
D’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar
D’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar
De Angeli, Marguerite
De Jong, Meindert
De Jong, Meindert
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Dodge, Mary Mapes
Enright, Elizabeth
Enright, Elizabeth
Enright, Elizabeth
Enright, Elizabeth
Enright, Elizabeth
Enright, Elizabeth
Forbes, Esther
Gates, Doris
Goudge, Elizabeth
Hale, Lucretia
Hautzig, Esther
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Henry, Marguerite
Henry, Marguerite
Henry, Marguerite
Hesse, Karen
Jack and Jill*
Little Men*
Little Women*
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales*
God’s Smuggler
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Peter Pan*
The Ark
Caddie Woodlawn
The Pied Piper of Hamelin*
A Little Princess*
The Secret Garden*
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*
Through the Looking Glass*
The Tree of Freedom
Chanticleer and the Fox
The Adventures of Pinocchio*
Abraham Lincoln
Pocahontas
The Door in the Wall
Along Came A Dog
The Wheel on the School
A Christmas Carol*
The Cricket on the Hearth*
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates*
Gone Away Lake
Return to Gone Away
The Four Story Mistake
The Saturdays
Then There Were Five
Thimble Summer
Johnny Tremain
Blue Willow
The Little White Horse
The Complete Peterkin Papers*
The Endless Steppe
A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls*
Tanglewood Tales*
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Justin Morgan had a Horse
King of the Wind
Letters from Rifka
11
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AO_HEO Book List by Author
Hilton, James
Hitt, Russel T.
Hodges, Margaret
Hunt, Irene
Jacobs, Joseph
Keith, Harold
Keller, Helen
Kingsley, Charles
Kipling, Rudyard
Kipling, Rudyard
Knight, Eric
Lang, Andrew, editor
Latham, Jean Lee
Lewis, C. S.
Lofting, Hugh
London, Jack
Long, William J.
Lowry, Lois
Ludwig, Charles
MacDonald, George
Major, Charles
McSwigan, Marie
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Moody, Ralph
Morey, Walt
Nesbit, E.
Nesbit, E.
Nesbit, E.
Nesbit, E.
Nesbit, E.
Nordhoff, Charles and James
Norman Hall
Norton, Mary
Porter, Eleanor
Pyle, Howard
Pyle, Howard
Ransom, Arthur
Rawls, Wilson
Ruskin, John
Salten, Felix
Years 1 - 11
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint,
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5
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6
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5
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5
5
3
5
5
4
1
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4
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2
6
6
6
5
3
3
6
5
5
Additional Reading
4
Gentle Ben
Five Children and It*
The Railway Children*
The Story of the Treasure Seekers*
The Treasure Seekers*
The Wouldbegoods*
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Reading
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4
2
4
5
5
5
Falcons of France
Additional Reading
5
The Borrowers
Pollyanna*
Men of Iron*
Otto of the Silver Hand*
Swallows and Amazons
Where the Red Fern Grows
The King of the Golden River*
Bambi*
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4
4
3
2
3
6
1
4
Martyred Missionary to Ecuador
St. George and the Dragon
Across Five Aprils
English Fairy Tales*
Rifles for Watie
The Story of My Life*
The Water Babies*
Captains Courageous*
Puck of Pook’s Hill*
Lassie Come Home
The Red Fairy Book*
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
The Chronicle’s of Narnia:
Story order:
The Magician’s Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
Order in which written:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician’s Nephew
The Last Battle
The Story of Doctor Dolittle*
The Call of the Wild*
A Little Brother to the Bear*
Number the Stars
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics
At the Back of the North Wind*
The Bears of Blue River
Snow Treasure
Anne of Green Gables*
Rilla of Ingleside*
Little Britches series:
Little Britches, Father and I Were Ranchers
Man of the Family
The Home Ranch
Mary Emma and Company
The Fields of Home
Shaking the Nickelbush
Horse of a Different Color
The Dry Divide
12
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Savery, Constance
Scott, Sir Walter
Sewell, Anna
Sidney, Margaret
Sorensen, Virginia
Speare, Elizabeth George
Speare, Elizabeth George
Speare, Elizabeth George
Spyri, Johanna
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tarkington, Booth
Taylor, Mildred D.
Terhune, Albert
Trapp, Maria Augusta
Travers, P. L.
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Van Stockum, Hilda
Verne, Jules
White, E. B.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Williams, Margery
Wyss, Johann
Yates, Elizabeth
Yonge, Charlotte
Yonge, Charlotte
Years 1 - 11
The Reb and the Redcoats
Rob Roy*
Black Beauty*
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew*
Miracles on Maple Hill
Calico Captive (girl interest)
The Bronze Bow
The Sign of the Beaver (boy interest)
Heidi*
Treasure Island*
Penrod*
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Lad: A Dog
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
Mary Poppins
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*
The Prince and the Pauper*
The Winged Watchman
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*
Charlotte’s Web
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm*
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Farmer Boy
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Little Town on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
The First Four Years
The Long Winter
These Happy Golden Years
The Velveteen Rabbit*
The Swiss Family Robinson*
Amos Fortune, Free Man
A Book of Golden Deeds*
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of
Scotland*
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FREE READING
Years 1 – 11
Abbott, Jacob
Ahlquist, Dale
Alcorn, Randy
Alcott, Louisa May
Aldrich, Bess Streeter
Aldrich, Bess Streeter
Aldrich, Bess Streeter
Alexander, Lloyd
Austen, Jane
Austen, Jane
Barrett, William Edmund
Beckett, Samuel
Blackmore, R. D.
Hereward the Wake* (one option)
The Story of the Volsungs*
History of King Charles II of England*
G. K. Chesterton, The Apostle of Common Sense
Safely Home
Hospital Sketches*
A Lantern in Her Hand (great girl title)
A White Bird Flying (great girl title)
Mother Mason (great girl title)
The Chronicles of Prydain (in order):
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
Northanger Abbey*
Persuasion*
Lilies of the Field (sympathetic and uplifting)
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Lorna Doone*
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Borges, Jorge
Borrow, George Henry
Borrow, George Henry
Borrow, George Henry
Borrow, George Henry
Borrow, George Henry
Braithwaite, Edward Ricardo
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Buchan, John
Buchan, John
Buck, Pearl S.
Bulfinch, Thomas
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Calvino, Italo
Carey, William
Cather, Willa
Cather, Willa
Cather, Willa
Cervantes (various translators)
Chesterton, G. K.
Chesterton, G. K.
Chesterton, G. K.
Chesterton, G. K.
Christopher, John
Christopher, John
Christopher, John
Christopher, John
Churchill, Sir Winston
Clancy, Tom
Collins, Wilkie
Collins, Wilkie
Conrad, Joseph
Dana, Richard Henry
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Dryden, John
Dryden, John
Ellison, Ralph
Enger, Leif
Forbes, Kathryn
Years 1 - 11
Labyrinths (and others)
Lavengro*
The Bible in Spain*
The Gypsy*
The Priest*
The Scholar*
To Sir With Love
Jane Eyre*
Wuthering Heights*
Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys
The Adventures of Richard Hannay (also titled
The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay):
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Greenmantle
Mr. Standfast
The Three Hostages
The Good Earth
Legends of Charlemagne*
The Lost Prince*
Cosmicomics
An Inquiry Into the Obligations of Christians
to Use Means for the Conversion of Heathens*
Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia*
O Pioneers*
Don Quixote*
(Any and all)
Man Alive* (and/or) The Man Who Was
Thursday*
The Club of Queer Trades*
The Innocence of Father Brown*
The City of Gold and Lead
The Pool of Fire
The White Mountains
When the Tripods Came
The Second World War (for students who want
to read more about WWII) (6-volume set:
The Gathering Storm
Their Finest Hour
The Grand Alliance
The Hinge of Fate
Closing the Ring
Triumph and Tragedy
The Hunt for Red October
The Moonstone*
The Woman in White*
Lord Jim*(great boy title)
Two Years Before the Mast*
A Tale of Two Cities*
David Copperfield*
Hard Times*
The Pickwick Papers*
The Brothers Karamazov*
A Study in Scarlet
Sir Nigel*
The White Company*
All for Love*
Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry*
(alternate)
The Invisible Man
Peace Like a River
Mama’s Bank Account
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Years 1 - 11
Horatio Hornblower (in order):
Forester, C. S.
Forster, E. M.
Fox, John Jr.
French, Allen
Gibbons, Stella
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gluckel
Gogal, Nicolai
Hanff, Helene
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hardy, Thomas
Harte, Bret
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Hickam, Homer
Hinton, S. E.
Hope, Anthony
Irving, Washington
Jackson, Helen Hunt
Jerome, Jerome K.
Johnston, Mary
Johnston, Mary
Kafka, Franz
Karon, Jan
Kendall, Carol
Killilea, Karen
Kingsley, Charles
Kingsolver, Barbara
Knight, E. F.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Sinclair
Llewellyn, Richard
Lowry, Lois
MacDonald, George
MacInnes, Helen
MacInnes, Helen
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Marryat, Frederick
Marshall, Catherine
Martineau, Harriet
Merrill, Jean
Nesbit, E.
Nesbitt, E.
Nolan, Christopher
O’Conner, Flannery
Orczy, Emmuska
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower and the Hospur
Hornblower and the Atropos
Beat to Quarters
Ship of the Line
Flying Colours
Commodore Hornblower
Lord Hornblower
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
Hornblower During the Crisis
A Passage to India
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come*
Rolf and the Viking Bow
Cold Comfort Farm
HMS Pinafore* (and others)
Memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelin
The Inspector General*
84 Charing Cross Road
A Raisin in the Sun
Far from the Madding Crowd*
(Consider The Luck of the Roaring Camp)
The House of Seven Gables*
The Old Man and the Sea
October Sky (also called Rocket Boys)
The Outsiders
The Prisoner of Zenda*
The Alhambra*
Ramona*
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the
Dog)*
Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English
Colonial Beginnings*
To Have and To Hold
The Trial*
At Home in Mitford
The Gammage Cup
Karen
Hereward, the Last of the English* (one option)
Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy)
Perelandra (Space Trilogy)
That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy)
The Great Divorce
The Screwtape Letters
Til We Have Faces
Kingsblood Royal
How Green was My Valley
The Giver
Sir Gibbie*
Neither Five nor Three
While Still We Live
Leaf Storm
Mr. Midshipman Easy* (or others)
Christy
Feats on the Fiord
The Pushcart War
Harding’s Luck*
The House of Arden*
Under the Eye of the Clock
The Violent Bear it Away
The Scarlet Pimpernel*
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Patton, Frances Gray
Radcliffe, Ann
Rand, Ayn
Rogers, Dale Evans
Sabatini, Rafael
Sayers, Dorothy
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
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Scott, Sir Walter
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Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter
Shirer, William
Smith, Alexander McCall
Smith, Betty
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Isaevich
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Isaevich (abridgment by
Years 1 - 11
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Mysteries of Udolpho*
Anthem*
Angel Unaware
Scaramouche*
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Anne of Geierstein* (Waverly novel---Charles the
Bold, Margaret of Anjou, &c.)
Castle Dangerous* (Waverly novel---Scotch
Wars)
Count Robert of Paris* (Waverly novel---First
Crusade)
Fair Maid of Perth* (Waverly novel---Scotland,
early Fifteenth Century)
Guy Mannering* (Waverly novel---Time of George
III)
Heart of Midlothian* (Waverly novel---Time of
George II---Porteous Riots)
Kenilworth* (Waverly novel---Elizabeth)
Monastery* (Waverly novel---Melrose and District,
1550)
Old Mortality* (Waverly novel---Bothwell Bridge,
1679)
Peveril of the Peak* (Waverly novel---Time of
Charles II)
Quentin Durward* (Waverly novel---France--Louis XI)
Redgauntlet* (Waverly novel---Time of George
III)
Rob Roy* (Waverly novel---The Jacobites)
St. Ronan’s Well* (Waverly novel---Near Firth of
Forth---1812)
The Abbot* (Waverly novel---Mary, Queen of
Scots)
The Antiquary* (Waverly novel---Scotch Manners,
last decade of Eighteenth Century)
The Betrothed* (Waverly novel---Henry II)
The Black Dwarf* (Waverly novel---Lowlands of
Scotland, 1706---Jacobites)
The Bride of Lammermoor* (Waverly novel--East Lothian, 1695)
The Fortunes of Nigel* (Waverly novel---Time of
James I)
The Legend of Montrose* (Waverly novel--Period of Montrose and the Covenant)
The Pirate (Waverly novel---Shetland and Orkney
Islands, 1700)
The Surgeon’s Daughter* (Waverly novel--Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India---1780)
The Talisman* (Waverly novel---Richard I)
Waverly* (Waverly novel---The Jacobites)
Woodstock* (Waverly novel---Commonwealth
period)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (for
students who want to read more about WWII)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Gulag Archipelago
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The Black Arrow*
Freckles*
Keeper of the Bees
Michael O’Halloran*
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stratton-Porter, Gene
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Sutcliff, Rosemary
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tarkington, Booth
Tarkington, Booth
Thackeray, William
Makepeace
Thurber, James
Thurber, James
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolstoy, Leo
Trollope, Anthony
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Various translators
Various translators
Walton, Izaak
Wangerin, Walter
Wells, H. G.
Wharton, Edith
Wilcock, Penelope
Wilde, Oscar
Wodehouse, P. G.
Years 1 - 11
The Knight’s Fee
The Babus of NayanJore*
Penrod and Sam*
The Plutocrat
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel
in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne*
The Thurber Carnival (alternate or extra)
The Wonderful O (alternate)
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit
The Return of the King
The Two Towers
War and Peace*
Barchester Towers*
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court*
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County*
The Innocents Abroad*
Beowulf*
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Compleat Angler
The Book of the Dun Cow
The War of the Worlds*
Glimpses of the Moon*
The Hawk and the Dove (a trilogy)
The Importance of Being Earnest*
The Little Nugget*, Uneasy Money* (or others)
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