Reading Lists

First Form

This Singing World
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Beatrix Potter
AA Milne
Jill Barklem
Tommy dePaola
The Yellow Fairy Book
Now We are Six
Winnie the Pooh
Peter Pan
The Velveteen Rabbit
Just So Stories
The Red Fairy Book
Alice in Wonderland
Little House Series
The Wind in the Willows
Wise Words
Heidi
Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths
The Hobbit
Black Ships Before Troy
Children’s Homer
The Princess and the Goblin
Tales from Shakespeare
The Secret Garden
Robinson Crusoe
Kidnapped
Around the World in Eighty Days
Anne of Green Gables
Tales from Shakespeare

Second Form

Sophocles
Out of the Dust
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jungle Book
Treasure Island
Christmas Carol
Much Ado About Nothing
Great Expectations
Call of the Wild
The Hiding Place
Pilgrims Progress
Out of the Silent Planet
Henry V
Iliad
Aeneid
Herodotus Histories
Plays of Aeschylus
Phaedo
The Early History of Rome
Julius Caesar
Eusebius’ Church History
Confessions
Proslogium
On the Incarnation
The Divine Comedy
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Paradise Lost
Beowulf
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Beowulf
Song of Roland

Third Form

The Social Contract
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Frankenstein
God in the Dock
New England Primer
The Prince
King Lear
Gilgamesh
Enuma Elish
Theogeny and Works and Days
Odyssey
Peloponnesian War
The Republic
The Apocrypha
The Jewish Wars
Coriolanus
Faerie Queene
The Consolation of Philosophy
The City of God
Summa Theologiae
The Song of Roland
Canterbury Tales
Romance of the Rose
The Four Quartets
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
Leviathan
Wealth of Nations
Democracy In America
Second Treatise on Civil Government
Communist Manifesto
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Richard III

Chanticleer the Fox – Cooney
The Courage of Sarah Noble – Dalgliesch
Miss Fanny’s Hat – Karon
Mysterious Tadpole – Kellogg
Johnny Appleseed – Kellogg
Lentil – McCloskey
Author: Bill Peet (any)
Caps for Sale – Slobodkina
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig
Little Bear’s Visit
Frog and Toad are Friends
Madeline
A Birthday for Francis
Caps for Sale
Curious George
The Magic Fish
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

A New Coat for Anna
The Biggest Bear
A Chair for My Mother
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Velveteen Rabbit
Doctor DeSoto
Ox-Cart Man
Pioneer Cat
Balto and the Great Race
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Billy and Blaze
Blaze and the Lost Quarry
The Little House
Nate the Great
The Ugly Duckling

Billy and Blaze (any) – Anderson
Fairy Tales – Anderson
Mr. Popper’s Penguins – Atwater
Prairie School – Avi
Brambly Hedge (any) – Barklem
Milly Molly Mandy – Brisley
A Lion to Guard Us – Bulla
The Best Loved Doll – Caudill
Henry Huggins (any) – Cleary
Mouse and the Motorcycle – Cleary
Pinocchio – Collodi
The Matchlock Gun – Edmonds
The Hundred Dresses – Estes
Stone Fox – Gardiner
Fairy Tales – Grimm
When Jesse Came Across the Sea – Hest
Country Bunny and Little Gold Shoes – Heyward

The Amazing Air Balloon – Leeuwen
Homer Price – McCloskey
Sarah Plain and Tall – MacLaughlin
Mirette on the High Wire – McGully
Owls in the Family – Mowat
Amelia Bedelia – Parish
The Littles (any) – Peterson
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot – Raven
More Stories from Grandma’s Attic (any) – Richardson
Keep the Lights Burning Abbie – Roop
Pilgrim Boy – Smith
Encyclopedia Brown (any) – Sobol
The Little Red Lighthouse – Swift
The Boxcar Children – Warner
Little House (Series) – Wilder
Velveteen Rabbit – Williams

Chronicles of Prydain (series) – Alexander
River Boy – Anderson
Mr. Popper’s Penguins – Atwater
Peter Pan – Barrie
The Divide – Bedard
Crown and Covenant (series) – Bond
Pecos Bill – Bowman
Caddie Woodlawn – Brink
Freddy the Detective (any) – Brooks
Pinocchio – Collodi
The Golden Fleece – Colum
The Children’s Homer – Colum
Abraham Lincoln – D’Aulaire
Book of Greek Myths – D’Aulaire
Book of Norse Myths – D’Aulaire
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Dahl
The Fantastic Mr. Fox – Dahl
Danny, Champion of the World – Dahl
The Saturdays (series) – Enright
The Hundred Dresses – Estes
The Moffats – Estes
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Flemming
The Cabin Faced West – Fritz
Tree Castle Island – George
My Side of the Mountain – George
Old Yeller – Gipson

The Reluctant Dragon – Graham
Misty of Chincoteague – Henry
The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald– Hicks
St. George and the Dragon – Hodges
Red Wall – Jacques
Scottish Seas – Jones
Cabin on Trouble Creek – Leeuwen
Strawberry Girl – Lenski
Chronicles of Narnia (any) – Lewis
Dr. Dolittle – Lofting
Betsy and Tacy – Lovelace
Gentle Ben – Morey
The Dragon of Lonely Island – Rupp
Hundred and One Dalmatians – Smith
Ballet Shoes – Streatfield
Black Ships Before Troy – Sutcliff
All of a Kind Family – Taylor
Peppermints in the Parlor – Wallace
Stuart Little – White
Charlotte’s Web – White
Trumpet of the Swan – White
Little House on the Prairie (any) – Wilder
Detectives in Togas – Winterfeld
Trouble at Timpetill – Winterfeld
Leepike Ridge – Wilson

Bud and Me – Abernathy
The Spanish Brothers – Alcock
The King’s Shadow – Alder
Andersen’s Fairy Tales Crispin – Avi
Tuck Everlasting – Babbitt
The Indian in the Cupboard – Banks
Peter Pan – Barrie
The Wizard of Oz – Baum
Archimedes and the Door of Science –Bendick
The Shakespeare Stealer – Blackwood
Crown and Covenant Series – Bond
Madeline Takes Command – Brill
Caddie Woodlawn – Brink
Baby Island – Brink
The Mad Scientists’ Club – Brinley
Freddy the Detective – Brooks
A Little Princess – Burnett
Secret Garden – Burnet
The Midnight Fox – Byars
Understood Betsy – Canfield
The Kellyhorns – Cooney
The Boy in the Alamo – Cousins
The Wanderer – Creech
The Silver Pencil – Dalgliesh
House of Sixty Fathers – DeJong
The Wheel on the School – DeJong
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates – Dodge
The Drums of War – Doyle
Duel in the Wilderness – Farley
The Whipping Boy – Fleischman
Johnny Tremain – Forbes
The Red Keep – French
King Arthur – Green

Out of the Dust – Hesse
Sketchbook (of Geoffrey Crayon) – Irving
Huguenot Garden – Jones
Scottish Seas – Jones Phantom
Tollbooth – Juster
Seaman – Karwoski
The Trumpeter of Krakow –Kelly
Carry on Mr. Bowdich – Latham
Daughters of Faith (any) – Lawton
Puritan Adventure – Lenski
Chronicles of Narnia (any) – Lewis
Snow Treasure – McSwigan
Anne of Green Gables – Montgomery
Little Britches – Moody
Gentle Ben – Morey
Ransom’s Mark – Oatman
Island of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell
My Friend Flicka – O’Hara
Beorn the Proud – Polland
The Life of Washington – Pollard
Pollyanna – Porter
Otto of the Silver Hand – Pyle
Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls
Black Beauty – Sewell
Ballet Shoes – Streatfield
Eagle of the Ninth – Sutcliff
The Cay – Taylor
The Hobbit – Tolkien
Swiss Family Robinson – Weiss
Dandilion Fire – Wilson
100 Cupboards – Wilson
(Author) Patricia St. John

Eight Cousins – Alcott
God’s Smuggler – Andrew
Iron Thunder – Avi
Small Woman – Aylward
National Velvet- Bagnold
The Hiding Place – Boom
Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan
A Little Princess – Burnett
Alice in Wonderland – Carroll
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
Little Maid (any) – Curtis
House of Sixty Fathers – DeJong
A Christmas Carol – Dickens
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Twenty and Ten – DuBois
Johnny Tremain – Forbes
Alexander the Great – Fox
Stout Hearted Seven – Frazier
Across Five Aprils – Fritz
Brady – Fritz
Homesick – Fritz
Blue Willow – Gates
My Side of the Mountain – George
Old Yeller – Gipson
Carry a Big Stick – Grant
Leaders in Action Series – Grant
Robin Hood – Lancelyn Green
Adoniram Judson – Hambrick
M.C. Higgins the Great – Hamilton
The Dark Frigate – Hawes
Any Title – G.A. Henty
A Father’s Promise – Hess
Up a Road Slowly – Hunt
Gettysburg – Kantor
Lee and Grant at Appomattox – Kantor
Rifles for Waite – Keith
The Trumpeter of Krakow – Kelly
Jungle Book – Kipling
Lassie Come Home – Knight

The Great Wheel – Lawson
Daughters of Faith – Lawton
Shadow of His Hand – Lawton
Out of the Silent Planet – Lewis
Call of the Wild – London
White Fang – London
Number the Stars – Lowry
Guns of Navarone – MacLean
The Pushcart War – Merrill
Anne of Green Gables (any) – Montgomery
Autobiography of George Muller
Heroes of the Early Church – Newton
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Orczy
A Girl of the Limberlost – Porter
The Yearling – Rawlings
Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew – Shakespeare
The Deadly Hunt – Shirer
Bronze Bow – Speare
The Black Arrow – Stevenson
Treasure Island – Stevenson
Winged Watchman – Stockum
The Eagle of the Ninth – Sutcliff
The Shining Company – Sutcliff
Air Raid, Pearl Harbor – Taylor
The Cay – Taylor
Lad: A Dog – Terhune
Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
A Coming Evil – Velde
Around the World in Eighty Days – Verne
Journey Through the Night – Vries
War of the Worlds – Wells
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Wiggin
Shadow of a Bull – Wojciechowska
Amos Fortune – Yates
Heroes of the Reformation Series
Heroes of the Faith Series
Men of Faith Series

Watership Down – Adams
Agamemnon – Aeschylus
Persuasion – Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Austen
The Small Woman – Burgess
A Princess of Mars, et al – Burroughs
Tolkien – Carpenter
Father Brown Stories – Chesterton
Leatherstocking Tales (Deerslayer, Last of the Mohicans, etc.) – Cooper
Great Expectations – Dickens
Sherlock Holmes Stories – Doyle
Brigadier General – Doyle
The Three Musketeers – Dumas
Through Gates of Splendor – Elliot
Shadow of the Almighty – Elliot

A Chance to Die – Elliot
Trial and Triumph – Hannula
Captains Courageous – Kipling
Kim – Kipling
The Early History of Rome – Livy
Michael Faraday – Ludwig
Phaedo – Plato
The Story of King Arthur – Pyle
Evidence Not Seen – Rose
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
Kidnapped – Stevenson
Hudson Taylor – Taylor
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
The Prince and The Pauper – Twain
Aeneid – Virgil
Ben Hur – Wallace

Little Women – Alcott
On the Incarnation – St. Athanasius
Confessions – St. Augustine
Proslogion – St. Anselm
The 39 Steps – Buchan
A Knight’s Tale – Chaucer
The Divine Comedy – Dante
David Copperfield – Dickens
The White Company – Doyle
Sir Nigel – Doyle
Robinson Crusoe – Dufoe
Church History – Eusebius
Lord of the Flies – Golding
King Solomon’s Mines – Haggard
Tom Brown’s School Days – Hughes
95 Theses – Luther
Screwtape Letters – Lewis

Martin Luther – Nichols
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Pyle
Ivanhoe – Scott
Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
Theban Tragedies – Sophocles
Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
Lord of the Rings (Series) – Tolkien
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Twain
The Prince and the Pauper – Twain
Chronicles of the Crusades – Joinville and Villenhardouin
Any Title – Wodehouse
The Rule of St. Benedict
Beowulf
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Emma – Austen
Mansfield Park – Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Austen
Of Plymouth Plantation – Bradford
Life and Diary – Brainerd
Andrew Jackson – H.W. Brands
The First American – H.W. Brands
Jane Eyre – Bronte
Reflections on the Revolution in France – Burke
Winston Churchill – Carter
Lincoln – Cartwardine
O Pioneers! – Cather
Jefferson’s Great Gamble – Cerami
The Ball and the Cross – Chesterton
The Last of the Mohicans – Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage – Crane
A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
Bleak House – Dickens
The Real Lincoln – DiLorenzo
His Excellency – Ellis
Daniel Boone – Faragher
The Autobiography – Franklin
God’s Politician – Lean
To Kill A Mockingbird – Lee

God in the Dock – Lewis
The Prince – Machiavelli
A Man Called Peter – Marshall
Churchill at War – Moran
Animal Farm – Orwell
The Chosen – Potok
The Promise – Potok
George Washington – Randall
The Social Contract – Rousseau
The Slave Narratives
Henry V – Shakespeare
Hamlet – Shakespeare
A Christian Manifesto – Shaeffer
Frankenstein – Shelley
Grant – Smith
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
History of Political Philosophy – ed. Strauss
John Pal Jones – Thomas
The Christian Doctrine of Slavery – Thornwell
Tom Sawyer – Twain
Children of the Storm – Vins
New England Primer
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

What’s Wrong With the World– Chesterton
What I Saw in America – Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday – Chesterton
Any Title – Agatha Christie
Sermons – Chrysostom
On Duties – Cicero
On Friendship – Cicero
Any Title – Charles Dickens
Mythology – Hamilton
The Greek Way – Hamilton
The Roman Way – Hamilton
Theogony and Works and Days – Hesiod
Odyssey – Homer
Les Miserables – Hugo
The Jewish Wars – Josephus
Mere Christianity – Lewis
Till We Have Faces – Lewis

On the Nature of Things – Lucretius
Nicholas and Alexandra – Massie
The Metamorphoses – Ovid
The Republic – Plato
The Nine Tailors – Sayers
The Twelve Caesars – Seutonius
Coriolanus – Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Theban Plays – Sophocles
Annals of Imperial Rome – Tacitus
Peloponnesian War – Thucydides
The Silmarillion – Tolkien
Plutarch’s Lives
The Apocrypha
Gilgamesh
Enuma Elish

The City of God – St. Augustine
Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius
Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Bronte
Institutes of the Christian Religion – Calvin
Don Quixote – Cervantes
Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
Divine Comedy – Dante
Love in the Western World – De Rougemont
Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas
The Name of the Rose – Eco
Two Lives of Charlemagne – Einhard and Noker
The Four Quartets – TS Eliot
The Temple – George Herbert
Hunchback of Notre Dame – Hugo
Concise Theology – JI Packer
The Imitation of Christ – Kempis
Discarded Image – Lewis
Surprised by Joy – Lewis
On the Bondage of the Will – Luther
Jonathan Edwards – Murray

Cicero: A Biography – Peterson
Oxford Book of English Verse – Quiller-Couch
John Calvin – Reymond
Ivanhoe – Scott
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus – Shakespeare
Othello – Shakespeare
The Tempest – Shakespeare
(Comedy, Shipwreck, Island)
Defense of Poesie – Sidney
Faerie Queene – Spencer
Summa Theologica – St. Thomas
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – trans. Tolkien
War and Peace – Tolstoy
any Barchester Chronicles – Trollope
Joan of Arc – Twain
Romance of the Rose
The Song of Roland
Tristan & Iseult

Life of Antony – St. Athanasius
Sermons – St. Augustine
Northanger Abbey – Austen
On Christian Ethics – St. Basil
On Christian Doctrine – St. Basil
Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
Agnes Grey – A. Bronte
Villette – C. Bronte
Wuthering Heights – E. Bronte
Cold Sassy Tree – Burns
The Bet, Ward No. 6, or other stories – Chekhov
Orthodoxy – Chesterton
St. Francis of Assisi – Chesterton
The Dumb Ox (Aquinas) – Chesterton
The Everlasting Man – Chesterton
Sermons or Letters – St. Chrysostom
The Deerslayer – Cooper
Origin of Species – Darwin
Descent of Man – Darwin
Oliver Twist – Dickens
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Dillard
Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky
The Idiot – Dostoevsky
The Souls of Black Folk – DuBois
Religious Affections – Edwards
The Bacchae – Euripides
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
Lectures on Revivals – Finney
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
The Power and the Glory – Greene
Life of St. Benedict – St. Gregory the Great
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
Leviathan – Hobbes
Revolutions in Worldview – Hoffecker
Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur – Houghton
Treatise on Human Nature – Hume
Brave New World – Huxley
The Portrait of a Lady – James
A Critique of Pure Reason – Kant
Schindler’s List – Keneally
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce

Solomon Among the Postmoderns – Leithart
How Green Was My Valley – Llewellyn
Second Treatise on Civil Government – Locke
Christianity and Liberalism – Machen
Das Kapital – Marx
Communist Manifesto – Marx & Engels
Moby Dick – Melville
Paradise Lost – Milton
Utopia – More
The Birth of Tragedy – Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzsche
Life of Moses – St. Gregory of Nyssa
Mystery and Manners – O’Connor
Wise Blood – O’Connor
1984 – Orwell
Common Sense – Paine
Pensees – Pascal
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Posman
My Name is Asher Lev – Potok
The Gift of Asher Lev – Potok
The Jungle – Sinclair
Richard III – Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew – Shakespeare
Wealth of Nations – Smith
Cancer Ward – Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn
Ethics – Spinoza
The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
The Pearl – Steinbeck
Dracula – Stoker
History of Political Philosophy – Leo Strauss
Walden and Civil Disobedience – Thoreau
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Tolstoy
Democracy In America – de Tocqueville
The Time Machine – Wells
Invisible Man – Wells
Night – Wiesel
The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
Our Town – Wilder
The Didache