Reading List

This is not a complete list of classics by any stretch, but a compilation of various lists I found. These range from picture books to high school, more “mature” themed novels. (Email me if you have other suggestions – hthaden at gmail dot com.)

Many of these I’ve not yet read myself and I’m crossing out the ones we’ve read so far with the kids.

20,000 Leagues under the Sea
A Bear Called Paddington
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy…
Abel’s Island
Adam of the Road
Adventure’s Sherlock Holmes
Aesop
Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible
Alice in Wonderland
Anansi the Spider
and Now Miguel
Anderson’s
Animal Farm
Anne Frank
Anne Green Gables
Anno’s Alphabet, Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
Arabian Nights
Around World 80 Days
Autobio Benjamin Franklin
Babar
Babe: The Gallant Pig
Battle Hymn Republic
Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Beauty & the Beast
Ben & Me
Ben Hur
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Betsy series, Haywood
Big Red
Black Beauty
Black SHips before Troy
Black Stallion
Blind Man & Elephant
Blueberries for Sal
Book of Nonsense
Book of Three
Borrowers
Boy Old Prague
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Bridge to Terabithia
Cabin Faced West
Caddie Woodlawn
Call it Courage
Call of Wild
Caps for Sale
Captain Courageous
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Castle & Cathedral
Chanticleer and the Fox
Charlotte’s Web
Cheaper by the Dozen
Chicken Little
CHristmas Carol
Cinderella
Collected Verse Edgar Guest
Concord Hymn
Connecticut Yankee in King Aruther’s Court
Constitution
Counte Monte Crisco
Courage of Sarah Noble
Cricket in Time Square
Cricket & Bullfrogs
Crow Boy
Crucible
Curious George
Dancing Stars: An Iroquois Legend
Dark is Rising
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths
D’Aulaire’s Norse Gods & Giants
David Copperfield
Davy Crockett Legends
Declaration Independence
Deerslayer
Dinotopia
Don Quixote
Dr Jekyl & Mr. Hyde
Dr. Seuss
Dred Scott Decision
East O’the Sun & West O’the Moon
Education of Henry ADams
Eight Cousins
Emily Post’s Etiquette
Emperor’s New Clothes
Enchanted Castle
Ender’s Game
ERnestine G. Carey
Ethan Frome
Every Time I climb a Tree
Fairy Tales:
Favorite Fairytales Told Around the World
Flatland
Foundation Series
Fourth Wiseman
Frankenstein
Freddy the Detective
Frog & Toad
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basill E. Frankweiler
Gay-Neck, Story of Piegion
Gettysburg ADdress
Gift of Magi
Ginger Pye
Give me Liberty or GIve me Death
Giving Tree
God Save the Flag
Goldilocks
Good Earth
Goose that Laid the Golden Egg
Great Brain Series
Great Expectations
Grimm’s
Gulliver’s Travels
Hamilton’s Mythololgy
Hamlet
Hans Brinker
Hansel & Gretel
Harriet the Spy
Harriet Tubman
Harry the Dirty Dog
Heidi
Henry Huggin series
Hiding Place
Highwayman
HIstory Reborn
Hitty, her First Hundred Years
Hobbit
Homer Price
House Seven Gables
House of Sixty Fathers
How Many Spots does a Leopard Have
Huckleberry Finn
Humbug Mountain
Hundred Dresses
I have a Dream
I’m Nobody
In Flander’s Field
Incredible Journey
Invincible Louisa
Ivanhoe
Ira Sleeps Over
Island of the Blue Dolphin
Ivanhoe
Jack & beanstalk
Jack & Three Sillies
James & Giant Peach
Jo’s Boys
Joan of Arc (Twain)
John Henry
Johny Tremain
Journey to Center Earth
Journey Home
Julie of the Wolves
Julius Cesar (Shakespeare)
Jungle Book
Just So (Kipling)
King Arthur & Round Table
King of the Wind
Kon Tiki
Laddie
Last Mohicans
Laughing Boy
Legend Sleepy Hollow
Let America be American again
Light in the Forest
LIncoln, Man of the People
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Little Bear
Little boy Blue
Little Britches Series
Little Engine that Could
Little House
Little Lord Faunterleroy
Little Men
Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Prince
Little Women
Lonesome GOds
Lon Po Po
Lord of Rings
Madame Curie
Madeline
Make way for Ducklings
Many Moons
Mary Poppins
Matchlock Gun
Mathematicians are People, too
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel
Miracles on Maple Hill
Miss Hickory
Miss Pickerell
Misty of Chincoteague
Moby Dick
Moffat Series
Mother Goose
Moves make the man
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter’s
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Mrs Frisby & Rats of Nimh
Mrs. Piggle-wiggle
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Family & Other Animals
My Friend Flicka
Mythology Edith Hamilton
Narnia
Narrative of Life of Frederick Do9uglas
National Velvet
Night Before Christmas
Noah Webster’s 1828
Noah’s Ark
North to Freedom
Nursery Tales told Around the World
O Captain
Old Ironsides
Old Man & Sea
Old Yeller
Oliver Twist
On Numbers
One Fine Day
Onion John
Owl Moon
Paul Bunyon
Paul REvere’s Ride
Pecos Bill
Perilous Guard
Peter Pan
Peter Rabbit
Phantom Tollbooth
Pied Piper
Pinocchio
Piping Down the Valleys
Pippi Longstockings
Pollyana
Prairie Songs
Present Crisis
Princess & pea
Puss in Boots
Rabbit Hill
Raisin in the Sun
Ramona Series
Rapunzel
Real Benjamin Franklin
Real George Washington
Real Thomas Jefferson
Red Badge of Courage
Red Pony
Ride a Purple Pelican
Rifles for Watie
Riki Tiki Tavi
Road not taken
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Romeo & Juliet
 (Lamb version)
Rumplestilskin
Sackett Series
Sarah, Plain & Tall
Scarlet Pimpernel
Secret Garden
Secret of the Andes
Shrinking of Treehorn
Sleeping Beauty
Snow Treasure
Snow White
Soldiers, Statesmen, & Heroes
Song of Hiawatha
Sonnets Shakes
Sounder
Spiritual Lives of Great Composters
Story of Babar
Story of my Life Helen Keller
Stories of Gods & Heroes
Strawberry Girl
Stuart Little
Summer of the Monkeys
Sundiat
Swinger of Birches
Swiss Family Robinson
Sword in Stone
Sylvester & Magic Pebble
Tale of Arabian Nights
Tales of Mystery & Imagination Poe
Tales from Shakespeare Charles & Mary Lamb
The Cat Who went to Heaven
The Children of Green Knowe
The Chosen
The Dark Frigate
The Door in the Wall
The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia
The Enormous Egg
The Fun of It: Random Records of my Own flying…
The Light in the Forest
THe Man with the Hoe
The Mousewife
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The Rainbow People
The Reluctant Dragon
The Robe
The Story of Ferdinand
The Story of Mankind
The Virginian
The Yearling
Thor & the Giants
Three Billy Goats Gruff
THree Little Pigs
Time Machine
To Kill a Mockinbird
Tom Sawyer
Tom Thumb
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Treasure Island
Tree Grows in Brooklynn
Trumpet of the Swans
Trumpeter of Krawkow
Tuck Everlasting
Twenty one Balloons
Ugly Duckling
Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales
Ulysses
Up From Slavery
Velveteen Rabbit
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Walking Drum
Washington, the Indispensable Man
Westing Game
Wheel on the School
Where the Red Fern Grows
Whipping Boy
White Fang
William Tell
Wind in Willows
Winne the Pooh
Witch Blackbird Pond
Wizard of Earthsea
Wonder Book Nathanial Hawthorne
Wonderful WIzard of Oz
Wrinkle in Time
You Come Too

Great Classical Myths
Theseus and the Minotaur
The Trojan Horse
Odysseus and the Cyclops
Perseus and Medusa
The Labors of Hercules
Arachne’s Tapestry
Icarus and Daedalus
Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun
Persephone and Hades
Orpheus and Eurydice
King Midas and the Golden Touch
The Quest for the Golden Fleece