A list of classic children’s books from The 1000 Good Books List (which doesn’t seem to be available anymore so I’m sure glad that I copied their list) that I would like to read:
Senior Reading Level:
Poems & Anthologies
Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
Battle of Maldon & Other Old English Poems by Crossley-Holland & Mitchell
Blindman’s World and Other Stories by Edward Bellamy
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga
Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Ivan Turgenev
Hamlet by William Shakespeare January 23, 2015
Henry IV and other histories by William Shakespeare December 24, 2014
Holy Sonnets and Other Divine Poems by John Donne
Homeric Hymns
Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
Macbeth and other tragedies by William Shakespeare
Minor Poems by Edmund Spenser
Necklace and Other Stories and others by Guy DeMaupassant
Pearl by Charles Osgood
Poems by C. S. Lewis
Poems by G. K. Chesterton
Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poems by John Keats
Poems by John Milton
Poems by Lord Byron
Poems by Matthew Arnold
Poems by Percy Blythe Shelley
Poems by Robert Burns
Poems by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Poems by Sir Walter Scott
Poems by William Wordsworth
Poems of Hesoid
Poetry as a Means Of Grace by Charles Osgood
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by James Winny February 28, 2013
Sir Orfeo by Unknown
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Stories and Plays by Anton Chekhov
Taming of The Shrew and other comedies by William Shakespeare
Ursule Mirouet and Other Stories by Honore de Balzac
Literature
All Creatures Great and Small and others by James Herriot
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque August 5, 2013
Amazing Adventures of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
American Leonardo by Carleton Mabee
Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov July 25, 2011
Animal Farm; 1984 by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy January 31, 2012
Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Bible in Spain by George Borrows
Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan
Borden of Yale by Mrs. Howard Taylor
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley November 24, 2012
Burning Bush and others by Sigrid Undset
Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead November 17, 2001
Cabinet of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac
Captain Cook’s Explorations by James Cook
Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset
Charterhouse of Parma and others by Stendahl
Chivalry and others by James Branch Cabell
Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Contender by Robert Lipsyte
Covenant and other historical fiction by James A. Michener
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cripps, the Carrier by Richard Blackmore
Crisis by Thomas Paine
Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
Cruise of the “Nona” and others by Hilaire Belloc
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Darwin’s Black Box by Michel Behe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens January 15, 2014
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather March 25, 2013
Death of the Gods by Dmitri Merejkowski
Diary & Autobiography of John Adams edited by L. Butterfield
Diary by David Brainerd
Diary of a Country Priest and others by George Bernanos November 18, 2012
Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead
Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Emma by Jane Austen December 2007
Erewhon by Samuel Butler May 16, 2015
Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
Every Living Thing by James Herriot
Experience the Depths of Jesus Christ by Madame Jeanne Guyon
Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography by Hans Christian Anderson
Fathers and Sons and others by Ivan Turgenev September 19, 2014
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Four Voyages to the New World by Christopher Columbus
Foxe’s Christian Martyrs by John Foxe, edited by W. Grinton Berry
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald January 2, 2014
Green Mansions and others by William H. Hudson
Heart of Darkness and others by Joseph Conrad
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton
House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, translated by D. H. Lawrence
House of Seven Gables and others by Nathaniel Hawthorne
How I Found Livingstone by Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Iceland Fisherman and others by Pierre Loti
In This Sign by Joanne Greenburg
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte October 5, 2011
Jerusalem and others by Selma Lagerlof
Journal by George Fox
Journal by John Wesley
Lalla Rookh by Tom Moore
Lavengro by George Borrows
Life of Columbus by Washington Irving
Life of George Washington by Washington Irving
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Lord Peter and other mysteries by Dorothy Sayers
Lorna Doone by Richard D. Blackmore
Man Called Thursday by G. K. Chesterton August 20, 2014
Martin Chuzzelwitt by Charles Dickens April 21, 2013
My Antonia by Willa Cather April 17, 2013
My Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Old Creole Days and others by George Washington Cable
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway May 4, 2014
On Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau May 18, 2015
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and others by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Paradise War and others in trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead
Peace Child by Don Richardson
Pere Goirot by Honore de Balzac
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Pillar of Iron and other historical fiction by Taylor Caldwell
Power & the Glory and other historical fiction by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen October 8, 2013
Prisoner of Zenda and others by Anthony Hope Hawkins
Rabble in Arms and others by Kenneth Roberts
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
Raven: a Biography of Sam Houston and other biographies by Marquis James
Red and The Black by Stendahl June 7, 2012
Romany Rye by George Borrows
Roots of the Mountains by William Morris
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini February 2009
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone
Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Scott
Sense and Sensibility and others by Jane Austen July 25, 2015
Servant of Slaves and others by Grace Irwin
Sevastopol Sketches and others by Leo Tolstoy
Shadows on the Park by Willa Cather
Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Song of the Scaffold by Gertrud von Le Fort
Tale of the South Downs by Richard Blackmore
Taliesin and others in series by Stephen R. Lawhead
Thirty Nine Steps and others by John Buchan November 2010
Travels in Arabian Deserts by Charles Doughty
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery August 8, 2013
Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith ????
Virginians and others by William Makepeace Thackery
Voyages to the New World by Hakluyt
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy August 3, 2014
War of the Worldviews by Gary DeMar
Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: Life of Christopher Columbus & others by Samuel E. Morison
Adventures of Richard Hannay and others by John Buchan
All Men Are Brothers and others by Pearl S. Buck
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Anne of Green Gables and others by Lucy Maud Montgomery March 25, 2013
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
Boy Alone and others in the trilogy by Reginald Ottley
Boy on the Rooftop by Tomas Szabo
Boy’s War by David J. Michell
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder October 2010
Bruchko by Bruce Olson
Bulfinch’s Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch’s Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch’s Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
Call of the Canyon and others by Zane Gray
Chase Me, Catch Nobody by Erik Christian Haugaard
The Chosen by Chaim Potok September 2010
Christy by Catherine Marshall October 2010
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (read 2)
Cider Days by Mary Stolz
Circuit Rider and others by Edward Eggleston
Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Day of Pleasure by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Devil in Print by Mary Drewery
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Flames of Rome by Paul Maier December 2010
For Love of Jody by Robbie Branscum
Giants in the Earth and others by O. E. Rolvaag
Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacClean
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’Dell
Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien March 2011
Hoosier School-Boy by Edward Eggleston
Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston
Hound of the Baskervilles & others by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle April 17, 2012
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn December 2009
If You Love Me Nothing Else Matters by Patricia St. John
In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
In the Hall of the Dragon King & others in the trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead
Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Julius Caesar and other biographies by John Buchan
King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell
Leader by Destiny by Jeanette Eaton
Life of David Crockett by Davey Crockett
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Likely Lad by Gillian Avery
Lion’s Paw by D. R. Sherman
Little White Horse and others by Elizabeth Goudge
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein February 22, 2012
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle July 2011
Mama’s Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes December 15, 2012
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Max’s Dream by William Mayne
Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Moonstone and others by Wilkie Collins January 2, 2016
Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
Mrs. Mike by Benedict & Nancy Freedman
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nikolenka’s Childhood by Leo Tolstoy
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather
Odyssey of Homer by Barbara Leonie Picard
Of Courage Undaunted by James Daugherty
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Pictures of Travel in Sweden by Hans Christian Anderson
Pond by Robert Murphy
Portable Chaucer by Theodore Morrison November 15, 2015
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
Prospering by Elizabeth George Speare
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggen
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy February 2009
Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
Silver Chalice and other historical fiction by Thomas B. Costain
Slake’s Limbo by Felice Holman
Small Woman by Alan Burgess
Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Stories of Charlemagne by Jennifer Westwood
Story of a Bad Boy and others by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell
String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Ten Fingers for God by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Time Enough for Drums by Anne Rinaldi
Time Machine and others by H. G. Wells January 11, 2016
To the Tune of a Hickory Stick by Robbie Branscum
Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Valley of the Shadow by Janet Hickman
Virginian and others by Owen Wister May 28, 2013
Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells March 13, 2012
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Whale Song by Robert Siegel
White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
White Fang by Jack London
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
Young Brontes by Mary Louise Jarden
Ben Hur and others by Lew Wallace October 19, 2012
Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas August 18, 2013
Blood and Sand by Blasco Ibanez
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas March 2006
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Blasco Ibanez
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley April 5, 2014
Fromont Jeune by Alphonse Daudet
George Trilby by Du Maurier
Gil Blas by Alain Le Sage
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Greek Way to Western Civilization by Edith Hamilton
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift January 3, 2015
Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley
Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
King Solomon’s Mines and others by Henry Rider Haggard
Last Days of Pompeii by Lord Edward Bulwar-Lytton
Legends of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo January 2009
Lilith by George MacDonald
Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison
Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
Middlemarch by George Eliot August 2007 & June 23, 2013
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Bowen
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Pilgrim’s Progress and others by John Bunyan
Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson
Quatre-Vingt-Treize by Victor Hugo
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Roman Way to Western Civilization by Edith Hamilton
Sanders of the River and others by Edgar Wallace
Silas Marner and others by George Eliot
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Taking of the Bastille by Alexandre Dumas
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens April 2012
Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
Tartarin by Alphonse Daudet
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas April 1, 2012
Travels by Marco Polo
Travels in Africa by Mungo Park
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Whites and The Blues by Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte February 1, 2014
Beowulf, the Warrior by Ian Serraillier
Best-Loved Poems of the American People selected by Hazel Felleman
Blue Fairy Book and others by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford RA
Book of Americans by Rosemary & Stephen V. Benet
Book of Virtues by William Bennett
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc
Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens
Child’s Geography of the World by V. M. Hillyer
Child’s History of Art by V. M. Hillyer
Child’s History of the World by V. M. Hillyer
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson RA
Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris
Hero Tales by Dave and Neta Jackson
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Walter Crane RA
John Gilpin’s Ride by William Cowper
Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
LuLu’s Library and other short story anthologies by Louisa May Alcott
McGuffey’s Second and Third Reader by William McGuffey RA
Moral Compass by William Bennett
Myths of the World by Padraic Colum
Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault RA
Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, illustrated by Kate Greenaway
Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and others by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sketch Book by Washington Irving
Song of Hiawatha and other poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stories of Great Americans by Edward Eggleston
Story of the Greeks and others by H. A. Guerber
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne RA
Treasury of Children’s Literature by Armand Eisen
Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne RA
Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle