Timeless Classics – Reid School Summer Reading List Kindergarten Coatsworth, Elizabeth Keith, Harold through Grade 6 The Cat Who Went to Heaven 5.0 Rifles for Watie 7.0 *Recommended for K-3, either for Dalgliesh, Alice Kelly, Eric reading by children or for reading The Bears on Hemlock The Trumpeter of Krakow 4.0 to them. Mountain* 4.0 Kipling, Rudyard The Courage of Sarah Noble* 2.9 Captains Courageous 4-5 Adamson, Joy De Angeli, Marguerite Just So Stories for Little 7.8 Born Free 7-8 N The Door in the Wall Children* Aesop De Jong, Meindert N The Jungle Book N Fables* The House of Sixty Fathers 5.1 Kjelgaard, Jim Alcott, Louisa May The Wheel on the School 6.0 Big Red 5.0 Little Women 9.0 Dodge, Mary Mapes Knight, Eric Andersen, Hans Christian Hans Brinker, or the Silver Lassie Come Home 4.0 Krumgold, Joseph Fairy tales 4.0 Skates 4.0 ...and Now Miguel 5-6 Atwater, Richard and Florence Du Bois, William Pene Onion John 6.0 Mr. Popper’s Penguins* 5-6 The Twenty-One Balloons 5.0 La Farge, Oliver Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin Edmonds, Walter D. N Laughing Boy N Miss Hickory The Matchlock Gun 3.0 Lamb, Charles and Mary Barrie, J.M. Estes, Eleanor Tales from Shakespeare Ginger Pye 5-6 Peter Pan 4.0 Latham, Jean Lee Baum, L. Frank Moffats series 5-6 Carry on, Mr. Bowditch 9.0 Farley, Walter The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 5-6 Lawson, Robert The Black Stallion 5-6 Bemelmans, Ludwig Ben & Me 5.0 Field, Rachel Madeline series* 3.0, 5-6 N Rabbit Hill Hitty, Her First Hundred Bond, Michael (series) 4.0-6.0 Leaf, Munro Years 4.0 A Bear Called Paddington The Story of Ferdinand* 3.0 Boston, L.M. Fritz, Jean Lear, Edward N The Cabin Faced West The Children of Green Knowe 4.6 Book of Nonsense* 5-6 Brink, Carol Ryrie Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine G. Lenski, Lois Caddie Woodlawn 6.0 Carey Strawberry Girl 6.0 Brown, Margaret Wise N Cheaper By the Dozen Lewis, C.S. Goodnight, Moon* 1.5 Gipson, Fred N Chronicles of Narnia series Brunhoff, Jean de Old Yeller 6.0 Lindgren, Astrid The Story of Babar and other Godden, Rumer Pippi Longstocking series 4.0 stories* 2.3-3.0 N The Mousewife* Lofting, Hugh Burnett, Frances Hodgson Grahame, Kenneth Doctor Doolittle series 5-6 The Secret Garden 5-6 The Reluctant Dragon* 6.0 London, Jack Burton, Virginia Lee The Wind in the Willows 8.0 The Call of the Wild 4.0 (9.0) Mike Mulligan and His Steam Gray, Elizabeth Janet White Fang 4.0 (5-6) Shovel* 2.8 Adam of the Road 6.0 MacDonald, Betty Butterworth, Oliver Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle* 4.4, 4.5, 5-6 The Enormous Egg 5.0 Grimm’s Fairy Tales 3.0 MacGregor, Ellen Chaucer, Geoffrey Hawes, Charles Miss Pickerell series 5.0, 5.2, 5.6 Canterbury Tales 5-6 N The Dark Frigate McCloskey, Robert Clark, Ann Nolan Haywood, Carolyn Blueberries for Sal* 2.0 Secret of the Andes 6.0 Betsy series* 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 4.4 Homer Price 6.0 Cleary, Beverly Henry, Marguerite Make Way for Ducklings* RL Henry Huggins series 4.0 King of the Wind 3.0 McSwigan, Marie Misty of Chincoteague 5.0 N Snow Treasure Meigs, Cornelia Travers, Pamela L. Day, Clarence Invincible Louisa 4.0 Mary Poppins series 4.0 N Life with Father Milne, A.A. Van Loon, Hendrik Defoe, Daniel N The House at Pooh Corner* N The Story of Mankind Robinson Crusoe 11-12 Now We Are Six* White, Anne Terry Dickens, Charles When We Were Very Young* Knights of the Round Table 5.0 A Christmas Carol 5.0 Winnie-the-Pooh* White, E.B. Douglas, Lloyd C. Minarik, Else Holmelund Charlotte’s Web 5.0 The Robe Little Bear 1.5 Stuart Little 5.0 Doyle, Arthur Conan Montgomery, L.M. Wilder, Laura Ingalls Adventures of Sherlock N Anne of Green Gables Little House series 4-5 Holmes 7.0 Mukerji, Dhan Ghopal Williams, Margery The Hound of the N Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon N The Velveteen Rabbit* Baskervilles 7.0 Norton, Mary Wyss, Johann Dumas, Alexander The Borrowers series 6.0 Swiss Family Robinson 7.0 N The Count of Monte Christo O’Hara, Mary Zion, Gene The Three Musketeers 5.9 My Friend Flicka 6.0 Harry the Dirty Dog* 3.0 Du Maurier, Daphne Pearce, Philippa Rebecca N Tom’s Midnight Garden Grades 7 and 8 Edmonds, Walter D. Perrault, Charles N Drums along the Mohawk Cinderella* 4.9 Alcott, Louisa May Ferber, Edna Potter, Beatrix Little Men 4.0 Cimarron The Tale of Peter Rabbit* RL Bagnold, Enid Forbes, Esther Pyle, Howard N National Velvet Johnny Tremain 8.0 The Merry Adventures of Robin Blackmore, Richard D. Forester, C.S. Hood 10.0 N Lorna Doone The African Queen Rey, H.A. Boulle, Pierre The Hornblower series Curious George series 2.0-3.0 N The Bridge over the River Kwai Frank, Anne Richter, Conrad Bradbury, Ray Diary of a Young Girl 7-8 The Light in the Forest 6.0 N Dandelion Wine Frost, Robert Selden, George Fahrenheit 451 Poems The Cricket in Times Square* 4.0 The Illustrated Man Gallico, Paul Seuss, Dr. Martian Chronicles N The Snow Goose The Cat in the Hat* 1.0 Buchan, John Gunther, John Sewell, Anna N The Thirty-Nine Steps Death Be Not Proud 9-10 Black Beauty 5-6 Bunyan, John Guthrie, A.B. Sorenson, Virginia N The Pilgrim’s Progress The Big Sky Miracles on Maple Hill 3.0 Carroll, Lewis Haggard, H. Rider Speare, Elizabeth George Alice’s Adventures in King Solomon’s Mines The Witch of Blackbird Pond Wonderland 6.0-10.0 Hansberry, Lorraine Sperry, Armstrong Through the Looking Glass Raisin in the Sun Call It Courage 5-6 Clark, Walter Hemingway, Ernest Spyri, Johanna N The Ox-Bow Incident The Old Man and the Sea Heidi 5-6 Cooper, James Fenimore Hersey, John Steinbeck, John N The Deerslayer A Bell for Adano N The Red Pony N The Last of the Mohicans Hiroshima Stevenson, Robert Louis Curie, Eve The Wall A Child’s Garden of Verses 2.0 N Madame Curie: A Biography Heyerdahl, Thor Kidnapped 7.0 Dana, Richard Henry Kon-Tiki 8.0 Treasure Island 7-8 N Two Years Before the Mast Hilton, James Roberts, Kenneth Washington, Booker T. Goodbye, Mr. Chips 5.0 Northwest Passage Up from Slavery N Lost Horizon Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Wells, H.G. Hudson, W.H. The Little Prince The Time Machine N Green Mansions Wind, Sand and Stars War of the Worlds Hughes, Richard Saki Wharton, Edith N A High Wind in Jamaica Stories Ethan Frome Hugo, Victor Schaefer, Jack Wilder, Thornton N The Hunchback of Notre Dame Shane The Bridge of San Luis Rey Irving, Washington Scott, Sir Walter Wister, Owen N The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ivanhoe The Virginian Keller, Helen Shelley, Mary Yates, Elizabeth Story of My Life 4.0 Frankenstein Amos Fortune, Free Man Kennedy, John F. Smith, Betty Profiles in Courage 7.0 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Grades 9 through 12 Kipling, Rudyard Steinbeck, John Kim 9.0 The Pearl Agee, James Knowles, John Tortilla Flat A Death in the Family N A Separate Peace Stevenson, Robert Louis Anderson, Sherwood Lee, Harper The Black Arrow Winesburg, Ohio N To Kill a Mockingbird The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll Austen, Jane L'Engle, Madeleine and Mr. Hyde Emma A Wrinkle in Time 7.0 Stoker, Bram Northanger Abbey London, Jack Dracula Pride and Prejudice N The Sea Wolf Thurber, James Sense and Sensibility Lord, Walter The Thurber Carnival Baldwin, James A Night to Remember Tolkien, J.R.R. Go Tell It on the Mountain Malory, Sir Thomas The Hobbit 7-8 Balzac, Honore de Le Morte d’Arthur The Lord of the Rings Pere Goriot Maxwell, Gavin Torgerson, Don Arthur Beckett, Samuel Ring of Bright Water Gandhi 7.0 Waiting for Godot McCullers, Carson Trapp, Maria The Bible Member of the Wedding Story of the Trapp Family Old Testament Michener, James Singers 7 New Testament The Bridges at Toko-Ri Twain, Mark Bolt, Robert Mitchell, Margaret Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Man for All Seasons Gone with the Wind The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Bronte, Charlotte Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall A Connecticut Yankee in King Jane Eyre Mutiny on the Bounty Arthur’s Court Bronte, Emily O’Dell, Scott Innocents Abroad Wuthering Heights Island of the Blue Dolphins 8.0 Life on the Mississippi Browning, Robert Orczy, Baroness Emma The Prince and the Pauper Poems The Scarlet Pimpernel Verne, Jules Buck, Pearl Paton, Alan Around the World in Eighty The Good Earth Cry, the Beloved Country Days Butler, Samuel Pyle, Howard Journey to the Center of the The Way of All Flesh Men of Iron Earth Camus, Albert Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan Mysterious Island The Plague The Yearling 7.0 20,000 Leagues under the Sea The Stranger Renault, Mary Wallace, Lewis The King Must Die Ben-Hur Cather, Willa Emerson, Ralph Waldo Hesse, Hermann Death Comes for the Essays Demian Archbishop Faulkner, William Siddhartha My Antonia Absalom, Absalom! Steppenwolf Cervantes, Miguel As I Lay Dying Homer Don Quixote Intruder in the Dust Iliad Chaucer, Geoffrey Light in August Odyssey The Canterbury Tales 5-6 The Sound and the Fury Hughes, Langston Chekhov, Anton Fielding, Henry Poems The Cherry Orchard Joseph Andrews Hugo, Victor Chopin, Kate Tom Jones Les Miserables The Awakening Fitzgerald, F. Scott Huxley, Aldous Collins, Wilkie The Great Gatsby Brave New World The Moonstone Tender Is the Night Ibsen, Henrik Conrad, Joseph Flaubert, Gustave A Doll’s House Heart of Darkness Madame Bovary An Enemy of the People Lord Jim Forster, E.M. Ghosts The Secret Sharer A Passage to India Hedda Gabler Victory A Room with a View The Master Builder Crane, Stephen Franklin, Benjamin The Wild Duck The Autobiography of Benjamin The Red Badge of Courage 9-10 James, Henry Franklin Dante The American Galsworthy, John The Divine Comedy Daisy Miller The Forsyte Saga Defoe, Daniel Portrait of a Lady Golding, William Moll Flanders The Turn of the Screw Lord of the Flies Joyce, James Dickens, Charles Goldsmith, Oliver Bleak House She Stoops to Conquer Portrait of the Artist as a David Copperfield Graves, Robert Young Man Great Expectations I, Claudius Dubliners Hard Times Greene, Graham Kafka, Franz Oliver Twist The Heart of the Matter The Castle A Tale of Two Cities The Power and the Glory Metamorphosis Dickinson, Emily Hamilton, Edith The Trial Poems Mythology Keats, John Dinesen, Isak Hardy, Thomas Poems Out of Africa Far From the Madding Crowd Kerouac, Jack Dostoevski, Fyodor Jude the Obscure On the Road Brothers Karamazov The Mayor of Casterbridge Koestler, Arthur Crime and Punishment The Return of the Native Darkness at Noon Dreiser, Theodore Tess of the D’Urbervilles Lawrence, D.H. An American Tragedy Hawthorne, Nathaniel Sons and Lovers Sister Carrie The House of the Seven Gables Lawrence, Jerome & Robert E. Lee Eliot, George The Scarlet Letter 11-12 Inherit the Wind Adam Bede Hemingway, Ernest Lewis, Sinclair Middlemarch A Farewell to Arms Arrowsmith Mill on the Floss For Whom the Bell Tolls Babbitt Silas Marner The Sun Also Rises Main Street Eliot, T.S. Henry, O. Llewellyn, Richard Murder in the Cathedral Stories 11-12 How Green Was My Valley Ellison, Ralph Hersey, John Machiavelli Invisible Man A Single Pebble The Prince MacLeish, Archibald Shakespeare, William White, T.H. J.B. Plays and sonnets The Once and Future King Mann, Thomas Shaw, George Bernard The Sword in the Stone Buddenbrooks Arms and the Man Wilde, Oscar The Magic Mountain Major Barbara The Importance of Being Marlowe, Christopher Pygmalion Earnest Dr. Faustus Saint Joan The Picture of Dorian Gray Maugham, Somerset Sheridan, Richard B. Wilder, Thornton Of Human Bondage The School for Scandal Our Town McCullers, Carson Shute, Nevil Williams, Tennessee The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter On the Beach The Glass Menagerie Melville, Herman Sinclair, Upton A Streetcar Named Desire Billy Budd The Jungle Wolfe, Thomas Moby-Dick Sophocles Look Homeward, Angel Typee Antigone Woolf, Virginia Miller, Arthur Oedipus Rex Mrs. Dalloway The Crucible Steinbeck, John To the Lighthouse Death of a Salesman East of Eden Wouk, Herman Monsarrat, Nicholas The Grapes of Wrath The Caine Mutiny The Cruel Sea Of Mice and Men Wright, Richard O’Neill, Eugene Stowe, Harriet Beecher Black Boy The Emperor Jones Uncle Tom’s Cabin Native Son A Long Day’s Journey into Swift, Jonathan Night Gulliver’s Travels Mourning Becomes Electra Thackeray, William M. Orwell, George Vanity Fair Animal Farm Thoreau, Henry David 1984 Walden Pasternak, Boris Tolstoy, Leo Doctor Zhivago Anna Karenina Poe, Edgar Allan War and Peace Short stories Trollope, Anthony Remarque, Erich Barchester Towers Source: The National Endowment for the All Quiet on the Western Front Turgenev, Ivan Humanities solicited supplemental reading lists Rolvaag, O.E. Fathers and Sons from public and private schools in every state. Giants in the Earth Twain, Mark Many of the schools had been chosen by the U.S. Rostand, Edmond Pudd’nhead Wilson Department of Education as exemplary schools; Cyrano de Bergerac Updike, John others were known to have strong humanities programs. Sixty of the extracurricular lists that Salinger, J.D. Rabbit Run NEH received were used to compile this list. The The Catcher in the Rye Vergil list includes all titles published in 1960 or before The Aeneid that appeared on at least five of those reading lists. Sandburg, Carl Voltaire The only exception is in the early grades: Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Candide Because many schools did not submit suggested readings for these grades, some titles that were Years Warren, Robert Penn mentioned fewer than five times have been added Abraham Lincoln: The War All the King’s Men to the K-3 category. Years Waugh, Evelyn For more information about NEH programs, Saroyan, William Brideshead Revisited ask for the Overview. Write to The Human Comedy A Handful of Dust NEH, Room 406, Washington, D.C. 20506. Sayers, Dorothy Wharton, Edith The Nine Tailors Age of Innocence