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Robinson Curriculum Book List Some Titles and Authors Have Been Corrected Or Expanded from the Original List Robinson Curriculum Book List Some titles and authors have been corrected or expanded from the original list. REQUIRED BOOKS 1. McGuffey's Eclectic Primer - William McGuffey 2. McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey 3. Nursery Rhymes (Altemus' Wee Books) - Various Authors 4. The Life of George Washington - Josephine Pollard 5. McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey 6. The Tale of Jolly Robin - Arthur Scott Bailey 7. The Tale of Solomon Owl - Arthur Scott Bailey 8. Our Hero General U. S. Grant - Josephine Pollard 9. The Tale of Paddy Muskrat - Arthur Scott Bailey 10. The Bobbsey Twins at School - Laura Lee Hope 11. Childhood's Happy Hours - O. M. Dunham 12. Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World - Josephine Pollard 13. Young Folks' Bible - Josephine Pollard 14. Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin 15. Four American Naval Heroes - Mabel Borton Beebe 16. The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 17. The Rover Boys on the River - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 18. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - Margaret Sidney 19. Five Little Peppers Midway - Margaret Sidney 20. The Rover Boys at College - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 21. Tom Swift and His Airship - Victor Appleton 22. The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 23. Tom Swift and His Air Scout - Victor Appleton 24. The Adventures of Pinocchio (or A Tale of a Puppet) - C. Collodi 25. The Rover Boys on a Tour - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 26. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss 27. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 28. Ben Pepper - Margaret Sidney 29. Uncle Remus (His Songs and His Sayings) - Joel Chandler Harris 30. The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 31. Aesop's Fables - Aesop 32. The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 33. The Adventures of Joel Pepper - Margaret Sidney 34. Heidi - Johanna Spyri 35. The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 36. Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat - Victor Appleton 37. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin 38. The Rover Boys Down East - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 39. Do and Dare - Horatio Alger 40. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll 41. The Rover Boys on a Hunt - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) 42. Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris 43. Jack's Ward - Horatio Alger 44. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey 45. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling 46. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge 47. The Boy Knight also called Winning His Spurs or Fighting the Saracens - G. A. Henty 48. Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat - Victor Appleton 49. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 50. Bob, Son of Battle also called Owd Bob - Alfred Ollivant 51. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott 52. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey 53. The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning 54. The Friend of Washington; A Young Folks' Life of General Lafayette - Henry C. Watson 55. Brave and Bold - Horatio Alger 56. Facing the World - Horatio Alger 57. David Crockett, Scout - Charles Fletcher Allen 58. Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington 59. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling 60. Told by Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris 61. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle 62. Uncle Remus and His Friends - Joel Chandler Harris 63. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey 64. Picturesque America (Vol. 1) - William Cullen Bryant 65. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift 66. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 67. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. 1) - Ulysses S. Grant 68. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling 69. The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling 70. The Pathfinder - James Fenimore Cooper 71. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. 2) - Ulysses S. Grant 72. Life of George Washington (Vol. 1) - Washington Irving 73. The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 74. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain 75. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 76. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan 77. Life of George Washington (Vol. 2) - Washington Irving 78. Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 - Rudyard Kipling 79. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey 80. Life of George Washington (Vol. 3) - Washington Irving 81. The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper 82. Picturesque America (Vol. 2) - William Cullen Bryant 83. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 1) - George Washington 84. The Law - Frederic Bastiat 85. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 86. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 2) - George Washington 87. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin 88. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain 89. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 3) - George Washington 90. Poems - Oliver Wendell Holmes 91. Afloat and Ashore - James Fenimore Cooper 92. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 4) - George Washington 93. Life of David Crockett (Autobiography) - David Crockett 94. Not Yours to Give - David Crockett 95. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith 96. Economic Sophisms also called Sophisms of the Protectionists - Frederic Bastiat 97. The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln - L. P. Brockett 98. The Friendly Arctic; The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 99. What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard 100. The Song of Roland - Anonymous 101. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt 102. On That Day Began Lies - Leonard Read 103. The Holy War - John Bunyan 104. The Soldier in Our Civil War (Vol. 1) - Frank Leslie 105. Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood - George MacDonald 106. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne 107. Heather and Snow - George MacDonald 108. Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall) - R. L. Dabney 109. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne 110. The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle 111. Environmental Overkill - Dixy Lee Ray & Lou Guzzo 112. The Heart of the Antarctic (Vol. 1) - E. H. Shackleton 113. Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Stories - Mark Twain 114. The Soldier in Our Civil War (Vol. 2) - Frank Leslie 115. Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography - Theodore Roosevelt 116. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 117. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 118. Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman - William Tecumseh Sherman 119. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 120. Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain 121. Orations (of Marcus Tullius Cicero) - Cicero 122. The Federalist (Papers) - Alexander Hamilton, et al. 123. The Heart of the Antarctic (Vol. 2) - E. H. Shackleton 124. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare 125. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, etc. or "Scientific Papers" - William Harvey, et al. Contains all of the titles listed below: (from The Harvard Classics Vol. 38) C On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals - William Harvey C The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox - Edward Jenner C The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever - Oliver Wendell Holmes C On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery - Joseph Lister C The Physiological Theory of Fermentation - Louis Pasteur C The Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery - Louis Pasteur C On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases - Louis Pasteur 126. American Historical Documents 1000-1904 - Harvard Classics Vol. 43 127. The Enterprising Americans - John Chamberlain 128. My African Journey - Sir Winston S. Churchill 129. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States - Alexander Stephens 130. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott 131. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 132. The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear - Petr Beckmann 133. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Vol. 1) - Jefferson Davis 134. Faraday's Lectures includes: The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle - Michael Faraday (or Harvard Classics Vol.30) 135. Fiat Money Inflation in France - Andrew Dickson White 136. Caesar's Gallic War also called The War in Gaul - Julius Caesar 137. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln (1832-1865) - Abraham Lincoln 138. The World Crisis (Vol. 1) - Sir Winston S. Churchill 139. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Vol. 2) - Jefferson Davis 140. Fifty Years in the Royal Navy - Admiral Sir Percy Scott 141. King Henry V - William Shakespeare 142. Two Years Before the Mast (And Twenty-Four Years After) - Richard Henry Dana 143. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences - W. K. Clifford 144. Paradise Lost - John Milton 145. (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of) The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 146. Paradise Regained - John Milton 147. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1) - John Calvin 148. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 149. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - William Shakespeare 150. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2) - John Calvin 151. The Ultimate Resource 2 - Julian Simon 152. Access to Energy - Arthur Robinson 153. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Vol. 1) - John Locke 154. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Vol. 2) - John Locke 155. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John - Isaac Newton 156. Bellum Civile also called The Civil War - Julius Caesar 157. De Bello Gallico also called Commentaries on the Gallic War or C. Iuli Caesaris Commentarii - Julius Caesar and T. Rice Holmes SCIENCE BOOKS 200. The Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein 201. Answers to the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein 202. Beyond the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein 203. Answers to Beyond the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, Goodstein 204. Supplementary Physics Problems [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Foster Strong 205. Statistical Mechanics [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Norman Davidson 206. Chemical Principles - Dickerson, Gray, Haight 207. Thermodynamics [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Lewis and Randall SUPPLEMENTAL BOOKS 300.
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