Northridge Book-A-Week Reading List Middle School Literature Author Title Susan Cooper Over Sea, Under Stone Susan Cooper The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper Greenwitch Susan Cooper The Grey King Susan Cooper Silver on the Tree Booth Tarkington Penrod (the series) C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga) C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis The Lion the Witch and Wardrobe C. S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis The Silver Chair C. S. Lewis The Last Battle E. Nesbit The Railway Children Jack London Call of the Wild Jack Mitchell The Ancient Ocean Blues Jack Schaefer Shane James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Jim Kjelgaard Big Red Jim Kjelgaard Snow Dog Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson John Knowles A Separate Peace John Steinbeck The Red Pony Jules Verne Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne The Mysterious Island Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows Lew Wallace Ben Hur Lois Lowry The Giver Marjorie Rowlings The Yearling Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mildred Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Patricia Treese A Man for Others (St. M. Kolbe) Ralph Moody Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers (and series) Robb White Up Periscope Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island William O. Steele The Lone Hunt William O. Steele Trail Through Danger William O. Steele The Perilous Road Andre Norton Shadow Hawk Constance Savery Enemy Brothers G. A. Henty The Cat of Bubastes G. A. Henty The Young Carthaginian G. A. Henty In Freedom's Cause G. A. Henty True to the Old Flag G. A. Henty With Lee in Virginia G. A. Henty In the Reign of Terror G. A. Henty The Dash for Khartoum G. A. Henty Beric the Briton Ann Lawrence Between the Forest and the Hills History Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox Caroline Dale Snedeker The Spartan Conrad Richter The Light in the Forest Cornelius Ryan The Longest Day David Howrath 1066: The Year of the Conquest Elisa Carbone Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 Ernle Bradford The Great Siege of Malta Gereon Karl Goldmann The Shadow of His Wings Harold Gardiner Edmund Campion: Hero of God’s Underground Harold Keith Rifles for Watie James Boyd Drums Jean Fritz The Great Little Madison John Mason Brown Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness John R. Tunis Silence over Dunkerque John Toland The Flying Tigers Karin Clafford Farley Duel in the Wilderness Louis de Wohl The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis Louis de Wohl Throne of the World Louis de Wohl The Last Crusader: Don John of Austria Louis de Wohl Saint Joan: The Girl Soldier MacKinlay Kantor Gettysburg MacKinlay Kantor Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor Lee and Grant at Appomattox Margaret Cousins The Boy in the Alamo Michael Shaara The Killer Angels Milton Meltzer Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat Olivia Coolidge Caesar’s Gallic War Olivia Coolidge The Trojan War Paul Brickhill The Great Escape Pedro Casciaro Dream and Your Dreams Will Fall Short Peter Connolly Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome Peter Connolly The Roman Army Ralph Moody Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier Shelby Foote Shiloh Sterling North Captured by the Mohawks Thomas Fleming Ben Franklin: Inventing America William Steele We Were There on the Oregon Trail Jean Henri Fabre Fabre's Book of Insects High School American History Author Title Russell Kirk Roots of American Order Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, Shelby Foote June-July 1863 Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers Stephen Ambrose Undaunted Courage Stephen B. Oates With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Thomas Paine Common Sense Walter Lord A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo William O. Douglas Of Men and Mountains Patrick K. O’Donnell Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc William Manchester American Caesar Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Hampton Sides Most Dramatic Mission James M. McPherson Fields of Fury: The American Civil War Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the James M. McPherson American Frontier James M. McPherson What They Fought For 1861-1865 Paul Johnson Napoleon A.G. Sertillanges The Intellectual Life: It’s Spirit, Conditions, Methods Ancius Boethius Consolation of Philosophy General History Anthony Everitt Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor Anthony Everitt Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician Suetonius The Twelve Caesars Thornton Wilder The Ides of March Louis de Wohl The Quiet Light (St. Thomas Aquinas) A World Split Apart: Commencement Address Delivered at Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Harvard University, June 8, 1978 Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon Paul Johnson Churchill Whittaker Chambers Witness Antony Beevor Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of Christopher Dawson European Unity Christopher Dawson Religion and the Rise of Western Culture Daniel James Brown The Boys in the Boat G.K. Chesterton The End of the Armistice G.K. Chesterton Heretics G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World Hilaire Belloc Europe and the Faith John Lewis Gaddis The Cold War: A New History Philip Hughes A Popular History of the Reformation Walter Ciszek, S.J. With God in Russia Warren H. Carroll 1917: Red Banners, White Mantel Warren H. Carroll The Guillotine and the Cross Warren H. Carroll The Last Crusade: Spain 1936 Warren H. Carroll The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany ​ William Manchester The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Literature Anthony Trollope The Warden Baroness Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Charles Dickens Great Expectations Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Dena Hunt Treason Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Franz Werfel The Song of Bernadette George Orwell Animal Farm J. R. Tolkein The Hobbit J. R. Tolkein The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. Tolkein The Two Towers J. R. Tolkein The Return of the King Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Mark Twain Joan of Arc Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper Myles Connolly Mr. Blue Robert Hugh Benson Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Jordan The Eye of the World Slavomir Rawicz The Long Walk Terence H. White The Once and Future King William Shakespeare Coriolanus Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie Death in the Clouds Agatha Christie And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Death Comes as the End Agatha Christie Destination Unknown Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery T.M. Doran Toward the Gleam Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons C.S. Lewis Perelandra C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces Chaim Potok The Promise Charles Dickens David Copperfield Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Dante Alighieri Paradiso Evelyn Waugh Edmund Campion Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov George Orwell 1984 Henry James Turn of the Screw Henryk Sienkiewicz With Fire and Sword Henryk Sienkiewicz The Deluge (Trilogy – Part 2) Henryk Sienkiewicz Fire in the Steppe (Trilogy – Part 3) Herman Melville Bartle the Scrivener Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Jane Austen Persuasion Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Emma Jane Austen Mansfield Park Kenneth Roberts Oliver Wiswell Leif Enger Peace Like a River Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Michael Shaara The Killer Angels Muriel Spark Memento Mori Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches O.E. Rolvaag Giants in the Earth Pat Frank Alas, Babylon Patrick O’Brian Master and Commander Paul Horgan A Distant Trumpet Robert Hugh Benson Lord of the World Shirley Jackson Haunting of Hill House Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset The Master of Hestviken (in 4 volumes) Sir Percival Wren Beau Geste Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Walker Percy The Moviegoer Wendell Berry Hannah Coulter Wendell Berry Jayber Crow Willa Cather My Antonia Willa Cather Shadows on the Rock William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part II William Shakespeare Cymbeline The following are advanced, but really good, and achievable for Juniors & Seniors. History of Western Thought C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man G.K. Chesterton Saint Thomas Aquinas: ‘The Dumb Ox’ G.K. Chesterton The Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy James V. Schall Another Sort of Learning Jean Leclercq The Love of Learning and the Desire for God Josef Pieper Scholasticism Saint Thomas Aquinas Treatise on Happiness Saint Thomas Aquinas Treatise on Law Medieval and Early Modern History Benedict of Nurcia The Rule of St. Benedict The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of Christopher Dawson European Unity Ernle Bradford The Great Siege: Malta 1565 Gerard B. Wegemer Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage Hilaire Belloc Characters of the Reformation Jack Beeching The Galleys at Lepanto Joinville and Villehardouin Chronicles of the Crusades Plutarch Plutarch’s Lives Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages Richard Fletcher The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity W.S. Merwin The Song of Roland Warren Carroll The History of Christendom .