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Classics for Young Children and Family Reading

• Aesop’s Fables
• Andersen’s Fairy Tales
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Besty-Tacy Series
• The Bible
• The Blind Men and the Elephant
• “Casey at the Bat”
• Charlotte’s Web
• Chicken Little
• A Christmas Carol
• Cinderella
• Dinotopia Series
• Dr. Seuss books
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• The Story Of The Other Wise Man
• The Gift of the Magi
• The Giving Tree
• “God Save the Flag”
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• “The Highwayman”
• Hansel and Gretel
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• “Lincoln, The Man of the People”
• Little Boy Blue
• The Little Engine That Could
• The Little House Series
• The Little Red Hen
• Little Red Riding Hood
• McGuffey’s Readers
• Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
• Paul Revere’s Ride
• Perloo The Bold
• Peter Pan
• Peter Rabbit
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Pinocchio
• Pollyanna
• The Princess and the Pea
• Puss in Boots
• Rapunzel
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
• Rip Van Winkle
• Robin Hood
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Rudyard Kiplng’s Just So Stories
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Song of Hiawatha
• Snow White
• Tales from the Arabian Nights
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Ugly Duckling
• Tom Thumb
• ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
• The Wind in the Willows
• Winnie-the-Pooh
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Classics for Young Readers

• Alice In Wonderland, Carroll
• Animal Farm, Orwell
• Asimov on Numbers, Asimov
• The Anne of Green Gablesseries, Montgomery
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• “Battle Hymn of the Republic“, Julia Ward Howe
• Ben-Hur, Wallace, Johnson
• The Bible
• Brighty: Of the Grand Canyon, Henry
• Black Beauty, Sewell
• The Black Stallion series, Farley
• The Chronicles of Narnia series, Lewis
• Collected Works of Edgar A. Guest
• “The Concord Hymn“, Emerson
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain
• The Constitution of the United States
• David Copperfield, Dickens
• Davy Crockett Legends
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
• Dred Scott Decision
• The Education of Henry Adams, Adams
• Eight Cousins, Alcott
• Emily Post’s Etiquette
• “In Flanders Fields“, McCrae
• Flatland, Abbott
• The Foundation series, Asimov
• Frankenstein, Shelley
• “The Gettysburg Address,” Lincoln
• “The War Inevitable”, Henry
• The Great Brain series, Fitzgerald
• Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
• Mythology, Hamilton
• “Hamlet,” Shakespeare
• Heidi, Spyri
• The Hiding Place, Boom
• History Reborn, Anderson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
• “I Have A Dream,” King
• Ivanhoe, Scott
• The Hobbit, Tolkein
• Island of the Blue Dolphins, O’Dell
• Joan of Arc, Twain
• Jo’s Boys, Alcott
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
• “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare
• The Jungle Book, Kipling
• King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
• Laddie, Porter
• The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper
• “Let America Be America Again,” Hughes
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• The Little Britchesseries, Moody
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Little Men, Alcott
• Little Women, Alcott
• The Lonesome Gods, L’Amour
• The Lord of the Rings series, Tolkein
• “The Man with the Hoe,” Markham
• Mathematicians Are People, Too (2 volumes), Reimer
• Moby-Dick, Melville
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• National Velvet, Bagnold
• Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language; see also: Online 1828 Dictionary
• North to Freedom, Holm
• “O Captain! My Captain!,” Whitman
• “Old Ironsides,” Holmes
• Old Yeller, Gipson

• Oliver Twist, Dickens
• Paul Bunyan and Other Tall Tales
• The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster
• “The Present Crisis,” Lowell
• “The Road Not Taken,” Frost
• The Real Benjamin Franklin, Allison
• The Real George Washington, Parry
• The Real Thomas Jefferson, Allison
• The Robe, Douglas
• Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
• The Sackett Series, L’Amour
• Saxon Mathseries
• The Secret Garden, Burnett
• Soldiers, Statesmen & Heroes, Parry
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, Kavanaugh
• Stuart Little, White
• Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls
• The Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss
• Tom Sawyer, Twain
• Treasure Island, Stevenson
• The Trumpet of the Swan, White
• The Doctor Dolittleseries, Lofting
• White Fang, London
• The story of William Tell
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls

Classics for Adults

• Acton, The History of Freedom
• John Adams, “Thoughts on Government”
• Aquinas, “On Kingship”
• Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
• Aristotle, Politics
• Aristotle, Rhetoric
• Augustine, The City of God
• Aurelius, Meditations
• Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Austen, Sense and Sensibility
• Bacon, Novum Organum
• Bastiat, The Law
• Bastiat, “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen”
• Benson, “The Proper Role of Government”
• The Bible
• Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
• Bronte, Wuthering Heights
• Bronte, Jane Eyre
• Carson, The American Tradition
• Capra, The Tao of Physics
• Chesterton, Orthodoxy
• Churchill, Collected Speeches
• Cicero, The Republic and The Laws
• Clausewitz, On War
• Confucius, The Analects
• Constitution of the United States
• Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
• Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Dante, The Divine Comedy
• The Declaration of Independence
• Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Descartes, A Discourse on the Method
• Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
• Dickens, Great Expectations
• Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
• Durant, The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)
• Einstein, Relativity
• Emerson, Essays
• Euclid, Elements
• Frank, Alas, Babylon
• Franklin, Letters and Writings
• Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
• Galileo, Two New Sciences
• Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Goethe, Faust
• Hobbes, Leviathan
• Homer, The Iliad
• Homer, The Odyssey
• Hugo, Les Miserables
• Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
• Jefferson, Letters, Speeches and Writings
• Keegan, A History of Warfare
• Kepler, Epitome
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speeches
• Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
• Lewis, Mere Christianity
• Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
• Lewis, The Weight of Glory
• Lincoln, Great Speeches
• Locke, Second Treatise Of Government
• Machiavelli, The Prince
• Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers
• Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
• More, Utopia
• The Magna Charta
• Mill, On Liberty
• Milton, Paradise Regained
• Mises, Human Action
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
• Newton, Mathematical Principles
• Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
• Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
• The Northwest Ordinance
• Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Plato, Complete Works
• Polybius, The Histories
• Potok, The Chosen
• Plutarch, Lives
• Ptolemy, Almagest
• Shakespeare, Complete Works
• Skousen, The 5000 Year Leap
• Skousen, The Majesty of God’s Law
• Skousen, The Making of America
• Smith, The Wealth of Nations
• Solzhenitsyn, “A World Split Apart”
• Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
• Sophocles, The Oedipus Trilogy
• Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Sun Tzu, The Art Of War
• Thackeray, Vanity Fair
• Thoreau, Walden
• Tolstoy, War And Peace
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
• Tocqueville, Democracy in America
• Washington, Letters, Speeches and Writings
• Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress
• Wister, The Virginian