User:Br1answanson/A Thomas Jefferson Education Classics list

These lists of classical books or reads were published in the book "A Thomas Jefferson Education" by Oliver Van DeMille. The lists are found in the appendices of the book and are catagorized by age group of the reader.

Appendix A

Appendix A is the 100 classic reads for adults.

1. Acton, The History of Freedom
2. John Adams, "Thoughts on Government"[1]
3. Aquinas, "On Kingship"
4. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
5. Aristotle, Politics
6. Aristotle, Rhetoric
7. Augustine, The City of God
8. Aurelius, Meditations
9. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
10. Austen, Sense and Sensibility
11. Bacon, Novum Organum
12. Bastait, The Law
13. Bastait, "What is Seen and Not Seen"
14. Benson, "The Proper Role of Government"
15. The Bible
16. Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
17. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
18. Bronte, Jane Eyre
19. Carson, The American Tradition
20. Capra, The Tao of Physics
21. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
22. Churchill, Collected Speeches
23. Cicero, The Republic
24. Cicero, The Laws
25. Clausewitz, On War
26. Confucius, Analects
27. The Constitution of the United States
28. Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
29. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
30. Dante, The Divine Comedy
31. The Declaration of Independence
32. DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
33. Descartes, A Discourse on Method
34. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
35. Dickens, Great Expectations
36. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
37. Durant, A History of Civilization
38. Einstein, Relativity
39. Emerson, Collected Essays
40. Euclid, Elements
41. Frank, Alas Babylon
42. Franklin, Letters and Writings
43. Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
44. Galileo, Two New Sciences
45. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
46. Goethe, Faust
47. Hobbes, Levathan
48. Homer, The Iliad
49. Homer, The Odyssey
50. Hugo, Les Miserables
51. Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
52. Jefferson, Letters, Speeches, and Writings
53. Keegan, History of Warfare
54. Kepler, Epitome
55. Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speeches
56. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
57. Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
58. Lewis, Mere Christianity
59. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
60. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
61. Lincoln, Collected Speeches
62. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
63. Machiavelli, The Prince
64. Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers
65. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
66. More, Utopia
67. The Magna Charta
68. Mill, On Liberty
69. Milton, Paradise Regained
70. Mises, Human Action
71. The Monroe Doctrine
72. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
73. Newton, Mathematical Principles
74. Nichomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
75. Neitzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
76. The Northwest Ordinance
77. Orwell, 1984
78. Plato, Collected Works
79. Polybius, Histories
80. Potok, The Chosen
81. Plutarch, Lives
82. Ptolemy, Almagest
83. Shakespeare, Collected Works
84. Skousen, The Five Thousand Year Leap
85. Skousen, The Majesty of God's Law
86. Skousen, The Making of America
87. Smith, The Wealth of Nations
88. Solzhenitsyn, "A World Split Apart"
89. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
90. Sophocles, Oedipus Trilogy
91. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
92. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
93. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
94. Thoreau, Walden
95. Tolstoy, War and Peace
96. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars
97. Tocqueville, Democracy in America
98. Washington, Letters, Speeches, and Writings
99. Weaver, Mainspring of Human Progress
100. Wister, The Virginian

Appendix B-2

Appendix B-2 are classics for older youth to read and discuss with their mentors.

1. Alice in Wonderland - Carroll
2. Animal Farm - Orwell
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
4. The Anne of Green Gables series - Montgomery
5. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
6. “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
7. Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ - Wallace
8. The Bible
9. Brighty of the Grand Canyon - Henry
10. Black Beauty - Sewell
11. The Black Stallion series - Farley
12. The Chronicles of Narnia series - Lewis
13. The Collected Verse of Edgar A Guest
14. “Concord Hymn” - Emerson
15. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Samuel Clemens
16. The Constitution of the United States
17. David Copperfield - Dickens
18. Davy Crockett Legends - Irwin Shapiro
19. The Declaration of Independence
20. The Deerslayer - Cooper
21. Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes
22. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Stevenson
23. The Dred Scott Decision
24. The Education of Henry Adams
25. Eight Cousins - Alcott
26. Emily Post’s Etiquette
27. Ender's Game
28. “In Flanders Fields”
29. Flatland - Abbott
30. The Foundation series - Asimov
31. Frankenstein - Shelley
32. “The Gettysburg Address” - Lincoln
33. “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” - Henry
34. The Great Brain series - Fitzgerald
35. Gulliver’s Travels - Swift
36. Hamilton’s Mythology - Hamilton
37. Hamlet - Shakespeare
38. Heidi - Spry
39. The Hiding Place - Boom
40. History Reborn
41. The Hobbit - Tolkien
42. Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of - Twain
43. “I Have a Dream” - King
44. Ivanhoe - Scott
45. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
46. Joan of Arc - Twain
47. Jo's Boys - Alcott
48. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne
49. Julius Caesar (play) - Shakespeare
50. The Jungle Book - Kipling
51. King Arthur and the Round Table - Malory
52. Laddie - Porter
53. The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper
54. “Let America be America Again” - Hughes
55. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
56. The Little Britches series - Moody
57. Little Lord Fauntleroy - Burnett
58. Little Men - Alcott
59. Little Women - Alcott
60. The Lonesome Gods - L'Amour
61. Lord of the Rings series - Tolkien
62. “The Man with the Hoe”
63. Mathmaticians are People, Too (2 volumes) - Reimer
64. Moby Dick - Melville
65. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Douglass
66. National Velvet - Bagnold
67. Noah Webster’s Original 1828 Dictionary - Webster
68. North to Freedom - Holm
69. “O Captain! My Captain!” - Whitman
70. “Old Ironsides” - Holmes
71. Old Yeller - Gipson
72. Oliver Twist - Dickens
73. On Numbers - Conway
74. Paul Bunyan - Sheperd
75. The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster
76. "The Present Crisis" - Lowell
77. The Real Benjamin Franklin - Allison
78. The Real George Washington - Parry and Allison
79. The Real Thomas Jefferson - Allison
80. “The Road Not Taken”[2] - Frost
81. The Robe - Douglas
82. Robinson Crusoe - DeFoe
83. Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
84. The Sackett series - L'Amour
85. The Saxon Math series - Saxon
86. The Secret Garden - Burnett
87. Shipwrecked
88. Soldiers, Statesmen, and Heroes - Parry
89. Sonnets of Shakespeare - Shakespeare
90. Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers - Kavanaugh
91. Stuart Little - White
92. The Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls
93. The Swiss Family Robinson - Wyss
94. Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of - Twain
95. Treasure Island - Stevenson
96. The Trumpet of the Swans - White
97. “Ulysses” - Tennyson
98. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Lofting
99. The Walking Drum - L'Amour
100. Where the Red Fern Grows - Rawls
101. White Fang - London
102. William Tell
103. The Yearling - Rawlings

Appendix B-1

Appendix B-1 are classics to be read to young children.

1. Aesop’s Fables - Aesop
2. Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Anderson
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. The Bible
5. The Blind Men and the Elephant
6. “Casey at Bat”[3] - Thayer
7. Charlotte’s Web - White
8. Chicken Little
9. A Christmas Carol - Dickens
10. Cinderella
11. Dinotopia series - Gurney
12. Dr. Seuss series
13. The Emperor's New Clothes - Anderson
14. The Fourth Wise Man
15. The Gift of the Magi - Henry
16. The Giving Tree - Silverstein
17. “God Save the Flag” - Holmes
18. Goldilocks and the Three Bears
19. The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg - Aesop
20. Grimm's Fairy Tales - Grimm
21. “The Highwayman”[4]
22. Hansel and Gretel - Grimm
23. Jack and the Beanstalk
24. Just So Stories - Kipling
25. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Irving
26. “Lincoln, The Man of the People” - Markham
27. “Little Boy Blue”[5] - Field
28. The Little Engine that Could
29. The Little House on the Prairie series - Wilder
30. The Little Red Hen
31. The McGuffey Readers
32. Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
33. “Paul Revere’s Ride”[6] - Longfellow
34. Peter Pan - Barrie
35. Peter Rabbit - Potter
36. The Pied Piper of Hamlin
37. The Adventures of Pinocchio - Colladi
38. Pollyanna - Porter
39. The Princess and the Pea - Anderson
40. Puss-in-Boots - Perrault
41. Rapunzel - Grimm
42. Riki Tiki Tavi - Kipling
43. Rip Van Winkle - Irving
44. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Pyle
45. Rumpelstiltskin - Grimm
46. Sleeping Beauty - Perrault
47. The Song of Hiawatha - Longfellow
48. Snow White - Grimm
49. Tales of the Arabian Nights
50. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
51. The Three Little Pigs
52. The Ugly Duckling - Anderson
53. Tom Thumb
54. "Twas the Night Before Christmas"[7]
55. The Wind in the Willows - Grahame
56. Winnie-the-Pooh series - Milne
57. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum

Sources

• [8] Appendix B

Eternal Links

• A World Split Apart: Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Commencement Address to the graduating class at Harvard University