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Here is a list of books that we will be reading with our homeschool. I will update the list as we go through this journey. Many of these books can be found at your local library for FREE but I have provided Amazon links where you can find most of them ‘used’ for cheap. We also keep an Amazon list of books that we would like to purchase and sometimes they are gifted to us for Christmas and/or birthdays.

You should keep a record of the books read. You can do this in a notebook or using this printable HERE. (My kids like the plain ones so they can doodle around the margins but I may try to come up with a ‘prettier’ one later.)

I have also been using a lot of these books with some of the Novel-Ties Study Guides and other unit study guides that I have found online. I try to find as many FREE guides as I can but that isn’t always possible.

Remember that even though I have included Amazon links to these titles you may be able to purchase them used or at a different site for a better price. You may also have access to these books on your Kindle or other reading devices. Be sure to check back in as we will update this as we add more books to our own favorites here!

You may also like to check out these links for book reports:

• free printable book report forms
• 30 Book Report Templates & Reading Worksheets
• Printable Book Report Forms
• Printable Book Report Forms

Pre-K/Kindergarten

These will need to be read-alouds

• A Treasury of Mother Goose
• Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
• Manners Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf
• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• I Want a Pet! by Cathy Morrison
• Biscuit Books by Alissa Satin Capucilli
• Big Brown Bear by David McPhail
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Big Pig and Little Pig by David McPhail
• The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss’s Wacky Book of Opposites
• I Lost My Tooth!
• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Bright and Early Board Books by Dr. Seuss
• Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• A Treasury of Mother Goose
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• Eric Carle Books

First Grade:

Some of these may need to be read-alouds

• When the Earth Wakes by Ani Rucki
• How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf
• How to Speak Politely and Why by Munro Leaf
• A Light in the Attic  by Shel Silverstein
• Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
• Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen L. Taylor
• Wise Words: Family Stories that Bring the Proverbs to Life
• The Magic Fish by Freya Littledale
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf by B.G. Henessy
• Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss
• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly by Pam Adams
• Quick As A Cricket by Audrey Wood
• A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
• Encyclopedia Brown Series by Donald Sobol
• American Tall Tales
• Little Golden Books
• Clifford The Big Red Dog Books
• Folk Tales for kids
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (great for multiple age levels!)
• McGuffey Primers

Second Grade:

• Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Marjorie Williams
• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
• The Story of Salt
• The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle
• The Emperor’s New Clothes Hans C. Andersen
• Why Should I Recycle?
• The Folk Tales Keepsake Collection by Paul Galdone
• The Mouse and The Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
• The Ugly Duckling by Laurenda Cauley
• The Folk Tale Classics Heirloom Library by Paul Galdone
• Owl and Moon by Heather Swick
• Squanto and the First Thanksgiving by Joyce Kessel
• Beatrix Potter the Complete Tales
• The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone (All of his books would be great reads for this level)
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone
• Stone Soup by Ann McGovern
• Curious George Books Margaret & H.A Rey
• Corduroy Books by Don Freeman
• Ivy & Bean Books
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (great for multiple age levels!)
• Howard B. Wigglebottom series by Howard Binkow and Reverend Ana (great as read-alouds)
• McGuffey Primers

Third Grade:

• American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg
• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Encyclopedia Brown Books
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• E.B. White Classics
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
• The Boxcar Children Books
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• The Black Stallion Books by Walter Farley
• Beverly Cleary Books
• The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
• The Magic Treehouse Books
• White Fur Flying by Patricia MacLachlan
• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (great for multiple age levels!)
• McGuffey Primers

Fourth Grade:

• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
• Beowulf
• A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Roald Dahl Books
• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
• Prairie School by Lois Lenski
• Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• Thunderstorm in Church by Louise Vernon
• Cooper Kids Adventure Series
• The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: 169 Short Stories
• McGuffey Primers
• Robinhood by Howard Pyle
• A Mystery Series Book Set
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Two Years Before the Mast by Henry Dana
• Mark Twain Books
• A Series of Unfortunate Events Books
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (great for multiple age levels!)
• Masterpiece by Kelly Murphy

Fifth Grade:

• McGuffey Primers
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid Books by Jeff Kinney
• The Fables of Aesop
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit (see this post for a free printable quiz)
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
• Children of the Storm by Natasha Vims
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Hometown Hunters Series by Lane Walker
• Hardy Boys Series
• Last Kids on Earth Series by Max Brallier
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl
• Hittite Warrior by Joanne S. Williamson
• Vinegar Boy by Alberts Hawse
• Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery
• Heidi by Johann Spyri
• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Ronald Dahl Books
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
• The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (great for multiple age levels!)

Sixth Grade:

• McGuffey Primers
• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Spear
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol – we have read this before but I want to read it again.
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
• Lost Trail by Donn Fendler
• Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Julie and the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Twice Freed by Patricia St. John
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
• White Fang by Jack London
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
• The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Seventh Grade:

• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
• The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw – such a good book!
• Otto of the Silver Hand by Otto Pyle
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Tirzah by Lucille Travis
• Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
• Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• Endling The Last by Katherine Applegate
• The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

Eighth Grade:

• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill
• The Switherby Pilgrims by Eleanor Spence
• Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Old Indian Legends by Zitkala Sa
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
• The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
• A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Ninth Grade:

• The Pearl by John Steinbeck – one of my favorites!
• The King’s Fifth by Scott O’dell
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Tenth Grade:

• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• Giants in the Earth O.E. Rolvaag
• Hard Times By Charles Dickens
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Eleventh Grade:

• Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Utopia by Sir Thomas More
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twelfth Grade:

• Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
• The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
• The Song of Roland by Turoldus?
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Giver by Lois Lowry

Updated May 31, 2022