My Book List

This is my Book List. I started it about 3 years ago and it has done nothing but get longer. I sincerely cannot keep up with it.




A lot of these titles come from other books I've read, like Richard Adam's 'Watership Down', which begins each chapter with a quote from a different book. Or 20,00 Leagues where Jules Verne quotes 'The Ancient Mariner'. And a good portion comes from a book I picked up from the library on Homeschooling. The lady who wrote it lists quite a few titles that are good for teaching culture, history, and language. She writes that books, not just curriculum style books, have been her greatest asset in teaching. My kind of woman! Some others have come from friends and family.




Also I've created this list to make up for the lack in my education. I was a dumb kid and decided to bolt high school. So, in the same style I teach my kids I've decided to make up for it by exploiting what I'm good at and using it as a tool for learning. I like to read, so I make sure that what I read edifies my mind in some way. National Geographic has been one of my favorite tools in my quest for knowledge. But as always lacking in storyline and plot, I've always needed additional literature to keep the hunger alive (eating the pages, har ya har).
This list that I'm posting now is not complete, not by far. I have about 200 in my written list, I just thought I'de throw these out for now, and I'll update often. Hopefully... (stinkin at&t dsl!)




Thus The List is created. Please, anyone reading feel free to add or give your own reviews on these books. Bai, I already know how you feel about Ben Franklin's Autobiography. So here goes, they are in no particular order, #1 has been #1 since the list was created.

1. Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan


2. The Oxford Book of American Verse


3. A Tale of Two Cities, by Dickens


4. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville


5. Walden, by Thoreau


6. The Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain
7. The Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton
8. City of God, by Augustine
9. The Drifting Island, by Walter Wentworth
10. The Tiger of Mysore, by G. A. Henty
11. The Speckled Hen's Story, by Amy Prentice
12. Adventures Among the Indians, by Kingston
13. Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling (super sweet movie about him on KCPT, you could probably pick it up at the library)
14. Rob Roy, by Walter Scott and Ian Duncan
15. Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
16. Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope
17. Carlyle's Essay on Burns, by Carlyle
18. The Citizen of the World, by Oliver Goldsmith
19. The Virginian by by Owen Wister
20. Relationships Pure and Simple, by Alan Wibbels and Marti Wibbels
21. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (she writes some pretty good poetry too.)
22. Little Men, by see above
23. The Story of Roland, by James Baldwin
24. Legends of Charlemagne, by Thomas Bulfinch
25. Birds and Bees: Essays, by John Burroughs
26. The Adventures of a Brownie
27. History of a Little Goody Two Shoes, by Oliver Goldsmith
28. Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
29. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
30. The Sketch-Book, by Washington Irving
31. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, above
32. Tales of a Traveller, above above
33. The Heroes, by Charles Kingsley
34. The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling
35. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
36. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
37. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
38. The Boyhood of a Naturalist, by John Muir
39. The Boy's Life of Ulysses S. Grant
    
40. The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman
41. Redgauntlet, by Sir Walter Scott
42. Lives of the Hunted, and...
43. Animal Heroes, by Ernet Thompson Seton
44. Midsummer Nights Dream, by Shakespeare
45. Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
46. The Hourglass, (now, upon looking up the author of this title I kept two things in mind: 1, it's going to be old, 2, knowing the person who recommended the book I could figure out the correct author by reading a small summary. BUT, with this one I stumbled across one probable author, and one who intrigued me. So, the probable author being Will Brennan, pub. 1916. And the one who intrigued me, Barbara Metzger, pub. 2007.)
47. The Divine Comedy, by Dante
48. Politics and Poetics, Aristotle
49. The Age of Fable, by Thomas Bulfinch
50. Ben Franlikn's Autobiography
51. The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
52. Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
53. Essays & Lectures, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
55. Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, by Milton
56. The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
57. The Illiad, and
58. The Odyssey, by Homer
59. Lives of Ten Noble Greeks and Romans, by Plutarch
60. Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
61. Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy
62. Drums, by James Boyd
63. The Robe, and...
64. Magnificent Obsession, and...
    
65. The Big Fisherman, by Lloyd C. Douglas
66. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
67. In the Reign of Terror, by G. A. Henty
68. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
69. The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emuska Orczy (i must admit i had a little fun writing that last author's name.:)
70. Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz
71. The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare
72. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, (mom read this to me when I was a babe, so now I want to read them to my babes.)
73. The Bronze Bow, and...
    
74. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
75. Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace
76. The Source, by James A. Michener
77. Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkein (already read the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and loved them! especially The Hobbit!)
78. Don Quixote, by Cervantes
79. Martha Stewart's Housekeeping Handbook (yes, I need it.)
80. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson