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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

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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

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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

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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

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