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"
 * 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” - 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” - 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”
 * 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” - 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” - 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"
 * 55)             The Wind in the Willows - Grahame
 * 56)             Winnie-the-Pooh series - Milne
 * 57)             The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum

Eternal Links

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