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Reading lists by Age group
Ages 6-7
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Curious George by H. A. Rey
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
Ages 8-9
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
For Ages 10-12
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Ages 13-15
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Ages 16-18
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Reading lists by topic
Russian Literature (For students, 16-18 years old & adults)
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
  • The Lady and the Dog by Anton Chekhov
  • Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
  • Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  • The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
French Literature (For students, 16-18 years old & adults)
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • In Search of Lost Time (excerpts) by Marcel Proust
  • Germinal by Emile Zola
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Tartuffe by Molière
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Classical Works from Other Cultures (For students, 16-18 years old & adults)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)
  • The Tale of Gengi by Murasaki Shikibu (Japan)
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Italy)
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (France)
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russia)
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (England)
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh (Ancient Mesopotamia)
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)
  • The Arabian Nights (Middle Eastern Folklore)