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)