Reading List Booklet by The Gilbertine Institute

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Book Lists

For Younger Ages

• Short Stories & Anthologies

• Literature

• Mathematical Stories

• Poetry

• Science

For IntermedIAte Ages

• Short Stories & Anthologies

• Literature

• Poetry

• Comic Books

• History

• Science

• Art

15 upper Ages

• Short Stories & Anthologies

• Poetry

• Literature

• History

• Science

• Commentary

• Architecture

• Theology

• Art Appreciation

• Mathematics

• English Composition & Reference Works

• Philosophy

• Foundations

F or Y ounger

A ges

Short Stories & Anthologies

Mr. Bliss

Letters From Father Christmas

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books

The Wonder Clock

J. R. R. Tolkien

Dr. Seuss

Andrew Lang

Howard Pyle

Pepper and Salt for Young Folk Howard Pyle

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter

Crictor

Babar (series)

Madeline (series)

Curious George (series)

Something From Nothing

Winnie-the-Pooh

The House at Pooh Corner

Nonsense Songs and Stories

The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple

The Gift of the Magi

The Invisible Seam

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Rupert (series)

Burgess Bedtime Stories

The Legend of The Three Trees

Paddington Bear (series)

The Classic Fairy Tales Treasury

Beatrix Potter

Tomi Ungerer

Jean de Brunhoff & later Laurent de Brunhoff

Ludwig Bemelmans

Margret & H.A. Rey

Phoebe Gilman

A. A. Milne

Edward Lear

O. Henry

Andy William Frew & Jun Matsuoka

Marianna Mayer & K. Y. Craft

Mr. Bliss goes out in a motor car and wishes he never had.

Written for the author’s children

Every time the boy takes of his hat another appears!

Sequel to The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Explores shapes

More or less exhaustive collection of fairy tales

Stories cobbled together from fairy tales

About an old woman and her boa constrictor. Picture fun.

About the king of the elephants

About the little girl who fears nothing

This curious monkey keeps getting into such trouble

It began with a blanket, worked down to a button; then what?

Sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh

Humorous

Twist ending

A Japanese girl takes on the ultimate sewing challenge

Beautifully illustrated

Several authors. This little white bear has many and wonderful adventures

Thornton W. Burgess

Catherine McCafferty

Michael Bond

Armond Eisen

Three trees get their wishes in ways they never imagined

Well illustrated Beauty and the Beast

Roverandom

Literature

J. R. R. Tolkien

About a dog turned into a toy

Mathematical Stories

What’s Your Angle Pythagoras?

Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumplestiltskin

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland

Julie Ellis & Phyllis Hornung

Pam Calvert & Wayne Geehan

Cindy Neuschwander & Wayne Geehan

Poetry

Explains the Pythagorean Theorem in a story. Beautifully illustrated.

Explains multiplication by whole numbers and fractions. Picture book

Explains Pi, though only as 3 and 1/7. Picture book

Explains the use of a protractor. Picture book

Eric Kinkaid’s Book of Nursery Rhymes

“A” series of books.

Eric Kinkaid

Edward Lear

Doctor Seuss series of rhyming books. Dr. Seuss

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb Al Perkins

When We Were Very Young A. A. Milne

Beautifully illustrated

Alphabets. Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

Good Humour

Focuses on monkeys hands and on drums

Generations have enjoyed this. Now We Are Six

Peter and Paul

A. A. Milne

Lewis Carroll

The Pig-Tale

Lewis Carroll

The Book of Nonsense

One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes

Laughable Lyrics

Edward Lear

Sequel to When We Were Very Young.

How Peter is forced to pay a loan back that he never received. Humorous. Found in Sylvie and Bruno

About a pig that desired to know how to jump. Humorous. Found in Sylvie and Bruno

Lymerics. Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

Imagining the Universe

Science

Edward Packard

How Big?

How Long?

How Tall?

How Fast?

Dragons of the Deep

Nicholas Harris

Carl Wieland

Explores the sizes of the microscopic and the enormous by saying ‘Let us say that the Earth is the size of a baseball park.’

Facts, records, and size comparisons of ordinary and extraordinary things

Facts, records, and length comparisons of ordinary and extraordinary things

Facts, records, and height comparisons of ordinary and extraordinary things

Facts, records, and speed comparisons of ordinary and extraordinary things

Ocean Monsters past and present. Creationist

For IntermedIAte Ages

Short Stories & Anthologies

Johan Gutenberg and the Amazing

Printing Press

Columbus

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

Rip Van Winkle

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Grandma’s Attic series

Darby O’Gill and the Good People

Darby O’Gill and the Crocks of Gold

The Book of Dragons

Oswald Bastable and Others

Homer Price

Centerburg Tales

The Ransom of Red Chief

Retrieved Reformation

Bruce Koscielniak

Ingri & Edgar Parin

D’Aulaire

Ingri & Edgar Parin

D’Aulaire

Washington Irving

Arleta Richardson

Herminie Templeton Cavanagh

E. Nesbit

Robert McCloskey

O. Henry

Well illustrated

Tales of King Brian Connors, the Leprechaun, and others

More of the same

Each story has at least 1 dragon

Some of these stories are about the Bastables; others are not. Read after New Treasure Seekers.

Humorous

Humorous. Read after Homer Price

The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart

The Screwtape Letters

The Chronicles of Narnia

Out of the Silent Planet

Black Beauty

Rose in Bloom

Jack and Jill

Eight Cousins

Little Women

Good Wives

Little Men

An Old Fashioned Girl

Literature

Barbara Kathleen Nickel

C. S. Lewis

Anna Sewell

Louisa May Alcott

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle

The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions Howard Pyle

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table Howard Pyle

Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Peter Pan

Bartlett and the Ice Voyage

The Tale of Despereaux

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

The BFG

James and the Giant Peach

Ursula Moray Williams

Lewis Carroll

James M. Barrie

Odo Hirsch

Kate DiCamillo

Roald Dahl

Blinky Bill

Dorothy Wall

A man is kidnapped and taken to another planet

Sequel to Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.

‘Being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread’

Sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Sophie is kidnapped by a giant; fortunately it is the Big Friendly Giant, but other tales await.

James hates his life with his Aunts, and is pleasantly surprised when he goes adventuring with some gigantic insects inside a housesized peach.

Cassie Loves Beethoven

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Five Little Peppers and How They

Grew

What Katy Did (series)

A Little Princess

The Secret Garden

Farmer Giles of Ham

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Littles series

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Battle For Castle Cockatrice

Alan Arkin

Alice Hegan Rice

Margaret Sidney

Susan Coolidge

Frances Hodgson

Burnett

Frances Hodgson

Burnett

J. R. R. Tolkien

Roberta Carter Clark

Norton Juster

Gerald Durrell

Complete works

The Great Good Thing

Ella Enchanted

The Marvellous Land of Snergs

Watership Down

L. Frank Baum

Roderick Townley

Gail Carson Levine

Mary feels she must get into the locked garden.

How a plain farmer carved himself a kingdom by fighting first a giant and then a dragon.

The Rose and the Ring

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

E. A. Wyke-Smith

Richard Adams

Milo is cured of perpetual dissatisfaction by a journey through the Lands Beyond.

It is up to Parrot, three children and a toad to save the world’s remaining mythological animals from cockatrice tyranny.

Wrote the Oz books and others.

Shows what it is like being a character in a book, or in a dream.

Why doesn’t Cinderella just run away? Because she is under a spell causing her to do anything she is told.

Children run away for a lark, and encounter more than they bargain for.

When the rabbit Hazel is warned by his clairvoyant brother Fiver that disaster is about to hit their warren they leave with a handful of others to start a new warren in unknown territory

W. M. Thackeray

Barbara Robinson

The Best School Year Ever

The Magic Pudding

Barbara Robinson

Norman Lindsay

The Herdmans are the world’s worst children. Now they are taking all the major parts in the Christmas pageant.

More Herdmans!

Bunyip the koala becomes a professional pudding owner, and the pudding in question is never all gone. This is why pudding thieves must be kept off.

Pippi Longstocking

Charlotte’s Web

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Astrid Lindgren

E. B. White

Richard and Florence Atwater

Robert C. O’Brien

Pippy is a fun-loving girl with few morals, a good heart and superhuman strength.

The story of the efforts of a spider to save the life of a pig

How a man enjoys keeping penguins and makes ends meet so that he may do so

The story of a mouse who must save her sickly son from being killed at ploughing time, and so asks the help of the rats

The Wind in the Willows

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Kenneth Grahame

Hugh Lofting

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting

Three Terrible Trins

The Children of Odin

Freddy the Detective

The Secret of Terror Castle

The Railway Children

Five Children and It

The Phoenix and the Carpet

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

The Woodbegoods

New Treasure Seekers

The Enchanted Castle

The House at Arden

Various novels

Dick King-Smith

Padraic Colum

Walter R. Brooks

Robert Arthur

E. Nesbit

Lucy Maud

Montgomery

A doctor trying to make ends meet takes his parrot’s recommendation and learns to talk animal language, and treat its speakers.

Doctor Dolittle goes to Spider Monkey Island in search of his friend Long Arrow; a red Indian and the world’s greatest naturalist.

Three mice work to rid the house of cats, and in the process rid it of class distinction too.

Norse myths told as a continuous narrative

This pig solves mysteries.

A group of boy detectives set out to investigate the haunting of Terror Castle.

Some children cope with a fall in fortunes and a move to the country.

Five children on a holiday in the country find ‘It’, which can grant wishes, and they have adventures

Sequel to Five Children and It.

The Bastable children search for treasure in hopes of restoring their family’s fortunes. Humorous.

Sequel to The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Sequel to The Woodbegoods.

Some children discover an enchanted castle and a ring that grants wishes. Humorous

Anne of Green Gables, etc*

Swallows and Amazons (series)

Gulliver’s Travels

The Search for Delicious

Tuck Everlasting

The Sword in the Stone

Prydain series

The Borrowers (series)

The Redwall series

Tom’s Midnight Garden

The Indian in the Cupboard

The Neverending Story

Mr. Midshipman Easy

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Prince and the Pauper

Life on the Mississippi

The Black Arrow

Kidnapped

Treasure Island

Cranford

Arthur Ransome

Jonathan Swift

Natalie Babbit

T. H. White

Mostly boat related. Tolkien liked them.

It becomes necessary to take a poll of the entire kingdom asking what everyone’s favourite food is, for peace’s sake.

Winnie meets a family who can never die or be injured and who must keep it secret.

Merlin works as young Arthur’s tutor, giving him a sound education by means of magic.

Lloyd Alexander Fantasy adventure. 5 books

Mary Norton

Brian Jacques

Philippa Pearce

Lynne Reid Banks

Michael End

Frederick Marryat

The Borrowers are people only six inches high who make their living taking little things like single potatoes, hair pins, and all those things just keep running out.

Animals with mediaeval technology undertake various adventures

Every night when the clock strikes 13 Tom goes out the back door and into the garden full of Victorian children that magically appears.

Omri finds his cupboard can turn plastic toys into real miniature human beings

Bastian finds the book which makes whoever reads it part of itself.

Jack Easy misguidedly joins the Royal Navy in order to look for egalitarianism, for he will submit to no authority.

Mark Twain

Robert Louis Stevenson

Elizabeth Gaskell

Sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

A band of outlaws tries to see justice done to oppressors

David Balfour is set reeling when his hopes of making his fortune result in his being kidnapped.

Stories of the village of Cranford, where ladies rule. Humorous

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Door in the Wall

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

From the Earth to the Moon

Around the Moon

Around the World in Eighty Days

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The Mad Scientists’ Club

The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Detectives in Togas

The Twenty-One Balloons

The Letzenstein Chronicles

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Black Hearts in Battersea

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

King Solomon’s Mines

The Call of the Wild

White Fang

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (series)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Baroness Orczy

A mysterious man calling himself the Scarlet Pimpernel is smuggling aristocrats out of revolutionary France

Across Five Aprils

Adam of the Road

Last of the Mohicans

All Men are Brothers

Marguerite De Angeli

H. G. Wells

Jules Verne

Bertrand R. Brinley

Trenton Lee Stewart

Some men plan to go to the moon in a shell fired from a gigantic gun.

Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. The men orbit the moon.

Some boys pull the most incredible pranks by means of their mechanical knowledge. Humorous

Four children set out to combat a mysterious force.

Henry Winterfield Mystery in ancient Rome!

William Pene Dubois

A man finds Krakatoa to be inhabited by some very peculiar Americans with the world’s largest diamond mines.

Meriol Trevor

Joan Aiken

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Henry Rider Haggard

Jack London

Kate Douglas Wiggen

Elizabeth George Speare

The story of a runaway slave in America

Irene Hunt

Elizabeth Gray

James Fenimore

Cooper

Pearl S. Buck

A young woman goes to live with her only relatives in the American colonies. She forms a friendship with a woman suspected to be a witch.

All-of-a-Kind Family series

Andries

The Bantry Bay Series

The Michells Series

The Borrowed House

Anna and the King of Siam

The Bells on Finland Street

Big Red

Blue Willow

Caddie Woodlawn

Call of the Canyon

The Children Who Stayed Alone

Chosen

The Cross and the Switchblade

Hey Preacher... You’re Comin’

Through

Day of Pleasure

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be

Lost in the Barrens

Owls in the Family

Freckles

Girl of the Limberlost

The Good Master

The Singing Tree

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Guns of Navarone

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day

Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Hiding Place

Sydney Taylor

Hilda van Stockum

Margaret Landon

Lyn Cook

Jim Kjelgaard

Doris Gates

Carol Ryrie Brink

Zane Gray

Bonnie Worline

Chaim Potok

David Wilkerson

Isaac Basevis Singer

Farley Mowat

Gene Statton Porter

Kate Seredy

James Hilton

Alistair MacClean

Scott O’Dell

Corrie Ten Boom

How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn

Captains Courageous

Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Hiding Place

Rudyard Kipling

Scott O’Dell

Corrie Ten Boom

How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn

Captains Courageous

The Jungle Book

Mama’s Bank Account

Mara, Daughter of the Nile

The Matchlock Gun

The Melendy Family

Thimble Summer

Miracle Worker

Miracles on Maple Hill

Rudyard Kipling

Kathryn Forbes

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

W.D. Edwards

Elizabeth Enright

William Gibson

Virgina Sorenson

The Moffats

The Moonstone

My Side of the Mountain

Mythology

O! Pioneers

Odyssey of Homer

Of Courage Undaunted

Old Yeller

Oregon Trail

Pilgrim’s Progress

Profiles in Courage

The Red Badge of Courage

Return of Silver Chief

Royal Red

Silver Chief, Dog of The North

Silver Chief to The Rescue

Spike of Swift River

Rob Roy

Scottish Chiefs

Second Mrs. Giaconda

The Secret Cave

Smokey

Snow Treasure

Star of Light

Summer of the Swans

Tevye the Dairyman

Tom Brown at Oxford

Tom Brown’s School Days

Travels in Africa

Trumpeter of Krakow

Two Years Before the Mast

Understood Betsy

The Weeping Chamber

Where the Red Fern Grows

White Company

With Love From Karen

The Yearling

Robinson Crusoe

Eleanor Estes

Wilkie Collins

Jean Craighead

George

Edith Hamilton

Willa Cather

Barbara Leonie Picard

James Daughtery

Fred Gipson

Francis Parkman

John Bunyan

John F. Kennedy

Stephen Crane

Jack O’Brien

Sir Walter Scott

Jane Porter

E. L. Konigsburg

Claire Huchet Bishop

Will James

Marie McSwigan

Patricia M. St. John

Betsy Byars

Sholom Aleichem

Thomas Hughes

Mungo Park

Eric P. Kelly

Richard Henry Dana

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Sigmund Brouwer

Wilson Rawls

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Marie Killiles

Marjorie Rawlings

Daniel Defoe

Jabberwocky

The Hunting of the Snark

Phantasmagoria

Hiawatha’s Photographing

Poetry

Lewis Carol

Precious nonsense. From Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll Humorous

Lewis Carroll

How a man is visited by a phantom, who explains ghosts’ laws & customs. Humorous

A humorous poem running to the meter of The Song of Hiawatha

Comic Books

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute Peyo

The Black Arrow Peyo

Asterix series

Tintin series

The Complete Peanuts

First Smurfs book. Peewit, royal jester, is robbed of a magic flute. Humorous

Sir Johan and Peewit go on a mission to rid the region of bandits. Humorous

Goscinny & Uderzo Humorous

Hergé Adventure and humour

Charles M. Schulz Good Grief!

The Dirty Dozen Commando War Comics

The Hobbit: Graphic Novel

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Stone Age Farmers Beside the Sea

Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor

Diary of an Early American Boy

Our Vanishing Landscape

J. R. R. Tolkien, David Wenzel, Charles Dixon & Sean Deming

C. S. Lewis; abridged and illustrated by Robin Lawrie

History

Caroline Arnold

Very good artwork; marvellous for a comic book

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

Life Size: Dinosaurs

Scotland’s prehistoric village of Skara Brae

Dorling Kindersley Limited Very extensive; almost entirely pictures

Eric Sloane

Science

Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

David Bergen

Eric Sloane produces explanations for peculiar entries in an old diary he found.

Intended to give a good idea of dinosaur size by means of life-sized pictures

The Dinosaur Heresies

In Search of Noah’s Ark

Cadborosaurus: Survivor of the Deep

Robert T. Bakker

Dave Balsiger & Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Paul H. LeBlond & Edward L. Bousfield

Art

J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Return of the King

Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull

Shows the dinosaurs to have been warm blooded

About a very rare and controversial marine species

Art from the process of making the Lord of the Rings movies

More of the same

upper Ages

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Cracker Barrel

A Christmas Carol

Swoop and Other Stories

The Custody of the Pumpkin

The World of Jeeves

Four Faultless Felons

The Club of Queer Trades

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Tales of the Longbow

The Complete Father Brown

The Sword of Wood

The Poet and the Lunatics

Stories, Essays And Poems

The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond

The Coloured Lands

The Mask of Midas

Eric Sloane

Charles Dickens

P. G. Wodehouse

G. K. Chesterton

Humorous anecdotes

Humorous

Mystery stories in which everyone is innocent

Mysteries where the answer lies in the characters’ odd professions

The detective solves mysteries by his knowledge of the world

Stories where idioms become literal

All Father Brown mysteries (except Father Brown and the Donnnington Affair) in 1 volume

Chesterton’s first mystery stories

A Treasury of Stephen Leacock

Laugh with Leacock

My Financial Career and Other Follies

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

His Last Bow

Lady of the Tiger

Sketch Book

Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Myths of the World

Tanglewood Tales

Wonder Book

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

English Fairy Tales

Tales of All Countries -1st Series

Tales of All Countries -2nd

Series

Tales of All Countries -3rd Series

Why Frau Frohmann Raised

Her Prices & Other Stories

Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories

Christmas at Kirkby Cottage

The Editor’s Tales

Catharine Carmichael

Various novels

The Moorland Cottage

The Old Nurse’s Story

Lizzy Leigh

Round the Sofa

Lois the Witch

A Dark Night’s Work

Mary Barton

The Luck of Roaring Camp

Neighbor Rosicky

Little Bo-Peep

The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Most Dangerous Game

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Great Stone Face

Stephen Leacock

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Doyle thought to end the series with this one…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle …but the fans wouldn’t let him!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The last Holmes stories

Frank Stockton

Washington Irving

Edgar Allen Poe

Padraic Colum

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mark Twain

Collected by Joseph Jacobs

Anthony Trollope

Elizabeth Gaskell

Bret Harte

Willa Cather

O. Henry

Stephen V. Benet

Richard Connell

James Thurber

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lays of Beleriand

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

America For Me

Be Strong

The Bells

The Builders

The Children’s Hour

Hiawatha’s Childhood

Evangeline

The Day is Done

Christmas Everywhere

Christopher Columbus

Pocahontas

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Spring

The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Poetry

J. R. R. Tolkien

Silmarillion stories in verse. Detailed description but none completed.

J. R. R. Tolkien Poems supposedly composed by hobbits

Henry Van Dyke

Maltbie D. Babcock

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Phillip Brooks

Rosemary & Stephen Vincent Benet

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Butler Yeats

Francis W. Bourdillon

The Old Woman of the Roads Padraic Colum

Opportunity

Poems for the Innocent and Experienced Travelers

Requiem

Selections from Robert Louis

Stevenson

Sea Fever

The Kalevala

Collected Poetry

Rubaiyat

At the Long Sault: May 1660

Brebeuf and His Brethren

Flint and Feather

Edward Sill

Nancy Willard

Robert Louis Stevenson

John Masefield

Traditional

G. K. Chesterton

Omar Khayyam

Archibald Lampman

E. J. Pratt

E. Pauline Johnson

Finnish poetry

Tenth volume of Ignatius Press’s G. K. Chesterton: Collected Works

In Flander’s Fields

John McCrae

Selections from Bliss Carman

Songs of a Sourdough

The Rising Village

The Iliad

The Odyssey

A Thing of Beauty

On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Horatius

Leaves of Grass

Lochnivar

Love

The Pulley

Murder in the Cathedral

Narrow Road to the Deep North

Selections from John Donne

Selections from Lord Byron

Selections from Percy Bysse

Shelley

Selections from Robert Burns

Selections from W. B. Yeats

Selections from Wilifrid Owen

Selections from Robert Frost

Selections from Emily Dickinson

Songs of Innocence and Expression

Sonnets

Sonnets from the Portuguese

The Daffodils

The Flute

Robert Service

Oliver Goldsmith

Homer

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Lord Macaulay

Walt Whitman

Sir Walter Scott

George Herbert

T. S. Eliot

Matsuo Basho

William Blake

William Shakespeare

E.B. Browning

William Wordsworth

Wilfrid Gibson

When I was One and Twenty A.E. Housman

Literature

The Stoneholding

Darkling Fields of Arvon

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc

Legacy of the Stoneharp Book 1

Legacy of the Stoneharp Book 2

Jerome K. Jerome They just can’t stop bumbling, except to tell humorous stories and some odd history.

Swiss Family Robinson

Mansfield Park

Persuasion

Northanger Abbey

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Emma

A Murder is Announced

They Do it with Mirrors

A Study in Scarlet

The Sign of Four

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Valley of Fear

Mr. Dickens Hits Town

Robinson Crusoe

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Ivanhoe

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Three Musketeers

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

A Tale of Two Cities

Bleak House

Little Dorrit

Oliver Twist

Johann Wyss Adventure

Jane Austen

Agatha Christie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jan Mark & Regolo Ricci

Daniel Defoe

Victor Hugo

Sir Walter Scott

Alexandre Dumas

Charles Dickens

Years ago Fanny was taken in by her rich uncle, but she has never felt herself an equal to the rest of the family.

Years ago Anne Eliot refused an offer of marriage on her best friend’s advice. Now her former love has returned.

Catherine has lived in a world constructed from the reading of gothic novels all her life.

‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th ...”

The murder seems impossible, just like a conjuring trick.

Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of a series of murders by poisoning.

Watson falls in love in this one.

The body of a country gentleman is found. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

When Charles Dickens came to Canada

The story of the life and loves of David Copperfield

Pip is astonished to find himself suddenly a gentleman, and with great expectations!

Charles Darnay is determined to do right in the midst of the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Esther wishes to do well by her friends, but she also wants to learn the truth of her parentage.

23 years ago Amy (Little) Dorrit was borne in the Marshalsea debtor’s prison. This is her story.

Nicholas Nickleby

The Pickwick Papers

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

Les Miserables

Life of Samuel Johnson

Looking Backward

Lorna Doone

Middlemarch

Mill on the Floss

Moby Dick

My Antonia

My Heart Lies South

Mutiny on the Bounty

Native Son

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Paradise Lost

Politics

Prisoner of Zenda

Victor Hugo

James Boswell

Edward Bellamy

Richard Blackmore

George Eliot

Herman Melville

Willa Cather

Elizabeth Borton de Travino

Charles Nordoff & James

Norman Hall

Richard Wright

George Orwell

John Milton

Plato

Anthony Hope Hawkins

Red and the Black Stendahl

Red Badge of Courage

Riders of the Purple Sage

Scaramouche

Shadows on the Rock

Silas Marner

Snow Walker

The Stranger

Such Is My Beloved

Under a Changing Moon

Stephan Crane

Zane Grey

Ragael Sabatini

Willa Cather

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Farley Mowat

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Margot Benary-Isbert

Virginian, The Owen Wister

Two Years Before the Mast

War & Peace

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White Company, The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Brothers Karamozov

Crime and Punishment

War and Peace

The Return of Don Quixote

Emily Bronte

Robert L. Stevenson

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Leo Tolstoy

G. K. Chesterton

Mr. Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members tour England having adventures.

Little Nell must care for her senile gambler grandfather as they walk across England, and all the while her health is failing.

The Phantom of the Opera

Black Tulip

Age of Innocence

Gaston Leroux

Alexandre Dumas

Edith Wharton

All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Remarque

Animal Farm

Anna Karenina

Babbit

George Orwell

Leo Tolstoy

Sinclair Lewis

Candide Voltair

Crucible

Cry, the Beloved Country

Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Dead Souls

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death of Ivan Ilyitch

Arthur Miller

Alan Paton

Alexandre Solzhenitzein

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Willa Cather

Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Socrates Plato

The Deerslayer

The Diary of Anne Frank

Divine Comedy

Don Quixote

Education of Henry Adams

Faerie Queene

Fall of the House of Usher

Farewell to Arms

Fathers and Sons

Fifth Business

Heart of Darkness

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The Ides of March

The Invisible Man

Jane Eyre

Joan of Arc

Joseph Andrews

The Kitchen Madonna

James F. Cooper

Anne Frank

Dante Alighieri

Miguel de Cervantes

Henry Adams

Spenser

Edgar Allen Poe

Ernest Hemingway

Ivan Turgenev

Robertson Davies

Joseph Conrad

Edith Wharton

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary Ray

Ralph Ellison

Charlotte Bronte

Mark Twain

Henry Fielding

Rumer Godden

History

The Forgotten Arts and Crafts John Seymour

Do’s and Don’ts of Yesteryear Eric Sloane

God’s Battalions

After the Flood

Travels

Jesus College MS LXI

The Story of Canada

Why We Can’t Wait

The Guillotine and the Cross

Red Banners White Mantle

Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness

Canadian Exploration Literature

Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples From Earliest Times

Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide Vol. 1 Beginnings to Confederation

Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide Vol. 2 Confederation to the Present

The Canadian Prairies: A History

Canadian Settler’s Guide, Backwoods of Canada

Canadians, 1867-1967

Flames across the Border: 1813-14

Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History

Geological Survey of Canada: Report of Progress from Its Commencement to 1863

Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographical Man

Rodney Stark

Bill Cooper

Marco Polo

Walter of Oxford; Translated by Wm R Cooper

Martin Luther King Jr

Warren H. Carroll

Edited by Germaine Warkentin

Olive Patricia Dickason

Edited by M. Brook Taylor

Edited by Doug Oram

Gerald Friesen

Catherine Parr Traill

Edited by J. M. S.

Careless and R. Craig Brown

Pierre Burton

Harold Innis

Marshall McLuhan

Looks at old professions and ways of keeping house. Out of print. The second half is in print.

A Treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom

A history of the Crusades as they really were. Pro-Crusader.

Proves the pagans of Europe themselves traced their ancestry to Noah.

The history of the Britons from their origins to the crowning of Athelstan

History of Canada

Illustrated History of Canada

Indian Legends of Canada

Invasion of Canada: 1812-13

John A. MacDonald The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain

Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881- 85

Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 19391945

Military History of Canada

National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-81

Report on the Affairs of British North America

Riel: A Life of Revolution

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery

Two Solitudes

Desmond Morton

R. Craig Brown

Ella E. Clark

Pierre Burton

Creighton

Pierre Burton

J. L. Granatstein

Desmond Morton

Pierre Burton

Lord Durham

Maggie Siggins

Janet Kitz

Hugh MacLennan

Who Killed Canadian History? J. L. Granatstein

Ten Lost Years: 1929-1939

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Works of Samuel de Champlain

1066: The Year of Conquest

A History of Europe

Barry Broadfoot

Anna Bronwell Jameson

Samuel de Champlain

Howartz Dand

Schevill

A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Aztecs Spaniards

Bede’s History of the English People

Cur Deus Homo

Declaration of Independence

Democracy in America

Empires Lost and Won: The Spanish Heritage in the Southwest

Federalist Papers

Gettysburg Address

Carl Sandburg

Albert Marrin

Bede

Anselm

Alexis de Toqueville

Albert Marrin

Alexander Hamilton, Madison, Jay

Abraham Lincoln

Gulag Archipelago

Life in a Medieval Barony

Life in Elizabethan Days

Magna Carta

Aleksandr Solezhenitsyn

William Stearns Davis

James Daughtery

New History of the World J. M. Roberts

Night

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On American Taxation

Rights of Man

Selected Writings

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Christian History Project Series

U.S. Constitution

Unconditional Surrender:

U. S. Grant and the Civil War

Virginia’s General:

Robert E. Lee

War for Independence

The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution

Isabel of Spain the Catholic Queen

“Horatius” from the Lays of Ancient Rome

The Roman Army

Elie Wiesel

Tocqueville

Edmund Burke

Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin

Albert Marrin

Warren H. Carroll

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Peter Connolly

Empires and Barbarians (Usborne)

Eagle of the Ninth

The Silver Branch

The Lantern Bearers

Lives from Plutarch: The Modern American Edition of Twelve Lives

The Truce of the Games

Roman People

Caesar’s Gallic Wars

Lives of Famous Romans

The Aeneid for Boys and Girls

Men of Rome

Julius Caesar

Rosemary Sutcliff

Edited by John McFarland

Rosemary Sutcliff

Olivia Coolidge

A.J. Church

Olivia Coolidge

John Gunther

St. Helena and the True Cross Louis De Wohl

Blood Feud

Rosemary Sutcliff

Christ the King Lord of History

Ann Carroll

Famous Battles by Land & Sea Edited by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Living in Roman Times

The Roman Army

Jane Chisholm

John Wilkes

The Young Carthaginian G.A. Henty

The Romans and their Empire

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Julius Caesar

Legions of the Eagle

Trevor Cairns

Monroe Stearns

Manuel Komruff

Henry Treece

Rome and Romans (Usborne)

Ancient Rome

Two Thousand Years Ago

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The Histories

Temple on a Hill

Men of Athens

Theras and His Town

The White Isle

The Spartan

The Exploits of Xenophon

The Trojan War

The Golden Days of Greece

Greek Myths: A Wonder Book

The Tale of Troy

Tales of the Greek Heroes

Dolphin Rider

The Golden God

The Greek Gods

Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myth

The Story of the Greeks

Children of the Dawn

The Heroes

The Adventure of Ulysses

Simon James (Eye Witness Books)

A.J. Church

Peter Connolly

Herodotus (Translated by Aubrey DeSelincourtPenguin Books) Read the following parts: Bk. VI, PP.384-404 (Marathon)

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Ann Rockwell

Olivia Coolidge

Caroline Snedeker

Geoffrey Household

Olivia Coolidge

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roger Lancelyn Green

Bernard Evslin

Doris Gates

Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin & Ned Hoopes

J. A. Guerber

Elsie Finnimore Buckley

Charles Kingsley

Gerald Gottlieb

Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

The Walls of Windy Troy

How We Learned the Earth Is Round

Black Ships Before Troy

Greek and Roman Plays

Augustine Comes to Kent

Fingal’s Quest

The King’s Thane

Son of Charlemagne

Mission to Cathay

If All the Swords in England

The Two Trumpeters of Vienna

A Trumpet Sounds

The Blue Gonfalon

Where Valour Lies

William the Conqueror

Man with a Sword

Swords from the North

Edward Creasy (Marathon)

Marjorie Braymen

Patricia Lauber

Rosemary Sutcliff

Albert Cullum

Barbara Willard

Madeleine Polland

Charles Brady

Barbara Willard

Madeleine Polland

Barbara Willard

Hertha Pauli

Henry Garnett

Margaret Hubbard

Adele & Cateau

DeLeeuw

Thomas B. Costain

Henry Treece

Song of Roland (Unknown)

Idylls of the King

Young Folk’s History of England

Boy Knight of Reims

Joy in Stone

The Crusaders

The Crusades

We Were There With Richard the Lionhearted

St. Louis and the Last Crusade

Castles

The Story of a Castle

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Otto of the Silver Hand

The Crusades

William the Conqueror

Looking into the Middle Ages

Spice Ho! A Story of Discovery

Ghengis Kahn & the Mongol Horde

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Charlotte Yonge

Eloise Lownsbery

Sabra Holbrook

A.J. Church

Anthony West

Robert Webb

Margaret Hubbard

Ladybird Book

John Goodall

J.R.R. Tolkien

Howard Pyle

Hilaire Belloc

Huck Scarry

Agnes Hewes

Harold Lamb

The Bayeaux Tapestry

The Age of Chivalry

The War of the Roses

The Plantagenet Chronicles

Four Gothic Kings

Norman Denny and Josephine Filmersankey

National Geographic

Elizabeth Hallam

Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World Edward Creasy

In the Days of King

The Fall of Constantinople

Master Skylark

The Life of Thomas More

Hal Marion Taggert

Bernadine Kielty

John Bennet

William Roper

A Proud Tale of Minerva and Scarlet E.L. Konigsburg

The Golden Book of the Renaissance (Golden Press)

Adam of the Road

St. George and the Dragon

Canterbury Tales

Beowulf

Jackaroo

Elizabeth Gray

Margaret Hodges

Barbara Cohen

Ian Serraillier

Cynthia Voigt

The Adventures of Robin Hood Roger Lancelyn Green

King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table

I, Juan De Pareja

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Outline of History

Roger Lancelyn Green

Elizabeth Borten De Trevino

Margaret Hodges

H. G. Wells

New History of the World J. M. Roberts

Story of Civilization

The Annals of the World

A Day in Old Athens

Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning

Will & Ariel Durant

James Ussher

William S. Davis

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Richard Hinckley Allen

Echoes of Ancient Skies E. C. Krupp

365 Starry Nights

The Messier Objects

The Caldwell Objects

The Modern Moon

Chet Raymo

Stephen James O’Meara

Charles A. Wood

The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations

An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year

The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved

Fingerprints of the Gods

The Message of the Sphynx

David Hatcher Childress

Graham Hancock

This book demonstrates that the stones of the Pyramids were cast like concrete.

Evidence of ancient knowledge of a remarkable character.

More of the same Dead Men’s Secrets

Jonathan Gray

Buried Alive: The Startling Truth about Neanderthal Man

Starlight and Time

The Elegant Universe

In the Beginning

Darwin’s Black Box

Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study

Dr. Jack Cuozzo

D. Russell Humphreys

Brian Greene

Walt Brown

Michael Behe

John Woodmorappe

Catalogue of astounding ancient technology (space travel, nuclear war, etc*)

Shows the physical superiority of Neanderthals to modern men, and their 200 year+ lifespans.

Solving the Puzzle of Distant

Starlight in a Young Universe

Explores string theory

Gives a coherent theory explaining huge numbers of the world’s mysteries by means of his deluge theory; the Hydroplate Theory

How the workings of the cell disprove Darwinism

Categorically refutes every objection ever made to the possibility of life surviving a global flood by means of the Ark.

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It

Aphorisms

Banting: A Biography

Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Division and Method of Sciences

Elements of Chemistry

Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

On Floating Bodies

On the Equilibrium of Liquids

On the Natural Faculties

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Parts of Animals

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Principles of Psychology

Relativity

Wild Animals I Have Known

John Seymour

Hippocrates

Michael Bliss

Galileo

Aquinas

Antoine Lavoisier

Paul Brand & Philip Yancy

Archemides

Pascal

Galen

Copernicus

Aristotle

William James

Albert Einstein

Ernest Thompson Seton

All one needs to know in order to set up a self sufficient, organic farm.

The History of Middle Earth (series)

The Atlas of Middle Earth

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Karen Wynn Fonstad

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Building Big

David Macaulay

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Augustine Confessions

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On the Incarnation

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Summa Theologica

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Story of Art

Group of Seven: Art for a Nation

Augustine

C. S. Lewis

Athanasius

G. K. Chesterton

John Bunyan

Aquinas

William James

Art Appreciation

Edith Fowke

E. H. Gombrich

Charles Hill

Elements of Geometry

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Euclid

Archimedes

On the Sphere & the Cylinder Archimedes

Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

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Elements of Style

On Writing Well

How to Read a Book

A Grammar of the English Language

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On Liberty: The Subjection of Women

Pragmatism; Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth

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Cicero

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Utopia

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Thomas More

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Aristotle

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Oedipus Rex Sophocles

On the Nature of Things Lucretius

The Aeneid Virgil

The Frogs Aristophanes

The Prophecy of Socrates

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