Reading List Booklet by The Gilbertine Institute

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Book Lists

4 FOR YOUNGER AGES

• Short Stories & Anthologies

• Literature

• M athematical Stories

• Poetry

• Science

7 FOR INTERMEDIATE AGES

• Short Stories & Anthologies

• Literature

• Poetry

• Comic Books

• History

• Science

• Art

17 UPPER AGES

• Short Stories & Anthologies

• Literature

• History

• Science

• Commentary

• Architecture

• Theology

• Art Appreciation

• M athematics

• English Composition & Reference works

• Philosophy

• Foundations

FOR YOUNGER AGES

SHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

Mr. Bliss

J. R. R. Tolkien

Letters From Father ChristmasJ. R. R. Tolkien

The 500 Hats of Bartholmew Cubbins

Dr. Seuss

Bartholomew and the OobleckDr. Seuss

The Shape of Me and Other StuffDr. Seuss

Andrew Lang’s Fairy BooksAndrew Lang

The Wonder Clock Howard Pyle

Pepper and Salt for Young FolkHoward Pyle

The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter

Crictor

Babar (series)

Madeline (series)

Curious George (series)

Something From Nothing

Winnie –the-Pooh

The House at Pooh Corner

Tomi Ungerer

Jean de Bruhoff and later Laurent de Brunhoff

Ludwig Bemelmans

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 Bartholmew 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

Margret & H.A. Rey This curious monkey keeps getting into such trouble

Phoebe Gilman

A. A. Milne

Nonsense Songs and StoriesEdward Lear

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

The Gift of the Magi

The Invisible Seam

Edward Lear

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

Sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh

Humorous

O. Henry Twist ending

Andy William Frew & jun Matsuoka

The Twelve Dancing PrincessesMarianna Mayer & K. Y. Craft

Rupert (series)

Burgess Bedtime Stories

The Legend of The Three Trees

Paddington Bear (series)

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

The Classic Fairy Tales Treasury 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? Julie Ellis & Phyllis Hornung

Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumplestiltskin

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland

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.

Doctor Seuss series of rhyming books.

Eric Kinkaid

Edward Lear

Dr. Seuss

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

How Big?

How Long?

How Tall?

How Fast?

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

Nicholas Harris

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

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

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

Dragons of the Deep Carl Wieland Ocean Monsters past and Present. Creationist

FOR INTERMEDIATE AGES

SHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

Johan Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

Columbus

Bruce Koscielniak

Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek MythsIngri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse MythsIngri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

Rip Van Winkle

Well illustrated

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving Grandma’s Attic series Arleta Richardson

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

The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart

The Screwtape Letters

Herminie Templeton Cavanagh

E. Nesbit

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 Batables; others are not. Read after New Treasure Seekers.

Robert McCloskey Humourous

Robert McCloskey

O. Henry

LITERATURE

Barbara Kathleen Nickel

C. S. Lewis

The Chronicles of NarniaC.S. Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet

Black Beauty

Rose in Bloom

Jack and Jill

Eight Cousins

Little Women

Good Wives

Little Men

C. S. Lewis

Anna Sewell

Louisa May Alcott

Humorous. Read after Homer Price

A man is kidnapped and taken to another planet

An Old Fashioned Girl

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Louisa May Alcott

Howard Pyle

Ursula Moray Williams

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking GlassLewis Carroll

Peter Pan

James M. Barrie

Bartlett and the Ice VoyageOdo Hirsch

The Tale of Despereaux

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo

Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryRoald Dahl

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl

The BFG Roald Dahl

James and the Giant PeachRoald Dahl

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.

Blinky Bill

Cassie Loves Beethoven

Dorothy Wall

Alan Arkin

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage PatchAlice Hegan Rice

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

Margaret Sidney

Susan Coolidge

Frances Hodgson Burnett

J. R. R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Roberta Carter Clark

Sarah 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 Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

The Battle For Castle CockatriceGerald Durrell

Complete works

The Great Good Thing

Ella Enchanted

L. Frank Baum

Roderick Townley

Gail Carson Levine

The Marvellous Land of Snergs

E. A. Wyke-Smith

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.

Watership Down

Richard Adams

The Rose and the Ring

W. M. Thackeray

The Best Christmas Pageant EverBarbara Robinson

The Best School Year EverBarbara Robinson

The Magic Pudding

Norman Lindsay

Pippi Longstocking

Charlotte’s Web

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Astrid Lindgren

E.B White

Richard and Florence

Atwater

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

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.

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

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Robert C. O’Brien

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The Story of Doctor DolittleHugh Lofting

The Voyages of Doctor DolittleHugh Lofting

Three Terrible Trins

The Children of Odin

Freddy the Detective

The Secret of Terror Castle

The Railway Children

Five Children and It

Dick King-Smith

Padraic Colum

Walter R. Brooks

Robert Arthur

E. Nesbit

The Phoenix and the CarpetE. Nesbit

The Story of the Treasure SeekersE. Nesbitt

The Woodbegoods

New Treasure Seekers

The Enchanted Castle

The House at Arden

Various novels

E. Nesbitt

E.Nesbit

E. Nesbitt

E. Nesbit

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

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 sets 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

Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, etc*

Swallows and Amazons (series)Arthur Ransome

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Mostly boat related. Tolkien liked them.

The Search for DeliciousNatalie Babbit

Tuck Everlasting

The Sword in the Stone

Prydain series

The Borrowers (series)

Natalie Babbit

T. H. White

Lloyd Alexander

Mary Norton

The Redwall series

Brian Jacques

Tom’s Midnight GardenPhilippa Pearce

The Indian in the CupboardLynne Reid Banks

The Neverending Story

Michael End

Mr. Midshipman Easy

Frederick Marryat

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.

Fantasy adventure. 5 books

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.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi

The Black Arrow

Mark Twain

Robert Louis Stevenson

A band of outlaws tries to see justice done to oppressors

Kidnapped

Treasure Island

Cranford

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Robert Louis Stevenson

Elizabeth Gaskell

Baroness Orczy

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

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

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

Marguerite De Angeli

H. G. Wells

Jules Verne

The Mad Scientists’ ClubBertrand R. Brinley

The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club

Bertrand R. Brinley

The Mysterious Benedict SocietyTrenton Lee Stewart

Detectives in Togas

The Twenty-One Balloons

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.

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)

Meriol Trevor

Joan Aiken

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Henry Rider Haggard

Jack London

Kate Douglas Wiggen

The story of a runaway slave in America

Swallows and Amazons (series)Arthur Ransome Some children have various sailing related adventures

The Witch of Blackbird PondElizabeth George Speare

Across Five Aprils

Adam of the Road

Last of the Mohicans

All Men are Brothers

All-of-a-Kind Family series

Andries

The Bantry Bay Series

The Michells Series

The Borrowed House

Irene Hunt

Elizabeth Gray

James Fenimore Cooper

Pearl S. Buck

Sydney Taylor

Hilda van Stockum

Anna and the King of SiamMargaret Landon

The Bells on Finland StreetLyn Cook

Big Red

Blue Willow

Born Free

Boy’s King Arthur

Jim Kjelgaard

Doris Gates

Joy Adamson

Sidney Lanier

Brighty of the Grand CanyonMarguerite Henry

The Bronze Bow

Calico Captive

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

Elizabeth George Speare

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

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

Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by DayScott O’Dell

Island of the Blue DolphinsScott O’Dell

The Hiding Place

How Green Was My Valley

Captains Courageous

The Jungle Book

Mama’s Bank Account

Corrie Ten Boom

Richard Llewellyn

Rudyard Kipling

Kathryn Forbes

Mara, Daughter of the NileEloise Jarvis McGraw

The Matchlock Gun

The Melendy Family

Thimble Summer

Miracle Worker

Miracles on Maple Hill

The Moffats

Moonside

W.D. Edwards

Elizabeth Enright

William Gibson

Virgina Sorenson

Eleanor Estes

Wilkie Collins

My side of the Mountain SideJean Craighead Geiorge

Mythology

O! Pioneers

Odyssey of Homer

Of Courage Undaunted

Old Yeller

Oregon Trail

Pilgrim’s Progress

Profiles in Courage

Edith Hamilton

Willa Cather

Barbara Leonie Picard

James Daughtery

Fred Gipson

Francis Parkman

John Bunyan

John F. Kennedy

The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane

Return of Silver Chief

Royal Red

Jack O’Brien

Silver Chief Dog of The NorthJack O’Brien

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

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

Tom Brown’s School DaysThomas Hughes

Travels in Africa

Trumpeter of Krakow

Mungo Park

Eric P. Kelly

Two Years Before the MastRichard Henry Dana

Understood Betsy

The Weeping Chamber

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Sigmund Brouwer

Where the Red Fern GrowsWilson Rawls

White Company

With Love From Karen

The Yearling

Robinson Crusoe

Jabberwocky

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Marie Killiles

Marjorie Rawlings

Daniel Defoe

POETRY

Lewis Carol

Precious nonsense. From Through the Looking Glass

The Hunting of the SnarkLewis Carroll Humorous Phantasmagoria

Lewis Carroll

Hiawatha’s PhotographingLewis Carroll

How a man is visited by a phantom, who explains ghost’s laws and customs. Humorous

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

COMIC BOOKS

The Smurfs and the Magic FlutePeyo

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

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

Very good artwork; marvellous for a comic book

HISTORY

Stone Age Farmers Beside the Sea Caroline Arnold Scotland’s prehistoric village of Skara Brae

Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor

Dorling Kindersley Limited

Diary of an Early American BoyEric Sloane

Our Vanishing Landscape

Eric Sloane

SCIENCE

Very extensive; almost entirely pictures

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

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

Life Size: Dinosaurs

The Dinosaur Heresies

Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

David Bergen

Intended to give a good idea of dinosaur size by means of lifesized pictures

Robert T. Bakker Shows the dinosaurs to have been warm blooded

In Search of Noah’s ArkDave Balsiger & Charles E. Sellier, Jr.

Cadborosaurus: Survivor of the Deep 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

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 AND ANTHOLOGIES

The Cracker Barrel

A Christmas Carol

Swoop and Other Stories

The Custody of the Pumpkin

The World of Jeeves

Four Faultless Felons

Eric Sloane

Charles Dickens

P.G. Wodehouse

Humorous anecdotes

P.G. Wodehouse Humorous

G. K. Chesterton

The Club of Queer TradesG. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Knew Too MuchG. K. Chesterton

Tales of the Longbow

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

G. K. Chesterton Stories where idioms become literal

The Complete Father BrownG. K. Chesterton

The Sword of Wood

All Father Brown mysteries in (except Father Brown and the Donnnington Affair) in1 volume

G. K. Chesterton

The Poet and the LunaticsG. K. Chesterton

Stories, Essays And PoemsG. K. Chesterton

The Paradoxes of Mr. PondG. K. Chesterton Chesterton’s first mystery stories

The Coloured Lands

The Mask of Midas

G. K. Chesterton

A Treasury of Stephen LeacockStephen Leacock Humorous

Laugh with Leacock

My Financial Career and Other Follies

Stephen Leacock Humorous

Adventures of Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle

Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle Doyle thought to end the series with this one…

The Return of Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle …but the fans wouldn’t let him!

His Last Bow

Lady of the Tiger

Sketch Book

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Myths of the World

Tanglewood Tales

Wonder Book

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The last Holmes stories

Frank Stockton

Washington Irving

Edgar Allen Poe

Padraic Colum

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

English Fairy Tales Colected by Joseph Jacobs

Tales of All Countries –1st Series

Anthony Trollope

Tales of All Countries –2nd Series Anthony Trollope

Tales of All Countries –3rd Series Anthony Trollope

Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her

Prices and other Stories

Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories

Christmas at Kirkby Cottage

The Editor’s Tales

Catharine Carmichael

The Moorland Cottage

The Old Nurse’s Story

Lizzy Leigh

Round the Sofa

Lois the Witch

A Dark Night’s Work

Various novels

Mary Barton

Anthony Trollope

Elizabeth Gaskell

Anthony Trollope

Elizabeth Gaskell

The Luck of Roaring CampBret Harte

Neighbor Rosicky

Little Bo-Peep

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Willa Cather

O. Henry

Stephen V. Benet

The Most Dangerous GameRichard Connell

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Great Stone Face

The Lays of Beleriand

James Thurber

Nathaniel Hawthorne

POETRY

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Adventures of Tom BombadilJ. R. R. Tolkien

America For Me

Be Strong

The Bells

The Builders

The Children’s Hour

Hiawatha’s Childhood

Evangeline

Henry Van Dyke

Maltbie D. Babcock

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silmarilion stories in verse. Detailed description but none completed.

Poems supposedly composed by hobbits

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Phillip Brooks

Rosemary & Stephen

Vincent Benet

Rosemary & Stephen

Vincent Benet

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Butler Yeats

Francis W. Bourdillon

The Old Woman of the RoadsPadraic Colum

Opportunity

Poems for the innocent and Experienced Travelers

Requiem

Selections from Robert Louis Stevenson

Sea Fever

Edward Sill

Nancy Willard

Robert Louis Stevenson

John Masefield

The Kalevala Traditional Finnish poetry

Collected Poetry

Rubaiyat

G. K. Chesterton

Omar Khayyam

At the Long Sault: May 1660Archibald Lampman

Brebeuf and His BrethernE. J. Pratt

Flint and Feather

In Flander’s Fields

Selections from Bliss

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

E. Pauline Johnson

John McCrae

Carman

Robert Service

Oliver Goldsmith

Homer

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Lord Macaulay

Walt Whitman

Sir Walter Scott

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

Love George Herbert

The Pulley

George Herbert

Murder in the CathedralT. S. Eliot

Narrow Road to the Deep NorthMatsuo Basho

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 Dickenson

Songs of Innocence and Expression

Sonnets

William Blake

William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the PortugueseE.B. Browning

The Daffodils

The Flute

William Wordsworth

Wilfrid Gibson

When I was One and TwentyA.E. Housman

LITERATURE

The Stoneholding

James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc Legacy of the Stoneharp Book 1

Darkling Fields of ArvonJames G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc

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

Swiss Family Robinson

Mansfield Park

Jerome K. Jerome

Legacy of the Stoneharp Book 2.

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

Johann Wyss Adventure

Jane Austen

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

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 AnnouncedAgatha Christie

They Do it with MirrorsAgatha Christie

A Study in Scarlet

The Sign of Four

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the BaskervillesSir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley of Fear

Mr. Dickens Hits Town

Robinson Crusoe

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

‘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.

Jan Mark & Regolo Ricci When Charles Dickens came to Canada

Daniel Defoe

The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

A Tale of Two Cities

Bleak House

Little Dorrit

Oliver Twist

Nicholas Nickleby

The Pickwick Papers

The Old Curiosity Shop

Alexandre Dumas

Charles Dickens

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 detrmined 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.

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.

A Murder is Announced

They Do it with Mirrors

A Study in Scarlet

The Sign of Four

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

Agatha Christie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The murder seems impossible, just like a conjuring trick.

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Watson falls in love in this one.

The Hound of the BaskervillesSir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley of Fear

Mr. Dickens Hits Town

Robinson Crusoe

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Jan Mark & Regolo Ricci When Charles Dickens came to Canada

Daniel Defoe

The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

A Tale of Two Cities

Bleak House

Little Dorrit

Oliver Twist

Nicholas Nickleby

The Pickwick Papers

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

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 detrmined 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.

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

Charles Dickens

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.

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

Red and the Black

Red Badge of Courage

Victor Hugo

James Boswell

Edward Bellamy

Richard Blackmore

George Elliot

Herman Melville

Willa Cather

Elizabeth Borton de Travino

Charles Nordoff & James

Norman Hall

Richard Wright

George Orwell

John Milton

Plato

Anthony Hope Hawkins

Stendahl

Stephan Crane

Riders of the Purple SageZane Grey

Scaramouche

Shadows on the Rock

Silas Marner

Snow Walker

The Stranger

Such Is My Beloved

Ragael Sabatini

Willa Cather

George Elliot

Farley Mowat

Albert

Morley Callaghan

Under a Changing MoonMargot Benary-Isbert Virginian, The Owen Wister

Two Years Before the MastR. H. Dana

War & Peace

Leo Tolstoy

White Company, The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wuthering Heights

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Emily Bronte

Robert L. Stevenson

HISTORY

The Forgotten Arts and CraftsJohn Seymour

Do’s and Don’ts of YesteryearEric Sloane

God’s Battalions

Rodney Stark

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.

After the Flood

Travels

Jesus College MS LXI

The Story of Canada

Why We Can’t Wait

Bill Cooper

Marco Polo

Walter of Oxford; Translated by Wm R Cooper

Martin Luther King Jr

The Guillotine and the CrossWarren H. Carroll

Red Banners White MantleWarren H. Carroll

Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of darkness

The Last Crusade

The History of The Church A Complete Course

A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson Bay to the Northern Ocean

Account of the Second Voyage of the Navigation of 1535 and 1536

Warren H. Carroll

The Didache Series

Samuel Hearne

Jacques Cartier

Alberta History Books Seriesfrom Can Media

British North America Act

Bush Garden:Essays on the Canadian Imagination

Canada and the Two World Wars

Northrop Frye

J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton

Canadian Exploration LiteratureEdited by Germaine Warkentin

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

Olive Patricia Dickason

Canadian Exploration LiteratureEdited by Germaine Warkentin

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

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

Edited by M. Brook Taylor

Edited by Doug Oram

The Canadian Prairies: A HistoryGerald Friesen

Canadian Settler’s Guide, Backwoods of Canada

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

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

Catherine Parr Trail

Canadians, 1867-1967

Flames across the Border: 181314

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

History of Canada

Edited by J. M. S. Careless and R. Craig Brown

Pierre Burton

Harold Innis

Marshall McLuhan

Desmond Morton

Illustrated History of CanadaR. Craig Brown

Indian Legends of CanadaElla E. Clark

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 llistrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945

Pierre Burton

Creighton

Pierre Burton

J. L. Granatstein

Military History of CanadaDesmond Morton

National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-81

Report on the Affairs of British North America

Pierre Burton

Lord Durham

Riel: A Life of RevolutionMaggie Siggins

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosionand the Road to Recovery

Two Solitudes

Janet Kitz

Hugh MacLennan

Who Killed Canadian History?J. L. Granatstein

Ten Lost Years: 1929-1939Barry Broadfoot

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Anna Bronwell Jameson

Works of Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain

1066: The Year of ConquestHowartz Dand

A History of Europe

Schevill

A Little History of the WorldE. H. Gombrich

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Aztecs Spaniards

Carl Sandburg

Albert Marrin

Bede’s History of the English PeopleBede Cur Deus Homo

Declaration of Independence

Democracy in America

Empires Lost and Won: The Spanish Heritage in the Southwest

Anselm

Alexis de Toqueville

Albert Marrin

Alexander Hamilton, Madison, Jay Federalist Papers

Gettysburg Address

Gulag Archipelago

Life in a Medieval Barony

Life in Elizabethan Days

Magna Carta

New History of the World

Night

Abraham Lincoln

Aleksandr Solezhenitsyn

William Stearns Davis

James Daughtery

J. M. Roberts

Elie WIesel

The Old Regime and the French Revolution Tocqueville

On American Taxation

Rights of Man

Selected writings

Edmund Burke

Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin

The Christian History Project SeriesAlbert Marrin

U.S. Constitution

Unconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War

Albert Marrin

Virginia’s General: Robert E. LeeAlbert Marrin

War for Independence

The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution

Albert Marrin

Warren H. Carroll

Isabel of Spain the Catholic QueenWarren H. Carroll “Horatius” from The Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas

The Roman Army

Lord Macaulay

Peter Connolly

Empires and Barbarians (Usborne)

Eagle of the Ninth

The Silver Branch

The Latern Bearers

Lives from Plutarch: The Modern American Edition of Twelve

Rosemary Sutcliff

Edited by John McFarland

The Truce of the GamesRosemary Sutcliff

Roman People

Caesar’s Gallic Wars

Olivia Coolidge

Lives of Famous RomansOlivia Coolidge

The Aeneid for Boys and GirlsA.J. Church

Men of Rome

Julius Caesar

St. Helena and the True Cross

Olivia Coolidge

John Gunther

Louis De Wohl

Blood Feud Rosemary Sutcliff

Christ the King Lord of HistoryAnn Carroll

Famous Battles by Land & SeaEdited by Thomas Bailey

Aldrich

Living in Roman TimesJane Chisholm

Roman Engineers

The Roman Army

The Young Carthaginian

L.A. and J.A. Hamey

John Wilkes

G.A. Henty

The Romans and their EmpireTrevor Cairns

Augustus Caesar

Julius Caesar

Legions of the Eagle

Monroe Stearns

Manuel Komruff

Henry Treece

Rome and Romans (Usborne)

Ancient Rome

Two Thousand Years Ago

The Greek Army

The Histories

Temple on a Hill

Men of Athens

Theras and His Town

The White Isle

The Spartan

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) Bk. VII, PP.413-584 (Thermopylae) (PP.499-539, 544, 547-550)(Salamis) (PP.551-584) (Plataea)

Ann Rockwell

Olivia Coolidge

Caroline Snedeker

The Exploits of XenophonGeoffrey Household

The Trojan War

Olivia Coolidge

The Golden Days of GreeceOlivia Coolidge

Greek Myths A Wonder BookNathaniel Hawthorne

The Tale of Troy

Roger Lancelyn Green

Tales of the Greek HeroesRoger Lancelyn Green

Dolphin Rider

Bernard Evslin

The Golden God

The Greek Gods

Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myth

The Story of the Greeks

Children of the Dawn

The Heroes

Doris Gates

Bernard Evslin Dorothy Evslin & Ned Hoopes

J. A. Guerber

Elsie Finnimore Buckley

Charles Kingsley

The Adventure of UlyssesGerald Gottlieb

Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

The Walls of Windy Troy

How We Learned the Earth was Round

Edward Creasy (Marathon)

Marjorie Braymen

Patricia Lauber

Black Ships Before TroyRosemary Sutcliff

Greek and Roman PlaysAlbert Cullum

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

Barbara Willard

Madeleine Polland

Charles Brady

Barbara Willard

Madeleine Polland

Barbara Willard

Hertha Pauli

Henry Garnett

Margaret Hubbard

Adele and 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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Charlotte Yonge

Eloise Lownsbery

Sabra Holbrook

A.J. Church

Anthony West

Robert Webb

St. Louis and the Last CrusadeMargaret Hubbard

Castles

The Story of a Castle

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Otto of the Silver Hand

Ladybird Book

John Goodall

J.R.R. Tolkien

Howard Pyle

The Crusades

William the Conqueror

Hillaire Belloc

Looking into the Middle AgesHuck Scarry

Spice Ho! A Story of DiscoveryAgnes Hewes

Ghengis Kahn & the Mongol Horde

The Bayeaux Tapestry

The Age of Chivalry

The War of the Roses

Harold Lamb

Norman Denny and Josephine Filmersankey

National Geographic

Elizabeth Hallam

The Plantagenet ChroniclesElizabeth Hallam

Four Gothic Kings

Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

In the Days of King

Elizabeth Hallam

Edward Creasy

Hal Marion Taggert

The Fall of ConstantinopleBernadine Kielty

Master Skylark

John Bennet

The Life of Thomas MoreWilliam Roper

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

The Golden Book of the Renaissance (Golden Press)

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray

St. George and the DragonMargaret Hodges

Canterbury Tales

Beowulf

Jackaroo

Barbara Cohen

Ian Serraillier

Cynthia Voigt

The Adventures of Robin HoodRoger Lancelyn Green

King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table

I, Juan De Pareja

Roger Lancelyn Green

Elizabeth Borten De Trevino

Don Quixote and Sancho PanzaMargaret Hodges

Outline of History

H. G. Wells

New History of the WorldJ. M. Roberts

Story of Civilization

Will and Ariel Durant

The Annals of the WorldJames Ussher

A Day in Old Athens

Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning

William S. Davis

SCIENCE

Richard Hinckley Allen

Echoes of Ancient SkiesE. C. Krupp

365 Starry Nights

The Messier Objects

The Caldwell Objects

The Modern Moon

Chet Raymo

Stephen James O’meara

Charles A. Wood

The Pyramids: An Enigma solvedDavid Hatcher Childress

Fingerprints of the GodsGraham Hancock

The Message of the SphynxGraham Hancock

Dead Men’s Secrets

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

Jonathan Gray

Dr. Jack Cuozzo

D. Russell Humphreys

Brian Greene

Walt Brown

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It

Aphorisms

Banting: A Biography

Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Michael Behe

John Woodmorappe

The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations

An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year

John Seymour

Hippocrates

Michael Bliss

Galileo

Division and Method of SciencesAquinas

Elements of Chemistry

Antoine Lavoisier

Fearfully & Wonderfully MadePaul Brand & Philip Yancy

On Floating Bodies

Archemides

On the Equilibrium of LiquidsPascal

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

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 beans 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.

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

On the Natural FacultiesGalen

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Parts of Animals

Physics

Copernicus

Aristotle

Principles of PsychologyWilliam James

Relativity

Wild Animals I Have Known

The History of Middle Earth (series)

The Atlas of Middle Earth

Cathedral

Castle

City

Building Big

Albert Einstein

Ernest Thompson Seton

COMMENTARY

J. R. R. Tolkien

Karen Wynn Fonstad

ARCHITECTURE

David Macaulay

THEOLOGY

The Holy Bible City of God

Augustine Confessions Augustine

Mere Christianity

On the Incarnation

C.S. Lewis

Athanasius Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyun

Summa Theologica

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Aquinas

William James

ART APPRECIATION

Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Story of Art

Edith Fowke

E. H. Gombrich

Group of Seven: Art for a NationCharles Hill

Illustrated series

Elements of Geometry

On Conids & Spheroids

MATHEMATICS

Euclid

Archimedes

On the Sphere & the CylinderArchimedes

Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

ENGLISH COMPOSITION & REFERENCE WORKS

Elements of Style

On Writing Well

How to Read a Book

A Grammar of the English Language

Strunk and White

William Zinnser

Mortimer J. Adler

William Cobbett

Fowler’s Modern English UsageFowler

The Trivium

Shakespeare Use of the Arts of Language

Rhetoric

On Poetics

Rulebook for Arguments

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

Sister Miriam Joseph

Aristotle

Anthony Weston

Edward P. J. Corbett and Robert J. Connors

PHILOSOPHY

FOUNDATIONS

Sun-Tzu

Cicero

Aristotle

History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides

Medea

Meditations

Metamorphoses

Morte d’Arthur

Oedipus Rex

Euripides

Marcus Aurelius

Ovid

Malory

Sophocles

On the Nature of ThingsLucretius

The Aeneid

The Frogs

Virgil

Aristophanes

The Prophecy of SocratesPlato