Parents who are looking for a complete homeschool booklist for Grade K-12 should look no further. This article provides a comprehensive list of resources that will help parents get started with homeschooling. The list includes living books used in many Charlotte Mason curricula and books commonly found in classical education curricula. It also has a few books from the Sonlight book list.
You can also see if you can find them on Audible or Youtube as audiobooks.
Don’t forget that depending on your child’s abilities, they can read books from booklists that are a year or two older or younger than their age.
And why not checkout different homeschool curriculum programs if your current homeschool curriculum isn’t working.
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Preschool Homeschool Book List
The Berenstain Bears: The Big Honey Hunt by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Guess How Much I Love You
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Little Red Hen by J.P. Miller
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
No, David! by David Shannon
Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll
Curious George by H. A. Rey
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A Fish out of Water by Helen Palmer
The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Hairy Mclairy series
Grug by Ted Prior
Goodnight Moon
Anatole by Eve Titus
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer
Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Kindergarten Homeschool Booklist
Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne and Ernest H. Shepard.
Beatrix Potter series (23 Books)
The Little House by Virginia Burton
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, illustrated by Barbara Cooney
Stone Soup and other folk tale retellings by Marcia Brown
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris
Various animal stories by Thornton Burgess (WE LOVE THESE!!!)
Poems and Prayers for the Very Young by Martha Alexander
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Three Billy Goats Gruff. (Joseph Jacob’s versions online)
Aesop’s Fables, illustrated by Milo Winter
The Real Mother Goose illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright ($amzn)
Poems for Young Children compiled by Caroline Royds
A Child’s Book of Poems by Gyo Fujikawa
The World Treasury of Children’s Literature selected by Clifton Fadiman.
First Grade Homeschool Book List
How to Behave and Why. by Leaf, Munro
How to Speak Politely and Why? By Leaf, Munro.
The Jesus Storybook Bible by Lloyd-Jones, Sally.
Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Taylor, Helen.
Wise Words – Family Stories that Bring the Proverbs to Life by Leithart, Peter.
Flat Stanley by Brown, Jeff.
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Dalgliesh, Alice.
A Light in the Attic by Silverstein, Shel.
Daniel’s Duck by Bulla, Clyde.
Cowboy Sam by Changler, Edna.
The House that Jack Built by Frasconi, Antonio.
Benjy’s Dog House by Graham, Margaret.
Sammy the Seal by Hoff, Syd.
Danny and the Dinosaur by Hoff, Syd.
The Carrot Seed by Krauss, Ruth.
Inch by Inch by Lionni, Leo.
The Magic Fish by Littledale, Freya.
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Lobel, Arnold.
Beginner Books & Bright and Early Books by Seuss, Dr
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Tabak, Simms.
Quick as a Cricket by Wood, Audrey.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Carle, Eric.
The Potluck Supper by Davoll, Barbara.
Andy and the Lion by Daugherty, James.
Petunia by Duvoisin, Roger.
Angus and the Ducks by Flack, Marjorie.
Corduroy by Freeman, Don.
The Little Red Hen by Galdone, Paul.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Galdone, Paul.
Bedtime for Frances by Hoban, Russell.
A Gift for Grandpa by Hunt, Angela.
Peter’s Chair by Keats, Ezra.
George and Martha by Marshall, James.
Stone Soup by McGovern, Ann.
Little Bear by Minarik, Else
If You Give a Mouse a Coookie by Numeroff, Laura
. Amelia Bedelia by Parish, Peggy.
Curious George by Rey, Margaret & H.A.
A Day at the Fair by Richardson, Arleta.
Nate the Great by Sharmat, Marjorie.
Harry the Dirty Dog by Zion, Gene.
Grandmother and I by Buckley, Helen.
Maybelle the Cable Car by Burton, Virginia.
The Josefina Story Quilt by Coerr, Eleanor.
May I Bring a Friend? By De Regniers, Beatrice.
Just Me by Ets, Marie
Little Toot by Gramatky, Hardie.
The Big Snow by Hader, Berta.
Whistle for Willie by Keats, Ezra.
Floss by Lewis, Kim.
The Poky Little Puppy by Lowry, Jannette.
Make Way for Ducklings by McCloskey, Robert.
The Little Engine that Could by Piper, Watty.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Potter, Beatrix.
. Where the Wild Things Are by Sendak, Maurice
Thy Friend, Obadiah by Turkle, Brinton.
The Biggest Bear by Ward, Lynd.
My First Little House Books by Wilder, Laura.
A Chair for My Mother by Williams, Vera.
Second Grade Homeschool Booklist
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Andersen, Hans C.
Dick Whittington and His Cat by Brown, Marcia.
The Little House by Burton, Virginia.
Mike Mulligan and His Steamshovel by Burton, Virginia.
The Ugly Duckling by Cauley, Lorinda.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Cleary, Beverly.
Ribsy by Cleary, Beverly.
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Dalgliesh, Alice.
The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe by Lewis, C. S.
Time of Wonder by McCloskey, Robert.
The Box-Car Children (vol. 1) by Warner, Gertrude.
The Velveteen Rabbit by Williams, Marjorie.
Stellaluna by Cannon, Janell.
The Gingerbread Boy by Galdone, Paul.
The Three Bears by Galdone, Paul.
The Three Little Pigs by Galdone, Paul.
Squanto and the First Thanksgiving by Kessel, Joyce.
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Roop, Peter and Connie.
Caps for Sale by Slobodkina, Esphyr.
Owl Moon by Yolen, Jane.
Billy and Blaze by Anderson, C. W.
Madeline by Bemelmans, Ludwig.
The Fast Sooner Hound by Bontemps, Arna & Conroy Jack.
Cross-Country Cat by Calhoun, Mary.
Babar by DeBrunhoff, Jean.
The Story about Ping by Flack, Marjorie
Millions of Cats by Gag, Wanda.
Thunder at Gettysburg by Gauch, Patricia.
Betsy & Billy by Haywood, Carolyn.
The Bobbsey Twins by Hope, Laura Lee.
The Story of Ferdinand by Leaf, Munro.
Betsy-Tacy by Loveless, Maude.
When We Were Young by Milne, A. A.
Now We are Six by Milne, A. A.
Song of the Swallows by Politi, Leo.
Dr De Soto Goes to Africa. By Steig, William.
A Gift for Tia Rosa by Taha, Karen.
The Boxcar Children by Warner, Gertrude.
A New Coat for Anna by Ziefert, Harriet
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Aardemas, Verna.
Three Young Pilgrims by Harness, Cheryl.
Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen by Le Gallienne, Eva.
Blueberries for Sal by McCloskey, Robert.
One Morning in Maine by McCloskey, Robert.
Lentil by McCloskey, Robert.
Owls in the Family by Mowat, Farley.
The Railway Children by Nesbit, E.
Secret Agents Four, by Donald.
The King Without a Shadow by Sproul, R. C.
The Happy Hollisters by West, Jerry.
Danny Dunn by Williams, Jay.
Third Grade Homeschool Booklist
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Atwater, Richard.
Peter Pan by Barrie, James.
The Black Stallion by Farley, Walter.
The Whipping Boy buy Fleischman, Sid.
My Father’s Dragon by Gannett, Ruth.
The Wind in the Willows (Scholastic Jr. Classic) by Grahame, Kenneth.
The Jungle Book (Scholastic Jr. Classic) by Kipling, Rudyard.
The Horse and His Boy by Lewis, C. S.
Gulliver’s Stories (Scholastic Jr. Classic) by Swift, Jonathan.
Charlotte’s Web by White, E. B.
Stuart Little by White, E. B.
Detectives in Togas by Winterfeld, Henry.
A Lion to Guard Us by Bulla, Clyde.
Shoeshine Girl by Bulla, Clyde.
Henry Huggins by Cleary, Beverly.
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Dalgliesh, Alice.
Stone Fox by Gardiner, John.
Ox-Cart Man by Hall, Donald.
Paul Bunyan by Kellogg, Steven.
Miss Pickerell by MacGregor, Ellen.
Sarah, Plain and Tall by MacLachlan, Patricia.
Snow Treasure by McSwigan, Marie.
The Time Warp Trio – Sam Samurai by Scieszka, Jon.
Encyclopedia Brown Series by Sobol, Donald.
The True Adventure of Daniel Hall. By Stanley, Diane.
The Box-Car Children (excluding vol. 1) # by Warner, Gertrude.
Pinocchio by Collodi C.
The Matchlock Gun by Edmonds, Walter.
Misty of Chincoteague by Henry, Marguerite.
James Herriot’s Treasury by Herriot, James.
The Bobbsey Twins by Hope, Laura Lee.
Aldo Applesauce by Hurwitz, Johanna.
Pippi Longstocking by Lindgren, Astrid.
Winnie the Pooh by Milne, A. A.
The Railway Children by Nesbit, E.
In Grandma’s Attic by Richardson, Arleta.
Family Adventures by Roddy, Lee.
Dragon of Lonely Island by Rupp, Rebecca.
Little House on the Prairie by Wilder, Laura.
Miss Hickory by Bailey, Carolyn.
Paddington by Bond, Michael.
The Enormous Egg by Butterworth, Oliver.
Ramona by Cleary, Beverly.
Benjamin Franklin by D’Aulaire, I. E.
The Moffats by Estes, Eleanor.
The Cabin Faced West by Fritz, Jean.
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling, H. C.
Trailblazer Series by Jackson, Dave & Neta.
Just So Stories by Kipling, Rudyard.
Rabbit Hill by Lawson, Robert.
Homer Price by McCloskey, Robert.
The Story of the Treasure Seekers. By Nesbit, E.
The Door in the Dragon’s Throat. by Peretti, Frank.
American Adventure Series by Reece, Colleen.
Ballet Shoes by Streatfeild, Noel.
Fourth Grade Homeschool Booklist
Don’t forget you can choose from the homeschool booklists for Grade 3 and 5 also!
The Shakespeare Stealer by Blackwood, Gary.
The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory byDahl, Roald.
Leif the Lucky by D’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar.
The Magna Charta by Daugherty, James.
The Door in the Wall by De Angeli, Marguerite.
Twenty-one Balloons by Du Bois, William Pene.
Ginger Pye by Estes, Eleanor.
King of the Wind by Henry, Marguerite.
King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table by Green, Roger Lancelyn.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basel E Frankweiler by Konigsburg, E. L.
Prince Caspian by Lewis, C. S.
The Borrowers by Norton, Mary.
Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines by Prum, Deborah M.
Beowulf by Rebsamen, Frederick.
Starry Messenger: Galileo by Sis, Peter.
Bard of Avon by Stanley, Diane and Peter Vennema.
Joan of Arc by Stanley, Diane.
Thunderstorm in the Church by Vernon, Louise A.
The Trumpet of the Swan by White, E. B.
The Book of Three by Alexander, Lloyd.
Sounder bynArmstrong, William.
Tuck Everlasting by Babbitt, Natalie.
A Little Princess by Burnett, Frances H.
The Family Under the Bridge By Carlson, Natalie.
The Hundred Dresses by Estes, Eleanor.
Lassie Come-Home by Knight, Eric.
A Wrinkle in Time by L’Engle, Madeliene.
Prairie School by Lenski, Lois.
Strawberry Girl by Lenski, Lois.
Number the Stars by Lowry, Lois.
Snow Treasure by McSwigan, Marie.
The Good Master by Seredy, Kate.
The Sign of the Beaver by Speare, Elizabeth.
All-of-A-Kind Family by Taylor, Sydney.
Many Moons by Thurber, James.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Verne, Jules.
100 Cupboards by Wilson, N. D.
The Black Stallion by Farley, Walter.
Inkheart by Funke, Cornellia.
My Side of the Mountain by George, Jean C.
The Reluctant Dragon by Grahame, Kenneth.
Two Mighty Rivers by Hanes, Mari.
Redwall by Jacques, Brian.
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh.
Gentle Ben by Morey, Walt.
The Cooper Kids Adventure by Peretti, Frank.
The Lightning Thief by Riordan, Rick.
The 101 Dalmations by Smith, Dodie.
Good-bye My Lady by Street, James.
Mary Poppins by Travers, P. I.
Leepike Ridge by Wilson, N. D.
Born Free by Adamson, Joy.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May.
The Incredible Journey by Burnford, Sheila.
Calico Bush by Field, Rachel.
Ben and Me by Lawson, Robert.
Henry Reed, Inc. by Robertson, Keith.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Robinson, Barbara.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna.
Five Little Peppers by Sidney, Margaret.
Fifth Grade Homeschool Booklist
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel.
Johnny Tremain by Forbes, Esther.
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Lathan, Jean.
The Silver Chair by Lewis, C. S.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Lewis, C. S.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Speare, Elizabeth.
Gulliver’s Travels (excerpts) by Swift, Jonathan.
Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Beatty, Patricia.
Caddie Woodlawn by Brink, Carol.
The Summer of the Swans by Byars, Betsy.
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Cleary, Beverly.
The Wheel on the School by De Jong, Meindert.
Thimble Summer by Enright, Elizabeth.
Blue Willow by Gates, Doris.
Old Yeller by Gipson, Fred.
Two Mighty Rivers by Hanes Mari.
Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by O’Brien, Robert.
Where the Red Fern Grows by Rawls, Wilson.
The Cricket in Times Square by Selden, George.
Mushroom Planet # by Cameron, Eleanor.
The House of Sixty Fathers by De Jong, Meindert.
Julie of the Wolves by George, Jean Craighead.
Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy.
Island of the Blue Dolphin by O’Dell, Scott.
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Pearce, Philippa.
Pollyanna # by Porter, Eleanor.
Summer of the Monkeys by Rawks, Wilson.
Heidi by Spyri, Johanna.
Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss, Johann.
Little Men by Alcott, Louisa.
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Burnett, Frances.
Journey from Peppermint Street by De Jong, Meindert.
Hans Brinker by Dodge, Mary.
The Wind in the Willows by Grahame, Kenneth.
The Princess and Curdie by MacDonald, George.
The Princess and the Goblin by MacDonald, George.
Rascal by North, Sterling.
The White S?tag by Seredy, Kate.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert.
The Hobbit by Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Hobbit by Verne, Jules.
Journey to the Center of the Earth. By Verne, Jules.
Sixth Grade Homeschool Book List
Don’t forget you can choose from the homeschool booklists for Grade 5 and 7 also!
Watership Down by Adams, Richard.
Twenty and Ten by Bishop, Claire.
The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen.
Sherlock Holmes (excerpts) by Doyle, Arthur Conan.
The Magician’s Nephew by Lewis, C. S.
The Last Battle by Lewis, C. S.
Animal Farm by Orwell, George.
The Hiding Place by Ten Boom, Corrie.
The Prydain Chronicles by Alexander, Lloyd.
The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury, Ray.
Big Red by Kjelgaard, James.
The Tales of Uncle Remus by Lester, Julius.
The Yearling by Rawlings, Marjorie.
Miracles on Maple Hill by Sorensen, Virginia.
The Bronze Bow by Speare, Elizabeth.
Bound for Oregon by Van Leeuwen, Jean.
The Wizard of Oz by Baum, Frank L.
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray.
A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles.
Joni by Eareckson, Joni.
Understood Betsy by Fisher, Dorothy.
Rip Van Winkle by Irving, Washington.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Irving, Washington.
Marlfox by Jacques, Brian.
White Fang by London, Jack.
Christy by Marshall, Catherine.
My Friend Flicka by O’Hara, Mary.
Freedom Train by Sterling, Dorothy.
The Cay by Taylor, Theodore.
The Story of Trapp Family Singers. By Trapp, Maria Augusta.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark.
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Field, Rachel.
By Right of Conquest by Henty, G. H.
In the Reign of Terror by Henty, G. H.
The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard.
The Call of the Wild by London, Jack.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. By Taylor, Mildred.
Candy Bomber by Tunnell, Michael.
The Prince and the Pauper by Twain, Mark.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne, Jules.
War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G.
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Yates, Elizabeth.
Seventh Grade Homeschool Booklist
The American Revolution (Landmark) by Bliven, Bruce.
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal by Blos, Joan.
Guns of Thunder by Bond, Douglas.
Rebel’s Keep by Bond, Douglas.
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Calabro, Marian.
The American Revolution by Carter, Alice.
Noah Webster: Master of Words by Collins, David.
The Last of the Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore.
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia (Landmark) by Cousins, Margaret.
Mark Twain by Cox, Clinton.
Undying Glory: True Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment by Cox, Clinton.
Robinson Crusoe by Dafoe, Daniel.
Of Courage Undaunted by Daugherty, James.
The Landing of the Pilgrims by Daugherty, James.
I, Juan de Pareja by de Trevino, Elizabeth.
North American Indian by DK Eyewitness.
Johnny Tremain by Forbes, Esther.
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Forbes, Esther.
George Washington’s World by Foster, Genevieve.
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Freedman, Russell.
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Fritz, Jean.
Why Not, Lafayette? By Fritz, Jean.
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Alexander, et al.
Cromwell’s Boy by Haugaard, Erik.
The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Jackson, Shirley.
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses by Lasky, Kathryn.
The Captive Princess by Lawton, Wendy.
The Tinker’s Daughter by Lawton, Wendy.
Forgotten Founding Father: George Whitefield by Mansfield, Stephen.
The Ocean of Truth: Th–e Story of Isaac Newton by McPherson, Joyce.
A Young Patriot by Murphy, Jim.
The African Slave Trade by Newman, Shirlee.
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by O’Dell, Scott.
Hero Tales from American History by Roosevelt, T. and Lodge, H.
The Reb and the Redcoats by Savery, Constance.
How We Crossed the West by Schanzer, Rosalyn.
Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Democracy by Severance, John.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Speare, Elizabeth. George.
Calico Captive by Speare, Elizabeth George.
The Sign of the Beaver by Speare, Elizabeth George.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Give Me Liberty by Vaughn, David.
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Yates, Elizabeth.
The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas.
God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew.
The Pilgrim’s Progress (original) by Bunyan, John.
The House of Sixty Fathers by DeJong, Meindert.
Microbe Hunters by DeKruif, Paul.
Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles.
Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre.
David Livingstone, Foe of Darkness by Eaton, Jeanette.
Calico Bush by Field, Rachel.
Horatio Hornblower by Forester, C. S.
Mrs. Mike by Freedman, Ben.
The Last Crusader by Grant, George.
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by Henry, O.
By Pike and Dyke # by Henty, G. A.
In Freedom’s Cause # by Henty, G. A.
Les Miserables by Hugo, Victor.
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard.
This Dear-Bought Land by Latham, Jean Lee.
Out of the Silent Planet by Lewis, C. S.
Perelandra by Lewis, C. S.
That Hideous Strength by Lewis, C. S.
Know What You Believe by Little, Paul.
Know Why You Believe by Little, Paul.
The Baronet’s Song by MacDonald, George.
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by O’Dell, Scott.
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day by O’Dell, Scott.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Baroness.
The Good Master by Seredy, Kate.
The Bronze Bow by Speare, Elizabeth George.
The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Morning Star of the Reformation by Thomson, Andy.
Eighth Grade Homeschool Booklist
Don’t forget you can choose from the homeschool booklists for Grade 7 and 9 also!
Bud & Me: The True Adventure of the Abernathy Boys by Abernathy, Alta.
The Good Fight: How WWII Was Won by Ambrose, Stephen.
Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Beatty, Patricia.
Journey to Ellis Island by Bierman, Carol.
Invasion: The Story of D-Day by Bliven, Bruce.
Flags of Our Fathers by Bradley, James.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Brown, Dee.
A Stillness At Appomattox Catton, Bruce.
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelissen, Cornelia.
Davy Crockett: His Own Story by Crockett, Davy.
Story of the Confederate States by Derry, Joseph T.
Journey Through the Night by De Vries, Anne.
War Stories: True Stories from the First and Second World Wars by Doswell, Paul.
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Frank, Anne.
Immigrant Kids by Freedman, Russell.
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of T. Roosevelt by Grant, George.
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Ernest.
With Lee in Virginia by Henty, G. A.
Hiroshima by Hersey, John.
Across Five Aprils by Hunt, Irene.
Hitch by Ingold, Jeanette.
Destination: Moon by Irwin, James.
Gettysburg by Kantor, MacKinlay.
To Be A Slave by Lester, Julius.
Journey to America by Levitin, Sonia.
Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death by Linnea, Sharon.
Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill by Mansfield, Stephen.
The Yanks Are Coming by Marrin, Albert.
Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel by Marrin, Albert.
Hitler by Marrin, Albert.
America and Vietnam: The Elephant and the Tiger by Marrin, Albert.
Land of the Morning by McMurdie, Jean McAnlis.
Hey, Mac! By McMurdie, William.
The Boys’ War: Confederate & Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Murphy, Jim.
The Spy Who Came in from the Sea by Nolan, Peggy.
Basher Five-two by O’Grady, Captain Scott.
The Lonely Sentinel (The Shadow Series) # by Prins, Piet.
Theis Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Raven, Margot.
The Wright Brothers by Reynolds, Quentin.
Escape From Warsaw by Serraillier, Ian.
All Sail Set by Sperry, Armstrong.
We Were There on the Oregon Trail by Steele, William.
We Were There with the Pony Express by Steele, William.
Air Raid—Pearl Harbor! by Taylor, Theodore.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor, Mildred.
The Hiding Place by ten Boom, Corrie.
The Story of Trapp Family Singers Trapp, Maria Augusta.
Bound for Oregon by Van Leeuwen, Jean.
A Coming Evil by Velde, Vivian.
Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee by Wilkins, J. Steven.
April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Winik, Jay.
Sergeant York and the Great War by York, Alvin.
Emma by Austen, Jane.
Northhanger Abbey by Austen, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane.
To Sir, with Love by Braithwaite, Edward.
The Complete Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K.
The Best of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K.
Born Again by Colson, Charles.
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel.
Microbe Hunters by DeKruif, Paul.
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles.
The Robe by Douglas, Lloyd C.
Horatio Hornblower by Forester, C. S.
Cheaper By the Dozen by Gilbreth & Carey.
Bells on Their Toes by Gilbreth & Carey.
Best Short Stories of O. Henry by Henry, O.
All Creatures Great and Small by Herriot, James.
All Things Bright and Beautiful by Herriot, James.
All Things Wise and Wonderful by Herriot, James.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper.
Ninth Grade Homeschool Booklist
Don’t forget you can choose from the homeschool booklists for Grade 8 and 10 also!
The Screwtape Letters by Lewis, C. S.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Sir Walter.
Hamlet by Shakespeare, William.
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, William.
Macbeth by Shakespeare, William.
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, William.
Othello by Shakespeare, William.
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William.
In His Steps by Sheldon, Charles. – C
Gulliver’s Travels by Swift, Jonathan.
The Hiding Place by ten Boom, Corrie.– V
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Twain, Mark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark.– L
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark. – L
Ben Hur by Wallace, Lew.
Tenth Grade Homeschool Book List
The Sword in the Stone By White, T. H.
The Holy Bible (any grade)
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom (violence)
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Eleventh Grade Homeschool Booklist
Don’t forget you can choose from the homeschool booklists for Grade 10 and 12 also!
Antigone, by Sophocles
Oedipus, by Sophocles (violence)
The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
Histories, by Herodotus
Plutarch’s Lives
Faerie Queene, by Spenser
Till We Have Faces, by CS Lewis
The Poetics, by Aristotle
Iliad, by Homer (violence)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (sexual content)
Metamorphoses, by Ovid (sexual content)
Twelfth Grade Homeschool Book List
The Aeneid, by Virgil
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, by Bede
Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer (sexual content)
On the Incarnation, by Athanasius
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
The Inferno, by Dante
Confessions, by Augustine
The Rule of St. Benedict
The Everlasting Man, by G.K. Chesterton
Collected Poems of John Donne
Henry V, by William Shakespeare
The Talisman, by Sir Walter Scott
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Republic, by Plato
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
The Portable Romantic Poets, edited by W.H. Auden
1984, by George Orwell (sexual content)
Greenmantle, by John Buchan
Brideshead Revisited, Eby velyn Waugh (sexual content)
The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (sexual content)
“Harvard Address,” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Jby ames Hutton
Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Collected Poems of John Keats
Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner (sexual content)
The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, selected by Wilson Kimnach, Kenneth Minkema, and Douglas Sweeney
Democracy in America, Alexis DeTocqueville, abridged and edited by Richard D. Heffner
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (violence)
“Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allen Poe (violence)
“The Raven,” Edgar Allen Poe
“Bartleby the Scrivener,” Herman Melville
A History of the American People, Paul Johnson (Selections from this hefty tome are great for multiple lessons.)
The Legacy of the Civil War, Robert Penn Warren
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems of Anne Bradstreet
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conclusion
I love listening to audiobooks. I often do this on YouTube so I can listen for free. So, find a book on this homeschool booklist, type in the title in YouTube search followed by the word ‘audiobook’ and see if you can find it! Alternatively, you can listen on Audible which has a better range and better readers. All the best!
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