Humanities Reading Lists

 

Humanities Reading Lists

  • • Stuart Little by E.B. White

    • Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

    • The Great Quillow by James Thurber

    • The Faber Book of Children’s Verse

    • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

    • The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

    • Aesop’s Fables

    • Grimm’s Fairy Tales

    • Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien

    • Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • The Golden Guide to Trees

    • The Golden Guide to Birds

    • The Golden Guide to Insects

    • Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

    • Heidi by Johanna Spyri

  • • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

    • Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

    • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

    • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

    • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

    • Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

    • All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott

    • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    • Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

    • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

    • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

    • Cathedral by David Macaulay

    • Castle by David Macaulay

  • • The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

    • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

    • My Antonia by Willa Cather

    • Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

    • The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton

    • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

    • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    • Henry V by William Shakespeare

    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

    • Sonnets by William Shakespeare

    • Hamlet by William Shakespeare

    • The Psalms

    • The Illiad

    • The Odyssey

    • The Aeneid

    • Beowulf

    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    • Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

    • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Close to the heart of any curriculum is the written and spoken word as refined and recorded in books. A representative selection of our curricular and recommended reading is listed below.

Summer reading list

Ideas for our students to read this Summer Break. Read more here.


Spring reading list

Our teacher's favorite readings! Here you can find some gift ideas or suggestions for our students to read this Spring and Easter Break. Read more here.


Christmas reading list

Our teacher's favorite holiday readings! Here you can find some gift ideas or suggestions for our students to read during the Christmas holidays. Read more here.