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Literature
Of Abraham Lincoln, H. G. Wells once wrote "His
opportunities for schooling were poor and casual. But his Mother taught him
to read early, and he became a voracious Reader." We know the rest.
Great men such as Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin were largely self taught.
They had a thirst for knowledge, and they hungered for truth.
Once they learned how to read, there was no holding them back.
The task that
remains before us is simple; teach children to read, even to love to read,
then provide them with carefully selected reading materials.
The world's store of knowledge has accumulated in the written word.
Let's guide our children through a tour of THE BEST BOOKS
800
Titles
Note:
This is a very extensive list, hence, we only include the names of
the authors for the fields of literature and philosophy.
The
books that I use for text books appear at the beginning of this list.
Children’s literature follows, with American Literature, English
Literature, and finally Philosophy comes at the end
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Title
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Author
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Vol.
1 McGuffey's Eclectic Primer
Vol.
2 McGuffey’s First Reader
Vol.
3 McGuffey’s Second Reader|
Vol.
4 McGuffey's Third Reader
Vol.
5 McGuffey's Fourth Reader
Vol.
6 McGuffey's Fifth Reader
Vol.
7 McGuffey's Sixth Reader
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William
Holmes McGuffey
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Best
loved and most widely used readers of all time.
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Graded
Lessons in English
Higher
Lessons in Grammar
Word
Building
Word
Lessons
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Alonzo
Reed
Brainerd
Kellogg
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English
Grammar Text books from the late 1800s
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The
Palmer Method of Business Writing
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A.
N. Palmer
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Publisher
of the American Penman Magazine (Penmanship)
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The
Art of Writing
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Robert
Lewis Stevenson
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Economics
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Economic
Sophisms
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Frederic
Bastiat
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Fiat
Money Inflation in France
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Andrew
Dickson White
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Wealth of Nations Book 1
Wealth of Nations Book 2
Wealth of Nations Book 3
Wealth of Nations Book 4
Wealth of Nations Book 5
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Adam
Smith
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History
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World
History
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A Short History of The World
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H.
G. Wells
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A
Child's History of England
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Charles
Dickens
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Beacon
Lights of History
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John
Lord
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China
and the Manchus
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Herbert
A. Giles
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American
History
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History
of the United States
Life
of George Washington
Our
Naval Heroes
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Josephine
Pollard
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One
Syllable Books
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Life
of Abraham Lincoln
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Harriett
Putman
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One
Syllable Book
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American
History Stories
Volumes II and IV
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Mara
L. Pratt
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The
Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Helen
Nicolay
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The
Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone
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John
Filson
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David
Crockett His Life and Adventures
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John
S. C. Abbott.
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Davy
Crockett You Have No Right
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Davy
Crockett
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First
Across The Continent
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Noah
Brooks
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Story
of Lewis and Clark
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Ben
Franklin Autobiography
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Ben
Franklin
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Democracy
In America Volume 1
Democracy
In America Volume II
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Alexis
De Tocqueville
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Chronicles
of America Series
Vol. 01 The Red Man's Continent
Vol. 05 Pioneers of the Old South
Vol. 08 The Quaker Colonies
Vol. 10 The Conquest Of New France
Vol. 11 The Eve of the Revolution
Vol. 12 Washington And His Comrades In Arms
Vol. 13 The Fathers of the Constitution
Vol. 15 Jefferson and his Colleagues
Vol. 16 John Marshall and the Supreme Court
Vol. 18 The Old Southwest
Vol. 19 The Old Northwest
Vol. 21 Paths of Inland Commerce
Vol. 26 The Passing of the Frontier
Vol. 28 The Anti-Slavery Crusade
Vol. 29 Abraham Lincoln and the Union
Vol. 30 The Day of the Confederacy
Vol. 31 Captains of the Civil War
Vol. 32 Sequel of Appomattox
Vol. 34 The American Spirit in Literature
Vol. 36 The Old Merchant Marine
Vol. 37 The Age of Invention
Vol. 38 The Railroad Builders
Vol. 39 The Age of Big Business
Vol. 40 The Armies of Labor
Vol. 43 The Boss and the Machine
Vol. 44 The Cleveland Era
Vol. 45 The Agrarian Crusade
Vol. 46 The Path of Empire
Vol. 49 The Canadian Dominion
Vol. 50 The Hispanic Nations Of The New World
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The
Chronicles of America Series was published by Yale University
between 1919 and 1922.
Each
work was written by an expert in the field.
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Frederick
Douglas Narrative
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Frederick
Douglas
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Articles
of Confederation
Common
Sense
Daniel
Leonard - John Adams Interchange Jan 1775
Declaration
of Independence Rough Draft
Federalist
Papers
Jefferson's
Addresses
George
Washington’s Farewell Address
Resolutions
of the Stamp Act
The
American Crisis
The
Declaration of Independence
The
Maryland Toleration Act
The
Mayflower Compact
The
Monroe Doctrine
The
Northwest Ordinance
The
Rights of Man
The
United States Constitution
Gettysburg
Address
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Founding
and Other Important Documents
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Hero
Tales From American History
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Henry
Cabot Lodge And Theodore Roosevelt
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Kennedy
Inaugural
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John
F. Kennedy
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Personal
Memoirs of U. S. Grant Vol. I
Personal
Memoirs of U.S. Grant Vol. II
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U.
S. Grant
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THE
DOLLAR BILL
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Anonymous
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Slavery
in Massachusetts
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Henry
David Thoreau
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The
Art of War
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Sun
Tsu
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The
Prince
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Machivelli
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Math
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Elements
of Abstract and Linear Algebra
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E.
H. Connell
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College
level text I found on the web.
I included it because I saw no reason not to .
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Juvenile
Books
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A
Girl of The Limberlost
At
The Foot Of The Rainbow
Freckles
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By
Gene Stratton-Porter
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The
Jabberwocky
Alice
In Wonderland
Hunting
of the Snark
Through
the Looking glass
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Lewis
Carrol
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The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Washington
Irving
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The
Song of the Cardinal
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Gene
Stratton-Porter
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Uncle
Remus His Songs and His Sayings
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Joel
Chandler Harris
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Little
Men
Little
Women
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Louisa
May Alcott
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The
Complete Poetic Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The
Wreck Of The Hesperus
Paul
Reveres Ride
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Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
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Longfellow
is said to have put everything to rhyme.
After seeing the length of his complete works, I must
agree.
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Lincolns
Yarns and Stories
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Colonel
Alexander K. McClure
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Cast
Upon The Breakers
Ballads
Driven
From Home
Frank's
Campaign
Joe
The Hotel Boy
Paul
Prescotts Charge
Paul
The Peddler
Phil
The Fiddler
Struggling
Upward
The
Cash Boy
The
Errand Boy
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Horatio
Alger Jr.
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Horatio
Alger wrote wonderful stories for boys.
His hero’s always prospered through hard work, integrity,
and honesty. These
stories build character.
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Aesops
Fable
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Aesop
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Gullivers
Travels
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Jonathan
Swift
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Robinson
Crusoe
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Daniel
Defoe
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The
Bobbsey Twins at Home
The
Bobbsey Twins At School
The
Bobbsey Twins In The Country
The
Outdoor Girls At Rainbow Lake
The
Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge
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Laura
Lee Hope
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Wonderful
stories for boys and girls.
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Tom
Swift Among The Fire Fighters
Tom
Swift Among The Diamond Makers
Tom
Swift and his Aerial Warship
Tom
Swift and His Air Glider
Tom
Swift and His Air Scout
Tom
Swift And His Big Tunnel
Tom
Swift And His Electric Locomotive
Tom
Swift and His Motor Cycle
Tom
Swift And His Motor-Boat
Tom
Swift And His Sky Racer
Tom
Swift And His Submarine Boat
Tom
Swift And His Undersea Search
Tom
Swift And His War Tank
Tom
Swift And His Wizard Camera
Tom
Swift in the Land of Wonders
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Victor
Appleton
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Stories
boys love
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Hans
Brinker or The Silver Skates
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Mary
Mapes Dodge
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Heidi
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By
Johanna Spyri
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Just
So Stories
The
Jungle Book
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Ruyard
Kipling
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Rebecca
Of Sunnybrook Farm
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Kate
Douglas Wiggin
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Swiss
Family Robinson
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J.D.
Wyss
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Tales
of Shakespeare
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Charles
and Mary Lamb
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Shakespeare
written for young children
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The
Adventures of Pinocchio
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C.
Collodi
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With
Lee in Virginia
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G.
A. Hently
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The
Rover Boys In New York
The
Rover Boys In Business
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Arthur
M. Winfield
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Literature
Authors Include:
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Oliver Goldsmith
George MacDonald
William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Jane Austen
Dana
Bulwer
Frederick Douglas
Steven Crane
James
Lincoln
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emerson
Hubbard
Melville
Moore
Edgar Allan Poe
Prescott
Mark Twain
Wallace
H. G. Wells
Andrew Dickson White
Walt Whitman
Baum
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Bierce
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cather
Jack London
Millay
Norris
Phillips
Sandburg
Wright
Chaucer
Spencer
Behn
Bunyan
John Milton
Crane
Dreiser
Henry
Lewis
Burke
Cleland
Booker T. Washington
Rinehart
porter
Coleridge
Gay
Gray
Paine
Swift
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Wollstonecraft
Abbott
Bronte
Browning
Burnett
Burton
Byron
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Eliot
Hardy
Keats
Kipling
Lang
Scott
Shelley
Robert
Lewis Stevenson
stoker
Tennyson
Trollope
Oscar
Wilde
Barrie
Buchan
Burnett
Butler
Conrad
Caki
Stoker
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Philosophy
Authors Include:
| Epictetus
Lucretius
Machiavelli
Montaigne
Bacon
Descartes
Hobbes
Locke
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Pascal
Perkeley
Hume
Kant
Paine
Rousseau
Voltaire
James
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Leibniz
Marx
Mill
Nietzsche
Thoreau
Plotinus
Augustine
Plato
Aristotle
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