Thomas Jefferson Education Book Lists

A Thomas Jefferson Education
100 Classics List
Acton, The History of Freedom
John Adams, "Thoughts on Government"
Aquinas, "On Kingship"
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Politics
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Augustine, The City of God
Aurelius, Meditations
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Bacon, Novum Organum
Bastait, The Law
Bastait, "What is Seen and Not Seen"
Benson, "The Proper Role of Government"
The Bible
Boethius, The Consolidation of Philosophy
Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Jane Eyre
Carson, The American Tradition
Capra, The Tao of Physics
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Churchill, Collected Speeches
Cicero, The Republic
Cicero, The Laws
Clausewitz, On War
Confucius, Analects
The Constitution of the United States
Copnicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Dante, The Divine Comedy
The Declaration of Independence
DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
Descartes, A Discourse on Method
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Great Expectations
Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
Durant, A History of Civilization
Einstein, Relativity
Emerson, Collected Essays
Euclid, Elements
Frank, Alas Babylon
Franklin, Letters and Writings
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Galileo, Two New Sciences
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Goethe, Faust
Hobbes, Levathan
Homer, The Iliad
Homer, The Odyssey
Hugo, Les Miserables
Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
Jefferson, Letters, Speeches, and Writings
Keegan, History of Warfare
Kepler, Epitome
Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speeches
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
Lewis, Mere Christianity
Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Lincoln, Collected Speeches
Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Machiavelli, The Prince
Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
More, Utopia
The Magna Charta
Mill, On Liberty
Milton, Paradise Regained
Mises, Human Action
The Monroe Doctrine
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Newton, Mathematical Principles
Nichomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
Neitzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The Northwest Ordinance
Orwell, 1984
Plato, Collected Works
Polybius, Histories
Potok, The Chosen
Plutarch, Lives
Ptolemy, Algamest
Shakespeare, Collected Works
Skousen, The Five Thousand Year Leap
Skousen, The Majesty of God's Law
Skousen, The Making of America
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Solzhenitsyn, "A World Split Apart"
Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Sophocles, Oedipus Trilogy
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Walden
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Washington, Letters, Speeches, and Writings
Weaver, Mainspring of Human Progress
Wister, The Virginian

Classics to Read to Young Children 
Classics for you to read aloud to young children.
 Aesop’s Fables - Aesop
Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beauty and the Beast
The Bible
The Blind Men and the Elephant
“Casey at Bat”
Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
Chicken Little
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cinderella
Dinotopia series - James Gurney
Dr. Seuss series
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Fourth Wise Man
The Gift of the Magi - Carol Lynn Pearson
The Giving Tree
“God Save the Flag”
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
Grimm’s Fairy Tales - Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm
“The Highwayman”
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstalk
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
“Lincoln, The Man of the People”
“Little Boy Blue”
The Little Engine that Could
The Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Red Hen
The McGuffey Readers
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Pinocchio, The Adventures of - Carlo Colladi
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
The Princess and the Pea
Puss-in-Boots
Rapunzel
Riki Tiki Tavi
Rip Van Winkle
Robin Hood, The Merry Adventures of - Howard Pyle
Rumpelstiltskin
Sleeping Beauty
The Song of Hiawatha
Snow White
Tales of the Arabian Nights
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
The Ugly Duckling
Tom Thumb
"Twas the Night Before Christmas"
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh series - A. A. Milne
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum

Classics for Youth 
For older youth to read and discuss with their mentors.
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Anne of Green Gables series - L. M. Montgomery
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ - Lew Wallace
The Bible
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
The Black Stallion series - Walter Farley
The Chronicles of Narnia series - C. S. Lewis
The Collected Verse of Edgar A Guest
“Concord Hymn”
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Samuel Clemmens
The Constitution of the United States
David Copperfield
Davy Crockett Legends - Irwin Shapiro
The Declaration of Independence
The Deerslayer
Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel De Cervantes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Dred Scott Decision
The Education of Henry Adams
Eight Cousins
Emily Post’s Etiquette
Ender’s Game
“In Flanders Fields”
Flatland
The Foundation series
Frankenstein
“The Gettysburg Address”
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
The Great Brain series
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
Hamilton’s Mythology
Hamlet
Heidi - Johanna Spry
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
History Reborn
Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of - Mark Twain
“I Have a Dream”
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O’Dell
Joan of Arc - Mark Twain
Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott
A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
The Jungle Book
King Arthur and the Round Table - Thomas Malory
Laddie - Gene Stratton Porter
The Last of the Mohicans - James Cooper
“Let America be America Again”
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Little Britches series
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Lonesome Gods
Lord of the Rings series
“The Man with the Hoe”
Mathmaticians are People, Too  (2 volumes)
Moby Dick
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
National Velvet
Noah Webster’s Original 1828 Dictionary
North to Freedom
“O Captain! My Captain!”
“Old Ironsides”
Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
On Numbers
Paul Bunyan - Esther Sheperd
The Phantom Tollbooth
“The Present Crisis”
“The Road Not Taken”
The Real Benjamin Franklin
The Real George Washington
The Real Thomas Jefferson
The Robe
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel DeFoe
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
The Sackett series
The Saxon Math series
The Secret Garden - Francess Hodgson Burnett
Shipwrecked
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Heroes
Sonnets of Shakespeare
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Stuart Little - E. B. White
The Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johaan Wyss
Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of - Mark Twain
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trumpet of the Swans - E. B. White
“Ulysses”
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
The Walking Drum
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
White Fang - Jack London
William Tell
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Recommended Readings
Bacon, Novum Organum
Emerson, “The American Scholar”
Mason, The Original Homeschool Series
Dewey, The School and Society
Montessori, all writings
Hutchins, The Higher Learning in America
Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Van Doren, Liberal Education
Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University
Holt, How Children Fail
Holt, How Children Learn
Toffler, Futershock
Blumenfeld, How to Tutor
Blumenfeld, The New Illiterates
Barzun, Teacher in America
A. Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
Adler, Reforming American Education
Colfax, Home Schooling for Excellence
Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Barton, What Happened in Education?
Smith, Killing the Spirit
Nash, The Closing of the American Heart
Gardner, Multiple Intelligences
Gatto, Dumbing Us Down
Gardner, The Unschooled Mind
Gatto, The Exhausted School
Hirsch, Cultural Literacy
Perelman, School's Out
H. Bloom, The Western Canon
Covey, First Things First
Noebel, Understanding the Times
Swanson, The Education of James
Bennet, The Book of Virtues
Taylor, The Healing Power of Stories
Strauss and Howe, The Fourth Turning
Glasser, The Quality School
Kirk, Redeeming the Times
Bunting, An Education for Our Time

Harward. A Market Approach to Education

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