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Traditional Classics

Classics are books that have been read and enjoyed by succeeding generations of readers. Webster's Dictionary defines a classic as being "a literary work of the first rank" or of "historical renown." The following bibliography is by no means complete and absolute. Ask parents and teachers to recommend their favorite classics, and they may well mention titles not included on this list. These titles are available for checkout from Franklin's library.

2004-2005

Traditional Classics in the Franklin MS Library

 Adams, Douglas

 Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Adams, Richard

Watership Down

Aesop

Aesop's Fables

Alcott, Louisa May

The Brownie and the Princess
Jo’s Boys
Little Men
Little Women
Short Stories (SC)

Anderson, Sherwood

The Egg and Other Stories (SC)Winesburg, Ohio

Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights

Armer, Laura

Waterless Mountain

Armstrong, William

Sounder

Asimov, Isaac

I, Robot
Foundation Triology

Austen, Jane

The Illustrated Works of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

Bagnold, Enid

National Velvet

Balzac, Honore de

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories (SC)

Barrett, William

Lilies of the Field

Barrie, J. M.

Peter Pan

Baum, L. Frank

The Wizard of Oz - Series

Borland, Hal

When the Legends Die

Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451
The illustrated man
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Brink, Carol

Caddie Woodlawn

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily

Wuthering Heights

Buck, Pearl

The Good Earth

Bulfinch, Thomas

Bulfinch's Mythology

Burnett, Frances

A Little Princess
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Secret Garden

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass

Cather, Willa

My Antonia
O Pioneers
Paul’s Case and Other Stories (SC)

Cervantes, Miguel de

Don Quixote (F Har)

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales

Chekhov, Anton

Uncle Vanya
Five Great Short Stories (SC)

Christie, Agatha

And Then There Were None

Clark, Eleanor

The Song of Roland

Clark, Walter

The Ox-Bow Incident

Coleridge, Samuel

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Epic Poem

Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim

Cooper, James F.

Last of the Mohicans
The Deerslayer

Crane, Stephen

The Red Badge of Courage

Curtis, Alice

Little Maid of Virginia

Daly, Maureen

Seventeenth Summer

Dana, Richard

Two Years Before the Mast

Davies, Valentine

Miracle on 34th Street

Defoe, Daniel

Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol
Bagman’s Story
Bleak House
The Cricket on the Hearth and Other Christmas Stories (SC)
Great Expectations
Hard Times
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities

Dodge, Mary Mapes

Hans Brinker and The Silver Skates

Dostoyevsky, Fydor

The Gambler
The Double

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lost World

DuMaurier, Daphne

Rebecca

Dumas, Alexander

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers

Durrell, Gerald

My Family and Other Animals (92)

Eliot, George

Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch

Farley, Walter

The Black Stallion - Series

Ferber, Edna

Show Boat

Field, Rachel

Hitty – The first hundred years
Calico Bush

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Great Gatsby
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other Stories (SC)

Forbes, Esther

Johnny Tremain

Frank, Anne

The Diary of a Young Girl

Franklin, Benjamin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (92)

Gaines, Ernest

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Gallico, Paul

The Snow Goose

Gilbreth, Frank

Cheaper by the Dozen

Giono, Jean

The Man Who Planted Trees

Gipson, Fred

Old Yeller

Gogol, Nikolai

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (SC)

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies

Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows

Gray, Elizabeth

Adam of the Road

Hale, Edward

The Man Without a Country

Hamilton, Edith

Mythology

Hammett, Dashiell

The Maltese Falcon

Hansberry, Lorraine

A Raisin in the Sun - Play

Harris, Joel

The complete tales of Uncle Remus

Harte, Bret

Bret Harte's Gold Rush: Outcasts of Poker Flat, the Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennessee's Partner, & Other Favorites

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Scarlet Letter
House of Seven Gables

Heaney, Seamus - translated

Beowulf – Epic Poem

Heinlein, Robert

Citizen of the Galaxy
Stranger in a Strange Land

Hemingway, Ernest

Farwell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
In Our Time
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises

Henry, Margaret

Misty of Chincoteague

Henry, O.

Gift of the Magi (E)
Heart of the West (SC)

Herbert, Frank

Dune
Children of Dune

Herriot, James

All Creatures Great and Small (92)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (92)
All Things Wise and Wonderful (92)

Hersey, John

Bell for Adano

Hesse, Hermann

Siddhartha

Hilton, James

Good-bye Mr. Chips
Lost Horizon

Homer

The Odyssey
The Iliad

Hope, Anthony

The Prisoner of Zenda

Hudson, W.H.

Green Mansions

Hugo, Victor

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables

Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World

Irving, Washington

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Jackson, Helen

Ramona

James, Will

Smokey the Cowhorse

Johnson, Nora

The World of Henry Orient

Kafka, Franz

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (SC)

Keller, Helen

The Story of My Life (92)

Kelley, Eric

Trumpeter of Krakow

Kennedy, John F.

Profiles in Courage (92)

Kipling, Rudyard

Captains Courageous
The Jungle Book
Just So Stories  
Kim

Kjelgaard, Jim

Big Red

Knowles, John

A Separate Peace

Lagerlof, Selma

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

LaFarge, Oliver

Laughing Boy

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

Llewelyn, Richard

How Green Was My Valley

Lewis, Sinclair

Mainstreet

Lofting, Hugh

The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle

London, Jack

Call of the Wild
White Fang
Seawolf

Longfellow, Henry

The Song of Hiawatha – Epic Poem

Maupassant, Guy de

The Necklace
The Necklace and Other Short Stories (SC)

McCulley, Johnston

The Mark of Zorro

McCullers, Carson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

McDonald, George

At the Back of the North Wind

McLean, Alistair

The Guns of Navarrone

Melville, Herman

Billy Budd
Moby Dick or The White Whale

Miller, Arthur

The Crucible - Play

Milne, A.A.

Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh
The Red House Mystery

Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind

Montgomery, L.M.

Anne of Green Gables Series

Nesbit, Edith

Five Children and IT

O’Brien, Patrick

Master and Commander

O'Hara, Mary

My Friend Flicka

Orczy, Baroness (Emma)

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orwell, George

Animal Farm
1984

Paine, Thomas

Common Sense

Poe, Edgar Allen

Pit and the Pendulum
The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (SC)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (SC)

Pope, Elizabeth

The Perilous Gard

Porter, Eleanor

Pollyanna

Pyle, Howard

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Otto of the Silver Hand

Ransome, Arthur

The Big Six
Swallows and Amazons

Rawlings, Marjorie

The Yearling

Remarque, Erich

All Quiet on the Western Front

Richter, Conrad

The Light in the Forest

Rohmer, Sax

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Rostand, Edmund

Cyrano de Bergerac - Play

Saint-Exupery, Antoine

The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D.

Catcher in the Rye

Sandburg, Carl

The Rootabaga Stories

Saroyan, William

The Human Comedy

Schaefer, Jack

Shane

Scott, Sir Walter

Ivanhoe

Sewell, Anna

Black Beauty

Shakespeare

All’s Well that Ends Well - Plays
Comedy of Errors
Macbeth
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest

Shannon, Monica

Dorby

Shaara, Michael

The Killer Angels

Shaw, George

Pygmalion - Play

Shelley, Mary

Frankenstein

Simon, Neil

Brighton Beach Memoirs - Play

Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle

Smith, Betty

Joy in the Morning
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Smith, Dodie

I Capture the Castle

Spyri, Johanna

Heidi

Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Red Pony
Sweet Thursday
Travel’s with Charley

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Body Snatcher and Other Tales (SC)
A Child's Garden of Verses
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Kidnapped
Treasure Island

Stoker, Bram

Dracula

Stowe, Harriet B.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels

Tarkington, Booth

Alice Adams
Magnificent Ambersons
Penrod: His Complete Story
Penrod and Sam

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Ring Series

Thoreau, Henry

Walden

Travers, P.L.

Mary Poppins

Twain, Mark

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
Pudd’nhead Wilson
The Prince and the Pauper
Roughing It

Verne, Jules

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mysterious Island

Voltaire

Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt

Cat’s Cradle

Webster, Jean

Daddy Long Legs

Wells, H.G.

The Invisible Man
Strange Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds

White, E.B.

Charlotte’s Web

White, T.H.

The Once and Future King
The Sword in the Stone

Wiggin, Kate

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Importance of Being Ernest - Play

Wilder, Laura

Little House on the Prairie Series

Wilder, Thornton

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
3 Plays – Skin of our Teeth, Our Town and the Matchmaker

Wister, Owen

The Virginian

Wodehouse, P. G.

Enter Jeeves : 15 early stories

Wolf, Virginia

Jacob’s Room

Wouk, Herman

The Caine Mutiny

Wyss, Johann

The Swiss Family Robinson

 

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