2009-2010 books in progress:
This doesn't look good! I've never started Watership Down and have stalled on all the others!! Guess I need to jump-start my AO reading for a while!
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott [Year 7 literature]
Once and Future King by TH White [Year 7 literature]
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Swiss Family Robinson [Year 6 free reading]
Watership Down [Year 7 literature]
NOTE: "Reading" includes both reading and audio books.
Completed:[I am not including those completed from the Kindergarten and Year 1 list which I've read aloud to my children. Too many to list!] Many, but not all, of the books listed here in years 2--4 were read by me as we homeschooled with AO in 2005-2006.
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt [Year 5 Free Reading]
Animal Farm by George Orwell [Year 6 Literature]
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [Year 11 Literature optional]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [Year 5 Free Reading]
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon [Year 11 free reading]
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh [Year 11 Literature]
Call of the Wild by Jack London [Year 6 Free Reading]
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff [Year 11 Free Reading]
The Chosen by Chaim Potok [Year 11 Literature]
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [Year 5 Free Reading]
Christy by Catherine Marshall [Year 11 Free Reading]
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey [Year 7 History]
Discovery or New Worlds by MB Synge [Year 2 History]
Fathers and Sons by by Ivan Turgenev [Year 11 Literature optional]
Five Children and It bu ES Nesbit [Year 2]
Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
Good Earth by Pearl Buck [Year 9 Free Reading]
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton [Year 5 Free Reading]
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Year 11 Literature]
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw [Year 11 History, optional]
Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn [Year 11 Free Reading]
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman [Year 11 History]
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan ["Give Three cheers and one cheer more!")
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon [Year 11 Free Reading] (And the rest of the series)
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis [Year 11 Literature]
The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis Year 4 Free Reading]
Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy [Year 11 Free Reading]
The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde [Year 10 Free Reading]
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [Year 11 Literature]
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte[Year 10 Free Reading]
John Adams by David McCullough [Year 9 History]
Just as I am by Billy Graham [Year 11 suggested biographies]
Justin Morgan had a Horse by Marguerite Henry [Year 4 Free Reading]
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson [Year 4 Literature]
Killer Angels by Michael Shara [Year 10 history]
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry [Year 3 Free Reading]
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune [Year 5 Free Reading]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving [Year 4 Literature]
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis Year 4 Free Reading]
Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge [Year 2 History]
Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder [several years literature]
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott [Year 6 Free Reading]
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [Year 5 Free Reading]
The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis Year 4 Free Reading]
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes [Year 11 Free Reading] WHY Year 11 and not 5 or 6?
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt [Year 8 History]
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley [Year 3 History]
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen [Year 9 History]
Mr. Poppins Penguins by Richard Atwater [Year 2 Literature]
My Antonia by Willa Cather [Year 10 free reading]
Nightengales: The Extraordinary..Life of Florence Nighingale [a bio of Nightingale is recommended in Year 10 history,but no specific book is recommended]
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [Year 8 Free Reading]
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill [Year 10 History]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn [Year 11 Free Reading]
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling [Year 1 Geography]
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty [Years 1-3 Literature]
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Year 4 Literature]
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [Year 9 Literature]
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry [Year 11 Free Reading]
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer [Year 11 Free Reading]
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis [Year 11 Free Reading]
Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright [free reading]
Queen Victoria [I've read most of the bios of her available] [Year 10 History]
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving [Year 4 Literature]
October Sky (also called Rocket Boys) by Homer Hickam [Year 11 Free Reading]
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright [Year 3 Free Reading]
To Sir With Love by Edward Ricardo Braithwaite [Year 11 Free Reading]
Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret B Pumphrey [used instead of Squanto Year 3 History]
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome [Year 3 Free Reading]
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain [Year 11 history]
This Country of Ours by HE Marshall [Year 3 History]
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright]
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith [Year 11 Free Reading]
Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling [Year 2 Geography]
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson [Year 5 Free Reading]
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher [Year 2 Literature]
The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp [Year 6 Free Reading]
Waiting for Godot A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett [Year 11 Free Reading]
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith [Year 9 Government and Economics]
The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong [Year 3 Free Reading]
Wind in the Willows by Keith Grahame [Year 2 Literature]
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [Year 10 Free Reading]
