Summer Reading List

Gateway to the Classical Past

• Rosemary Sutcliff, Black Ships before Troy
• Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Adventures across Time and Space

• Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
• Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
• Richard Adams, Watership Down

Americana

• Eleanor Porter, Collected Short Stories
• Louis L’Amour, Hondo
• Letters of John and Abigail Adams (Penguin)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Lives Worth Remembering

• Helen Keller, Autobiography
• Frederick Douglass, Autobiography
• Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists

Classic Reads in the Western Tradition

• Xenophon, March to the Sea (Penguin)
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, Count of Monte Cristo (abridged version)
• Chrétien de Troyes, Eric and Enide

Family Book Circle

• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods
• Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

Musical Impressions (Music that is great to listen to while reading)

• Scott Joplin, “Maple Leaf Rag”
• Claude Debussey, Arabesque
• Aaron Copland, “Fanfare for the Common Man”
• Ludwig van Beethoven, 3rd Symphony “Eroica”
• Gustav Holst, The Planets
• Philip Glass, Piano Concerto No. 2 “After Lewis and Clark”