1. List of Classic Books Grades 7-8 ( Taken from www.best-childrens-books.com
Be sure to check page amounts and appropriate content.)
Alcott, Louisa May • Madame Curie: A Biography
• Little Men Dana, Richard Henry
Bagnold, Enid • Two Years before the Mast
• National Velvet Day, Clarence
Blackmore, Richard D. • Life with Father
• Lorna Doone Defoe, Daniel
Boulle, Pierre • Robinson Crusoe
• The Bridge over the River Kwai Dickens, Charles
Bradbury, Ray • A Christmas Carol
• Dandelion Wine Douglas, Lloyd C.
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Illustrated Man • The Robe
• Martian Chronicles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Buchan, John
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
Dumas, Alexander
Bunyan, John
• The Count of Monte Christo
• The Pilgrim's Progress • The Three Musketeers
Carroll, Lewis Du Maurier, Daphne
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • Rebecca
• Through the Looking Glass
Edmonds, Walter D.
Clark, Walter
• Drums along the Mohawk
• The Ox-Bow Incident
Ferber, Edna
Cooper, James Fenimore
• Cimarron
• The Deerslayer
• The Last of the Mohicans Forbes, Esther
Curie, Eve • Johnny Tremain

2. Forester, C.S. • Lost Horizon
• The African Queen Hudson, W.H.
• The Hornblower series
• Green Mansions
Frank, Anne
Hughes, Richard
• Diary of a Young Girl
• A High Wind in Jamaica
Frost, Robert
Hugo, Victor
• Poems
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gallico, Paul
Irving, Washington
• The Snow Goose
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Gunther, John
Keller, Helen
• Death Be Not Proud
• Story of My Life
Guthrie, A.B.
Kennedy, John F.
• The Big Sky
• Profiles in Courage
Haggard, H. Rider
Kipling, Rudyard
• King Solomon's Mines
• Kim
Hansberry, Lorraine
Knowles, John
• Raisin in the Sun
• A Separate Peace
Hemingway, Ernest
Lee, Harper
• The Old Man and the Sea
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Hersey, John
London, Jack
• A Bell for Adano
• Hiroshima • The Sea Wolf
• The Wall
Lord, Walter
Heyerdahl, Thor
• A Night to Remember
• Kon-Tiki
Malory, Sir Thomas
Hilton, James
• Le Morte d'Arthur
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips

3. Maxwell, Gavin • The Little Prince
• Wind, Sand and Stars
• Ring of Bright Water
Saki
McCullers, Carson
• Stories
• Member of the Wedding
Schaefer, Jack
Michener, James
• Shane
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Scott, Sir Walter
Mitchell, Margaret
• Ivanhoe
• Gone with the Wind
Shelley, Mary
Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall
• Frankenstein
• Mutiny on the Bounty
Smith, Betty
O'Dell, Scott
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
Steinbeck, John
Orczy, Baroness Emma
• The Pearl
• The Scarlet Pimpernel • Tortilla Flat
Paton, Alan Stevenson, Robert Louis
• Cry, the Beloved Country • The Black Arrow
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Pyle, Howard Mr. Hyde
• Men of Iron Stoker, Bram
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan • Dracula
• The Yearling Thurber, James
Renault, Mary • The Thurber Carnival
• The King Must Die Tolkien, J.R.R.
Roberts, Kenneth • The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• Northwest Passage
Twain, Mark
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

4. • A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court
• Innocents Abroad
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Prince and the Pauper
Verne, Jules
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Mysterious Island
• 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Wallace, Lewis
• Ben-Hur
Washington, Booker T.
• Up from Slavery
Wells, H.G.
• The Time Machine
• War of the Worlds
Wharton, Edith
• Ethan Frome
Wilder, Thornton
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wister, Owen
• The Virginian
Yates, Elizabeth
• Amos Fortune, Free Man