Old Classic Books

When I was a kid, I read quite a few books in school.  Here is a list of some old classics I would recommend along with some recent titles:


Little House on the Praire by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Hardy Boy Mysteries

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Tale of Two Cities by  David Copperfield

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

and of course Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling



For the young adult and adult readers:


2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (part of the Earth Children Series)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies by William Goldin

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Tales by Edgar Allen Poe

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


I also found a site that has free audio and e-books that are in the public domain:

http://librivox.org/


Project Gutenberg also has free ebooks:

http://www.gutenberg.org/


Take a look.


By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)