Robinson Curriculum Book List
      (Some titles have been corrected, or expanded, from the original booklist.)

      Required Books
  1. McGuffey's Eclectic Primer - William McGuffey
  2. McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey
  3. Nursery Rhymes (Altemus' Wee Books) - Various Authors
  4. The Life of George Washington - Josephine Pollard
  5. McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey
  6. The Tale of Jolly Robin - Arthur Scott Bailey
  7. The Tale of Solomon Owl - Arthur Scott Bailey
  8. Our Hero General U. S. Grant - Josephine Pollard
  9. The Tale of Paddy Muskrat - Arthur Scott Bailey
  10. The Bobbsey Twins at School - Laura Lee Hope
  11. Childhood's Happy Hours - O. M. Dunham
  12. Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World - Josephine Pollard
  13. Young Folks' Bible - Josephine Pollard
  14. Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin
  15. Four American Naval Heroes - Mabel B. Beebe
  16. The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  17. The Rover Boys on the River - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  18. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - Margaret Sidney
  19. Five Little Peppers Midway - Margaret Sidney
  20. The Rover Boys at College - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  21. Tom Swift and His Airship - Victor Appleton
  22. The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  23. Tom Swift and His Air Scout - Victor Appleton
  24. The Adventures of Pinocchio (or A Tale of a Puppet) - C. Collodi
  25. The Rover Boys on a Tour - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  26. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
  27. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  28. Ben Pepper - Margaret Sidney
  29. Uncle Remus (His Songs and His Sayings) - Joel Chandler Harris
  30. The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  31. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
  32. The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  33. The Adventures of Joel Pepper - Margaret Sidney
  34. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
  35. The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  36. Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat - Victor Appleton
  37. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggins
  38. The Rover Boys Down East - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  39. Do and Dare - Horatio Alger
  40. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  and  Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
  41. The Rover Boys on a Hunt - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  42. Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris
  43. Jack's Ward - Horatio Alger
  44. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey
  45. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
  46. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge
  47. The Boy Knight  also called  Winning His Spurs or Fighting the Saracens - G. A. Henty
  48. Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat - Victor Appleton
  49. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  50. Bob, Son of Battle - Alfred Ollivant
  51. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
  52. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey
  53. The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning
  54. The Friend of Washington; A Young Folks' Life of General Lafayette - Henry C. Watson
  55. Brave and Bold - Horatio Alger
  56. Facing the World - Horatio Alger
  57. David Crockett, Scout - Charles Fletcher Allen
  58. Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington
  59. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
  60. Told by Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
  61. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
  62. Uncle Remus and His Friends - Joel Chandler Harris
  63. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey
  64. Picturesque America (Vol. 1) - William Cullen Bryant
  65. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  66. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  67. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. 1) - Ulysses S. Grant
  68. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
  69. The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
  70. The Pathfinder - James Fenimore Cooper
  71. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Vol. 2) - Ulysses S. Grant
  72. Life of George Washington (Vol. 1) - Washington Irving
  73. The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  74. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
  75. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  76. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  77. Life of George Washington (Vol. 2) - Washington Irving
  78. Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 - Rudyard Kipling
  79. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader - William McGuffey
  80. Life of George Washington (Vol. 3) - Washington Irving
  81. The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper
  82. Picturesque America (Vol. 2) - William Cullen Bryant
  83. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 1) - George Washington
  84. The Law - Frederic Bastiat
  85. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  86. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 2) - George Washington
  87. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
  88. Pudd'nhead Wilson  and  Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
  89. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 3) - George Washington
  90. Poems - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  91. Afloat and Ashore - James Fenimore Cooper
  92. The Diaries of George Washington (Vol. 4) - George Washington
  93. Life of David Crockett (Autobiography) - David Crockett
  94. Not Yours to Give - David Crockett
  95. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
  96. Economic Sophisms - Frederic Bastiat
  97. The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln - L. P. Brockett
  98. The Friendly Arctic; The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions - Vilhjalmar Stefansson
  99. What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard
  100. The Song of Roland - Anonymous
  101. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
  102. On That Day Began Lies - Leonard Read
  103. The Holy War - John Bunyan
  104. The Soldier in Our Civil War (Vol. 1) - Frank Leslie
  105. Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood - George MacDonald
  106. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  107. Heather and Snow - George MacDonald
  108. Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall) - R. L. Dabney
  109. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
  110. The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle
  111. Environmental Overkill - Dixie Lee Ray & Lou Guzzo
  112. The Heart of the Antarctic (Vol. 1) - E. H. Shackleton
  113. Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Stories - Mark Twain
  114. The Soldier in Our Civil War (Vol. 2) - Frank Leslie
  115. Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography - Theodore Roosevelt
  116. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  117. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  118. Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman - William Tecumseh Sherman
  119. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  120. Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
  121. Orations (of Marcus Tullius Cicero) - Cicero
  122. The Federalist (Papers) - Alexander Hamilton and others
  123. The Heart of the Antarctic (Vol. 2) - E. H. Shackleton
  124. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
  125. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, etc. or "Scientific Papers" - William Harvey, et al
    Contains all of the following: (from Harvard Classics Vol. 38)
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals - William Harvey
    The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox - Edward Jenner
    The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever - Oliver Wendell Holmes
    On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery - Joseph Lister
    The Physiological Theory of Fermentation - Louis Pasteur
    The Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery - Louis Pasteur
    On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases - Louis Pasteur
  126. American Historical Documents 1000-1904 - Harvard Classics Vol. 43
  127. The Enterprising Americans - John Chamberlain
  128. My African Journey - Sir Winston S. Churchill
  129. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States - Alexander Stephens
  130. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
  131. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  132. The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear - Petr Beckmann
  133. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Vol. 1) - Jefferson Davis
  134. Faraday's Lectures includes: The Forces of Matter  and  The Chemical History of a Candle (or Harvard Classics Vol. 30) - Michael Faraday
  135. Fiat Money Inflation in France - Andrew Dickson White
  136. Caesar's Gallic War  also called  The War in Gaul - Julius Caesar
  137. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln (1832-1865) - Abraham Lincoln
  138. The World Crisis (Vol. 1) - Sir Winston S. Churchill
  139. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Vol. 2) - Jefferson Davis
  140. Fifty Years in the Royal Navy - Admiral Sir Percy Scott
  141. King Henry V - William Shakespeare
  142. Two Years Before the Mast (And Twenty-Four Years After) - Richard Henry Dana
  143. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences - W. K. Clifford
  144. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  145. (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of) The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  146. Paradise Regained - John Milton
  147. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1) - John Calvin
  148. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
  149. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - William Shakespeare
  150. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2) - John Calvin
  151. The Ultimate Resource 2 - Julian Simon
  152. Access to Energy - Arthur Robinson
  153. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Vol. 1) - John Locke
  154. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Vol. 2) - John Locke
  155. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John - Isaac Newton
  156. Bellum Civile  also called  The Civil War - Julius Caesar
  157. De Bello Gallico  also called  Commentaries on the Gallic War or C. Iuli Caesaris Commentarii - Julius Caesar and T. Rice Holmes

      Science Books
  1. The Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
  2. Answers to the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
  3. Beyond the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
  4. Answers to Beyond the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
  5. Supplementary Physics Problems [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Foster Strong
  6. Statistical Mechanics [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Norman Davidson
  7. Chemical Principles - Gray, and Haight Dickerson
  8. Thermodynamics [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Lewis and Randall

      Supplemental Reading
  1. Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple - Sophie May
  2. Dotty Dimple at Play - Sophie May
  3. Dotty Dimple at Home - Sophie May
  4. Dotty Dimple Out West - Sophie May
  5. Dotty Dimple's Flyaway - Sophie May
  6. Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's - Sophie May
  7. Little Prudy's Sister Susy - Sophie May
  8. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill - Alice B. Emerson
  9. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - Alice B. Emerson
  10. Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp - Alice B. Emerson
  11. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch - Alice B. Emerson
  12. Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm - Alice B. Emerson
  13. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - Alice B. Emerson
  14. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Alice B. Emerson
  15. Ruth Fielding at College - Alice B. Emerson
  16. Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross - Alice B. Emerson
  17. Ruth Fielding at the War Front - Alice B. Emerson
  18. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound - Alice B. Emerson
  19. The Bobbsey Twins in the Country - Laura Lee Hope
  20. The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore - Laura Lee Hope
  21. The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge - Laura Lee Hope
  22. The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat - Laura Lee Hope
  23. The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook - Laura Lee Hope
  24. The Bobbsey Twins at Home - Laura Lee Hope
  25. The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City - Laura Lee Hope
  26. The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island - Laura Lee Hope
  27. The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea - Laura Lee Hope
  28. The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West - Laura Lee Hope
  29. Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle - Victor Appleton
  30. Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout - Victor Appleton
  31. Tom Swift and His Wireless Message - Victor Appleton
  32. Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera - Victor Appleton
  33. The Young Salesman - Horatio Alger
  34. Strive and Succeed - Horatio Alger
  35. Slow and Sure - Horatio Alger
  36. Phil the Fiddler - Horatio Alger
  37. The Erie Train Boy - Horatio Alger
  38. The Young Acrobat - Horatio Alger
  39. Making His Way - Horatio Alger
  40. Only an Irish Boy - Horatio Alger
  41. Sam's Chance - Horatio Alger
  42. Andy Gordon - Horatio Alger
  43. Paul the Peddler - Horatio Alger
  44. Charlie Codman's Cruise - Horatio Alger
  45. Joe's Luck - Horatio Alger
  46. Frank's Campaign - Horatio Alger
  47. Andy Grant's Pluck - Horatio Alger
  48. Hector's Inheritance - Horatio Alger
  49. The Cash Boy - Horatio Alger
  50. Luke Walton - Horatio Alger
  51. Walter Sherwood's Probation - Horatio Alger
  52. Bound to Rise - Horatio Alger
  53. Jed, the Poor House Boy - Horatio Alger
  54. Risen from the Ranks - Horatio Alger
  55. The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker - Arthur Bailey
  56. The Tale of Chirpy Cricket - Arthur Bailey
  57. The Tale of Old Dog Spot - Arthur Bailey
  58. Elsie Dinsmore - Martha Finley
  59. Elsie's Girlhood - Martha Finley
  60. Mildred and Elsie - Martha Finley
  61. Elsie's Children - Martha Finley
  62. The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies - Fremont B. Deering (John Henry Goldfrap)
  63. The Border Boys Across the Frontier - Fremont B. Deering (John Henry Goldfrap)
  64. Dick Hamilton's Fortune - Howard R. Garis
  65. Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days- Howard R. Garis
  66. From Office Boy to Reporter- Howard R. Garis
  67. Harry Watson's High School Days - Frank V. Webster
  68. The Boy Pilot of the Lakes - Frank V. Webster
  69. The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies - Frank Gee Patchin
  70. The Pony Rider Boys in Montana - Frank Gee Patchin
  71. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali- Frank Gee Patchin
  72. The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico- Frank Gee Patchin
  73. Camping Out Days at Putnam Hall - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  74. The Rover Boys in Camp - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  75. The Rover Boys in the Air - Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
  76. The Haunted Mine - Harry Castlemon
  77. The Wonder Island Boys: The Castaways - Roger Finlay
  78. The Wonder Island Boys: Capture and Pursuit - Roger Finlay
  79. Nuclear War Survival Skills - Cresson H. Kearny

      Language Skills

400. Penmanship Practice - Bethany Robinson
401-414. Professor Klugimkopf's Old-Fashioned English Grammar - Jane Orient
405. Professor Klugimkopf's Spelling Method - Jane Orient
500-501. Vocabulary Exercises - Tim & Joanne Calderwood


      Also Recommended - RC includes exams for these books, but not the books.

1000-1006. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
1007. The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
1008. The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald


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