Recommended Reading for
Grades 7 and 8

Alcott, Louisa May
Little Men

Bagnold, Enid
National Velvet

Blackmore, Richard D. Lorna Doone

Boulle, Pierre
The Bridge over the River Kwai

Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Martian Chronicles

Buchan, John
The Thirty-Nine Steps

Bunyan, John
The Pilgrim's Progress

Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass

Clark, Walter
The Ox-Bow Incident

Cooper, James Fenimore The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans

Curie, Eve
Madame Curie: A Biography

Dana, Richard Henry
Two Years before the Mast

Day, Clarence
Life with Father

Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol

Douglas, Lloyd C.
The Robe

Doyle, Arthur Conan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexander
The Count of Monte Christo, The Three Musketeers

Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca

Edmonds, Walter D.
Drums along the Mohawk

Ferber, Edna
Cimarron

Forbes, Esther
Johnny Tremain

Forester, C.S.
The African Queen, The Hornblower series

Frank, Anne
Diary of a Young Girl

Frost, Robert
Poems

Gallico, Paul
The Snow Goose

Gunther, John
Death Be Not Proud

Guthrie, A.B.
The Big Sky

Haggard, H. Rider
King Solomon's Mines

Hansberry, Lorraine
Raisin in the Sun

Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea

Hersey, John
A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Wall

Heyerdahl, Thor
Kon-Tiki

Hilton, James
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon

Hudson, W.H.
Green Mansions

Hughes, Richard
A High Wind in Jamaica

Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Irving, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Keller, Helen
Story of My Life

Kennedy, John F.
Profiles in Courage

Kipling, Rudyard
Kim

Knowles, John
A Separate Peace

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird

London, Jack
The Sea Wolf

Lord, Walter
A Night to Remember

Malory, Sir Thomas
Le Morte d'Arthur

Maxwell, Gavin
Ring of Bright Water

McCullers, Carson
Member of the Wedding

Michener, James
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Mitchell, Margaret
Gone with the Wind

Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall
Mutiny on the Bounty

O'Dell, Scott
Island of the Blue Dolphins

Orczy, Baroness Emma
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country

Pyle, Howard
Men of Iron

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling

Renault, Mary
The King Must Die

Roberts, Kenneth Northwest Passage

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de The Little Prince Wind, Sand and Stars

Saki
Stories

Schaefer, Jack
Shane

Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein

Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Steinbeck, John
The Pearl Tortilla Flat

Stevenson, Robert Louis The Black Arrow, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram
Dracula

Thurber, James
The Thurber Carnival

Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 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

SOURCE: The National Endowment for the Humanities
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