Homeschool Recommended Reading

Ages 13-16 Years

Your teenager will enjoy the following homeschool recommended reading selections. Be sure to check the other age suggestions, too.

Gladys Hunt, author of Honey for a Child's Heart, writes, "Remember good books can be read at any age."

Have several on hand, available for any "boring" moment. Suggest he takes one with him in the car or anywhere he might have free time.

Classics make wonderful gifts. After several years, he will have the basis of a lifetime collection of "Great Books."

Nonfiction Books

  • Boom, Corrie Ten: The Hiding Place

  • Bradley, Omar: A Soldier's Story

  • Frank, Anne: Diary of a Young Girl

  • Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography

  • Herriot, James: All Creatures Great and Small, many others

  • Lewis, C.S.: Mere Christianity

  • Lincoln, A. and Douglas, S.: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • Lindbergh, Charles: The Spirit of St. Louis

  • Sadunaite, Nijole: A Radiance in the Gulag

  • Scott, Robert: Scott's Last Expedition

  • Von Trapp, Maria: The Trapp Family Singers

  • Washington, Booker T.: Up From Slavery

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    Fiction Reading

    • Blackmore, Richard: Lorna Doone

    • Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

    • Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights

    • Chesterton, G.K.: The Father Brown series

    • Collins, Wilkie: The Black Robe, many others

    • Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage

    • de Wohl, Louis: The Quiet Light, many others

    • Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

    • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes series

    • Eliot, George: Silas Marner, Adam Bede, others

    • Eliot, T.S.: Murder in the Cathedral

    • Fabre, Henri: Selections from Souvenirs Entymologiques

    • Fast, Howard: April Morning

    • Gray, Zane: The Call of the Canyon, Desert Gold, many others

    • Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter (older teen)

    • Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea

    • Hughes, Thomas: Tom Brown's School Days, Tom Brown at Oxford

    • Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables

    • Kjelgaard, James A.: Big Red, many others

    • Lewis, C.S.: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength

    • London, Jack: The Sea Wolf, The Call of the Wild

    • Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

    • Mitchell, Catherine: Christy

    • Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind

    • Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables, many others

    • Nordoff, Charles and Hall, James: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island

    • Poe, Edgar Allen: Tales and poems

    • Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front

    • Schaefer, Jack: Shane

    • Shakespeare, William: Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet

    • Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein

    • Speare, Elizabeth: The Bronze Bow, Calico Captive, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

    • Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    • Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin

    • Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings trilogy

    • Twain, Mark: St. Joan of Arc

    • Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, many others

    • Wiggin, Kate Douglas: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

    • Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Picture of Dorian Gray

    • Wister, Owen: The Virginian, many others

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    Watch the Essential "Extras" Newsletter for more homeschool recommended reading selections for your teen. (If grandparents or other relatives ask for ideas for holidays, why not suggest a hardbound book?)

    Family Read Alouds!

    Literature for 8-12 Year Olds

    Another Literature List

    and still More Books!

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