Robinson Curriculum Book List (or pdf version)
Some titles and authors have been corrected or expanded from the original list.
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 Borton Beebe
16. The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
17. The Rover Boys on the River - Arthur 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 Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
21. Tom Swift and His Airship - Victor Appleton
22. The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur 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 Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
26. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
27. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - Arthur 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 Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
31. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
32. The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
33. The Adventures of Joel Pepper - Margaret Sidney
34. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
35. The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
36. Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat - Victor Appleton
37. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
38. The Rover Boys Down East - Arthur 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 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 also called Owd Bob - 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 also called Sophisms of the Protectionists - 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 - Vilhjalmur 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 - Dixy 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, et al.
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 The 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
200. The Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
201. Answers to the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
202. Beyond the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
203. Answers to Beyond the Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein
204. Supplementary Physics Problems [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Foster Strong
205. Statistical Mechanics [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Norman Davidson
206. Chemical Principles - Dickerson, Gray, and Haight
207. Thermodynamics [Not required. Provided for advanced students.] - Lewis and Randall
SUPPLEMENTAL BOOKS
300. Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple - Sophie May
301. Dotty Dimple at Play - Sophie May
302. Dotty Dimple at Home - Sophie May
303. Dotty Dimple Out West - Sophie May
304. Dotty Dimple's Flyaway - Sophie May
305. Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's - Sophie May
306. Little Prudy's Sister Susy - Sophie May
307. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill - Alice B. Emerson
308. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - Alice B. Emerson
309. Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp - Alice B. Emerson
310. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch - Alice B. Emerson
311. Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm - Alice B. Emerson
312. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - Alice B. Emerson
313. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Alice B. Emerson
314. Ruth Fielding at College - Alice B. Emerson
315. Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross - Alice B. Emerson
316. Ruth Fielding at the War Front - Alice B. Emerson
317. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound - Alice B. Emerson
318. The Bobbsey Twins in the Country - Laura Lee Hope
319. The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore - Laura Lee Hope
320. The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge - Laura Lee Hope
321. The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat - Laura Lee Hope
322. The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook - Laura Lee Hope
323. The Bobbsey Twins at Home - Laura Lee Hope
324. The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City - Laura Lee Hope
325. The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island - Laura Lee Hope
326. The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea - Laura Lee Hope
327. The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West - Laura Lee Hope
328. Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle - Victor Appleton
329. Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout - Victor Appleton
330. Tom Swift and His Wireless Message - Victor Appleton
331. Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera - Victor Appleton
332. The Young Salesman - Horatio Alger
333. Strive and Succeed - Horatio Alger
334. Slow and Sure - Horatio Alger
335. Phil the Fiddler - Horatio Alger
336. The Erie Train Boy - Horatio Alger
337. The Young Acrobat - Horatio Alger
338. Making His Way - Horatio Alger
339. Only an Irish Boy - Horatio Alger
340. Sam's Chance - Horatio Alger
341. Andy Gordon - Horatio Alger
342. Paul the Peddler - Horatio Alger
343. Charlie Codman's Cruise - Horatio Alger
344. Joe's Luck - Horatio Alger
345. Frank's Campaign - Horatio Alger
346. Andy Grant's Pluck - Horatio Alger
347. Hector's Inheritance - Horatio Alger
348. The Cash Boy - Horatio Alger
349. Luke Walton - Horatio Alger
350. Walter Sherwood's Probation - Horatio Alger
351. Bound to Rise - Horatio Alger
352. Jed, the Poor House Boy - Horatio Alger
353. Risen from the Ranks - Horatio Alger
354. The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker - Arthur Scott Bailey
355. The Tale of Chirpy Cricket - Arthur Scott Bailey
356. The Tale of Old Dog Spot - Arthur Scott Bailey
357. Elsie Dinsmore - Martha Finley
358. Elsie's Girlhood - Martha Finley
359. Mildred and Elsie - Martha Finley
360. Elsie's Children - Martha Finley
361. The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies - Fremont B. Deering (John Henry Goldfrap)
362. The Border Boys Across the Frontier - Fremont B. Deering (John Henry Goldfrap)
363. Dick Hamilton's Fortune - Howard R. Garis
364. Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days- Howard R. Garis
365. From Office Boy to Reporter- Howard R. Garis
366. Harry Watson's High School Days - Frank V. Webster
367. The Boy Pilot of the Lakes - Frank V. Webster
368. The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies - Frank Gee Patchin
369. The Pony Rider Boys in Montana - Frank Gee Patchin
370. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali- Frank Gee Patchin
371. The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico - Frank Gee Patchin
372. Camping Out Days at Putnam Hall also called The Putnam Hall Encampment - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
373. The Rover Boys in Camp - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
374. The Rover Boys in the Air - Arthur Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
375. The Haunted Mine - Harry Castlemon
376. The Wonder Island Boys: The Castaways - Roger Finlay
377. The Wonder Island Boys: Capture and Pursuit - Roger Finlay
378. Nuclear War Survival Skills - Cresson H. Kearny
LANGUAGE SKILLS / VOCABULARY
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