Robinson Curriculum Book List (or pdf version)
Some titles and authors have been corrected or expanded from the original list.
| RC# | REQUIRED BOOKS | Author |
| 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" 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 | William Harvey, et al. |
| 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 | Michael Faraday (or Harvard Classics Vol. 30) |
| 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 |
| 401-404. | 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 |