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Cambridge Lists - Pre-Cambridge Reading Lists

This page contains a list of suggested reading for Middle School students. Some of these works are great literature, others are not. When compiling this list the top priority was to encourage younger students to enjoy their reading.

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold

• Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

• The Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Father Brown stories by G. K. Chesterton

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fennimore Cooper

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

• The Sherlock Holmes stories by A. Conan Doyle

• The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

• The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley

• The Hornblower series by C. S. Forester

• King Solomon’s Mines by H. Ryder Haggard

• She by H. Ryder Haggard

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• Kon Tiki and The Ra Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling

• The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

• Short stories by Jack London

• Any fantasy collection by George MacDonald

• At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’Dell

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

• The Readers Digest Great Short Stories of the World

• All historical novels by Kenneth Roberts

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

• Idylls of the King by Tennyson

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

• The Once and Future King by T. H. White

• Swiss Family Robinson by J. R. Wyss

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