Treasury · Merit

Harvard Classics

The fifty volumes Charles W. Eliot chose in 1909 as a liberal education on a five-foot shelf. Old, Western, and unapologetically canonical.

126 books in the catalog stand on this list. The list itself (opens the list's own website) ↗

A reader aged

7 of these books cover age 13. The 98 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• All for Love, or, The World Well Lost by John Dryden, 1678 · ages 13–16
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• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1850 · ages 12–15 · Lexile 1070L · AR 9.5
  also on Deep Roots Grade, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni, 1840 · ages 13–17
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• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813 · ages 12–17 · Lexile 1070L · AR 12.0
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, 1819 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1280L · AR 11.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Mensa Kids, TJEd Early Recommended
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• The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper, 1530 · ages 13–17
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• Utopia by Sir Thomas More trans. by Paul Turner, 1516 · ages 13–17 · Lexile 1390L
  also on TJEd Adult Recommended
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