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TJEd Adult Recommended

A Thomas Jefferson Education is Oliver and Rachel DeMille's home-education method. It recommends three reading lists by the age of the reader — Early, Youth and Adult — and these are the adult ones.

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

A reader aged

65 of these books carry no suggested reading age, so choosing an age leaves them out.

• 1984 by George Orwell, 1949 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1090L · AR 8.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, Time Magazine 1923-2005
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• A History of Warfare by John Keegan, 1993
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• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, 1959 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 870L · AR 6.1 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Almagest by Ptolemy, 150
  also on St. John's College
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• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 1859 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 1130L · AR 9.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade
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• Autobiography & On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, 2009 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1440L
  also on Harvard Classics
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• A World Split Apart by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1978
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• Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche, 1886 · Lexile 1420L
  also on St. John's College
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• Categories by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• City of God by Augustine, 450 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1500L · AR 14.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 1930
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• Complete Works by William Shakespeare, 1590
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• De Anima by Aristotle, -350 · Lexile 1270L
  also on St. John's College
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• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 · Lexile 1310L · AR 13.4
  also on St. John's College
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• Discourse on Method by René Descartes, 1637 · Lexile 1840L
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College
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• Elements by Euclid, -290 · ages 15–18
  also on St. John's College
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• Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier, 1789
  also on St. John's College
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• Epitome by Johannes Kepler, 1995
  also on St. John's College
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• Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1840
  also on Harvard Classics
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• Essays Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume, 1750
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• Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1829 · ages 14–17
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College
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• Generation of Animals by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1090L · AR 9.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, 1940
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• Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus, 100
  also on St. John's College
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• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, 1847 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1040L · AR 7.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1010L · AR 9.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, 1651 · Lexile 1270L
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College
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• Lives by Plutarch, 80 · ages 9–12 · Lexile 1690L
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College
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• Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas, 1929
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• Mathematical Principles by Isaac Newton, 1687
  also on St. John's College
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• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 180 · Lexile 1240L
  also on Harvard Classics
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• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, 1952 · ages 13–17
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• Metaphysics by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, -350 · Lexile 1260L
  also on St. John's College
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• Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, 1620
  also on St. John's College
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• Oedipus the King by Sophocles, -429 · Lexile 1060L
  also on Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• On Interpretation by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• On Kingship by Thomas Aquinas, 2015
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• On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543
  also on St. John's College
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• On War by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832
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• Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, 1908 · ages 17–18
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• Our Oriental Heritage by Will and Ariel Durant, 1935
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• Paradise Regained by John Milton, 1671
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• Parts of Animals by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• Physics by Aristotle, -350 · Lexile 1460L
  also on St. John's College
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• Poetics by Aristotle, -350 · Lexile 1410L
  also on St. John's College
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• Politics by Aristotle, -350 · Lexile 1400L
  also on St. John's College
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• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813 · ages 12–17 · Lexile 1070L · AR 12.0
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Prior Analytics by Aristotle, -350
  also on St. John's College
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• Relativity by Albert Einstein, 1916 · Lexile 1540L
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• Republic by Plato, -385 · ages 17–21
  also on St. John's College
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• Rhetoric by Aristotle, -322
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• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe, 1719 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 920L · AR 5.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Second Treatise Of Government by John Locke, 1689 · Lexile 1690L
  also on St. John's College
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• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 1811 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1160L · AR 8.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, 1989 · Lexile 1080L
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• That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen by Bastiat, 1850
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• The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen, 1981
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• The Analects by Confucius, -429
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• The Art of War by Sun Tzu, -450 · Lexile 1350L
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• The Chosen by Chaim Potok, 1968 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 900L · AR 6.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, 1848
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• The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, 525 · Lexile 1350L
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• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776 · Lexile 1230L
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• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1304 · Lexile 1300L
  also on Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, 1787 · ages 14–17
  also on St. John's College
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• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973 · ages 16–18 · Lexile 1100L
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• The Histories by Polybius, -170
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• The History of Freedom by John Dalberg-Acton, 1993
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• The Holy Bible by multiple, 1611
  also on St. John's College, TJEd Early Recommended, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• The Iliad by Homer, -750 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 740L · AR 11.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver, 1953
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• The Majesty of God’s Law by W. Cleon Skousen, 1996
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• The Making of America by W. Cleon Skousen, 1985
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• The Monroe Doctrine by James Monroe, 1823
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• The Odyssey by Homer, -800 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1050L · AR 10.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, -411
  also on St. John's College
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• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1450L · AR 9.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College
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• The Proper Role of Government by Ezra Taft Benson, 1968
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• The Republic and The Laws by Cicero, -51 · Lexile 1320L
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• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, 1942 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1170L · AR 8.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu, 1748
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• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962
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• The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, 1975
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• The Virginian by Owen Wister, 1979 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 830L · AR 6.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, 1949
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• Thoughts on Government by John Adams, 1776
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• Two New Sciences by Galileo, 1638
  also on St. John's College
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• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1050L · AR 9.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• Utopia by Sir Thomas More trans. by Paul Turner, 1516 · ages 13–17 · Lexile 1390L
  also on Harvard Classics
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• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1985 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1270L · AR 12.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1420L · AR 8.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1867 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1130L · AR 10.1 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on St. John's College
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• Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 1500L
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College
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• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847 · ages 14–18 · AR 11.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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