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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

23 of these books cover age 18. The 65 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• 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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• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, 1959 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 870L · AR 6.1 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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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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• City of God by Augustine, 450 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1500L · AR 14.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Elements by Euclid, -290 · ages 15–18
  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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• 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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• Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, 1908 · ages 17–18
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• Republic by Plato, -385 · ages 17–21
  also on St. John's College
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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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• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 1811 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1160L · AR 8.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973 · ages 16–18 · Lexile 1100L
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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 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 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 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 Virginian by Owen Wister, 1979 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 830L · AR 6.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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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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• 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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• 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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