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

14 of these books cover age 18. The 98 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1878 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1080L · AR 9.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, 1791 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1370L · AR 11.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Autobiography & On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, 2009 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1440L
  also on TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 900L · AR 8.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Don Quixote, Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes, 1612 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1410L · AR 13.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1603 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 650L · AR 10.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera, 1874 · ages 14–18 · AR 6.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 1678 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1030L · AR 10.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, 1418 · ages 15–18
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• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, 1820 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1460L · AR 11.0 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, TJEd Early Recommended
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• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, 1860 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1240L · AR 9.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• The Odyssey by Homer, -800 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1050L · AR 10.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Adult Recommended
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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 St. John's College, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, 1839 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1220L · AR 13.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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