I am compiling these lists for my own sanity.  I need a clear list of books I still need to find for HOE, so I can cross them off one by one as I find them.  Anyone who has an extra copy on PaperbackSwap or Ebay is welcome to contact me or leave a comment! ;)
Year 7
Saints and Heroes, Vol 1
History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea by  William Tyre
The Life of King Alfred  by Asser
Ourselves  by  Charlotte Mason (and the other volumes, if they are cheap)
The Life  of the Spider by Henri Fabre (or any others by him , except Insects, I  have that one)
How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
Fearfully and  Wonderfully Made by Paul Brand
The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson  Burnett
The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), With Excerpts from  the Poetic Edda, translated by William Morris or Eirikr Magnusson
The  White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hereward, the Last of the  English by Charles Kingsley
Feats on the Fiord by Harriet Martineau
The  Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
Penrod and Sam by Booth  Tarkington
Alhambra by Washington Irving     
Year 8
Saints and Heroes Vol. 2 by George Hodges
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
The Life of Sir Francis Bacon by William Rawley
The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish Story by David Howarth
A History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science by John Hudson Tiner
The Life of Dr. Donne by Izaak Walton
Whatever Happened to Justice by Richard Maybury
Simonds American Literature
Everyman, a Morality Play
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper
William  Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by  Thomas Henry Huxley
Kenilworth  by Sir Walter Scott
Pickwick  Papers by Charles Dickens
The Innocence  of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Northanger  Abbey by Jane Austen
The  House of Arden by E. Nesbit
Harding's  Luck by E. Nesbit
Lorna  Doone by R. D. Blackmore
The Wonderful O and/or The Thurber Carnival by James  Thurber
To Have and  to Hold by Mary Johnston
All  for Love or Discourses  on Satire and Epic Poetry by John Dryden
The  Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton (might be more appreciated for  older folks who enjoy short contemplative readings, rather than Year 8  students)
The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, available through The Common  Reader catalog
Pioneers  of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by  Mary Johnston
The  History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott
Year 9
*I haven't even begun to look at Year 9 and above.  Many of these are options and you use only one.  I don't mind having all of them to choose from, so I will list them all.  If you are a HEO'er more familiar with these selections, please let me know of any pros or cons of any particular one!
Christian Life by Sinclair Ferguson
The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer
The  Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
The  Christian's Secret to a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall  Smith
Oxford Book of American History by Samuel Eliot Morison
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
Letters  to His Son by Lord Chesterfield
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Invasion of Canada by Pierre Berton
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J.  Ellis
Founding Father -- Rediscovering George Washington by Richard  Brookhiser
George Washington: A Biography by Washington Irving
Washington: The Indispensible Man by James Thomas Flexner
The Life of  George Washington by David Ramsay
Marie  Antoinette and Her Son by Louise Muhlback
Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. Abbott
The  Story of Napoleon by H.E. Marshall
The  Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
Life  of Johnson by James Boswell
London  to Land's End by Daniel Defoe
A  Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton
Are You Liberal, Conservative, Confused? by Richard Maybury
The  English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
Reflections on the Revolution  in France by Edmund Burke
Wealth of  Nations by Adam Smith
The  Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John  Jay
A Letter to a Noble Lord  by Edmund Burke, 1796
An Essay on  Man by Alexander Pope
War of the Worldviews by Gary DeMar
Postmodern Times by Gene Edward Veith
Isaac  Bickerstaff and Days  with Sir Roger DeCoverly by Richard Steele
Tale  of a Tub and Battle  of the Books by Jonathan Swift
History  of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
She  Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
The  School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan
Faust, Book I by  Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The  History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty  Queen Anne by William Makepeace Thackeray
Northanger  Abbey by Jane Austen
A  Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The  Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Man  Alive and/or The  Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton.
The  Little Nugget, Uneasy  Money or others by P. G. Wodehouse
Sir  Gibbie by George MacDonald
Three  Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
Scaramouche  by Rafael Sabatini, French Revolution #2 in series
William Carey's "An Inquiry Into the Obligations of Christians to  Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens" by William Carey
Horatio Hornblower books by C. S. Forester
Sir Walter Scott:
The  Bride of Lammermoor - East Lothian, 1695
The Pirate - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700
The  Black Dwarf - The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites)
Heart  of Midlothian - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots)
Waverley  - The Jacobites
Redgauntlet  - Time of George III.
Guy  Mannering - Time of George III
The  Surgeon's Daughter - Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780)
The  Antiquary - Scotch Manners, last decade of the 18th Century
St.  Ronan's Well - Near Firth of Forth, 1812
 
Are you trying to avoid using the library?
ReplyDeleteMichaelangelo
I try to find as many of our curriculum's books to buy, as inexpensively as I can. I have an extensive home library. Since I have eight children up and coming, it's much better for us to have the books at home and for as long as I want, rather than borrow.
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