2009 Reading Material

Here is a working list of Books for my 2009 nightstand: Fiction / Literature:

Oliver Twist by: Charles Dickens

Gulliver's Travels by: Jonathan Swift

Uncle Tom's Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad

The Other Side of the Dale by: Gervase Phinn

Shogun by: James Clavell

Possession by: A.S. Byatt

Jeeves by: P.G. Wodehouse

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by: David Wroblewski

Johnny Tremain (re-read) by Esther Forbes

History: (most of these go along with our homeschool study of the Early Presidents)

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by: Mary Rowlandson (autobiography)

1776 (re-read) by: David McCullough

John Adams (re-read) by: David McCullough

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Founding Mothers by: Cokie Roberts

Abigail Adams

Common Sense by: Thomas Paine

Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson by: Alan Pell Crawford

James Madison: A Biography by: Ralph Ketcham

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by: Paul C. Negel

A Midwife's Tail: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 by: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Other: Drama, Poetry

She Stoops to Conquer by: Oliver Goldsmith

Songs of Innocence and Experience by: William Blake

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth

Selected Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems What's Going On In There? by: Lise Eliot (about the brain's development in the first 5 years)

Christianity:

God in the White House by: Randall Balmer For the Tough Times by: Max Lucado and open for other suggestions ! ...