books to choose from

taken from the book list of John Senior

* Books we have already read in Book Club

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice.  Tarzan series.

Burnett, Francis Hodgson.  The Secret Garden; Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Cooper, James Fenimore.  The Last of the Mohicans.

Dana, Richard Henry.  Two Years Before the Mast.
Dickens, Charles.  Christmas Carol; Cricket on the Hearth; David Copperfield; Oliver Twist 
Dodge, Mary Mapes.  Hans Brinker.
Defoe, Daniel.  Robinson Crusoe.
Garland, Hamlin.  Son of the Middle Border and others.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  Tanglewood Tales.
Henty, George William.  many good historical fiction novels.

Pyle, Howard.  Robin Hood and others.  Illustrated by Pyle.
Sewell, Anna.  Black Beauty.
Shakespeare.  Comedy of Errors.
Spyri, Johanna.  Heidi.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. *Treasure Island; Kidnapped, and others.  Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Tarkington, Booth.  Penrod and others in the series.

Twain, Mark.  *Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn; The Prince and the Pauper.

Verne, Jules.  Around the World in Eighty Days; and many others.

Doyle, Arthur Conan.  Sherlock Holmes series.

Dumas, Alexander.  Three Musketeers.

Hughes, Thomas.  Tom Brown’s School Days; Tom Brown at Oxford.
Hugo, Victor.  Quatre-vingt-treize; Les Miserables; Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Park, Mungo.  Travels in Africa.
Parkman, Francis. Oregon Trail.
Poe, Edgar Allen.  Tales; and poems.
Polo, Marco.  Travels.
Reade, Charles.  The Cloister and the Hearth.
Rhodes, Eugene.  Best Novels and Stories (edited by Dobie).
Scott, Walter.  Ivanhoe; Rob Roy; many others.
Shelley, Mary.  Frankenstein.
Shakespeare.  Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet; Merchant of Venice.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. Quo Vadis; With Fire and Sword.

Wells, H.G..  The Time Machine; The Invisible Man; others.