This page contains a list of suggested reading for Middle School students. Some of these works are great literature, others are not. When compiling this list the top priority was to encourage younger students to enjoy their reading.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Father Brown stories by G. K. Chesterton
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Sherlock Holmes stories by A. Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
The Hornblower series by C. S. Forester
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Ryder Haggard
She by H. Ryder Haggard
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Kon Tiki and The Ra Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Short stories by Jack London
Any fantasy collection by George MacDonald
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’Dell
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Readers Digest Great Short Stories of the World
All historical novels by Kenneth Roberts
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Idylls of the King by Tennyson
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Swiss Family Robinson by J. R. Wyss
