John's Books

The Canterbury Tales

1392

Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400

Gulliver's Travels

1726

Jonathan Swift
November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745, Irish

Johann David Wyss

Period: 1743 to 1818

Swiss

Jane Austen

Period: Dec 16, 1775 to Jun 18, 1817

British

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Period: Aug 30, 1797 to Feb 1, 1851

British

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Period: Jun 14, 1811 to Jul 1, 1896

American

The Swiss Family Robinson

1812

Johann David Wyss,
German

Charles John Huffam Dickens

Period: Feb 7, 1812 to Jun 9, 1870

British

Emma

1815

Jane Austen December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

Charlotte Brontë , pseudonym Currer Bell

Period: Apr 21, 1816 to Mar 31, 1855

British

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

1818

Herman Melville

Period: Jan 1, 1819 to Sep 28, 1891

American

Jules Verne

Period: Feb 8, 1828 to Mar 24, 1905

French

Louisa May Alcott

Period: Nov 29, 1832 to Mar 6, 1888

American

Samuel Langhorne Clemens pseudonym Mark Twain

Period: Nov 30, 1835 to Apr 21, 1910

American

Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress

1838

Thomas Hardy

Period: Jun 2, 1840 to Jan 11, 1928

British

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

1847

pseudonym Currer Bell

Bram (Abraham) Stoker

Period: Nov 8, 1847 to Apr 20, 1912

Irish

Francis Hodson Burnett

Period: Nov 24, 1849 to Oct 29, 1924

British-American

David Copperfield

1850

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery

Robert Louis Stevenson

Period: Nov 13, 1850 to Dec 3, 1894

Scottish

Moby Dick, or The Whale

1851

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly

1852

12 Years a Slave

1853

Solomon Northup July 10, 1807 or 1808 - between 1857-1875, American

Hard Times - For These Times

1854

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

Period: May 22, 1859 to Jul 7, 1930

British

Little Women

1868

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater

1870

Willa Cather

Period: Dec 7, 1873 to Apr 24, 1947

American

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1876

Treasure Island

1883

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1886

Robert Louis Stevenson November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894 Scottish

The Mayor of Casterbridge

1886

The Life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character

Agatha Christie

Period: Sep 15, 1890 to Jan 12, 1976

British

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Period: Jan 3, 1892 to Sep 2, 1973

British

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Period: Sep 24, 1896 to Dec 21, 1940

American

Dracula

1897

Bram Stoker Irish

Armstrong Sperry

Period: Nov 7, 1897 to Apr 26, 1976

American

Ernest Hemingway

Period: Jul 21, 1899 to Jul 2, 1961

American

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1902

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle British

Eric Arthur Blair pseudonym George Orwell

Period: Jun 25, 1903 to Jan 21, 1950

British

Elizabeth George Speare

Period: Nov 21, 1908 to Nov 15, 1994

American

The Secret Garden

1911

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL

Period: Sep 19, 1911 to Jun 19, 1993

British (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)

(Woodrow) Wilson Rawls

Period: Sep 24, 1913 to Dec 16, 1984

American

My Ántonia

1918

Willa Cather December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947 American

Robert Leslie Carroll Conly pseudonym Robert C. O'Brien

Period: Nov 11, 1918 to Apr 5, 1973

American

Madeleine L’Engle

Period: Nov 29, 1918 to Sep 6, 2007

American

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Period: Dec 11, 1918 to Aug 3, 2008

Russian

Ray Bradbury

Period: Aug 22, 1920 to Jun 5, 2012

American

Theodore Taylor

Period: Jun 23, 1921 to Oct 26, 2006

American

The Great Gatsby

1924

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald American

Ellen Raskin

Period: Mar 13, 1928 to Aug 8, 1984

American

Russell Freedman

Period: Oct 11, 1929 to Apr 16, 2018

American

Elaine Lobl Konigsburg

Period: Feb 10, 1930 to Apr 19, 2013

American

The Hobbit

1937

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (January 3,1892 – September 2, 1973)

Of Mice and Men

1937

John Steinbeck February 27, 1902-December 20, 1968 American

Lois Lowery

Period: Mar 20, 1937 to 2020

American, CURRENT

Edward Irving Wortis, pseudonym Avi

Period: Dec 23, 1937 to 2020

American, CURRENT

And Then There Were None

1939

Ten Little Niggers

Call It Courage

1940

Armstrong Sperry American

Karen Cushman

Period: Oct 4, 1941 to 2020

American, CURRENT

Stephen Hawking

Period: Jan 8, 1942 to Mar 14, 1918

British

Patricia McKissack

Period: Aug 9, 1944 to Apr 7, 2017

American

Animal Farm

1945

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

Robert T. Bakker

Period: Mar 24, 1945 to 2020

American

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1949

Larry Dane Brimner

Period: Nov 5, 1949 to 2020

American, current

The Old Man and the Sea

1952

Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) American

Fahrenheit 451

1953

Ray Bradbury American

Lord of the Flies

1954

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

1958

Elizabeth George Speare (November 21, 1908 – November 15, 1994) American

Where the Red Fern Grows

1961

Wilson Rawls (September 24, 1913 - December 16, 1984) American

The Golden Goblet

1961

Eloise Jarvis McGraw December 9, 1915-November 30, 2000 American

A Wrinkle in Time

1962

Archimedes and the Door of Science

1962

Jeanne Bendick February 25, 1919 - current

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1962

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) Russian

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1967

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

1971

Grace Lin

Period: May 17, 1974 to 2020

American CURRENT

The Westing Game

1978

The Fighting Ground

1984

A Brief History of Time

1988

Number The Stars

1989

The Dark-Thirty, Southern Tales of the Supernatural

1992

The Wright Brothers and How They Invented the Airplane

1992

The Practical Geologist

1992

Dougal Dixon May 9, 1947 - present British

Raptor Red

1995

Robert T. Bakker
American

The Sand-Reckoner

2000

Gillian Bradshaw

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

2009

Heart of a Samurai

2010

by Margi Preus

The Story of Earth

2012

Robert M. Hazen November 1, 1948- present American

The Story of Life in 25 Fossils

2015

Donald R. Prothero February 21, 1954 - present American

Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961

2017