Books N15 Read in Grade Ten
N15′s Book Rating System
***** Epic
**** Excellent
*** Worth Reading
** Limited Value
* Meh
(Disclaimer from N15: Star system is not adequate for rating a book. It is more complicated than that.)
Books Son N15 read this year homeschooling in Grade Ten at ages fourteen and fifteen:
(Click here for Grade Ten schedule and curriculum.)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ~ Aleksander Solzhenitsyn ***
The Crucible ~ Arthur Miller ***
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ***
Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley ***
2001 Space Odyssey ~ Arthur C. Clarke ***
The Giver ~ Lois Lowry **
Beyond Good and Evil ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ***
Brisingr ~ Christopher Paolini ***
Lord Peter The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories ~ Dorothy L. Sayers ***
The Nine Tailors ~ Dorothy L. Sayers ****
A Canticle for Leibowitz ~ Walter M. Milller Jr. ***
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow **** and Other Stories ** ~ Washington Irving
The Wealth of Nations Books I-III ~ Adam Smith ***
Battle Cry of Freedom ~ James McPherson ****
Ethics ~ Benedict De Spinoza ***
The King’s Fifth ~ Scott O’Dell ***
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories ~ Stephen Crane ***
Summer of the Monkeys ~ Wilson Rawls ***
The Last of the Mohicans ~ James Fenimore Cooper ***
Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad ****
The Tales of the Beedle Bard ~ J.K. Rowling **
Twilight ~ Stephenie Meyer ***
New Moon ~ Stephenie Meyer **
The Time Machine ~ H.G. Wells **
Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury ***
Ivanhoe ~ Walter Scott ****
Utopia ~ Sir Thomas More **
Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand ****
Le Morte D’Arthur ~ Sir Thomas Malory ****
Studies in Medieval and Rennaisance Literature ~ C.S. Lewis ****
The Faerie Queene ~ Edmund Spenser ****
Lovecraft Tales ~ H.P. Lovecraft **
Beowulf *****
The Guns of August ~ Barbara W. Tuchman ****
Flowers for Algernon ~ Daniel Keyes **
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ~ Jules Verne **
Of Mice and Men ~ John Steinbeck **
The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck ***
Out of the Silent Planet ~ C.S. Lewis ***
Tomorrow Series #1: Tomorrow, When the War Began ~ John Marsden ***
Citizen Soldiers ~ Stephen E. Ambrose ****
Heroes of the Valley ~ Jonathan Stroud ***
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” ~ Richard P. Feynman ***
The Everlasting Man ~ G.K. Chesterton ****
Paradise Lost ~ John Milton ****
Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding ***
Scarlet Letter ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ***
Franklin’s Way to Wealth Penn’s Maxims ~ Benjamin Franklin and William Penn ***
The Law ~ Frederic Bastiat **
Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome ***
The Deathly Hallows Lectures ~ John Granger ****
How Harry Cast His Spell ~ John Granger ****
Harry Potter & Imagination The Way Between Two Worlds ~ Travis Prinzi ****
J.K. Rowling books again *****
Tolkien books again *****
The Golden Compass ~ Philip Pullman ***
The Subtle Knife ~ Philip Pullman ***
The Amber Spyglass ~ Philip Pullman ***
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It ~ Mark Steyn ****
Real Change ~ Newt Gingrich ***
America the Last Best Hope Volumes I and II ~ William J. Bennett ****
Ideas Have Consequences ~ Richard M. Weaver ***
Amusing Ourselves to Death ~ Neil Postman **
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens ~ Sean Covey **
The Psychology of Persuasion Influence ~ Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. **
How to Talk to Anyone ~ Leil Lowndes *
Eat That Frog ~ Brian Tracy *
The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing ~ Jason Kelly ***
Apologetics to the Glory of God ~ John M. Frame ***
Reasons of the Heart ~ William Edgar ***
Treatise of Human Nature ~ David Hume ***
Critique of Pure Reason ~ Immanuel Kant ***
Desiring God ~ John Piper ***
Institutes of Christian Religion (Abridged) ~ John Calvin ** (because abridged)
Institutes of Christian Religion Book 1 of 2 (Non-abridged) ~ John Calvin ****
How Should We Then Live? ~ Francis A. Schaeffer ****
Secrets of Great Communicators: Simple, Powerful Strategies for Reaching the Heart of Your Audience, Teaching Kit ~ Jeff Myers ***
Lifepac Electives: Essentials of Communication, Complete Set **
ADS Canadian Social Studies (History and Government) Grade 10 Complete Set *
I will continue to add books N15 reads during the next week or so.
Last year:
Books N14 Read in Grade Nine
http://parentingfreedom.com/2008/06/19/books-n14-read-in-grade-nine/
About The Author
Still jealous…
Wow! What a reader you have there.
Me too.
Oh to be so “well-read”. Incredible! Also jealous.
He finished these books since I made the list:
Franklin’s Way to Wealth Penn’s Maxims ~ Benjamin Franklin and William Penn ***
The Law ~ Frederic Bastiat **
Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome ***
Found another one he read:
The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing ~ Jason Kelly ***
I’m surprised he gave The Law only a 2-star. That is one of my favorite books, and provides great philosophical backing for homeschooling. J12 read that this year, too — this is his review:
http://theycs.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/the-law-by-frederic-bastiat/