The Classic Titles

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The list includes some of the finest classic works the western society has to offer. Some are suitable for 4th and 5th grade GATE students such as Secret Garden, Black Beauty. Some are more challenging so more suitable for middle and high school students. However, many ambitious 4th, 5th grade GATE students start to tackle these books. It is important to encourage them to read these books so they have an exposure to the finest literature. Books are grouped by authors.
 

Anna Sewell
    Black Beauty

Miguel du Cervantes
    Don Quixote

Margaret Michell
    Gone With the Wind

Johana Spyri
    Heidi

Louisa May Alcott
    The Little Woman

Frances Hodgson
    The Secret Garden
    Little Princess

Jane Austen
    Pride and Prejudice
    Emma
    Sense and Sensibility

Charlotte Bronte
    Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte
    Wuthering Heights

Charles Dickens
    David Copperfield
    Great Expectations
    Oliver Twist
    A Tale of Two Cities

Daniel Defoe
    Robinson Crusoe

Alexandre Dumas
    The Three Musketeers
    The Count of Monte Cristo

Scott Fitzgerald
    The Great Gatsby

Ernest Hemingway
    The Old man and Sea
    A Farewell to Arms
    The Sun also Rises

Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The House of the Seven Gables
    The Scarlet Letter

Homer
    The Iliad
    The Odyssey

Victor Hugo
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Les Miserables

Harper Lee
    To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London
    Call of the Wild

Herman Melville
    Moby Dick

Lucy Maud Montgomery
    Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of the Island

Robert Louis Stevenson
    Kidnapped
    Treasure Island

George Orwell
    1984
    Animal Farm

Jonathan Swift
    Gulliver’s Travels

William Shakespeare
    Hamlet
    Remeo and Juliet
    Julius Caesar

Leo Tolstoy
    War and Peace
    Anna Karenina

Mark Twain
    The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
    The Prince and Pauper

Jules Verne
    Around the world in Eithty Days
    Journey to the Center of the Earth
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Kate Douglas Wiggin
    Rebacca of Sunnybrook Farm

H.G. Wells
    The Time Machine
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The War of the Worlds
 

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