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Sixty-three great books in the Commonplace Edition, all available for delivery beginning June 2027. Each shows the grades where schools most often read it. Choose the books that fit your reading list.
63 titles
Grades 5 and 6 where these are most often read
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a country where she grows and shrinks, and where every creature she meets argues by rules of its own.
Grades 4–1088 pages
Black Beauty
A horse tells his own life, from a good master’s meadow to the cab ranks of London, and shows what kindness and cruelty look like from the other end of the reins.
Grades 3–7210 pages
Heidi
A five-year-old orphan is left with her grandfather on an Alpine pasture, and is later taken to a rich house in Frankfurt to keep company with a girl who cannot walk.
Grades 4–7238 pages
The Jungle Book
Seven stories and their songs: Mowgli raised by wolves and taught the Law of the Jungle, Rikki-tikki-tavi in a garden in India, and the white seal looking for a safe beach.
Grades 4–7130 pages
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood and his yeomen in Sherwood Forest, from Little John’s fight on the bridge to the golden arrow at Nottingham Town.
Grades 4–7288 pages
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox, orphaned in India and sent to a cold house on the Yorkshire moor, finds the key to a garden that has been locked for ten years.
Grades 4–7228 pages
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle tells how Arthur drew the sword from the anvil and won Excalibur, and follows Sir Pellias and Sir Gawaine through their adventures.
Grades 4–8300 pages
Tales from Shakespeare
Charles and Mary Lamb retell twenty of Shakespeare’s plays as stories for young readers, keeping as much of his own language as they could.
Grades 4–9254 pages
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer whitewashes a fence, runs off to be a pirate, sees a murder in the graveyard at midnight, and has to decide whether to speak.
Grades 5–9232 pages
Anne of Green Gables
The Cuthberts of Green Gables send for an orphan boy to help on the farm, and an eleven-year-old girl with red hair and a great deal to say is waiting at the station instead.
Grades 5–8292 pages
The Call of the Wild
Buck, a big dog stolen from a judge’s estate in California, is sold to haul sleds in the Klondike and learns to live by the law of club and fang.
Grades 5–984 pages
A Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, and then by three spirits who show him his own life.
Grades 5–982 pages
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A baronet is found dead on Dartmoor with the prints of a gigantic hound near his body, and Holmes sends Watson ahead to watch over the heir.
Grades 5–9166 pages
Kidnapped
Newly orphaned, David Balfour goes to claim his inheritance, is kidnapped onto a ship by his uncle, and escapes across the Highlands with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.
Grades 5–8220 pages
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead seaman’s chest and sails for the island with a ship’s cook named Long John Silver.
Grades 5–7222 pages
The Wind in the Willows
Mole leaves his spring-cleaning for the river bank, where he finds friends in the Water Rat, the Badger and the reckless Mr. Toad of Toad Hall.
Grades 4–8158 pages
Grades 7 and 8 where these are most often read
Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of a millionaire, falls off a liner and is pulled aboard a Gloucester fishing schooner, where he works for his keep through a season on the Grand Banks.
Grades 6–8152 pages
Julius Caesar
Brutus joins the plot to kill Caesar for the sake of Rome, and then has to answer for it to Antony, to Cassius and to himself.
Grades 7–11108 pages
Little Women
Four sisters grow up in a New England house while their father is away at the war, with little money, a good mother, and one another’s faults to live with.
Grades 6–9504 pages
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Four young lovers run into a wood outside Athens on the night the fairy king and queen are at odds, and a weaver named Bottom is rehearsing a play there.
Grades 7–1086 pages
The Prince and the Pauper
Edward Tudor and Tom Canty, born on the same day in London, trade clothes as a game and then cannot trade back.
Grades 6–8212 pages
The Red Badge of Courage
A young Union soldier waits to learn whether he will run in his first battle, and then has to live with the answer.
Grades 6–9150 pages
Robinson Crusoe
A young man who would not stay home is wrecked alone on an island and spends twenty-eight years making a life there from what he can save and what he can make.
Grades 5–12276 pages
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A London lawyer looks into his friend Dr Jekyll’s strange will and the brutal man named Hyde who seems to hold some power over him.
Grades 6–1178 pages
Beowulf
Beowulf crosses the sea to free the Danish king’s hall from the monster Grendel, fights Grendel’s mother in her lake, and at the end of a long reign meets a dragon.
Grades 7–12150 pages
Gulliver’s Travels
A ship’s surgeon makes four voyages: to a people six inches tall, to a land of giants, to a flying island, and to a country governed by horses.
Grades 8–11290 pages
Ivanhoe
A disinherited knight comes home from the Crusades to an England split between Saxon and Norman, with a tournament at Ashby and a siege at Torquilstone.
Grades 7–9492 pages
The Merchant of Venice
Antonio borrows three thousand ducats from Shylock for a friend, with a pound of his own flesh as the forfeit, and the bond comes due.
Grades 7–10100 pages
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Christian leaves the City of Destruction with a burden on his back and walks toward the Celestial City, by way of the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair and Doubting Castle.
Grades 6–11150 pages
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A green knight rides into Arthur’s hall at Christmas and offers to take a blow from any knight who will take one back in a year; Sir Gawain accepts, and must go and find him.
Grades 7–1158 pages
The Song of Roland
Betrayed by his stepfather Ganelon, Roland commands Charlemagne’s rearguard at Roncevaux and will not sound his horn for help until it is too late.
Grades 7–10132 pages
Grades 9 and 10 where these are most often read
The Aeneid
Aeneas carries his father out of burning Troy and sails west, by way of Carthage and its queen, to found the people who will become Rome.
Grades 7–12230 pages
The Apology of Socrates
Socrates answers the charges of impiety and of corrupting the young before an Athenian jury, and is sentenced to death.
Grades 7–1134 pages
The House of Atreus
Agamemnon comes home from Troy and is killed by his wife; his son Orestes avenges him and is hunted by the Furies until Athens judges the case.
Grades 7–11142 pages
The Iliad
In the tenth year of the war at Troy, Achilles quarrels with Agamemnon and withdraws from the fighting, and the Greeks pay for it.
Grades 7–12358 pages
The Odyssey
Odysseus spends ten years getting home from Troy while his son grows up and strangers eat his house bare.
Grades 7–12284 pages
Plutarch’s Lives
Twelve lives of lawgivers, generals and statesmen, from Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens to Caesar, Cicero and Brutus.
Grades 7–12486 pages
Romeo and Juliet
The son and daughter of two feuding houses in Verona marry in secret, and the feud closes in on them within a few days.
Grades 8–11122 pages
The Theban Plays
Oedipus searches for the murderer of the old king of Thebes and finds that he is the man; the other two plays follow the blind Oedipus to Colonus and his daughter Antigone to her death for burying her brother.
Grades 9–11168 pages
Confessions
Augustine tells God the story of his own life, from a stolen pear in boyhood to the garden in Milan where he heard a child’s voice say “take up and read.”
Grades 8–12256 pages
Crime and Punishment
A poor former student in St. Petersburg kills an old pawnbroker to prove a theory about extraordinary men, and then has to live inside what he has done.
Grades 10–12546 pages
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Lost in a dark wood in the middle of his life, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down through the circles of Hell.
Grades 8–12170 pages
Frankenstein
A young scientist builds a living creature from the dead and runs from it the moment it opens its eyes. An explorer hears the whole story on the Arctic ice.
Grades 9–12214 pages
Henry V
The young king who had been Prince Hal of the taverns invades France and leads a small, sick army at Agincourt.
Grades 6–11122 pages
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters and no son to inherit, and a rich young man has just taken the house at Netherfield.
Grades 8–12382 pages
The Prince
Machiavelli writes to a Medici prince on how states are won and held, drawing on the kings, popes and soldiers of his own Italy.
Grades 10–12110 pages
A Tale of Two Cities
A French doctor is freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, and his daughter and the men who love her are drawn into the Revolution.
Grades 8–11404 pages
Grades 11 and 12 where these are most often read
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn escapes his father and rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, who is running from slavery, and has to decide what he owes him.
Grades 8–12302 pages
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway rents a small house on Long Island next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, who gives enormous parties for a woman across the bay.
Grades 9–12142 pages
Hamlet
The ghost of the king of Denmark tells his son that he was murdered by his brother, who now wears the crown and has married the queen.
Grades 8–12154 pages
Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships out of Nantucket on the whaler Pequod, whose captain has lost a leg to a white whale and means to kill it.
Grades 10–12690 pages
My Ántonia
Jim Burden remembers his Nebraska boyhood and the Bohemian girl, Ántonia Shimerda, whose family came west on the same train he did.
Grades 9–11262 pages
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass’s own account of his childhood and youth in slavery in Maryland, how he learned to read, and how he came to be free, written seven years after his escape.
Grades 9–11106 pages
The Scarlet Letter
In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne stands on the scaffold with a scarlet A on her breast and will not name the father of her child.
Grades 9–12226 pages
Walden; and Civil Disobedience
Thoreau’s account of the two years he lived in a cabin he built himself beside Walden Pond, with the essay on why he went to jail sooner than pay a tax.
Grades 9–12284 pages
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer and his schoolmates enlist together at their teacher’s urging, and at nineteen learn what the Western Front makes of them.
Grades 10–12174 pages
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky’s last novel: a father and his three very different sons, and the quarrel over money and love that divides them.
Grade 12960 pages
The Consolation of Philosophy
Imprisoned and condemned, the Roman statesman Boethius is visited by Philosophy in the form of a woman, who asks him what he thinks Fortune has taken from him.
Grades 9–11176 pages
Discourse on the Method
Descartes tells how he resolved to doubt everything he had been taught, and what he found he could not doubt.
Grade 1266 pages
Macbeth
Three witches tell a Scottish general he will be king, and he and his wife decide not to wait.
Grades 8–1298 pages
Paradise Lost
Milton’s poem of the fall of the rebel angels and the fall of Adam and Eve, written to “justify the ways of God to men.”
Grades 10–12292 pages
The Republic
Socrates and his companions try to say what justice is, and to find it they build a city in speech.
Grades 9–12324 pages
The Social Contract
Rousseau asks how people can live under laws and still be free, and answers with a contract in which each gives himself to all.
Grades 9–12180 pages
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