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From Richard's memoirs, recovered from his original WordPerfect files
I have always had a great love for books. Our home is literally stacked with them in nearly every room in the house. I listed books for my children to choose from to read while they were in high school. I list them here in the hope that some of my posterity will choose from the list and read several of these books while still of high school age.
1. ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS Robert Sherwood
2. ALICE ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll
3. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Erich Maria Remarque
4. THE ANCIENT MARINER Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5. ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM Margaret Landon
6. THE APOSTLE Sholem Asch
7. ARABIAN NIGHTS Andrew Lang
8. KING ARTHUR Howard Pyle
9. BAMBI Felix Salten
10. BARON MUNCHAUSEN Rudolph Raspe
11. THE BAT Mary Roberts Rinehart
12. BEN HUR Lew Wallace
13. THE BIBLE King James Authorized Version
14. BLACK ARROW Robert Louis Stevenson
15. BLACK BEAUTY Anna Sewell
16. THE BLACK HUNTER James Oliver Curwood
17. THE BLUE FLOWER Henry Van Dyke
18. THE BOOK OF MORMON LDS Church
19. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY Thornton Wilder
20. JIM BRIDGER Shannon Garst
21. BROKEN ARROW Elliot Arnold
22. PAUL BUNYAN Esther Shepherd
23. CALL OF THE WILD Jack London
24. CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE Samuel Shellabarger
25. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS Rudyard Kipling
26. A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES Robert Louis Stevenson
27. A CHRISTMAS CAROL Charles Dickens
28. COMPLETE POEMS Robert Frost
29. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT Mark Twain
30. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Alexandre Dumas
31. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
32. THE COVERED WAGON Emerson Hough
33. CRAZY HORSE Shannon Garst
34. CYRANO de BERGERAC Edmond Rostand
35. DAVID COPPERFIELD Charles Dickens
36. DAVID CROCKETT Autobiography
37. DAVID HARUM Edward Noyes Westcott
38. THE DEERSLAYER James Fenimore Cooper
39. THE DIVINE COMEDY Alighieri Dante
40. DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS LDS Church
41. ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE Miguel de Cervantes
42. DOVE IN THE EAGLE’S NEST C. N. Yonge
43. DRACULA Bram Stoker
44. DRUMS James Boyd
45. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK Walter Edmonds
46. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON P. J. Asbjornsen
47. EVANGELINE Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
48. JANE EYRE Charlotte Bronte
49. FABLES Aesop
50. FAIRY TALES Anderson
51. FAIRY TALES Grimm
52. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE Henry Van Dyke
53. FOUR FEATHERS A. E. W. Mason
54. FRANKENSTEIN Mary Shelley
55. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Carl Van Doren
56. GENGHIS KHAN Harold Lamb
57. THE GOLD BUG Edgar Allen Poe
58. GONE WITH THE WIND Margaret Mitchell
59. THE GOOD EARTH Pearl Buck
60. GREEN GRASS OF WYOMING Mary O’Hara
61. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Jonathan Swift
62. HANS BRINKER Mary Mapes Dodge
63. HEIDI Johanna Spyri
64. HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER Edward Eggleston
65. HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES Nathaniel Hawthorne
66. HUCKLEBERRY FINN Mark Twain
67. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Victor Hugo
68. THE ILIAD Homer
69. THE INVISIBLE MAN H. G. Wells
70. IVANHOE Walter Scott
71. THE JUNGLE BOOK Rudyard Kipling
72. JUST SO STORIES Rudyard Kipling
73. KIDNAPPED Robert Louis Stevenson
74. LAST DAYS OF POMPEII Bulwer-Lytton
75. KING SOLOMON’S MINES H. Rider Haggard
76. LAST OF THE MOHICANS James Fenimore Cooper
77. LEAVES OF GRASS Walt Whitman
78. LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW Washington Irving
79. LES MISERABLES Victor Hugo
80. LIFE WITH FATHER Clarence Day
81. LITTLE BLACK SAMBO Helen Bannerman
82. LITTLE MEN Louisa May Alcott
83. LITTLE WOMEN Louisa May Alcott
84. LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME John Fox, Jr.
85. LIVES Plutarch.
86. LORNA DOONE Richard Blackmore
87. MARY Sholem Asch
88. MAUD MILLER John Greenleaf Whittier
89. MEN OF IRON Howard Pyle
90. MERCHANT OF VENICE William Shakespeare
91. MOBY DICK Herman Melville
92. MY FRIEND FLICKA Mary O’Hara
93. THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Jules Verne
94. NAPOLEON Emil Ludwig
95. THE NAZARENE Sholem Asch
96. NORTHWEST PASSAGE Kenneth Roberts
97. THE ODYSSEY Homer
98. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA Ernest Hemingway
99. OLIVER TWIST Charles Dickens
100. THE OREGON TRAIL Frances Parkman
101. ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES Charles Darwin
102. THE OTHER WISE MAN Henry Van Dyke
103. OUTLINE OF HISTORY H. G. Wells
104. PARADISE LOST John Milton
105. THE PATHFINDER James Fenimore Cooper
106. PEARL OF GREAT PRICE LDS Church
107. PENROD Booth Tarkington
108. PENROD AND SAM Booth Tarkington
109. PETER PAN James M. Barrie
110. TALE OF PETER RABBIT Beatrix Potter
111. PICKWICK PAPERS Charles Dickens
112. PILGRIMS PROGRESS John Bunyan
113. ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO Carlo Collodi
114. THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM James Oliver Curwood
115. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD Robert Louis Stevenson
116. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Jane Austen
117. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER Mark Twain
118. QUO VADIS Henryk Sienkiewicz
119. RAMONA Helen Hunt Jackson
120. THE RAVEN Edgar Allen Poe
121. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM Kate Douglas Wiggin
122. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE Thomas Hardy
123. RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving
124. THE ROBE Lloyd C. Douglas
125. ROBIN HOOD Howard Pyle
126. ROBINSON CRUSOE Daniel Defoe
127. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Henry Pringle
128. RUBAIYAT Omar Khayyam
129. RUGGLES OF RED GAP Harry Wilson
130. SAND Will James
131. SCARAMOUCHE Rafael Sabatini
132. THE SCARLET LETTER Nathaniel Hawthorne
133. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Emmuska Orczy
134. THE SEA AROUND US Rachel Carson
135. THE SEA HAWK Rafael Sabatini
136. THE SEA WOLF Jack London
137. SEVENTEEN Booth Tarkington
138. SHE H. Rider Haggard
139. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Oliver Goldsmith
140. ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Arthur Conan Doyle
141. SHOWBOAT Edna Ferber
142. SILAS MARNER George Eliot
143. SMOKY Will James
144. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
145. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTRY Carey McWilliams
146. THE SPOILERS Rex Beach
147. THE SPY James Fenimore Cooper
148. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE R. L. Stevenson
149. SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON Johann R. Wyss
150. TALE OF TWO CITIES Charles Dickens
151. THE TALISMAN Walter Scott
152. THE THREE MUSKETEERS Alexandre Dumas
153. TOM SAWYER Mark Twain
154. THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE John Fox, Jr.
155. TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO Autobiography
156. TREASURE ISLAND Robert Louis Stevenson
157. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Lewis Carroll
158. THUNDER HEAD Mary O’Hara
159. THE TURN OF THE SCREW Henry James
160. TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA Jules Verne
161. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Richard Dana
162. UNCLE REMUS Joel Chandler Harris
163. VANITY FAIR William Thackeray
164. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD Oliver Goldsmith
165. THE VIRGINIAN Owen Wister
166. THE WANDERING JEW Eugene Sue
167. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS H. G. Wells
168. WESTWARD HO! Charles Kingsley
169. THE WIZARD OF OZ Frank L. Baum
170. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Kenneth Grahame
171. WINNIE THE POOH A. A. Milne
172. WUTHERING HEIGHTS Emily Bronte
173. THE YEARLING Marjorie Rawlings