Improve Your Reading Skills with this Giant List of Classic Literature Casually Arranged by Grade Level!

Classic Literature, casually arranged by grade level!

The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams Bianco
Gutenberg Text

Raggedy Andy Stories
by Johnny Gruelle
Gutenberg Text

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
by Beatrix Potter
Gutenberg Text

1st to 4th grade level, read aloud to younger children, allow older children to read for themselves

Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island

Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun
by Mabel C. Hawley
Gutenberg Texts

Arthur Scott Bailey

Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon

Tale of Brownie Beaver

The Tale of Buster Bumblebee

The Tale of Cuffy Bear

The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse

The Tale of Freddie Firefly

The Tale of Frisky Squirrel

The Tale of Henrietta Hen

The Tale of Major Monkey

The Tale of Old Mr. Crow

The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels

The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk

The Tale of Tommy Fox

The Tale of Solomon Owl
Gutenberg Texts

The Tale of Timothy Turtle

The Tale of Major Monkey
Kellcraft

1st to 4th grade level, read aloud to younger children, allow older children to read for themselves

Uncle Remus

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
by Joel Chandler Harris
Gutenberg Text

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
by Joel Chandler Harris
University of Georgia Text

Uncle Wiggily & Friends

Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures

Uncle Wiggily’s Travels

Uncle Wiggily in the Woods

Sammie and Susie Littletail

Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble

Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys
by Howard R. Garis
Gutenberg Texts

2nd to 4th grade level, read aloud to younger children, allow older children to read for themselves

The Five Little Peppers

The Adventures of Joel Pepper

Five Little Peppers Abroad

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Five Little Peppers and their Friends

Five Little Peppers Grown Up

Five Little Peppers Midway
by Margaret Sidney
Gutenberg Texts
3rd to 5th grade reading level

The Bobbsey Twins

The Bobbsey Twins
Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out

Bobbsey Twins at Home

Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

The Bobbsey Twins at School

Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge

The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore

The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City

Bobbsey Twins in the Country

The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West

Bobbsey Twins in Washington

The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
by Laura Lee Hope
Gutenberg Texts

Books in Words of One Syllable

The Pilgrim’s Progess in Words of One Syllable

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable
by Mary Godolphin
All Gutenberg Text
3rd to 5th grade reading level

Black Beauty, Young Folks’ Edition
by Anna Sewell
Gutenberg Text
3rd to 5th grade reading level

Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
Illustrated Text
Also HTML at a Different Site

E. Nesbit

Five Children and It

The Railway Children

The Wouldbegoods

The Story of the Amulet
by E. Nesbit
Gutenberg Texts
4th to 6th grade reading level

Dr. Dolittle

Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

The Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
Gutenberg Texts
4th to 6th grade reading level

Lewis Carrol

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking-Glass

The Hunting of the Snark
Three Selections written by Lewis Carrol
Gutenberg Texts
4th to 6th grade reading level

Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
Gutenberg Text
4th to 6th grade reading level

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Young Folks’ Edition
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gutenberg Text
4th to 6th grade reading level

Howard Pyle

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Story of King Arthur

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

Book of Pirates
by Howard Pyle
5th grade reading level

White Fang
Jack London
Gutenberg Texts
5th grade reading level

Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
Gutenberg Text
5th grade reading level

Peter Pan
James Matthew Barrie
Gutenberg Text
5th to 6th grade reading level

Rudyard Kipling

The Kipling Reader

Captains Courageous

The Jungle Book

The Second Jungle Book

Just So Stories

Kim
One of my favorites!
by Rudyard Kipling
All Gutenberg Texts
5th to 6th grade reading level

Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Gutenberg Text
5th to 6th grade reading level

Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Tom Sawyer Detective

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
All Gutenberg Texts
5th to 6th grade reading level

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

New Chronicles of Rebecca
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
5th to 7th grade reading level

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gutenberg Text
5th to 7th grade reading level

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of the Island

Anne of Avonlea

Anne of Windy Poplars

Anne’s House of Dreams
by L. M. Montgomery
5th to 7th grade reading level

Louisa May Alcott

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Jack and Jill

Little Women

Little Men

Jo’s Boys
by Louisa May Alcott
5th to 8th grade reading level

Daniel Defoe

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

& also

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Gutenberg Text
6th grade reading level

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
by Sir James Knowles
6th grade reading level

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Sea Wolf
Jack London
Gutenberg Texts
6th to 7th grade reading level

Treasure Island
6th to 7th grade reading level

Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Many More Selections by the Same Author
6th to 8th grade reading level

The Wizard of Oz Collection
by Frank L. Baum
6th to 8th grade reading level

The Sketch-Book Of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
by Washington Irving
Including Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
Also Multiple Formats at Black Mask

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge
6th to 8th grade reading level

The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Gutenberg Text
7th grade reading level

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gutenberg Text
7th to 8th grade reading level
For more of Mr. Holmes’ adventures Click Here

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
8th grade reading level, read aloud to younger students

Gulliver’s Travels
Johnathan Swift
Gutenberg Text
8th to 9th grade reading level

Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gutenberg Texts
8th to 9th grade reading level

The Pilgrim’s Progress
by John Bunyon
Gutenberg Text
8th to 10th grade reading level

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Three Musketeers
Three Selections written by Alexandre Dumas père
All Gutenberg Texts
8th to 9th grade reading level

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gutenberg Text
8th to 10th grade reading level

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained
by John Milton
Gutenberg Text

The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gutenberg Text
9th grade reading level

The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
9th grade reading level

Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott
Gutenberg Text

The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Gutenberg Text

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo
9th grade reading level

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
by Sir John Barrow
9th grade reading level

Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Gutenberg Text
9th to 10th grade reading level

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carole

A Tale of Two Cities

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

Nicholas Nickleby

Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Gutenberg texts
9th to 10th grade reading level

Jane Austen

Pride & Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Gutenberg Texts
9th to 10th grade reading level

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Gutenberg Text

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Gutenberg Text

Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
Gutenberg Text

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gutenberg Australia

Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace
Gutenberg Text
10th grade reading level

Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Gutenberg Text
10th grade reading level

The Arabian Nights
by Andrew Lang
Gutenberg Text
unknown age level

Beowulf, several Translations
James Harrison or Lesslie Hall or Gummere
translated by James Harrison
Gutenberg Text

Beowulf
translated by H.E. Marshall
Gutenberg Text
Or Baldwin Project Text

Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
AncientTexts.org

Also

Ishtar and Izdubar (Gilgamesh)
by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
sacred texts

Le Mort d’Arthur: Volume 1 | Volume 2
by Thomas Malory, 1400 to 1470
Gutenberg Texts