Eighth Grade Reading Lists
Here is the recommended reading list for eighth graders. Make sure to provide your children with plenty of anthologies, biographies, history, and poetry.
The list begins with some of the most famous poets that your eighth grader should be familiar with.
1. Emily Dickinson
2. Robert Browning
3. Thomas Macaulay
4. Horace
5. Edgar Allen Poe
6. Rudyard Kipling
7. Robert Frost
8. George Herbert
9. Shakespeare
10. Tales, Washington Irving
11. Van Loon’s Geography, Hendrick Willem Van Loon
12. Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt
13. Life of Christopher Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel E. Morison
14. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
15. Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
16. A Daughter of the Land, Stratton-Porter
17. At the Foot of the Rainbow, Stratton-Porter
18. The Two Admirals, James Fenimore Cooper
19. The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper
20. The Ways of the Hour, James Fenimore Cooper
21. St. Bartholomew’s Eve, G.A. Henty
22. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
23. Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, James Fenimore Cooper
24. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
25. Best Novels and Stories, Eugene Rhodes
26. Lady or the Tiger, Frank Stockton
27. Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
28. Barnaby Ridge, Charles Dickens
29. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
30. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
31. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
32. The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper
33. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Doyle
34. Johnny Tremain, Ester Forbes
35. April Morning, Howard Fast
36. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest Gaines
37. Beauty, Robin McKinley
38. Boy Alone, Reginald Ottley
39. Call of the Canyon, Zane Gray
40. Cho0sen, Chaim Potok
41. Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters
42. Devil in Print, Mary Drewery
43. Giants in the Earth, O.E. Rolvaag
44. Hawk that Dare Not Hunt by Day, Scott O’Dell
45. Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
46. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
47. Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
48. Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
49. Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
50. Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas