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 … Continue reading →