Roosevelt's recommended reading
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London · 1903 · 13 lists
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 12 lists
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Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 · 8 lists
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The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen · 2007 · 8 lists
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 1526 · 7 lists
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Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 2006 · 7 lists
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The Histories of Herodotus
Herodotus · 1899 · 7 lists
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The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 1994 · 7 lists
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Parallel Lives
Plutarch · 1983 · 5 lists
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 1876 · 5 lists
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 1776 · 5 lists
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 1508 · 4 lists
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Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott · 1818 · 4 lists
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 4 lists
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The Nibelungenlied
Unknown · 1962 · 4 lists
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Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 1782 · 3 lists
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Selected Poems
John Crowe Ransom · 1988 · 3 lists
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The Complete Poems
Elizabeth Bishop · 1981 · 3 lists
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Abraham Lincoln
John G. Nicolay · 1926 · 2 lists
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Chronicles
Jean Froissart · 1950 · 2 lists
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Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus · -500 · 2 lists
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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Somerville and Ross · 1899 · 2 lists
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The American Revolution
George Otto Trevelyan · 1899 · 2 lists
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Waverley
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 2 lists
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A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
John G. Nicolay · 1906 · 1 list
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Alexander the Great
Benjamin Ide Wheeler · 1848 · 1 list
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All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches
Edith Œnone Somerville · 2005 · 1 list
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Asia And Europe
Meredith Townsend · 2000 · 1 list
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Charles O'Malley
Charles James Lever · 2009 · 1 list
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Complete Irish Mythology
Lady Gregory · 2000 · 1 list
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Cross Country With Horse And Hound
Frank Sherman Peer · 1902 · 1 list
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Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster
Lady Gregory · 2022 · 1 list
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Gallops
David Gray · 1986 · 1 list
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Guy Mannering
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 1 list
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Henry IV, Part Two
William Shakespeare · 1992 · 1 list
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Henry V
William Shakespeare · 1600 · 1 list
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia
Thomas Carlyle · 1858 · 1 list
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John Ermine of the Yellowstone
Frederic Remington · 1902 · 1 list
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Les Précieuses Ridicules
Molière · 1876 · 1 list
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Lin McLean
Owen Wister · 2007 · 1 list
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Literary Essays
James Russell Lowell · 1972 · 1 list
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Marmion
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 1 list
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My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
Ben J. Viljoen · 1902 · 1 list
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Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales
Roger Lancelyn Green · 1960 · 1 list
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Ogniem i mieczem
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1890 · 1 list
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Over the Teacups
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · 1890 · 1 list
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People of the Whirlpool
Mabel Osgood Wright · 1903 · 1 list
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Philosophy 4
Owen Wister · 1999 · 1 list
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Quentin Durward
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 1 list
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Red Men and White
Owen Wister · 1895 · 1 list
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Richard II
William Shakespeare · 1597 · 1 list
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Shakespeare and Voltaire
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury · 1902 · 1 list
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Simple Life
Charles Wagner · 1942 · 1 list
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Stories and Poems from Kipling
Rudyard Kipling · 2004 · 1 list
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Stories of a Western Town
Octave Thanet · 1893 · 1 list
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Tales, Poems and Sketches
Bret Harte · 1907 · 1 list
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Tennyson's Poetry
Alfred Tennyson · 1889 · 1 list
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The Adventures of Philip
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1887 · 1 list
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The Antiquary
Sir Walter Scott · 1816 · 1 list
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The Barber of Seville
Gioachino Rossini · 1949 · 1 list
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The Benefactress
Elizabeth Von Arnim · 1901 · 1 list
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The Blazed Trail
Stewart Edward White · 1900 · 1 list
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The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop
Hamlin Garland · 1902 · 1 list
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The Claim Jumpers
Stewart Edward White · 1901 · 1 list
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm · 2016 · 1 list
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The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales
Robert Louis Stevenson · 2002 · 1 list
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris · 1955 · 1 list
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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward
Artemus Ward · 1898 · 1 list
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The Complete Works Of Michael Drayton #2
Michael Drayton · 2017 · 1 list
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The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy · 1848 · 1 list
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The Crisis
Winston Churchill · 1982 · 1 list
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The Edinburgh review: or Critical journal
Sydney Smith · 1806 · 1 list
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The Essays
Francis Bacon · 1955 · 1 list
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The Fall of the Roman Republic
Plutarch · 1994 · 1 list
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The Frogs
Aristophanes · 1 list
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The Gentleman from Indiana
Booth Tarkington · 1899 · 1 list
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The Golden Age
Kenneth Grahame · 1895 · 1 list
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The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848 · 1 list
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The Kingis Quair
James I, King of Scots · 2018 · 1 list
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The Life of Admiral de Ruyter
Petrus Johannes Blok · 1933 · 1 list
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
John Fox Jr. · 1903 · 1 list
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The Memoirs of Baron De Marbot: Late Lieutenant - General in the French Army
Jean-Baptiste de Marbot · 1893 · 1 list
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The Newcomes
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · 1 list
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The passing of Thomas
Thomas A. Janvier · 2005 · 1 list
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The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
James Fenimore Cooper · 2018 · 1 list
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The real Malay: pen pictures
Frank Athelstane Swettenham · 2018 · 1 list
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The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius · 1979 · 1 list
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The Rose And the Ring
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1964 · 1 list
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The Sebastopol Sketches
Leo Tolstoy · 1986 · 1 list
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The Virginian
Owen Wister · 1902 · 1 list
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The White Company
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 · 1 list
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Through the subarctic forest
Warburton Mayer Pike · 2018 · 1 list
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Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare · 1734 · 1 list
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Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy: With Some Account of the Conditions of Naval Warfare
Alfred Thayer Mahan · 1901 · 1 list
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Ways of Nature
John Burroughs · 2008 · 1 list
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Woman Who Toils: Being the experiences of two ladies as factory girls
Mrs. John Van Vorst · 2018 · 1 list
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Works of Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle · 2010 · 1 list
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Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln · 1888 · 1 list
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Youth, a Narrative
Joseph Conrad · 2021 · 1 list
