List and Links to Classical Titles

Ancients 5000 b.C. -A.D. 400
The Bible
Homer- The Trojan Horse
Homer - The Odyssey
Greek and Roman Myths - Theseus and Minotaur
Greek and Roman Myths - The Olympians
Greek and Roman Myths - Cyclops
Persephone Myth - The Pomegrante Seeds Geringer Laura
Greek and Roman Myths - Perseus
Read various GReek and Roman Myths
Aesop's Fables
Plato
Aristotle
Egyptian Myths
Indian Folktales
African Folktales
Confucius
Chinese and Japanese folktales
Ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry
Cicero
Virgil
English, Irish, Welsh fairy Tales
Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones

Medieval/Early Renaissance (400-1600)
Saint Augustine
beowulf
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight
Canterberry Tales
The Fairie Queene - Saint George and the Dragon
William Shakespeare
Dante, The Inferno
Morte d'Arthur - Knights of the Round Table
Erasmus
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas More
John Knox
Rene Descartes

LAte Renaissance/Early Modern (1600-1850)
John Milton
French Fairy Tales Charles Perrault
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Johnathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
John bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame, LEs Miserables
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
William blake, Songs of Innocense
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Elizabeth barrett browning
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales
Charles Dickens
Edward Lear
Christina Rossetti
LEwis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Mark Twain
James Fenimore Cooper
Jules Verne
Norwegian folktales
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Modern, 1850-Present
 Robert Lewis Stevenson
Arthur Conan Doyle
Johanna Spyri
Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
H.G. Wells
Louisa May Alcott
Andrew Lang
Frances Hodgson burnett
Kenneth Grahme, The Wind in the Willows
James barrie, PEter PAn
Rudyard Kipling
beatrix Potter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Walter de la Mare
Carl Sandburg
John Ciardi
T.S. Elliot

Links to Classic Stories to Read or Listen for Grades PreK - K

Read (You may also listen to these):

Velveteen Rabbit 

Raggedy Ann Stories

 

Beatrix potter

Listen (You may also read these):

 

Peter Pan

Jungle book 1

Jungle book 2

Just So Stories

 

The Princess and Curdie

Works of Edith Nesbit

Lang's Fairy books