Early Modern History Book List

Early Modern History Book List

This book list coordinates with the Early Modern History period. It includes classic literature, The Great Books, listings from different genres, audios, videos, and much more!

The Great Books List for Early Modern History

Reading and selecting The Great Books can be a challenging process and one not taken lightly. I have a very detailed post about The Great Books of Classic Literature that can help you learn more about these works and their authors.

PARENTS! A word of caution about some of these books --- please review these books or pre-read them yourselves before handing over to your child. Some of these books have very mature content that you may not want to expose them to you just yet. A good place to get a review is Goodreads and Amazon

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Meditations by Rene Descartes

Pensees by Blaise Pascal

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan - there are several versions of this book available. these are the best ones I have found - English translation, audio version, unabridged version.

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Emma by Jane Austin

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

On American Taxation by Edmund Burke

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wordsworth

Ode to a Nightingale & other poems by John Keats

Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

 

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