I Love Books!
Words are powerful. Reading them can change your life. It has changed mine. An hour spent reading is never wasted - so why waste the hours when you could be listening to Audiobooks? Listen to so many classics on Librivox below, and listen to Classic Poems read by yours truly here.
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Adrian Praetzellis
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnette, read by Elizabeth Klett & Cast
Pride & Predjudice by Jane Austen, read by Karen Savage
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, read by Karen Savage
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, read by Adrian Praetzellis
Peter Pan by J.M. Barry, read by Patrick Saville
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, read by Cori Samuel
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, read by Mark Smith of Simpsonville, SC
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgeson Burnette, read by Abigail Rasmussen & Cast
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, read by Elizabeth Klett & Cast
Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, read by Karen Savage
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, read by Meredith Hughes
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, read by Stewart Wills
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, read by Mark Smith of Simpsonville, SC
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, read by John Greenman
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, read by Mark Smith of Simpsonville, SC
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, read by Mil Nicholson
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, read by Karen Savage
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These are only the ones that I and my siblings have listened to and highly recommend. Librivox is full of treasures.
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Recommended Reading List
The world of books is very wide and very full of trash. There are many gems, but it takes a lot of time to find them, unguided. That is why Reading Lists are an extremely important tool when navigating the world of literature. Please pick and choose from my favourites.
Teenage Must-Reads:
Watership Down
Where the Red Fern Grows
To Kill a Mockingbird
Shardik
The Little House Books
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Little Women
Treasure Island
The Secret Garden
The Great Escape: Tunnel to Freedom
Peace Child
The Hiding Place
Pride and Prejudice, etc.
The Grapes of Wrath
A Tale of Two Cities
Don't Read:
Emily of New Moon, etc.
Anne of the Island, etc.
Flowers for Algernon
Lord of the Flies
Redwall, etc
The Breadwinner
Pre-Teen Must-Reads:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
My Side of the Mountain
The Trumpet of the Swan
Star of Light
Three go Searching
Anne of Green Gables
The Secret Garden
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Little House Books
Pippi
Charlotte's Web
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Wrinkle in Time
Owls in the Family
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