Literature of Honor for Boys

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

35,913 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,816 members

330 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Corduroy

by Don Freeman

15,095 members

423 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,072 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Frog and Toad Together

Frog and Toad are Friends

8,162 members

158 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,127 members

70 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

10,541 members

263 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

80,861 members

1,371 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Farmer Boy

Little Town on the Prairie

10,558 members

115 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

11

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

9,210 members

76 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

12

by Gawain Poet

7,888 members

104 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

These Happy Golden Years

8,882 members

65 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

14

The First Four Years

8,064 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

15

Frog and Toad All Year

By the Shores of Silver Lake

5,891 members

53 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

16

9,669 members

67 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

17

The Long Winter

On the Banks of Plum Creek

10,148 members

96 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

18

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

11,253 members

103 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

19

Little House in the Big Woods

17,464 members

153 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

20

16,303 members

288 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

21

Days with Frog and Toad

4,833 members

74 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Mouse Tales

On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894

2,946 members

19 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Redwall

by Brian Jacques

11,212 members

143 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

24

2,245 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

25

That Hideous Strength

8,317 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

26

Out of the Silent Planet

11,026 members

163 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

27

Perelandra

8,838 members

106 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Jungle Books

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

5,738 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Alfred Lansing

5,098 members

125 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

Billy and Blaze: A Boy and His Pony

by C. W. Anderson

1,292 members

4 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

Little House on the Prairie

The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur

15,636 members

229 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

32

by Margaret Hodges

574 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

2,185 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

34

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall

5,405 members

189 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

35

The Village Blacksmith

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

33 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

36

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J. R. R. Tolkien

1,799 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

37

by Catherine Marshall

1,566 members

15 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

38

Otto of the Silver Hand

by Howard Pyle

1,400 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

39

Lentil

by Robert McCloskey

1,303 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

40

The Princess and Curdie

by George MacDonald

2,230 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

41

Andy and the Lion

by James Daugherty

879 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

42

Man of the Family

The Charge of the Light Brigade

901 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: cej1027

43

Obadiah the Bold

by Brinton Turkle

489 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

44

Thy Friend, Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

932 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

45

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

68 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,
Explanations: : Do what they tell you to do, no matter how stupid.

46

Captains Courageous

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

5,116 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

47

by David McCullough

2,859 members

68 reviews

4.1

48

The Biggest Bear

by Lynd Ward

1,449 members

22 reviews

3.9

49

Greenmantle

In Freedom's Cause: A Story of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce

1,406 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

50

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle

1,307 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

51

The White Company

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1,266 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

52

by G. A. Henty

937 members

7 reviews

4

53

The Swamp Robber

by Paul Hutchens

932 members

4 reviews

3.8

54

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter

790 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

55

Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark

by James Daugherty

731 members

3 reviews

4

56

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

by Allen French

672 members

2 reviews

3.9

57

Mr. Standfast

Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill

651 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

58

by Stephen Mansfield

594 members

2 reviews

3.9

59

The Home Ranch

563 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

60

The Three Hostages

Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt

562 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

61

by George Grant

488 members

½ 4.3

62

The Island of Sheep

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

485 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

63

by Edward Ardizzone

456 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

64

The Fields of Home

438 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

65

Mary Emma & Company

The Monkey and the Crocodile; a Jataka tale from India

430 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

66

by Paul Galdone

402 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

67

The Church Mouse

by Graham Oakley

370 members

5 reviews

4.2

68

Borden of Yale

by Mrs. Howard Taylor

357 members

4 reviews

3.9

69

Rachel and Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

335 members

4.1

70

The Dry Divide

332 members

3 reviews

4.1

71

Shaking the Nickel Bush

Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

311 members

3 reviews

4.1

72

by Guernsey Van Riper

285 members

1 review

4

73

Black Fox of Lorne

by Marguerite De Angeli

223 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

74

Henry the Explorer

by Mark Taylor

171 members

2 reviews

4.8

75

Henry the Castaway

by Mark Taylor

166 members

1 review

½ 4.4

76

If— [poem]

William Penn: Friendly Boy

138 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

77

by Miriam E. Mason

107 members

3

78

Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall

by Helen Albee Monsell

78 members

½ 1.5

79

The Marsh King

by C. Walter Hodges

72 members

1 review

4.2

80

Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox

by William O. Steele

56 members

½ 3.7

81

Horatius At the Bridge, Text and Study Guide

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

32 members

82

The Boy Knight (Volume 2)

by G. A. Henty

7 members

83

The Boy Knight (Volume 1)

by G. A. Henty

7 members

84

Saint George and the Dragon: A Golden Legend

by Margaret Hodges

2,867 members

70 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027,
Explanations: : Yup. Kill any animal that's in the way of human development; that's what honorable men should do.

85

The Abolition of Man

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life

6,624 members

65 reviews

4

86

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Tennyson

2,567 members

17 reviews

4

Explanations: : Sleeping with your boss's wife is honorable?

87

by Tony Dungy

1,564 members

30 reviews

4

88

Stalky & Co.

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

872 members

14 reviews

3.9

Explanations: : I love this books, but in modern terms Stalky is a bully. There's some room for discussion about why he's a bully and who he's bullying, but this isn't a clearly moral book for the 21st century.

89

by Daniel Defoe

739 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963, ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: : Taking up the white man's burden of keeping "darkies" in their place is honorable?

90

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

13,055 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Explanations: : It's honorable to marry the blonde ditz instead of the sensible Jew??

91

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