Literature of Honor for Boys

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

40,122 members

330 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,667 members

365 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Corduroy

by Don Freeman

19,591 members

455 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by J. R. R. Tolkien

10,550 members

62 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Frog and Toad Together

Frog and Toad Are Friends

10,739 members

169 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

5,046 members

82 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

13,412 members

292 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

93,482 members

1,506 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Farmer Boy

Little Town on the Prairie

12,647 members

125 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

11

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

11,068 members

87 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

12

by Gawain Poet

9,232 members

107 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

These Happy Golden Years

10,430 members

79 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

14

The First Four Years

9,217 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

15

Frog and Toad All Year

By the Shores of Silver Lake

7,463 members

63 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

16

12,083 members

77 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

17

The Long Winter

On the Banks of Plum Creek

11,952 members

110 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

18

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

13,301 members

112 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

19

Little House in the Big Woods

19,829 members

165 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

20

19,388 members

305 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

21

Days with Frog and Toad

6,412 members

81 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

3,612 members

21 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Redwall

by Brian Jacques

12,667 members

157 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

24

2,601 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

25

That Hideous Strength

9,369 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

26

Out of the Silent Planet

12,492 members

184 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

27

Perelandra

10,176 members

118 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Jungle Books

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

6,668 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Alfred Lansing

6,219 members

153 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

Billy and Blaze: A Boy and His Pony

by C. W. Anderson

1,597 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

Little House on the Prairie

The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur

18,048 members

239 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

32

by Margaret Hodges

741 members

8 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

2,634 members

24 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: cej1027

34

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall

5,972 members

205 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

35

The Village Blacksmith

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

37 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

36

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J. R. R. Tolkien

2,133 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

37

by Catherine Marshall

1,774 members

19 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

38

Otto of the Silver Hand

by Howard Pyle

1,697 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

39

Lentil

by Robert McCloskey

1,538 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

40

The Princess and Curdie

by George MacDonald

2,524 members

24 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

41

Andy and the Lion

by James Daugherty

1,046 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

42

Man of the Family

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1,066 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: cej1027

43

Obadiah the Bold

by Brinton Turkle

576 members

5 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

44

Thy Friend, Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

1,087 members

7 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

45

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

81 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

5,661 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

47

by David McCullough

3,289 members

75 reviews

4.1

48

The Biggest Bear

by Lynd Ward

1,901 members

25 reviews

3.9

49

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle

1,554 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

50

Greenmantle

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

1,538 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

51

The White Company

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1,439 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

52

The Swamp Robber

by Paul Hutchens

1,167 members

5 reviews

3.8

53

by G. A. Henty

1,127 members

7 reviews

4

54

Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark

by James Daugherty

939 members

5 reviews

4.1

55

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter

886 members

8 reviews

3.8

56

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

by Allen French

851 members

4 reviews

4

57

Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill (Leaders in Action Series)

by Stephen Mansfield

745 members

2 reviews

3.9

58

Mr. Standfast

724 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

59

The Home Ranch

673 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

60

The Three Hostages

Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt

618 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

61

by George Grant

583 members

1 review

½ 4.3

62

The Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jataka Tale from India

by Paul Galdone

531 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

63

The Island of Sheep

530 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

64

The Fields of Home

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

526 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

65

by Edward Ardizzone

526 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

66

Mary Emma & Company

521 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

67

Borden of Yale

by Mrs. Howard Taylor

434 members

4 reviews

3.8

68

The Church Mouse

by Graham Oakley

429 members

8 reviews

4.2

69

The Dry Divide

398 members

4 reviews

4.1

70

Rachel and Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

397 members

4.1

71

Shaking the Nickel Bush

Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

370 members

4 reviews

4.1

72

by Guernsey Van Riper

346 members

1 review

4

73

Black Fox of Lorne

by Marguerite De Angeli

283 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

74

Henry the Explorer

by Mark Taylor

223 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

75

Henry the Castaway

by Mark Taylor

201 members

1 review

3.8

76

If— [poem]

William Penn: Friendly Boy

178 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

77

by Miriam E. Mason

117 members

3

78

Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall

by Helen Albee Monsell

92 members

½ 1.5

79

The Marsh King

by C. Walter Hodges

85 members

1 review

4.2

80

Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox

by William O. Steele

69 members

½ 3.7

81

Horatius At the Bridge, Text and Study Guide

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

38 members

82

The Boy Knight: 1

by G. A. Henty

8 members

83

The Boy Knight (Volume 2)

by G. A. Henty

7 members

84

Saint George and the Dragon: A Golden Legend

by Margaret Hodges

3,692 members

71 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

7,823 members

71 reviews

4.1

86

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Tennyson

2,901 members

18 reviews

4

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

87

by Tony Dungy

1,752 members

32 reviews

4.1

88

Stalky & Co.

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

948 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

839 members

9 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 Walter Scott

14,948 members

138 reviews

½ 3.7

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

91

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