Literature of Honor for Boys

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

37,091 members

316 reviews

½ 4.3

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3

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

24,767 members

336 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Corduroy

by Don Freeman

16,401 members

429 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,476 members

56 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Frog and Toad Together

Frog and Toad Are Friends

8,813 members

161 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,394 members

70 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

11,207 members

276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

83,857 members

1,390 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Farmer Boy

Little Town on the Prairie

11,207 members

118 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

11

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

9,881 members

78 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

12

by Gawain Poet

8,361 members

97 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

These Happy Golden Years

9,345 members

65 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

14

The First Four Years

8,239 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

15

Frog and Toad All Year

By the Shores of Silver Lake

6,340 members

55 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

16

10,000 members

67 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

17

The Long Winter

On the Banks of Plum Creek

10,658 members

97 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

18

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

11,889 members

103 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

19

Little House in the Big Woods

18,079 members

156 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

20

17,214 members

293 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

21

Days with Frog and Toad

5,198 members

75 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

3,160 members

21 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Redwall

by Brian Jacques

11,586 members

150 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

24

2,354 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

25

That Hideous Strength

8,610 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

26

Out of the Silent Planet

11,438 members

165 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

27

Perelandra

9,350 members

108 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Jungle Books

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

5,964 members

55 reviews

3.9

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29

by Alfred Lansing

5,379 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

Billy and Blaze: A Boy and His Pony

by C. W. Anderson

1,407 members

4 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

Little House on the Prairie

The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur

16,266 members

229 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

32

by Margaret Hodges

630 members

7 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

2,344 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

34

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall

5,561 members

194 reviews

½ 3.5

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35

The Village Blacksmith

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

34 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

36

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J. R. R. Tolkien

1,896 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

37

by Catherine Marshall

1,631 members

18 reviews

4

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38

Otto of the Silver Hand

by Howard Pyle

1,505 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

39

Lentil

by Robert McCloskey

1,392 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

40

The Princess and Curdie

by George MacDonald

2,314 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

41

Andy and the Lion

by James Daugherty

930 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

42

Man of the Family

The Charge of the Light Brigade

953 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: cej1027

43

Obadiah the Bold

by Brinton Turkle

517 members

5 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

44

Thy Friend, Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

981 members

6 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

45

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

71 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

5,348 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

47

by David McCullough

2,970 members

70 reviews

4.1

48

The Biggest Bear

by Lynd Ward

1,708 members

24 reviews

3.9

49

Greenmantle

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

1,447 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

50

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle

1,399 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

51

The White Company

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1,312 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

52

by G. A. Henty

1,003 members

7 reviews

4

53

The Swamp Robber

by Paul Hutchens

999 members

4 reviews

3.8

54

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter

821 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

55

Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark

by James Daugherty

802 members

3 reviews

4

56

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

by Allen French

738 members

2 reviews

4

57

Mr. Standfast

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

671 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

58

by Stephen Mansfield

640 members

2 reviews

3.9

59

The Home Ranch

604 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

60

The Three Hostages

Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt

576 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

61

by George Grant

514 members

½ 4.3

62

The Island of Sheep

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

499 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

63

by Edward Ardizzone

481 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

64

Mary Emma & Company

468 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

65

The Fields of Home

The Monkey and the Crocodile; a Jataka tale from India

464 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

66

by Paul Galdone

457 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

67

The Church Mouse

by Graham Oakley

391 members

5 reviews

4.2

68

Borden of Yale

by Mrs. Howard Taylor

378 members

4 reviews

4

69

The Dry Divide

354 members

3 reviews

4.1

70

Rachel and Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

353 members

4.1

71

Shaking the Nickel Bush

Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

332 members

3 reviews

4.1

72

by Guernsey Van Riper

298 members

1 review

4

73

Black Fox of Lorne

by Marguerite De Angeli

246 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

74

Henry the Explorer

by Mark Taylor

188 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

75

Henry the Castaway

by Mark Taylor

181 members

1 review

3.8

76

If— [poem]

William Penn: Friendly Boy

142 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

77

by Miriam E. Mason

110 members

3

78

Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall

by Helen Albee Monsell

81 members

½ 1.5

79

The Marsh King

by C. Walter Hodges

78 members

1 review

4.2

80

Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox

by William O. Steele

59 members

½ 3.7

81

Horatius At the Bridge, Text and Study Guide

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

36 members

82

The Boy Knight: 1

by G. A. Henty

7 members

83

The Boy Knight (Volume 2)

by G. A. Henty

6 members

84

Saint George and the Dragon: A Golden Legend

by Margaret Hodges

2,931 members

69 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

6,926 members

67 reviews

4

86

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Tennyson

2,646 members

17 reviews

4

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

87

by Tony Dungy

1,617 members

31 reviews

4

88

Stalky & Co.

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

890 members

14 reviews

4

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

764 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

13,526 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

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

91

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