Recordings of Books on the Ambleside List 2
Introduction
Listeners have requested a list of LibriVox recordings of books recommended by Ambleside Online for use with homeschooling. Anyone looking for audio books for children will find plenty of ideas on this page.
This is the second part, covering Years 5 - 8. Part 1, covering years 0 - 4 may be found here. The third part, covering Year 9, is here. The fourth part, covering Year 10, is here. The fifth part, covering Year 11, is here.
The lists here only include books on the main booklists on Ambleside Online, not the various personal recommendations. If you would like to browse all LibriVox recordings of books, stories and poems for children, please follow this link for fiction and this link for non-fiction.
Please note that many books on the Ambleside list are not in the Public Domain, and are therefore not available to record for LibriVox.
Booklist for Year 5
LibriVox recordings
The Bible
The Bible
Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version. For recordings of all versions, please see this search.
History
This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall.
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon.
An Island Story Part 1 and An Island Story Part 2 by H. E. Marshall.
Natural History/Science
The Fairy-land of Science by Arabella Buckley.
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. This recording includes Part I, The Teaching of Nature-Study and Part II, Animal Life, Chapter I, Bird Study. Recording of Part 2 is in progress. Part II: Animal Study includes Chapter II: Fish Study, Chapter III: Batrachian Study, Chapter IV: Reptile Study, and Chapter V: Mammal Study.
Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley.
Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball.
Wild Animals I have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.
New! School of the Woods by William J. Long.
Poetry
All recordings of poems by Rudyard Kipling.
Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
All recordings of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
All recordings of poems by John Greenleaf Whittier.
All recordings of poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
See also Poems Every Child Should Know edited by Mary E. Burt.
Literature
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
Additional Books for Free Reading
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling.
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit.
The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Other Anne of Avonlea books by Lucy Maud Montgomery:
Related books by Lucy Maud Montgomery:.
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune.
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle.
Not in the Public Domain
Abraham Lincoln's World (1941) by Genevieve Foster.
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age (2005) by Susan Wise Bauer.
What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century: 200 Events That Shaped the World (1995) by Alan Axelrod, Charles Phillips.
A Child's History of the World (1997) by Virgil Hillyer
Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (1999) by Richard Hannula.
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark (2008) by James Daugherty.
Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter (2003) by Miriam Huffman Rockness.
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt (1996) by George Grant.
Explore the Holy Land (2008) by Ann Voskamp.
Book of Marvels: The Occident (1937) by Richard Halliburton.
Second Book of Marvels: The Orient (1938) by Richard Halliburton.
A Child's Geography of the World (1951) by Virgil Hillyer.
Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 5 (2007) by Worthington Hooker.
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store (1996) by Robert Friedhoffer.
Exploring Creation With . . . series (2004-2016) by Jeannie Fulbright.
Always Inventing (1999) by Tom L. Matthews.
The Talking wire: the story of Alexander Graham Bell (1963) by O.J. Stevenson.
All the biographies of George Washington Carver that I've found.
All the recommended Mathematics books.
Little Town on the Prairie (1941) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Long Winter (1940) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
These Happy Golden Years (1943) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The First Four Years (1971) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics (1978) by Charles Ludwig.
The Story of Inventions (1992) by Michael J. McHugh and Frank P. Bachman
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (1965) by Jean Lee Latham.
Rifles for Watie (1957) by Harold Keith.
Across Five Aprils (1964) by Irene Hunt.
Falcons of France (1929) by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall.
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1934) by James Hilton.
Anne of Ingleside (1939) by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Booklist for Year 6
LibriVox recordings
The Bible
The Bible
Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version. For recordings of all versions, please see this search.
History
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon.
Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber.
New! Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber.
Natural History/Science
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. This recording includes Part I, The Teaching of Nature-Study and Part II, Animal Life, Chapter I, Bird Study. Recording of Part 2 is in progress. Part II: Animal Study includes Chapter II: Fish Study, Chapter III: Batrachian Study, Chapter IV: Reptile Study, and Chapter V: Mammal Study.
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by Thomas Henry Huxley.
Poetry
A Boy’s Will by Robert Frost.
Selected Poems by Robert Frost.
All recordings of poems by Robert Frost.
All recordings of poems by Carl Sandburg.
All recordings of poems by Alfred Noyes.
Literature
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch.
The Iliad by Homer.
Additional Books for Free Reading
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott.
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott.
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss.
Call of the Wild by Jack London.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
Penrod by Booth Tarkington.
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
New! Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang.
A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long.
In the Public Domain, but not yet recorded
The Story of David Livingstone by Vautier Golding. Text on the Baldwin Project.
Not in the Public Domain
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age (2006) by Susan Wise Bauer.
A Child's History of the World (1997) by Virgil Hillyer.
What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century: 200 Events That Shaped the World (1995) by Alan Axelrod, Charles Phillips.
Augustus Caesar's World (1975) by Genevieve Foster.
Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (1999) by Richard Hannula.
Genesis, Finding Our Roots (1997) by Ruth Beechick.
Never give in: the extraordinary character of Winston Churchill (1995) by Stephen Mansfield.
The Sea Around Us (2011) by Rachael Carson.
It Couldn't Just Happen (1989) by Lawrence Richards
Secrets of the Universe: Discovering the Universal Laws of Science (1987) by Paul Fleisher.
The Boy Scientist (1955) by John Bryan Llewellyn.
Exploring Creation With . . . series by Jeannie Fulbright.
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity (1987) by Robert Cwiklik.
Archimedes and the Door of Science (1962) by Jeanne Bendick.
Galileo and the Magic Numbers (1958) by Sidney Rosen.
All the recommended Mathematics books.
The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell.
Black Ships before Troy (1993) by Rosemary Sutcliff.
Where the Red Fern Grows (1961) by Wilson Rawls.
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (1968) by Esther Hautzig.
Winged Watchman (1962) by Hilda Van Stockum.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) by Mildred D. Taylor.
Blue Willow (1940) by Doris Gates.
Miracles on Maple Hill (1957) by Virginia Sorensen.
Letters from Rifka (1992) by Karen Hesse.
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador (1960) by Russel T. Hitt.
The Von Trapp Family Singers (2002) by Maria Von Trapp.
Snow Treasure (1942) by Marie McSwigan.
Number the Stars (1989) by Lois Lowry.
The Ark (1953) by Margot Benary-Isbert.
The Bronze Bow (1962) by Elizabeth Speare.
God's Smuggler (1967) by Brother Andrew.
Booklist for Pre-7
Suggested reading for those entering Year 7 without first covering Ambleside Online Years 1-6.
LibriVox recordings
History
Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber.
New! Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber.
Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb.
Poetry: see previous years.
Literature
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch.
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
Free Reading
Aesop's Fables.
Fairy books by Andrew Lang.
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Jungle Book Books 1 and 2, by Rudyard Kipling.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling.
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling.
The House of Arden by Edith Nesbit.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Other Anne of Avonlea books by Lucy Maud Montgomery:
Related books by Lucy Maud Montgomery:.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott.
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott.
The Iliad by Homer.
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott.
Penrod by Booth Tarkington.
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney.
Heidi by Joanna Spyri.
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge.
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit.
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit.
The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit.
New! Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle.
Not in the Public Domain
Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (1999) by Richard Hannula.
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age (2005) by Susan Wise Bauer.
Augustus Caesar's World (1975) by Genevieve Foster.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) series by C.S. Lewis.
The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell.
Black Ships before Troy (1993) by Rosemary Sutcliff.
Oxford Book of Children's Verse (1951) by Iona and Peter Opie.
When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927) by A. A. Milne.
Abraham Lincoln's World (1944) by Genevieve Foster.
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark (2008) by James Daugherty.
Charlotte's Web (1952) by E.B. White.
Little House (1932-1943) series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Poor Richard (1958) by James Daugherty.
Elizabeth Enright books.
The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton.
Booklist for Year 7
LibriVox recordings
The Bible
Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version. For recordings of all versions, please see this search.
Suggested Devotional reading
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. Text on Project Gutenberg.
History
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Magna Carta.
In Freedom's Cause by G. A. Henty.
Biographies
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain.
The Life of Alfred the Great by Asser.
Citizenship
Plutarch's Lives. N.B. This is the Bernadotte Perrin translation.
Literature
All completed recordings of plays, monologues and sonnets by William Shakespeare.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The version read here was edited by D. Laing Purves “for popular perusal” in 1870 and the language is mostly updated. Purves left nearly all Latin quotations untranslated; the Project Gutenberg transcriber notes that he translated them "as well as he could".
The Chaucer Story Book by Eva Tappan.
Poetry
Beauties of Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
All completed recordings of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
John Keats: Selected Poems by John Keats, including The Eve of St. Agnes.
All completed recordings of poems by John Keats.
Science
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. This recording includes Part I, The Teaching of Nature-Study and Part II, Animal Life, Chapter I, Bird Study. Recording of Part 2 is in progress. Part II: Animal Study includes Chapter II: Fish Study, Chapter III: Batrachian Study, Chapter IV: Reptile Study, and Chapter V: Mammal Study.
The Life of the Spider by Henri Fabre.
Free Reading
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.
Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch.
The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Beowulf Translated by Francis Barton Gummere.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Völsungasaga by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris.
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott.
Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington.
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Alhambra by Washington Irving.
Saints and Heros vol 1 and vol 2 by George Hodges.
The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott.
New! Rolf and The Viking Bow by Allen French.
In the Public Domain, but not yet recorded
English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Oxford Book of English Verse by another name) Text on Project Gutenberg.
The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp Book scan on Internet Archive.
Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Count Robert of Paris by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Castle Dangerous by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg.
The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg. In Progress
Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott. Book scan on Internet Archive.
Feats on the Fiord by Harriet Martineau. Text on Project Gutenberg.
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson Text on Project Gutenberg.
A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Not in the Public Domain
Mere Christianity (1952) by C.S. Lewis.
More Than a Carpenter (1977) by Josh McDowell.
The Pursuit of Holiness (2006) by Jerry Bridges.
The Birth of Britain (1956) by Winston Churchill.
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey.
History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (1943) by William of Tyre (English Translation may not be in the Public Domain).
The Brendan Voyage (1980) by Tim Severin.
How the Heather Looks (1965) by Joan Bodger.
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy (1989) by Richard Maybury.
The Once and Future King (1958) by T. H. White.
Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams.
A Taste of Chaucer (1964) by Anne Malcolmson.
Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar (2004) by Nancy Wilson.
Jensen's Grammar.
The Grammar of Poetry (2000) by Matt Whitling.
Most of the recommended Science books, and all the Mathematics ones.
The books of Edwin Way Teale.
How To Read a Book (1972) by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.
The Story of Painting (1952) by H. W. Janson.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1983) by Paul Brand.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (1937-1949) by J.R.R. Tolkein (The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).
When the Tripods Came (1988); The White Mountains (1967); City of Gold and Lead (1967); and Pool of Fire (1968) by John Christopher.
The Pushcart War (1964) by Jean Merrill.
The Knight's Fee (2008) by Rosemary Sutcliff.
The Gammage Cup (1959) by Carol Kendall.
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales.
Booklist for Year 8
LibriVox recordings
The Bible
The Bible
Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version. For recordings of all versions, please see this search.
History
Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnston.
Speeches
Queen Elizabeth's Farewell Speech
Death's Duel by John Donne.
Biographies
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement by William Bradford.
The Life of Dr. (John) Donne by Izaak Walton.
Citizenship
Plutarch's Lives. N.B. This is the Bernadotte Perrin translation.
Utopia by Sir Thomas More.
A number of essays by Francis Bacon
Literature
All completed recordings of plays and monologues of William Shakespeare.
Everyman, a Morality Play
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.
The Holy War by John Bunyan.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys.
Poetry
A number of recordings of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Poetry of John Donne.
Poetry of George Herbert.
Poetry of John Milton.
Science
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. This recording includes Part I, The Teaching of Nature-Study and Part II, Animal Life, Chapter I, Bird Study. Recording of Part 2 is in progress. Part II: Animal Study includes Chapter II: Fish Study, Chapter III: Batrachian Study, Chapter IV: Reptile Study, and Chapter V: Mammal Study.
New! Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball.
Free Reading
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott.
All recordings of works by Sir Walter Scott.
Don Quixote by Cervantes.
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter.
The House of Arden by E. Nesbit.
Harding's Luck by E. Nesbit.
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore.
To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston.
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton.
Saints and Heros vol 1 and vol 2 by George Hodges.
Stories of Don Quixote by James Baldwin.
All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy by ohn Dryden.
In the Public Domain, but not yet recorded
Martin Luther: Excerpts from his account of the confrontation at the Diet of Worms (1521). Text at Kansas State University
The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper. Book scan on Internet Archive.
Life of Sir Francis Bacon by William Rawley. Book scan on Internet Archive (p.33 - 58)
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Sir Charles Firth. Book scan on Internet Archive.
The Life of Christopher Columbus by Edward Everett Hale. Text on Project Gutenberg.
The Discovery of Muscovy etc. by Richard Hakluyt. Text on Project Gutenberg.
The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh. Book scan on Internet Archive.
English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall. Text on Project Gutenberg.
WESTWARD HO! by Charles Kingsley Text on Project Gutenberg.
Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Text at Penn Libraries.
Nature writings of Edwin Way Teale at Internet Archive and Hathi Trust.
Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden.Text on Project Gutenberg.
The History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott. Text on Project Gutenberg.
A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Not in the Public Domain
Evidence That Demands a Verdict (1990) by Josh McDowell.
The Case for Christ (1998) by Lee Strobel.
The Mind of the Maker (1941) by Dorothy Sayers.
Desiring God (2011) by John Piper.
A History of the English Speaking Peoples (1956–1958) by Winston Churchill.
A Man For All Seasons (1954) by Robert Bolt.
The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish Story (1982) by David Howarth
A Coffin for King Charles (1981) by C. V. Wedgwood.
Galileo's Daughter (1999) by Dava Sobel.
Christopher Columbus, Mariner (1955) by Samuel Eliot Morison.
Kon Tiki (1960) by Thor Heyerdahl.
Whatever Happened to Justice (1993) by Richard Maybury.
I, Pencil (1958) a short essay by Leonard Read.
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves (1999) which is Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I updated and annotated by Roy Maynard.
The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets by Suzanne Clark
Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar (2004) by Nancy Wilson
Jensen's Grammar
The Little, Brown Handbook (2004) by H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron.
Writers INC : A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning
Most of the recommended Science books.
How To Read a Book (1972) by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.
The Story of Painting (1952) by H. W. Janson.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1983) by Paul Brand.
The Wonderful O (1957) and The Thurber Carnival (1931) by James Thurber.
The Space Trilogy (1938–1945) by C.S. Lewis.
The Prydain Chronicles (1964–1968) tte Mason.
This list continues on Recordings_of_Books_on_the_Ambleside_List_3
List compiled 14 April 2010, by RuthieG
Updated 28 Jan 2019, by Dlolso21
