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Library?LEX words/sentence Lexile The Picture Bible No Ingri D'aulaire and Edgar Paris D'aulaire: D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths No 1070L √ Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda No Dodie Smith: 101 Dalmatians (book!) No 830L √ Aesop: Aesop's Fables No √ Mahabharata (illustrated children's version) from Dreamland Publications No Various from Desi Knowledge No
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Library?LEX words/sentence Lexile Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three No -17 11.3 770L √ Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins No 1000L √ Anna Sewell: Black Beauty Yes -42 25.4 1010L √ Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince No 710L √ Kipling: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Yes -33 16.1 800L √ Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods No -27.52 15.5 930L √ C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe No -36.74 17.4 940L √ P.L. Travers Mary Poppins No 830L
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Library?LEX words/sentence Lexile L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz Yes 970L √ Ray Bradbury: Stories of Ray Bradbury No √ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Partial -16 16.3 1080L √ Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers No 960L Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea No 1150L √ Madeleine L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time No 740L √ Jack London: The Call of the Wild Yes -7 18.0 1120L √ Edgar Allen Poe: ??? Yes √ Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe ? No 1410L Robert Silverberg (ed.): The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I No Robert Lewis Stevenson: Treasure Island Yes 970L √ Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Yes 950L √ Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth No 1040L H. G. Wells: The Time Machine Yes 1070L √ O. Henry: Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief No -18 14.9 ~940L √ Gilgamesh No 1090L √ James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans No 1350L Eric Hoffer: The True Believer No √ Robertson Davies: Fifth Business Maybe 14+? No 1080L U.S. Constitution No U.S. Declaration of Independence No √
Current count is 48. Each addition must generate one removal.
Author Title LEX words/sentence Lexile Sun Tzu The Art of War 1350L √ Homer Illiad(Fagles translation!) 1160L-1330L √ Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist 990L-1060L √ George Orwell 1984 1090L √ Hemingway Snows of Kilamanjaro 820L √ Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 870L √ John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men or The Grapes of Wrath 630L and 680L √ Upton Sinclair: The Jungle 1170L √ Karl Marx Communist manifesto 1360L √ Dante Inferno 1430L √ Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince 1350L-1510L √ Sophocles Antigone + 940L-1090L √ William Shakespeare ??? √ Aristophanes The Clouds ??? √ Hesiod Works and Days ???
1280L Euripides Medea 1120L Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 1230L Julius Caesar: Gallic Wars (in Latin if the Latin track works) Ulysses S. Grant: Personal Memoirs Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics 1260L-1420L Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener and Billy Budd, Sailor 1450L Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy in America 1310L Confucious: The Analects Confucious: Doctrine of the Mean anonymous Beowulf 1070L-1190L anonymous Song of Roland Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility or Jane Eyre, by C. Bronte 1180L or 840L Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 880L assorted The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers 1450L and ??? Thomas Paine Common Sense and Rights of Man 1330L Henry David Thoreau ??? Ralph Waldo Emerson ??? F. Scott Fitzgerald Maybe skip for now ... Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 1340L Victor Hugo: ??? Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead 780L Thomas Hardy: ??? Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin 1050L Kant: ???? Descartes: ???? Rouseau: ???? Anne Frank: Diary of Anne Frank Dan Simmons: Endymion Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching anonymous Romance of the Three Kingdoms George Eliot: Middlemarch