✦ Scholar's Grimoire
High School Completion Guide
📚 Library
Curated free books - click any title to start reading
🎪 Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
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Hamlet
Shakespeare
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Macbeth
Shakespeare
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Othello
Shakespeare
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The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
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The Tempest
Shakespeare
📚 Books to Read Before Your 18th Birthday
✓ All books in this list are free and verified on Project Gutenberg or Standard Ebooks.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Don Quixote
Cervantes
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley (also in Gothic section)
📚 Classics
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Don Quixote
Cervantes
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
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Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky
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The Divine Comedy (Inferno)
Dante
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
⚛ Mythology and Ancient Worlds
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Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch
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The Iliad
Homer
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The Odyssey
Homer
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Prose Edda (Norse Myths)
Snorri Sturluson
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
🗠 Gothic Lite
👿
Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe
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Grimm's Fairy Tales (Original)
Brothers Grimm
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
🌐 Adventure and World Building
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
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The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
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A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
✍ Black History and Literature
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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Selected Poems
Langston Hughes
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Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington
🏰 British Literature
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
☘ Irish Literature
✨
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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The Celtic Twilight
W.B. Yeats
🩹 Medicine and the Human Body
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Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
Henry Gray - The classic medical reference
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Anatomy and Physiology (OpenStax)
Free college-level textbook, full online access
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Biology 2e (OpenStax)
Free college-level biology textbook
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The Science of Surgery
Historical foundations of surgical practice
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Microbiology (OpenStax)
Free textbook - essential for medical school
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MedlinePlus Anatomy Reference
NIH free medical encyclopedia
✝ Biblical and Spiritual
📖
The Holy Bible
King James Version (KJV) - Free Full Text
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New Living Translation (NLT)
Read free on Bible Gateway
⭐
The Book of Enoch
Ethiopian Biblical text, translated by R.H. Charles
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The Apocrypha
Books not in the standard Protestant Bible
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The Book of Psalms (KJV)
Songs of worship, praise, and honest prayer
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Proverbs and Ecclesiastes (KJV)
Wisdom for everyday life
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Teen Devotional Reading Plans
Free daily plans on Bible Gateway
✍
The Confessions of St. Augustine
A young person's journey to faith
✝ Scriptures for Every Season
LOOK THESE UP WHEN YOU NEED THEM
When You Are Anxious
Philippians 4:6-7
1 Peter 5:7
Matthew 6:34
When You Are Sad
Psalm 34:18
John 16:22
Psalm 30:5
When You Are Scared
Isaiah 41:10
Joshua 1:9
2 Timothy 1:7
When You Feel Lost
Proverbs 3:5-6
Psalm 32:8
Isaiah 30:21
When You Need Strength
Isaiah 40:29-31
Philippians 4:13
Psalm 46:1
When You Feel Unloved
Romans 8:38-39
Jeremiah 31:3
John 3:16
When You Need Hope
Jeremiah 29:11
Romans 15:13
Lamentations 3:22-23
When You Are Overwhelmed
Matthew 11:28-30
Psalm 61:2
Isaiah 40:31
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