Literature course

As I think all of my readers know, I homeschool my children.  This year, we are officially doing a literature course.  The deal is this: children have to choose a certain number of books from my list (below) plus the same number of books of their own choice.  They write a review of each book they read.  We probably discuss it (especially the Shakespeare and Chaucer) both while they're reading and after.  They also each write in a journal.  Because as best I can tell, everything needed in an English course is encompassed in the regular, practical use of English - reading, personal writing, writing for an audience.  We'll probably cover persuasive writing and presenting when we get into politics and/or social studies.
Most of the books for the younger children we get from the library; most of the books for the older children are available for free online.
The list:

Up to age 9 - pick your age from this list, then the same number of others of your own choice
Rascal the Dragon (each book in the series counts as 1)
McCormick-Mathers challenge readers (each story counts as 1)
20th century children's book treasury (each story counts as 1)
Make way for McCloskey
Any Caldecott with words
Any scriptures (one chapter counts as 1)
Other options - just ask!

Age 10+ - half your age and half your age (so 10 reads 5 and 5; 11, 5 and 6 or 6 and 5, etc )
On the revolutions of the Spheres
French for Reading
Novum Organum
Shakespeare - Sonnets
Shakespeare - Plays
Peloponnesian war
Herodotus - histories
Canterbury Tales
Any Jane Austen
Any Louisa May Alcott
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Any scriptures - one book counts as a 1 (e.g. Genesis)
Other options - just ask!