LITERATURE FOR LIFE SCHOLARSHIP
FICTION READING LIST
NO. AUTHOR TITLE 1 Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice 2 Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre 3 Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights 4 Buck, Pearl The Good Earth* 5 Cather, Willa My Antonia 6 Dickens, Charles Great Expectations 7 Doerr, Anthony All The Light We Cannot See* 8 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov 9 Doyle, Arthur Conan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10 Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo 11 Eliot, George Mill on the Floss 11 Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 12 Endo, Shusaku Silence 13 Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury 14 Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby 15 Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary 16 Forster, EM A Passage to India 17 Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South 18 Hardy, Thomas Far from the Madding Crowd 19 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter 20 Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and The Sea* 21 Homer The Odyssey 22 Hugo, Victor Les Misérables 23 Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God 24 Huxley, Aldous Brave New World 25 Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies* 26 Marquez, Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude 27 Melville, Herman Moby Dick 28 Morrison, Toni Beloved* 29 Orwell, George 1984 30 Paton, Alan Cry the Beloved Country 31 Power, Richard The Overstory* 32 Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged 33 Shelley, Mary Frankenstein 34 Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath* 35 Stoker, Bram Dracula 36 Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin 37 Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels 38 Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina 39 Walker, Alice The Color Purple* 40 Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence* • Pulitzer Prize Winner LITERATURE FOR LIFE SCHOLARSHIP
NON-FICTION READING LIST
NO. AUTHOR TITLE 1 Adler, Mortimer How to Read a Book 2 Augustine Confessions 3 Bainton, Roland Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther 4 Bellah,Robert Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life 5 Boorstin, Daniel The Democratic Experience* 6 Brands, H.W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin 7 Bunyan, John Pilgrim’s Progress 8 Carson, Rachel Silent Spring 9 Catton, Bruce A Stillness at Appomattox* 10 Chernow, Ron George Washington* 11 Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species 12 DeTocquevile, Alexis Democracy in America 13 Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 14 Gleick, James Chaos: Making a New Science 15 Hersey, John Hiroshima 16 Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 17 Jenkins, Peter A Walk Across America 18 Krakauer, Jon Into the Wild 19 Massie, Robert Peter the Great* 20 Montefiore, Simon Jerusalem, The Biography 21 Morris, Edmund The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt* 22 Paine, Thomas The Age of Reason 23 Pakenham, Thomas The Scramble for Africa 24 Pascal, Blaise Pensees 25 Plato The Republic 26 Plutarch Parallel Lives 27 Ritchie, Mark Spirit of the Rain Forest 28 Sagan, Carl Cosmos 29 Sandburg, Carl Abraham Lincoln: The War Years* 30 Smith, Adam Wealth of Nations 31 Stewart, Rory The Places in Between 32 Stone, Irving Men to Match My Mountains 33 Thoreau, Henry David Walden 34 Tuchman, Barbara Guns of August* 35 Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elegy 36 Washington Booker T. Up From Slavery 37 Wiesel, Elie Night 38 Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff 39 Woolf, Virginia A Room of One’s Own • Pulitzer Prize Winner