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Timeless Classics a Connecticut Yankee the Hobbit [P] J.R.R Collected Stories: Member of Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad the Wedding Carson McCullers A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes Timeless Classics A Connecticut Yankee The Hobbit [P] J.R.R. Tolkien in King Arthur’s Court [NF] Mark Twain The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne All books are shelved in Fiction, unless noted with The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas How Green was My Valley Richard Llewellyn one of these abbreviations: C = Children’s; CD = CD Book; Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Human Comedy William Saroyan LP = Large Print; M = Mystery; NF = Non-Fiction; The Crucible [NF] Arthur Miller The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo P = Paperback; SF = Science Fiction; T = Teen; W = Western Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton Cyrano de Bergerac [NF] Edmond Rostand I Heard the Owl Call My Name [T] Margaret Craven The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Iliad [NF] Homer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Daisy Miller Henry James The Importance of Being The African Queen C.S. Forester David Copperfield Charles Dickens Earnest [NF] Oscar Wilde The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather Inherit the Wind [NF] Jerome Lawrence Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll A Death in the Family [CD] James Agee Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott All Creatures Great and Small [NF] James Herriot Death of a Salesman [NF] Arthur Miller All Quiet on the Western Front Erich M. Remarque The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper Animal Farm George Orwell The Diary of Anne Frank [NF] Anne Frank Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The Divine Comedy [NF] Dante Alighieri Johnny Tremain [C] Esther Forbes Anne of Green Gables [C] Lucy M. Montgomery Doctor Faustus [NF] Christopher Marlowe The Jungle Upton Sinclair Antigone [NF] Sophocles Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes The Jungle Book [C] Rudyard Kipling Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Dracula Bram Stoker The Autobiography Dubliners James Joyce of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J.Gaines Kidnapped Robert L Stevenson The Awakening: A Solitary Soul Kate Chopin Kim [CD] Rudyard Kipling East of Eden John Steinbeck King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard Emma Jane Austen Kon-Tiki [NF] Thor Heyerdahl Babbitt Sinclair Lewis Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Ben-Hur [P] Lew Wallace Billy Budd [LP] Herman Melville The Last of the Mohicans James F. Cooper Brave New World Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [P] Washington Irving Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy Les Miserables Victor Hugo The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Little Prince [C] Antoine Saint-Exupery The Bridge over the River Kwai Pierre Boulle Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev Little Women [C] Louisa May Alcott The Bridges at Toko-Ri James Michener Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keys Little Men [C] Louisa May Alcott The Brothers Karamazov [NF] Fyodor Dostoyevsky For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Long Day’s Journey Into Night [NF]Eugene O’Neill The Bull From the Sea Mary Renault Frankenstein Mary W. Shelley Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfe Lord Jim [CD] Joseph Conrad Lord of the Flies [P] William Golding The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk Giants in the Earth O.E. Rolvaag The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien The Call of the Wild [NF] Jack London The Glass Menagerie [NF] Tennessee Williams Canterbury Tales [NF] Geoffrey Chaucer Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Catch-22 Joseph Heller Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Main Street & Babbit [NF] Sinclair Lewis The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Good Earth Pearl Buck The Martian Chronicles [SF] Ray Bradbury The Cherry Orchard [CD] Anton Chekov The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Moby Dick Herman Melville The Chosen Chaim Potok Great Expectations Charles Dickens Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Gulliver’s Travels [C] Jonathan Swift Men of Iron [T] Howard Pyle Cimarron Edna Ferber The Metamorphosis [NF] Franz Kafka The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Le Morte d’Arthur [NF] Sir Thomas Mallory Mr. Midshipman Hornblower C.S. Forester The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff and Mr. Hyde Robert L Stevenson My Antonia Willa Cather A Streetcar Named Desire [NF] Tennessee Williams The Sword in the Stone [C] T.H. White A Night to Remember [NF] Walter Lord The Nine Tailors [M] Dorothy Sayers A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Thirty-Nine Steps [CD] John Buchan The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas The Odyssey [NF] Homer Through the Looking Glass [C] Lewis Carroll Of Human Bondage Somerset Maugham The Thurber Carnival [NF] James Thurber Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The Time Machine H.G. Wells The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Old Yeller [C] F. Gibson Tortilla Flat [P] John Steinbeck Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Treasure Island [P] Robert L. Stevenson On the Road Jack Kerouac A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Out of Africa [NF] Isak Dinesen The Trial Franz Kafka The Outsiders [T] S.E. Hinton Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Two Years Before the Mast [NF] Richard Henry Dana The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Turn of the Screw Henry James The Pilgrim’s Progress [P] John Bunyan The Plague Albert Camus The Power and the Glory Graham Greene Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Prince [NF] Niccolo Machiavelli Vanity Fair William M. Thackeray Rabbit Run [LP] John Updike A Raisin in the Sun [NF] Lorraine Hansberry Waiting for Godot [NF] Samuel Beckett Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier Walden [NF] Henry David Thoreau The Red Badge of Courage [T] Stephen Crane The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells The Robe Lloyd C. Douglas Watership Down Richard Adams Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Way of All Flesh [CD] Samuel Butler Romeo and Juliet [NF] William Shakespeare White Fang [C] Jack London Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Pimpernel [T] Baroness Emma Orczy The Yearling [C] Marjorie K. Rawlings The School for Scandal [NF] Richard B. Sheridan The Sea Wolf Jack London Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen A Separate Peace John Knowles Visit ppld.org/reading-lists to find other lists you might enjoy! Seventeenth Summer [T] Margaret Daly Shane Jack Schaefer Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Siddhartha Herman Hesse Revised November 2016 The Snow Goose Paul Gallico Sounder [C] William H. Armstrong .
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