RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR ENGLISH ELEVEN

NOVELS Swift Gulliver’s Travels Austen Pride and Prejudice Dickens Great Expectations Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Melville Moby Dick Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn George Eliot Middlemarch Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge Crane Red Badge of Courage James Portrait of a Lady Conrad Heart of Darkness Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Woolf To the Lighthouse Dreiser An American Tragedy Faulkner Light in August Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying Hemingway A Farewell to Arms The Sun Also Rises E.M. Forster A Passage To India Bernard Malamud The Natural Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel George Orwell 1984 Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina

DRAMA Aeschylus Agamemnon Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Robert Bolt A Man For All Seasons Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and her Children Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s house Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman Peter Shaffer Amadeus George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Sophocles Antigone Thornton Wilder Our Town Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire ADDITIONAL ELEVENTH GRADE BOOKS FOR THE REGENTS EXAM

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Pride and Prejudice Wuthering Heights Red Badge of Courage Tale of Two Cities Invisible Man Crime and Punishment Profiles in Courage A Death in Venice Catcher in the Rye Slaughterhouse Five The Grapes of Wrath The Scarlet Letter The Sun Also Rises Shift Revolution City of Bones (Four in the series) Twisted Perfect Chemistry (Sequel is Rules of Attraction)

*If you have another novel in mind that does not appear on this list-IT MUST BE APPROVED BY YOUR CURRENT ENGLISH TEACHER