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High School Suggested Reading List Joeseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness Lord Jim James Agee – A Death In the Family The Secret Sharer Victory Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio Stephen Crane – The Red Badge of Courage Jane Austen – Emma Northanger Abbey Dante – The Divine Comedy Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Daniel Defoe – Moll Flanders James Baldwin – Go Tell It on the Mountain Charles Dickens – Bleak House David Copperfield Honore de Balzac – Le Pere Goriot Great Expectations Hard Times Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities The Bible – Old and New Testament Emily Dickinson – poems Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre Fyodor Dostoevski – The Brothers Karamazov Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights Crime and Punishment Robert Browning – poems Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy Sister Carrie Pearl Buck – The Good Earth George Eliot – Adam Bede Samuel Butler – The Way of All Flesh Middlemarch Mill on the Floss Albert Camus – The Plague Silas Marner The Stranger T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop My Antonia Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man Miguel Cervantes – Don Quixote Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales William Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom As I Lay Dying Anton Chekhov – The Cherry Orchard Intruder in the Dust Light in August Kate Chopin – The Awakening The Sound and the Fury Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews Tom Jones F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Homer – Illiad Tender Is the Night Odyssey Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary Langston Huges – Poems E.M. Forster – A Passage to India Victor Hugo – Les Miserables A Room with a View Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House An Enemy of the People Robert Frost - Poems Ghosts Hedda Gabler John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga The Master Builder The Wild Duck William Golding – Lord of the Flies Henry James – The American Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer Daisy Miller Portrait of a Lady Robert Graves – I, Claudius The Turn of the Screw Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter James Joyce – Dubliners The Power and the Glory Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Edith Hamilton – Mythology Franz Kafka – The Castle Metamorphosis Thomas Hardy – Far From the Madding Crowd The Trial Jude the Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge John Keats – Poems The Return of the Native Tess of the D’Ubervilles Jack Kerouac – On the Road Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon The House of the Seven Gables D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee – Inherit The Sun Also Rises the Wind O. Henry – Stories Sinclair Lewis – Arrowsmith Babbitt John Hersey – A Single Pebble Main Street Hermann Hesse – Demian Richard Llewellyn – How Green Was My Valley Siddhartha Steppenwolf Machiavelli – The Prince Archibald MacLeish – J.B. Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks William Shakespeare – Macbeth The Magic Mountain Hamlet Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus Plays and Sonnets Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man Major Barbara Carson McCullers – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Pygmalion Saint Joan Herman Melville – Billy Budd Moby Dick Richard B. Sheridan – The School for Scandal Typee Nevil Shute – On the Beach Arthur Miller – The Crucible Death of a Salesman Upton Sinclair – The Jungle Nicholas Monsarrat – The Cruel Sea Sophocles – Antigone Oedipus Rex Eugene O’Neill – The Emperor Jones A Long Day’s Journey into Night John Steinbeck – East of Eden Mourning Becomes Electra The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men George Orwell – Animal Farm 1984 Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels Plato – The Republic William M. Thackeray – Vanity Fair Edgar Allan Poe – Short Stories Henry David Thoreau – Walden Erich Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina Front War and Peace O.E. Rolvaag – Giants in the Earth Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers Edmond Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons J.D. Salinger – The Cather in the Rye Mark Twain – Pudd’nhead Wilson Huckleberry Finn Carl Sandburg – Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years John Updike – Rabbit Run Abraham Lincoln – The War Years Vergil – Aeneid William Saroyan – The Human Comedy Voltaire – Candide Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited A Handful of Dust Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence T. H. White – the Once and Future King The Sword in the Stone Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray Thornton Wilder – Our Town Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway To The Lighthouse Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny Richard Wright – Black Boy Native Son .
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