CLASSIC LITERATURE READING LIST

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1 CLASSIC LITERATURE READING LIST First quarter you will be required to read a work of classic literature. This list is comprehensive but certainly not complete. Some titles have been purposely omitted as they are protected literature for the high schools; however, if there is a title which interests you that is not listed here, see me for individual approval by George Orwell 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle African Queen by C. S. Forester As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The American by Henry James Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne The Bear by William Faulkner Ben-Hur by Lewis Wallace Beowulf by unknown The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry The Call of the Wild by Jack London Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

2 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas The Crucible by Arthur Miller Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster Daisy Miller by Henry James David Copperfield by Charles Dickens A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey Dragonwings by Laurence Yep Dubliners by James Joyce Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl Ender s Game by Orson Scott Card The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Ghost Belonged To Me by Richard Peck The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Horatio Hornblower Series by C.S. Lewis

3 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson Kim by Rudyard Kipling The Last Mission by Harry Mazer The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Le Morte d'arthur by Sir Thomas Malory The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton

4 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle My Brother Sam Is Dead by James and Christopher Collier My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass National Velvet by Enid Bagnold The Natural by Bernard Malamud Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Poems by Robert Frost The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The Red Pony by John Steinbeck Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy

5 The Sea Wolf by Jack London Shane by Jack Schaefer Story of My Life by Helen Keller A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tales by Edgar Allan Poe The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The Time Machine by H.G. Wells To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Watership Down by Richard Adams Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The White Mountains by John Christopher A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings