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Books for the Well-Read High Schooler
or How to Succeed as a Life-Long Learner!
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Austin, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
Baker, Russell, Growing Up
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Balzac, Honore de, Pere Goriot
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot
Bettelheim, Bruno, The Uses of Enchantment
Böll, Heinrich, Billiards at Half Past Eight
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
Brönte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Brönte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Bunyon, John, Pilgrim's Progress
Camus, Albert, The Stranger
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Carson, Rachel, The Silent Spring
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton, The Sea Gull
Cheng, Nien, Life and Death in Shanghai
Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim
Conway, Jill, The Road from Coorain: An Autobiography
Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War
Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E., Complete Poems
Curie, Eve, Madame Curie
Dante, Alighieri, The Inferno
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Emily, The Poems of
Dos Passos, John, The 42nd Parallel
Dostoyevsky, Fedor, Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Arthur C., Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories
Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexander, The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
Eliot, T.S., Collected Poems
Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
Euripedes, Medea
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Maddox, The Good Soldier
Forster, E.M., Passage to India
Frost, Robert, Collected Poems of
Gide, Andre, The Counterfeiters
Ginsberg, Allen, Howl and Other Poems
Goethe, Johann W.von, Faust
Goldsmith, Oliver, She Stoops to Conquer
Goodall, Jane, Gorillas in the Mist
Golding William, The Lord of the Flies
Guest, Judith, Ordinary People
Hansbury, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun
Hardy Thomas, The Return of the Native
Hawking, Stephen, Brief History of Time:
from the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hamilton, Alexander, Federalist Papers
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph, Catch 22
Hellman, Lillian, The Little Foxes
Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms
Hersey, John, Hiroshima
Hesse, Hermann, Siddartha
Hinton, S. E., Rumble Fish
Homer, The Illiad; The Odyssey
Houseman, A.E., The Collected Poems of
Hughes, Langston, Selected Poems
Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll's House
James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience
James, Henry, Portrait of a Lady
Jarrell, Randall, The Complete Poems
Joyce, James, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz, The Castle
Keneally, Thomas, Schindler's List
Kidder, Tracy, Among Schoolchildren
Klein, Norma, Night Kites
Kovic, Ron, Born on the Fourth of July
Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers
Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird
LeGuin, Ursula, A Wizard of Earthsea
Lipsyte, Robert, Assignment: Sports
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild
Lord, Bette B., Spring Moon
Lowry, Lois, A Summer to Die
Lyttle, Richard, Pablo Picasso
Michiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince
Mahy, Margaret, The Haunting
Malamud, Bernard, The Fixer
Mann, Thomas, The Confessions of Felix Krull
Marlowe, Christopher, Doctor Faustus
Mazer, Norma Fox, After the Rain
Maugham, Somerset, Of Human Bondage
McCullers, Carson, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McKinley, Robin, Beauty
Melville, Herman, Billy Budd
Mill, John, On Liberty
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Milton, John, Paradise Lost
Molière, Jean B.P., The Misanthrope
Montaigne, Michel, Of Friendship
Moore, Sir Thomas, Utopia
Naidoo, Beverly, Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story
Nixon, Joan Lowery, The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
O'Dell, Scott, Streams to the River, River to the Sea
O'Neill, Eugene, Desire under the Elms
Oppenheimer, Judy, Private Demons:
The Life of Shirley Jackson
Orwell, George, Animal Farm
Paine, Thomas, Common Sense
Pasternak, Boris, Dr. Zhivago
Paton, Alan, Cry, the Beloved Country
Paterson, Katherine, The Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
Peck, M. Scott, The Road Less Traveled
Peck, Richard, Remembering the Good Times
Peters, Thomas J., In Search of Excellence
Pinter, Harold, The Birthday Party
Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar
Plato, Dialogues
Poe, Edgar Allen, Tales of Terror
Potok, Chaim, The Chosen
Pound, Ezra, Personae
Rawls, Wilson, Where the Red Fern Grows
Remarque, Erich M., All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys, Jean, Wild Saragasso Sea
Roethke, Theodore, The Collected Poems of
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye
Sandburg, Carl, Chicago Poems
Scharf, Lois, Eleanor Roosevelt:
First Lady of American Liberalism
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
Sender, Ruth, The Cage
Shakespeare, William, Macbeth
Shaw, George B., Major Barbara
Sheridan, Richard, The Rivals
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle
Singer, Isaac B., The Collected Stories of
Sleator, William, Interstellar Pig
Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus
Stendahl, The Red and the Black
Stevenson, Robert L., Treasure Island
Solzhenitsyn, A., One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Stoker, Bram, Dracula
Stowe, Harriet B., Uncle Tom's Cabin
Strasser, Todd, Angel Dust Blues
Strindberg, August, Miss Julie
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels
Synge, John M., Playboy of the Western World
Talbert, Marc, Dead Birds Singing
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
Taylor, Mildred, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Thackery, William, Vanity Fair
Thomas, Dylan, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Thoreau, Henry D., Walden
Thurber, James, My Life and Hard Times
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings
Tolstory, Leo, Anna Karenina; War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ure, Jean, After Thursday
Van Devanter, Lynda, Home before Morning:
The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
Voight, Cynthis, Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Voltaire, Francoise M., Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five
Wells, H. G., The Time Machine
Welty, Eudora, The Golden Apples
Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar, Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Thornton, Our Town
Williams, William Carlos, Collected Poems
Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie
Whitehead, A. N., The Aims of Education
Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward, Angel
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard, Native Son
Yeats, Wm. Butler, Collected Poems of
Yolen, Jane, Favorite Folktales from around the World
Zindel, Paul, The Effects of Gamma Rays
on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Zolotow, Charlotte, Early Sorrow
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