high school essential reading books

Jane Austen: Emma, Pride and Prejudice

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Samuel Butler: The Way of the Flesh

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim

Charles Dickens: Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

Dldous Huxley: Brave New World

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day

John Milton: Paradise Lost

Sir Thomas More: Utopia

George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own

Borland: When the Legends Die

Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Hemingway: the old man and the sea, Farewell to Arms

Hersey: Hiroshima

Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

London: The call of the Wild

Steinbeck: the Pearl, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath

Mark Twain: Adventure of Tom Sawyer, A connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Buck: The good earth

Chekhov: Chrry Orchard

Gabriel Garcia Marquez:One Hundred Yers of Solitudevon

Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther

Golding: Lord of the Flies

Green: King Arthur and His Knights of the round

Table Hugo: Les Miserables

Henrik Ibsen: A doll’s House, Hedda Gabler

Machiavelli: the Prince

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Albert Camus: The Stranger

Chopin: The Awakening

Ellison: Invisible Man

Faulkner: the Sound and the Fury

Kafka: The Metamorphosis

Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Rex

Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Turgenev: Fathers and Son

Jack Kerouac: on the road

James Harriet: All Things Great and Small

Joseph Heller: Catch 22

Arthur MIller: Death of a Salesman, the Crucible

Alexander Hamilton: the Federalist Papers

Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

Upton Sinclair: the Jungle

John Groberg: the other side of heaven

Ezra Taft Benson: the proper role of government

Stephen Crane: The red Badge of Courage

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The scarlet Letter

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Julia Alvarez: how the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent

Geofferey Chaucer: the canterbury Tales

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment

Homer: the Illiad, the Odyssey

Ken Kesey: one flew over the cuckoo’s Nst

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

William Shakespear: MacBeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet

Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club