HIGH SCHOOL
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
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HIGH SCHOOL
RECOMMENDED READING LIST |
Austen, J. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park
Baum, F. The Wizard of Oz
Bronte, C. Jane Eyre
Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights
Buck, P. The Good Earth
Butler. Way of All Flesh
Carroll, L.: Alice in Wonderland
Carson. The Sea Around Us
Cather,W. My Antonia; Death Comes for the Archbishop; Song of the Lark
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chaucer, G. The Canterbury Tales
Chesterton, G. Father Brown
Conrad, Lord Jim; Heart of Darkness; Victory; The Light in the Forest
Cooper, J. The Deerslayer; Leatherstocking Tales
Crane, S. Red Badge of Courage
Dante, A. The Inferno; The Divine Comedy
Defoe, D. Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, C. Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; Great Expectations*; Tale of Two Cities*
Dostoevsky, F. Crime and Punishment
Douglas, L. The Robe; The Big Fisherman
Doyle, A. Adventures of Sherlock Homes; Study in Scarlet
Dumas A. The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers; Man in the Iron Mask
Eliot, G. Silas Marner; The Mill on the Floss; Adam Beds; Middlemarch
Emerson, R. Essays
Faulkner W. The Bear; Intruder in the Dust
Fermi, Atone in the Family
Fitzgerald, F. The Great Gatsby; The Federalist Papers
Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary
Forester, C. S, African Queen; Captain Horatio Hornblower
Gaines, E. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Galsworthy, Man of Property
Gilbreth, F. Cheaper by the Dozen*
Goldsmith, O. She Stoops to Conquer; The Vicar of Wakefield
Greene, G. The Power and Glory
Hardy, T. The Return of the Native; Mayor of Casterbridge; Far from the Madding Crowd
Hawthorne, N. The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter*
Hemingway, E. For Whom the Bell Toll; The Old Man and the Sea
Hilton, J. Lost Horizon
Homer, The Illiad; The Odyssey
Hudson, W. Green Mansions
Hugo, V. Les Miserables; Hunchback of Notre Dame
Huxley, A. Brave New World
James, H. The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, J. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kipling, R. Kim
Knowles, J. Separate Peace
Lawrence, J. Inherit the Wind
Lee, H. To Kill a Mockingbird*
Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet
Lewis, S. Babbit; Main Street
Mallory, T. Morte d’Arthur
Marquaud, The Late George Apley
Melville, H. Moby Dick, Billy Budd
Miller, A. Crucible; Death of a Salesman
Nordhoff, C. The Mutiny on the Bounty
O’Neill , E. Emperor Jones
Orwell, G. Animal Farm*
Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Paton, A. Cry, the Beloved Country
Plato, Great Dialogues of Plato
Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Poe, E. Fall of the House of Usher; Great Tales & Poems of Poe
Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth
Remarque, E. All Quiet of the Western Front
Roberts, Northwest Passage; Robin Hood Tales
Rolvaag, O. Giants in the Earth
Rostand, E. Cyrano de Bergerac
Sandburg, C. Abe Lincoln Grows Up
Sarton, Six Wings; Men of Science in the Renaissance
Scott, S. W, Ivanhoe; Quentin Durward
Shakespeare, W. Romeo and Juliet*; Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet*; Taming of the Shrew; Macbeth*; Othello
Shaw, G. Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Adrocles and the Lion
Shelley, M. Frankenstein
Sheridan, The Rivals
Sienkiewicz, Ouo Vadis; The Song of the Rowldan
Steinbeck, J. The Grapes of Wrath; The Pearl*; Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, R. Treasure Island; Kidnapped
Stowe, H. Uncle Tom’s Cabin*
Swift, J. Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, W. Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, L. War and Peace
Twain, M. Pudd’nhead Wilson; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, J. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days
Virgil, The Aeneid
Wilder, T. Our Town; The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wren, C. Beau Gest
NOTE: The majority of these novels have been read and approved by RCS staff. However, if you are uncomfortable with any content, please inform the classroom teacher.
*These books are a part of the RCS curriculum and will be read as a class.