HIGH SCHOOL

RECOMMENDED READING LIST

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Austen, J.  Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park

Baum, F.  The Wizard of Oz

Bronte, CJane 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.