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Challenging Reading List Grades 7-12 | ||
| Alcott, Louisa May *N*S - Little Women *S - Little Men |
Angelou, Maya *S - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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Arrick,
Fran |
Austin,
Jane *S - Pride and Prejudice *S - Sense and Sensibility *S - Emma |
Baldwin,
James Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Beckett,
Samuel Waiting for Godot |
The
Bible Old Testament New Testament |
Bolt,
Robert A Man for All Seasons |
| Borland, Hal *N - When the Legends Die |
Bradbury,
Ray Dandelion Wine *S*T - Fahrenheit 451* Illustrated Man |
Bronte,
Charlotte *S - Jane Eyre |
| Bronte,
Emily Wuthering Heights |
Brown,
Dee *S - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
Browning,
Robert Poems |
| Buck,
Pearl *S - The Good Earth |
Camus,
Albert The Plague *A - The Stranger |
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring |
| Carter, Forrest *S - Education of Little Tree |
Cather,
Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop *S - My Antonia |
Cervantes,
Miguel *S - Don Quixote |
| Chaucer,
Geoffrey Canterbury Tales |
Chekhov,
Anton The Cherry Orchard |
Chopin,
Kate The Awakening |
| Cisneros,
Sandra *S - House on Mango Street |
Clavell, James *N - Shogun |
Conrad,
Joseph *T - Heart of Darkness Lord Jim The Secret Sharer Victory |
| Cooper, James
Fennimore The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans |
Crane,
Stephen *S - The Red Badge of Courage |
Craven, Margaret *N - I Heard the Owl Call My Name |
| Dante The Divine Comedy |
Darwin, Charles Origin of the Species |
Defoe,
Daniel Moll Flanders |
| Dickens,
Charles Bleak House *S - David Copperfield *S - Great Expectations Hard Times *S - Oliver Twist *S - Pickwick Papers *S*T - A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickenson,
Emily Poems |
Dickinson, Peter *N - Eva |
| Dinesen,
Isak Out of Africa |
Dostoyevsky,
Fyodor The Brothers Karamaxov *T - Crime and Punishment |
Douglass,
Frederick *T - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Dreiser,
Theodore An American Tragedy Sister Carrie |
DuBois,
W.E.B. Souls of Black Folk |
DuMairier, Daphne *S - Rebecca |
| Eckert, Allan W. *N - Incident at Hawk's Hill |
Eliot,
George Adam Bede Middlemarch Mill on the Floss Silas Marner |
Eliot
T.S. Murder in the Cathedral |
| Ellison,
Ralph *T - Invisible Man |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Essays |
Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine |
| Evodes *S - Lame Deer |
Faulkner,
William Absalom, Absalom *A*S - As I Lay Dying Intruder in the Dust Light in August The Sound and the Fury |
Fielding,
Henry Joseph Andrews Tom Jones |
| Fitzgerald, F.
Scott *S*T - The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night |
Flaubert,
Gustave Madame Bovary |
Forster,
E.M. A Passage to India A Room with a View |
| Fossy,
Dian Gorillas in the Mist |
Frank, Anne *N*S - Diary of a Young Girl |
Franklin,
Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Frieden,
Betty The Feminine Mystique |
Frost,
Robert Poems |
Galsworthy,
John The Forsythe Saga |
| Garland, Sherry *S - Shadow of the Dragon |
Golding,
William *S*T - Lord of the Flies |
Goldsmith,
Oliver She Stoops to Conquer |
| Gordon, Sheila *S - Waiting for the Rain |
Graves,
Robert I, Claudius |
Green,
Graham The Heart of the Matter The Power and the Glory |
| Guest,
Judith *S - Ordinary People |
Guy, Rosa *S - The Friends |
Haley,
Alex *S - Malcolm X *S - Roots |
| Hamilton,
Edith *S - Mythology |
Hardy,
Thomas Far From the Maddening Crowd Jude the Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge *S - The Return of the Native Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |
| Hawthorne,
Nathaniel *N - The House of Seven Gables *S - The Scarlet Letter |
Heller,
Joseph Catch-22 |
Hemingway,
Ernest A Farewell to Arms *S - For Whom the Bell Tolls *S - The Old Man and the Sea *T - The Sun Also Rises |
| Henry,
O. Stories |
Herriot, James All Things Bright & Beautiful |
Hesse,
Hermann Demian Siddhartha Steppenwolf |
| Homer *S - Iliad *S - Odyssey |
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D *N*S - Farewell to Manzanar |
Hughes,
Langston Poems |
| Hugo,
Victor Les Miserables |
Hurston, Zora
Neale *S - Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Huxley,
Aldous *S - Brave New World |
| Ibsen,
Henrik *T - A Doll's House An Enemy of the People Ghosts Hedda Gabler The Master Builder The Wild Duck |
James,
Henry The American Daisy Miller Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw |
Joyce,
James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners |
| Kafka,
Franz The Castle Metamorphosis The Trial |
Keats,
John Poems |
Kerouac,
Jack On the Road |
| Kesey, Ken *S - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Kincaid, Jamaica *S - Annie John |
Kingston,
Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior |
| Knowles,
John *S - A Separate Peace |
Koestler,
Arthur Darkness at Noon |
Kubler-Ross,
Elisabeth On Death and Dying |
| La Farge, Oliver *S - Laughing Boy |
Lawrence,
D.H. Sons and Lovers |
Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert E. Inherit the Wind |
| Lee,
Harper *S*A - To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lewis,
Sinclair Arrowsmith Babbitt *S - Main Street |
Lindbergh,
Ann Morrow Gift from the Sea |
| Llewllyn,
Richard How Green Was My Valley |
London,
Jack *N*S - Call of the Wild *N*S - White Fang |
Machiavelli,
Niccolo *T - The Prince |
| MacLeish,
Archibald J.B. |
Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Mann,
Thomas Buddenbrooks The Magic Mountain |
| Mansfield,
Katherine The Garden Party and Other Stories |
Marlowe,
Christopher Dr. Faustus |
Maugham,
Somerset *S - Of Human Bondage |
| Mazer *S - America Street |
McCullers,
Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter *S - Members of the Wedding |
Mead,
Margaret Coming of Age in Samoa |
| Meir,
Golda My Life |
Melville,
Herman *N*S - Billy Budd *S - Moby Dick Typee |
Millay, Edna St.
Vincent Collected Poems |
| Miller,
Arthur *T - The Crucible Death of a Salesman |
Momaday, N. Scott *S - House Made of Dawn |
Monsarrat, Nicholas The Cruel Sea |
| Moore,
Marianne The Complete Pomes of Marianne Moore |
Morrison,
Toni Beloved *N - Bluest Eye Song of Solomon Sula |
O'Niell,
Eugene The Emperor Jones A Long Day's Journey into Night Mourning Becomes Electra |
| O'Connor,
Flannery The Complete Stories |
Orwell,
George *N*S - Animal Farm 1984 |
Pasternak,
Boris Doctor Zhivago |
| Paton,
Alan *S - Cry the Beloved Country |
Plath,
Sylvia The Bell Jar |
Plato Great Dialogues of Plato |
| Poe, Edgar
Allan *S - Collected Works Short Stories |
Potok,
Chaim *S - The Chosen |
Porter,
Katherine Anne Ship of Fools |
| Rand,
Ayn The Fountainhead |
Remarque,
Erich *S - All Quiet on the Western Front |
Rich,
Adrienne Of Woman Born |
| Richter, Conrad *N - Light in the Forest |
Rolvaag,
O.E. Giants in the Earth |
Rostand,
Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Salinger,
J.D. *S*T - The Catcher in the Rye Franny & Zooey |
Sandburg,
Carl Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
Sappho Sapho: A New Translation |
| Saroyan,
William The Human Comedy |
Sarton,
May Journal of a Solitude |
Sayers,
Dorothy The Nine Tailors |
| Schaefer, Jack Warner Shane |
Shakespeare,
William *A*T - Hamlet *A - Much Ado About Nothing *S*A - MacBeth *A - As You Like It *A - King Lear *S*A*T - Romeo and Juliet *S*A*T - Julius Caesar The Tempest Othello Sonnets |
Shaw,
George Bernard Arms and the Man Major Barbara Pygmalion Saint John |
| Shelly, Mary *S - Frankenstein |
Sheridan, Richard B. The School for Scandal |
Shute,
Nevil On the Beach |
| Silko,
Leslie Marmon *S*T - Ceremony |
Sinclair,
Upton *S - The Jungle |
Smith, Betty *S - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Sophocles *T - Antigone Oedipus Rex |
Steinbeck,
John East of Eden The Grapes of Wrath *S - Of Mice and Men *S - The Red Pony |
Stevenson, Robert
Louis *S - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| Stewardt, Mary *S - Nine Coaches Waiting |
Stowe, Harriet
Beecher *S - Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Swift,
Johnathon *S - Gulliver's Travels |
| Tan, Amy *S - The Joy Luck Club |
Thackeray, William M. Vanity Fair |
Thoreau, Henry
David Walden |
| Thornton,
Herman The Caine Mutiny |
Tolkein, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings |
Tolstoy,
Leo Anna Karenina War and Peace |
| Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers |
Turgenev,
Ivan Fathers and Sons |
Twain,
Mark *N*S*T - Huckleberry Finn *S - Pudd'nhead Wilson *S - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Undset,
Sigrid Kristin Lavransdatter |
Updike,
John Rabbit Run |
Virgil Aeneid |
| Voight, Cynthia *N - Dicey's Song *N - Homecoming |
Vonnegut, Kurt
Jr. Cat's Cradle *S - Slaughterhouse Five | |
| Walker,
Alice *S - The Color Purple |
Warren,Robert
Penn All the King's Men |
Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited |
| Wharton,
Edith *S - The Age of Innocence *N*S - Ethan Frome |
Wheatley,
Phillis The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley |
White, T.H. *S - The Once and Future King The Sword and the Stone |
| Wiesel, Elie *S - Dawn *S - Night |
Wilde,
Oscar The Importance of Being Ernest *A - The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilder, Thornton *S - Our Town |
| Williams,
Tennessee *T - The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire |
Wolfe,
Thomas Look Homeward, Angel |
Woolf,
Virginia Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse A Room of One's Own |
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*A/*T = required reading at Apollo/Tech *N*S = in North/South's "Challenge Reading Book" Collection | ||
| The following sources were used in compiling this reading
list: English Journal Nov. 1997 "Recommended Reading LIsts." Writers Inc. 1992 ed. "Timeless Classics." National Endowment for the Humanities. "The WNBA Honor List." AAUW Outlook Summer 1993 | ||