yet another book list...
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rivendellroseBecause I'm compulsive about these things, and someone posted this one (their personal list, as I understand it) to my English majors community.
High School (9-12) Texts:
1. The Wasteland- T.S. Eliot (in part)
2. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Exodus- Leon Uris
4. The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
5. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
7. The Inferno- Dante
8. A Wrinkle in Time- Madeline L'Engle
9. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
10. A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
11. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cineros
12. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
13. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
14. Paradise Lost - Milton (in part)
15. East of Eden- Steinbeck
16. Ask the Dust - John Fante
17. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
18. Cold Mountain- Charles Frazier
19. Dubliners- James Joyce
20. Lord of the Flies- William Golding
21. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
22. Sula- Toni Morrison
23. 1984 - Orwell
24. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
25. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
26. Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
27. Siddhartha - Hesse
28. The Scarlett Letter- Hawthorne
29. Utopia- Thomas More
30. The Prince- Machiavelli
31. The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
32. The Confessions - St. Augustine
33. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
34. The Power of Myth- Joseph Campbell
35. The Wretched of the Earth - Fanon
36. The Drowned and the Saved- Primo Levi
37. Wild Swans- Jung Chang
38. To Destroy You is no Loss- Joan Criddle
39. Life of Pi- Martel
40. The Republic- Plato
41. Raise the Red Lantern- Su Tong
42. Great Expectations- Dickens
43. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
44. As I Lay Dying- Faulkner
45. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
46. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant
47. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
48. Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson
49. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
50. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë
51. The Stranger- Albert Camus
52. The Awakening- Kate Chopin
53. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
54. The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
55. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
56. Animal Farm- Orwell (in part)
57. The Catcher in the Rye- J. D. Salinger
58. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
59. Walden- Thoreau
60. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
61. The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
62. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
63. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
64. The Talented Mr. Ripley- Patricia Highsmith
65. Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
66. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
67. The King Must Die- Mary Renault
68. The Weight of Water- Anita Shreve
69. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
70. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
71. Sohpie's Choice- William Styron
72. Night- Elie Wiesel
73. Of Men and Mice- Steinbeck
74. A Painted House- Grisham
75. Beloved- Tony Morrison
76. Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis
Plays:
1. Othello- Shakespeare
2. Oediups rex- Sophocles
3. Hamlet- Shakespeare
4. Medea- Euripedes
5. Arcadia- Tom Stoppard
6. True West- Sam Shepard
7. Necessary Targets- Eve Ensler
8. Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller
9. Macbeth- Shakespeare
10. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
11. King Lear- Shakespeare
12. Pygmalion- Shaw
13. The Glass Menagerie- Tennessee Williams
14. Waiting for Godot- Beckett
15. Antigone- Sophocles
16. A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
17. A Man For All Seasons- Bolt
18. The Cherry Orchard- Anton Chekhov
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream- Shakespeare
20. Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
Middle School Texts:
1. Huckleberry Fin- Mark Twain
2. Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
3. Shoeless Joe- W. P. Kinsella
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain
5. Swiss Family Robinson- Johann David Wyss
6. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Avi
7. The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas
8. Invisible Man- Ralph Elison
9. Catch 22- Joseph Heller
10. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
11. The Call of the Wild- Jack London
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
14. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
15. The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
16. The Witch of Blackbird Pond -Elizabeth George Speare
17. Stuart Little - E. B. White
18. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
19. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
20. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
21. The Giver- Lois Lowry
22. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
23. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
24. Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
25. Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
26. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
27. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
Funny thing - I'm fairly sure we read a lot of the middle school books when I was in 4th or 5th grade... but I can't really remember them. Like, at all. Really sort of makes me wonder....
High School (9-12) Texts:
1. The Wasteland- T.S. Eliot (in part)
2. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Exodus- Leon Uris
4. The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
5. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
7. The Inferno- Dante
8. A Wrinkle in Time- Madeline L'Engle
9. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
10. A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
11. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cineros
12. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
13. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
14. Paradise Lost - Milton (in part)
15. East of Eden- Steinbeck
16. Ask the Dust - John Fante
17. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
18. Cold Mountain- Charles Frazier
19. Dubliners- James Joyce
20. Lord of the Flies- William Golding
21. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
22. Sula- Toni Morrison
23. 1984 - Orwell
24. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
25. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
26. Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
27. Siddhartha - Hesse
28. The Scarlett Letter- Hawthorne
29. Utopia- Thomas More
30. The Prince- Machiavelli
31. The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
32. The Confessions - St. Augustine
33. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
34. The Power of Myth- Joseph Campbell
35. The Wretched of the Earth - Fanon
36. The Drowned and the Saved- Primo Levi
37. Wild Swans- Jung Chang
38. To Destroy You is no Loss- Joan Criddle
39. Life of Pi- Martel
40. The Republic- Plato
41. Raise the Red Lantern- Su Tong
42. Great Expectations- Dickens
43. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
44. As I Lay Dying- Faulkner
45. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
46. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant
47. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
48. Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson
49. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
50. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë
51. The Stranger- Albert Camus
52. The Awakening- Kate Chopin
53. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
54. The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
55. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
56. Animal Farm- Orwell (in part)
57. The Catcher in the Rye- J. D. Salinger
58. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
59. Walden- Thoreau
60. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
61. The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
62. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
63. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
64. The Talented Mr. Ripley- Patricia Highsmith
65. Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
66. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
67. The King Must Die- Mary Renault
68. The Weight of Water- Anita Shreve
69. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
70. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
71. Sohpie's Choice- William Styron
72. Night- Elie Wiesel
73. Of Men and Mice- Steinbeck
74. A Painted House- Grisham
75. Beloved- Tony Morrison
76. Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis
Plays:
1. Othello- Shakespeare
2. Oediups rex- Sophocles
3. Hamlet- Shakespeare
4. Medea- Euripedes
5. Arcadia- Tom Stoppard
6. True West- Sam Shepard
7. Necessary Targets- Eve Ensler
8. Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller
9. Macbeth- Shakespeare
10. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
11. King Lear- Shakespeare
12. Pygmalion- Shaw
13. The Glass Menagerie- Tennessee Williams
14. Waiting for Godot- Beckett
15. Antigone- Sophocles
16. A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
17. A Man For All Seasons- Bolt
18. The Cherry Orchard- Anton Chekhov
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream- Shakespeare
20. Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
Middle School Texts:
1. Huckleberry Fin- Mark Twain
2. Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
3. Shoeless Joe- W. P. Kinsella
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain
5. Swiss Family Robinson- Johann David Wyss
6. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Avi
7. The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas
8. Invisible Man- Ralph Elison
9. Catch 22- Joseph Heller
10. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
11. The Call of the Wild- Jack London
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
14. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
15. The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
16. The Witch of Blackbird Pond -Elizabeth George Speare
17. Stuart Little - E. B. White
18. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
19. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
20. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
21. The Giver- Lois Lowry
22. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
23. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
24. Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
25. Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
26. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
27. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
Funny thing - I'm fairly sure we read a lot of the middle school books when I was in 4th or 5th grade... but I can't really remember them. Like, at all. Really sort of makes me wonder....
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Date: 2004-09-12 07:14 pm (UTC)And you'd probably like Arcadia and the Mary Renault books, too.
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Date: 2004-09-12 09:27 pm (UTC)*Wishes she hadn't just today gone to the library and gotten a bunch of other stuff*
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Date: 2004-09-12 09:30 pm (UTC)Am jealous of the library books. I really want to go, but I'm trying not to do so until prelims are over, which seems to make for a lot of screwing around online once I max out on math ;)