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High School  Reading List

Summers of High School English

The Bible (King James version):

Old Testament -- Genesis; Exodus; Job; Proverbs 1-9; Ecclesiastes
New Testament -- two of the Gospels (preferably Mark & Luke); Revelation

1984, by George Orwell
The Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
Native Son, by Richard Wright
The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh
**My Antonia, by Willa Cather
Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
**To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
**The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
Daughters of Copper Woman, by Anne Cameron
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
**Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austin
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forester
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
Desert Solitude, by Edward Abbey
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Don Quixote, by Cervantes
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
he Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck


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