Suggested Reading List
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Many colleges provide prospective freshmen with a list
of reading that their institution expects their students to have read
during their high school years. More and more high schools have begun
establishing a suggested reading list for their students. The following
list contains those titles found most often on such lists.
You're never too young or too old to start on the list. Some of the titles will be difficult for seventh and eighth grade students, but many of them are not. These selections are considered to be representative of great literature throughout time. Read through the list. You may be surprised at how many you have already read. Copies of this list will be available in the library.
Suggested Reading List for Chester High School Students
Austin,
Pride and Prejudice
Benet,
John Brown’s Body
Boswell,
Life of Johnson Bronte, C., Jane Eyre Bronte,
E., Wuthering Heights
Buck, The Good Earth
Bunyan,
Pilgrim’s Progress
Burdick and Lederer,
The Life of Johnson Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland
Carroll,
Through the Looking Glass
Carson,
The Sea Around Us
Cather,
Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather,
My Antonia
Cervantes,
Don Quixote
Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales
Clark,
The Ox-Bow Incident
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness Cooper,
Leatherstocking Tales
Crane,
The Red Badge of Courage
Curie,
Madam Curie
Dante, The Inferno
Defoe,
Robinson Crusoe
Dickens,
David Copperfield
Dickens,
Great Expectations
Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment
Doyle,
Sherlock Holmes Dreiser,
An American Tragedy
Eliot,
Mill on the Floss
Emerson,
Essays
Faulkner,
As I Lay Dying
Faulkner,
Intruder in the Dust Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
Flaubert,
Madam Bovary
Forster,
Passage to India
Frank,
The Diary of a Young Girl
Franklin,
Autobiography
Galsworthy,
The Forsythe Saga
Golding,
Lord of the Flies
Goldsmith,
She Stoops to Conquer
Greene,
The Power and the Glory
Haley,
Roots
Hardy,
Return of the Native
Hawthorne,
The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway,
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway,
The Old Man and the Sea
Herriott,
All Creatures Great and Small
Hersey,
Hiroshima
Homer,
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Hugo,
Les Miserables
Hudson,
Green Mansions
Huxley,
Brave New World
Ibsen, A Doll’s
House
James, Turn of the
Screw
Keller,
The Story of My Life
Kennedy,
Profiles in Courage
Kipling,
The Jungle Book
Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis,
Arrowsmith
Lewis,
Main Street
Llewellyn,
How Green Was My Valley
London,
Call of the Wild
Maugham,
Of Human Bondage
Melville,
Moby Dick
Miller,
The Crucible
Miller,
Death of a Salesman
Nordoff and Hall,
Mutiny on the Bounty
O’Neill,
Emperor Jones
Orwell,
Animal Farm
Orwell,
Nineteen Eighty-four
Parkman,
Oregon Trail
Pasternak,
Dr. Zhivago
Paton,
Cry, The Beloved Country
Plutarch,
Lives
Poe,
Great Tales and Poems
Roberts,
Northwest Passage
Rolvaag,
Giants in the Earth
Salinger,
Catcher in the Rye
Sandburg,
Lincoln
Saroyan,
Human Comedy
Scott,
Ivanhoe
Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night,
Hamlet, Macbeth, others
Shaw,
Pygmalian
Shaw,
St. Joan
Sophocles,
Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson,
Treasure Island
Stone,
Lust for Life
Stowe,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift,
Gulliver’s Travels
Thackery,
Vanity Fair
Thoreau,
Walden
Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy,
War and Peace
Twain,
Huckleberry Finn
Twain,
Life on the Mississippi
Twain,
Tom Sawyer
Virgil,
The Aeneid
Warren,
All the King’s Men
Whitman,
Leaves of Grass
Wharton, Ethan Frome
Wilde,
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder,
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wilder,
Our Town
Williams,
The Glass Menagerie
Wister,
The Virginian
Wolfe,
Look Homeward Angel
Wright,
Native Son
Other
Important Reading Arthurian Tales
Robin Hood Tales
Mythology – Greek, Roman, Norse
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