Monson’s Suggested Reading List · Web viewWhile it is impossible to read everything “good”...
Transcript of Monson’s Suggested Reading List · Web viewWhile it is impossible to read everything “good”...
While it is impossible to read everything “good” or valuable, these titles comprise some significant literary works. I suggest researching authors and titles before investing “extra time.” Many of these works you will encounter in your high school experience (some indicated by grade level); therefore, many listed are considered “classics.” For more modern and contemporary works you may want to consult Best Seller lists, Popular Contemporary lists, and specific university reading lists. Curl up with a good book!
American Titles and AuthorsAlbee, Edward □ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
□ American Dream (10)
Alvarez, Julia □ In the Name of Salome□ In the time of Butterflies (10)
Anaya, Rudolfo □ Bless Me, Ultima (9)
Angelou, Maya □ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* (9)□ selected poems* (9)
Arnow, Harriette Louis □ The Dollmaker
Atwood, Margaret □ The Handmaid’s Tale* (AP)
Bradbury, Ray □ Fahrenheit 451*□ Dandelion Wine (AP)
Buck, Pearl S. □ The Good Earth
Carson, Rachel □ Silent Spring
Carter, Forrest □ The Education of Little Tree
Cather, Willa □ My Antonia*Cheever, John □ selected short stories
Chopin, Kate □ The Awakening* (AP)
Cisneros, Sandra □ House on Mango Street* (AP)
Cooper, James Fennimore □ Last of the Mohicans*Cormier, Robert □ I am the Cheese
□ The Chocolate War□ Beyond the Chocolate War
Crane, Stephen □ The Red Badge of Courage* (9)
DeLillo, Don □ White Noise
Dickinson, Emily □ selected poems* (10)
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Dreiser, Theodore □ An American Tragedy
DuBois, W. E. B. □ Souls of Black Folk
Eliot, T.S. □ Wasteland* (AP)□ Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (10/AP)
Ellison, Ralph □ Invisible Man (Hum. Values)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo □ selected poetry and essays (10)
Faulkner, William □ Bear□ As I Lay Dying□ The Sound and the Fury (AP)□ “A Rose for Emily” (10)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott □ The Great Gatsby* (10)
Franklin, Benjamin □ The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Frost, Robert □ selected poems* (10)
Gladwell, Malcolm □ The Tipping Point□ Flow
Golden, Arthor □ Memoirs of a Geisha
Gunther, John □ Death Be Not Proud
Hansberry, Lorraine □ A Raisin in the Sun* (10)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel □ The Scarlet Letter* (10)□ The House of the Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest □ A Farwell to Arms* (10)□ For Whom the Bell Tolls*□ The Old Man and the Sea□ The Sun Also Rises□ Selected short stories (10, AP)
Hersch, Patricia □ A Tribe Apart
Hinton, S. E. □ The Outsiders* (7)
Hoff, Benjamin □ Tao of Pooh (Hum. Search)
Humes, Edward □ No Matter How Loud I Shout
Hurston, Zora Neale □ Their Eyes Were Watching God* (AP)
Irving, John □ Prayer for Owen Meany (AP)
Jackson, Shirley □ We Have Always Lived in the Castle□ selected stories (“The Lottery”) (10, Hum. Values)
James, Henry □ Turn of the Screw* (AP)
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Jones, Ron □ The Acorn People (9)
Joyce, James □ Portrait of and Artist as a Young Man (AP)
Keller, Helen □ The Story of My Life
Kennedy, John F. □ Profiles of Courage
Kesey, Ken □ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest* (AP)
Kingsolver, Barbara □ The Poisonwood Bible
Knowles, John □ A Separate Peace* (9)
Lawrence, D. H. □ Sons and Lovers□ Lady Chatterley’s Lover
L’Engle, Madeleine □ A Wrinkle in Time*
Lee, Harper □ To Kill A Mockingbird* (10)
Le Guin, Ursula □ The Earthsea Series□ The Dispossessed□ The Left Hand of Darkness
Lewis, Sinclair □ Main Street*
London, Jack □ selected poetry and short stories “To Build a Fire” * (10)□ The Call of the Wild (9)
Lowry, Lois □ The Giver (8)
Mason, Bobbi Ann □ “Shiloh” and other short stories
McCullers, Carson □ Member of the Wedding□ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Melville, Herman □ Moby Dick (10)□ selected short stories (“Bartleby, the Scrivener”)□ Billy Bud
Michener, James □ Centennial
Millay, Edna St. Vincent □ selected poems*
Miller, Arthur □ Death of a Salesman* (AP)□ The Crucible* (10)
Morrison, Toni □ The Bluest Eye
Pipher, Mary □ Reviving Ophelia*Plath, Sylvia □ The Bell Jar (10)
□ selected short stories
Poe, Edgar Allen □ Complete stories, selected poems* (9, 10)
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Salinger, J.D. □ The Catcher in the Rye* (10)
Sandburg, Carl □ selected poems*
Sinclair, Upton □ The Jungle* (10)
Smith, Adam □ The Wealth of Nations
Steinbeck, John □ The Pearl (9)□ The Grapes of Wrath* (10)□ Of Mice and Men (10)□ East of Eden
Stowe, Harriet Beecher □ Uncle Tom’s Cabin*
Tan, Amy □ The Joy Luck Club*□ Kitchen God’s Wife
Thoreau, Henry David □ Walden* (10)□ selected essays (“Civil Disobedience”*) (10, AP)
Thurber, James □ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”* (9)
Twain, Mark □ selected short stories (10)□ Life on the Mississippi□ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (10)□ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (9)
Updike, John □ selected short stories*Vonnegut, Kurt □ selected short stories
□ Slaughterhouse Five* (10)
Walker, Alice □ The Color Purple* (AP)
Welty, Eudora □ selected stories (“A Worn Path”) (Hum. Search)
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) □ Stuart Little□ Charlotte’s Web□ essay “One Man’s Meat”
Whitman, Walt □ Leaves of Grass* (10)
Wilder, Thornton □ Our Town* (Honors Drama)
Williams, Tennessee □ A Streetcar Named Desire* (Honors Drama)□ A Glass Menagerie
Wright, Richard □ Black Boy*(9)□ Native Son
X, Malcolm □ The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Non-American Titles and Authors Achebe, Chinua □ Things Fall Apart (Hum. Search)
Adams, Richard □ Watership Down (9, Hum. Values)
Aeschylus □ Prometheus Bound (AP test)□ Agamemnon (11☼)
Allende, Isabel □ Of Love and Shadows (11☼)
Anaya, Rudolfo □ Bless Me, Ultima (9)
Aristotle □ Physics (11☼)□ Metaphysics (11☼)□ Nicomachean Ethics (11☼)□ Poetics * (Hum. Values)
Augustine □ Confessions (11☼)□ Song of Roland (11☼)
Aristophanes □ Lysistrata (11☼)□ The Frogs (11☼)□ The Birds (11☼)
Aurelius, Marcus □ Meditations (Hum. Values)
Austen, Jane □ Emma (11☼)□ Sense and Sensibility (11☼)□ Pride and Prejudice* (11☼, AP test)
Bacon, Sir Francis □ selected essays (11)
Barca, Pedro Calderón de la □ selected poetry
Baudelaire □ selected poems (11)
Beaumarchais, Pierre □ Barber of Seville (11☼)
Beckett, Samuel □ Waiting for Godot (Honors Drama)
Brecht, Bertolt □ Mother Courage
Brontë, Charlotte □ Jane Erye (9)
Brontë, Emily □ Wuthering Heights* (11☼)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett □ selected poems* (11)
Burgess, Anthony □ A Clockwork Orange (11☼)
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Burns, Robert □ Selected poetry (11)
Camus, Albert □ The Plague (11☼)
Carey, Peter □ My Life as Fake (11☼)
Carroll, Lewis □ Through the Looking Glass (11☼)□ Alice in Wonderland* (11☼, AP test)
Cervantes, Miguel □ Don Quixote (11☼)
Chandra, Vikram □ Red Earth and Pouring Rain (11☼)
Chaucer, Geoffrey □ Canterbury Tales* (AP)
Chbosky, Stephen □ The Perks of Being a Wallflower (9)
Chekhov, Anton □ The Cherry Orchard (11☼)□ “The Bet” (11)
Conrad, Joseph □ Heart of Darkness (Hum. Values)□ Lord Jim (11☼)
Corneille, Pierre □ The Cid (11☼)
Dante Alligiere □ The Divine Comedy, specifically Inferno* (11)
Day, David □ Search for King Arthur (11☼)
Defoe, Daniel □ Robinson Crusoe (11☼)
Descartes □ Meditations (11☼)□ Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Hum. Values)
Dickens, Charles □ A Christmas Carol (middle school)□ Oliver Twist (9)□ A Tale of Two Cities (9)□ Great Expectations* (9)□ David Copperfield (11☼)□ Hard Times (AP)
Donne, John □ selected poems and sonnets*Dostoevsky, Fyodor □ Crime and Punishment (11☼)
□ The Possessed (11☼)□ The Idiot (11☼)
Dumas, Alexander □ Man in the Iron Mask (11☼)□ The Three Musketeers (11☼)□ The Count of Monte Cristo (11☼)
du Maurier, Daphne □ Rebecca (11☼)
Egyptian Love Poetry (11)
Einstein, Albert □ On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (11☼)
Eliot, George □ Silas Mariner (11)
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□ Middlemarch (11☼, AP test)□ The Mill on the Floss (11☼)
Epic of Gilgamesh* (11) □
Esquivel, Laura □ Like Water for Chocolate (11☼)
Euclid □ Elements (11☼)
Euripides □ Medea*(11☼)
Fielding, Henry □ Tom Jones (11☼)
Fitzgerald, Edward □ translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* (11)
Flaubert, Gustav □ Madame Bovary (11☼)
Fontaine, Jean de la □ selected poems (11)
Forester, E. M. □ Passage to India (11☼)□ Howards End (11☼)□ A Room with a View (11☼)
Frank, Anne □ Diary of a Young Girl* (middle school)
Frankl, Viktor □ Man’s Search for Meaning* (Hum. Search)
Freud, Sigmund □ A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (11☼)
Gaardner, Jostiene □ Sophie’s World (Hum. Values)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von □ Faust* (11, AP test)
Gogol, Nikolai □ Dead Souls (11☼)□ Inspector General (11☼)□ “The Overcoat” (11)
Golding, William □ Lord of the Flies* (9)
Hamilton, Edith □ Mythology* (Hum. Search)
Hardy, Thomas □ Tess of d’Urbervilles (11☼)□ Jude the Obscure (11☼)□ Return of the Native (AP test, 11☼)
Hesse, Herman □ Siddhartha (Hum. Search)□ Steppenwolf (11☼)
Homer □ The Iliad* and the Odyssey* (11)
Hosseini, Khaled □ The Kite Runner (11☼)
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward) □ selected poems
Hugo, Victor □ The Hunchback of Notre Dame (11☼)□ Les Miserables (11☼)□ “The Expiation” (11)
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Huong, Duong Thu □ Paradise of the Blind (11☼)
Huxley, Aldous □ Brave New World (AP)□ The Doors of Perception (11☼)□ Point Counter Point (11☼)
Ibsen, Heinrik □ A Doll’s House* (11, Honors Drama)
Ji-Li, Jiang □ Red Scarf Girl (11☼)
Jonson, Ben □ Volpone (11☼)
Kafka, Franz □ The Trial (Hum.Values)□ “The Metamorphosis”* (11)
Kaufman, Bel □ Up the Down Staircase (11☼)
Keats, John □ selected poems* (11)
Keneally, Thomas □ Schindler’s List (11☼)
Khayyam, Omar □ The Rubaiyat (11)
Kipling, Rudyard □ The Jungle Book (11☼)
Latifa □ My Forbidden Face (11☼)
Lessing, Doris □ The Golden Notebook (11☼)□ selected works (AP test)□ “To Room 19” (AP)
Lewis, C. S. □ The Screwtape Letters (11☼, Hum. Search)□ Out of the Silent Planet (11☼)
Locke, John □ selected essays (11☼, AP test)
Lovelace, Earl □ The Wine of Astonishment (11☼)
Lucretius □ On the Nature of Things (11☼)
Machiavelli, Niccolo □ The Prince* (11)
Markandaya, Kamala □ Nectar in a Sieve (11☼, Hum. Search)
Marlowe, Christopher □ The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (AP test, 11☼)□ Tamburlaine (11☼)□ Edward II (11☼)□ selected poems (11☼)
Marques, Gabrell Garcia □ 100 Years of Solitude (AP)
Martel, Yann □ Life of Pi (11☼, Hum. Values)
Marx, Karl □ Communist Manifesto (11☼)□ Capital (11☼)□ Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (11☼)
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Milton, John □ Paradise Lost* (AP)
Moliẻre, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin □ Tartuffe (11☼)□ The Miser (11☼)□ The School for Wives (11☼)□ The School for Husbands (11☼)□ Misanthrope (11☼)
Montaigne, Michel de □ selected essays
Neruda, Pablo □ “Enigma” and selected poems (11, Hum. Values) “Mindwalk”□ “Ode to My Socks” (AP test, Hum. Values)
Nietzsche, Friedrich □ Twilight of the Idols (11☼)□ Birth of Tragedy (11☼)□ Beyond Good and Evil (11☼)
Nordhoff, Charles □ Mutiny on the Bounty (11☼)
Nuruddin, Farah □ Secrets (11☼)
“One Thousand and One Nights” (11) □
Orwell, George □ Animal Farm* (9)□ 1984* (11☼)
Ovid □ Metamorphoses (11☼)
Pascal, Blaise □ Pensées (11☼)□ selected essays “Man in the Universe” (11)
Pasternak, Boris □ Doctor Zhivago (11☼)
Paton, Alan □ Cry the Beloved Country (11☼)
Plato □ Ion (11☼)□ Meno (11☼)□ Gorgias (11☼)□ Apology (11☼)□ Crito (11☼)□ Phaedo (11☼)□ Symposium* (11☼)□ Parmedides (11☼)□ Republic* (Hum. Values)
Plautus □ Pot of Gold (11☼)□ Four Comedies (11☼)
Plutarch □ Lives (11☼)
Pushkin, Alexander □ “The Bridegroom” (11)
Q’ran □ (11, Hum. Search)
Racine, Jean □ Andromache (11☼)□ Phédre (11☼)
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Rand, Ayn □ The Fountainhead (Hum. Values)□ Atlas Shrugged (11☼)
Remarque, Erich Maria □ All’s Quiet on the Western Front (11☼)
Rostand, Edmond □ Cyrano de Bergerac (11)
Rousseau □ selected essays (“The Social Contract”) (11☼)
Rushdie, Salman □ Midnight’s Children (11☼)
Saadawi, Nawal el □ Woman at Point Zero (11☼)
Schiler, Johann □ William Tell (11☼)
Scott, Sir Walter □ Ivanhoe (11☼)
Shakespeare, William □ Othello* (11), selected sonnets (9-12)□ Romeo and Juliet* (9)□ Macbeth* (AP)□ Hamlet* (AP)□ Much Ado About Nothing* (AP)□ A Midsummer Night’s Dream* (11☼) □ The Merchant of Venice (9, Hum. Search)□ The Taming of the Shrew* (9, AP)□ Julius Caesar (9)□ Twelfth Night (11☼)□ King Lear (Hum. Values)□ The Tempest (11☼)□ As You Like It (11☼)
Shaw, George Bernard □ Pygmalion (AP test, Honors Drama)
Shelley, Mary □ Frankenstein (AP)
Sheridan, Richard □ School for Scandal (11☼)
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander □ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (11☼)
Sophocles □ Oedipus Rex* (11)□ Antigone* (11☼)
Spenser, Edmund □ selected sonnets (11)
Stevenson, Robert Lewis □ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (11☼)□ Treasure Island (11☼)
Stoker, Bram □ Dracula (11☼)
Strindberg, August □ The Father (11☼)
Suri, Manil □ Death of Vishnu (Hum. Search)
Swift, Johnathan □ Gulliver’s Travels* (11☼)□ “A Modest Proposal” (11)
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Tacitus □ Annals (11☼)
Terence □selected comedies (11☼)
Thackeray, William □ Vanity Fair (11☼)
Tolkien, J. R. R. □ The Hobbit* (9 Ch.)
Tolstoy, Leo □ War and Peace (11☼)□ Anna Karenina (11☼)□ “How Much Land Does a Man Need” (11)
Vega, Lopé de □ Star of Seville (11☼)□ selected plays (11☼)
Verne, Jules □ Around the World in Eighty Days (11☼)□ Journey to the Center of the Earth (11☼)□ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (11☼)
Virgil □ Aeneid (Honors Latin, AP test)
Voltaire, Francois □ Candide (11☼, AP test)
Weisel, Elie □ Night (9)
Wells, H. G. □ The Invisible Man (Hum. Values)□ The Time Machine (11☼)□ War of the Worlds (11☼)
White, T. H. □ Once and Future King (11☼)
Wilde, Oscar □ Picture of Dorian Gray* (11☼)□ The Importance of Being Ernest (AP)
Woolf, Virginia □ Mrs. Dalloway (11☼)□ selected works* (Ap test)
Zola, Emile □ Germinal (11☼)□ L’Ouvre (11☼)
* denotes Monson’s recommendation to read because you are likely to encounter the work and/or the author in collegiate classes.
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