Recommended Book List

Senior Grades to Adults

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Agamenmnon - Aeschylus*

A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles*

All's Well That Ends Well - Shakespeare*

The Ambassadors - James, Henry*

Antigone - Sophocles*

Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare*

Apology - Plato*

As You Like It - William Shakespeare*

Bartholomew Fair - Ben Jonson*

The Beasts of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs*

Beowulf - F.B. Gummere (translator)*

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe**

Brave New World - Huxley, Aldous*

The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer, Geoffrey*

Catch 22- Heller, Joseph*

The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare**

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dosteoevsky*

The Day of the Triffids - Wyndham, John

Dune - Herbert, Frank

Dracula - Stoker, Bram

East of Eden - Steinbeck, John

The Edible Woman - Atwood, Margaret*

Endor's Game - Card, Orson Scott

Electra - Sophocles*

Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury, Ray

Fifth Business - Davies, Robertson*

Flowers for Algernon - Keyes, Daniel*

The Foundation Trilogy - Asimove, Issac

Frankenstein - Shelley, Mary Wollestonecraft

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John

Great Expectations - Dickens, Charles*

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, Scott F.

Hamlet - Shakespeare**

Handmaid's Tale - Atwood, Margaret

Hard Times - Dickens, Charles*

Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph*

Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII - Shakespeare*

Hippolytus - Euripides*

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyles, Arthur Conan*

An Ideal Husband - Wilde, Oscar*

The Illiad and The Odyssey - Homer*

Interview With the Vampire - Rice, Anne

The Invisible Man - Ellison, Ralph*

The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells*

Ivanhoe - Scott, Walter*

Jane Eyre - Bronte*

Joy Luck Club - Tan, Amy*

Jude the Obscure - Hardy, Thomas*

Julius Caesar - Shakespeare*

King John, King Lear - Shakespeare*

Lady Oracle - Atwood, Margaret

Les Miserable - Hugo, Victor*

Lord Jim - Conrad, Joseph*

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

Love's Labour's Lost - Shakespeare*

Lycidas - Milton, John*

Macbeth - Shakespeare*

Mansfied Park - Austen, Jane*

The Manticore - Davies, Robertson

The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury, Ray

The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare*

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare*

Metamorphoses - Ovid

The Metamorphosis - Kafka, Franz*

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare*

Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare*

Nostromo - Conrad, Joseph*

Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles*

Orestes - Euripides*

The Origin of Species - Darwin, Charles*

Othello - Shakespeare*

Paradice Lost - Milton, John*

Pericles - Shakespeare*

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde, Oscar*

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin*

The Prince - Machiavelli, Niccolo*

Roots - Haley, Alex

The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Short Stories of H.G. Wells - Wells, H.G.

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner, William

Stone Angel - Laurence, Margaret

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Hardy, Thomas

Vanity Fair - Thackeray, William Makepeace*

Volpone - Jonson, Ben*

Waiting for Godot - Beckett, Samuel

War and Peace - Tolstoy, Leo*

The War of the Worlds - Wells, H.G.

The Wars - Finley, Timothy

The Waste Land - Eliot, T.S.*

Wuthering Heights - Bronte*

Utopia - More, Sir Thomas

 


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