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High School Literature Timeless Classics (9th - Adult)

Aseop’s Fables Arabian Nights Emma by Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin Persuasion by Jane Austin Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin Mansfield Park by Jane Austin Lady Susan by Jane Austin Beowolfe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Canterbury Tales by Goeffrey Chaucer And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Divine Comedy by Dante Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe “Dickory Cronke” by Daniel Defoe (short story) “The True Born Englishman” by Daniel DeFoe (poem) From London to Land’s End by Daniel Defoe A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Bleak House by Charles Dickens Great Expectation by Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Hard Times by Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edward Drood by Charles Dickens Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamoxov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Hounds of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Silas Mariner by George Eliot Middlemarch by George Eliot The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Miracle Worker” by William Gibson (play) “Faust” by Wolgang Goethe (opera) The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Greek Mythology) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway Iliad by Homer Odessey by Homer Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Les Miserable by Victor Hugo Brave New World by Aldous Huxley “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen (short story) “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (short story) The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Stories by Henry James

(collection of short stories) “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka (short stories) Profiles of Courage by John F. Kennedy Kim by Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling A Separate Peace by Rudyard Kipling To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Main Street by Sinclair Lewis “The Necklace” by Jay de Maupassant (short story) Paradise Lost by John Milton Paradise Regained by John Milton Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell “The Misanthrope” by Moliere (play) Norse Mythology 1984 by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell Short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe Robin Hood by Howard Pyle Men of Iron by Howard Pyle Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Complete Works (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer’s Night

Dream, etc.) by William Shakespeare “Pygmallion” by George Bernard Shaw (play; the movie is My Fair

Lady) Faerie Queene by Edmond Spenser The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

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The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne Adrift in the Pacific by Jules Verne The Underground City by Jules Verne The Aeneid by Virgil The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells “Our Town” by Thorton Wilder “Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams

Poetry Elizabeth Barret Browning Robert Browning Robert Burns George Gordon, Lord Byron Emily Dickenson Thomas Gray Robert Frost John Keats Charles Lamb Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Carl Sandburg Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord Tennyson Phillis Wheatley Walt Whitman (Leaves of Green) John Greenleaf Whittier William Wordsworth

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