2016/2017 College Prep.
Reading List -- LCS English Department
1984 Orwell, George Death in the Family, A Agee, James
* Aeneid, The Vergil * Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather, Willa
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis Death in Venice Mann, Thomas
Adventures of Augie March, The Bellow, Saul * Death of a Salesman, The Miller, Arthur
* Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Twain, Mark Death of Artemio Cruz, The Fuentes, Carlos
* Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Doyle, Arthur Conan * Decameron Boccaccio, Giovanni
* Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Twain, Mark * Divine Comedy Dante
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria * Doctor Faustus Marlowe, Christopher
* American, The James, Henry Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
An American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore A Dolls House Ibsen, Henrik
* And Then There were None Christie, Agatha * Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de
* Animal Farm Orwell, George * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo Dragonsong McCaffrey, Anne
* Antigone Sophocles Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott
* As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The Gaines, Ernest * Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
Awakening, The Chopin, Kate Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan
Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
* Barchester Towers Trollope, Anthony For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
Bartleby the Scrivener Melville, Herman * Frankenstein Shelley, Mary
Bell Jar, The Plath, Sylvia * Gathering of Old Men Gaines, Ernest
Beloved Morrison, Toni * Giants of the Earth Rolvaag, O. E.
* Ben-Hur Wallace, Lew * Glass Menagerie, The Williams, Tennessee
* Beowulf Glory Field, The Myers, Walter Dean
Black Boy Wright , Richard Go Tell it on the Mountain Baldwin, James
Bless Me, Ultima Anaya, Rudolpho Good Earth, The Buck, Pearl S.
* Book of the Dun Cow Wangerin, Walter Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck, John
Call It Sleep Roth, Henry * Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
* Call of the Wild, The London, Jack * Great Gatsby, The Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Candide Voltaire Great Tales and Poems Poe, Edgar Allen
* Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Geoffrey * Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph * Hamlet Shakespeare, William
Catcher in the Rye, The Salinger, J.D. Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
Ceremony Silko, Leslie Marmon * Hobbit, The Tolkien, J.R.R.
* Cherry Orchard, The Chekhov, Anton House of Mirth, The Wharton, Edith
Chocolate War, The Cormier, Robert House of Seven Gables, The Hawthorne, Nathaniel
* Chosen, The Potok, Chaim House on Mango Street, The Cisneros, Sandra
* Christmas Carol, A Dickens, Charles House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
* Collection of Plays/Poetry/Short Stories Yeats, William Butler * Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hugo, Victor
* Collection of Poetry Dickinson, Emily * Iliad Homer
* Collection of Poetry Eliot, T.S. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
* Collection of Poetry Frost, Robert In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez, Julia
* Collection of Poetry Keats, John Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph
* Collection of Poetry Tennyson, Alfred Lord * Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter
* Collection of Short Stories Poe, Edgar Allen * Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
* Collection of Short Stories Tolstoy, Leo * Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther
* Collection of Short Stories and Plays Chekhov, Anton Joy Luck Club, The Tan, Amy
* Count of Monte Cristo, The Dumas, Alexandre * Julius Caesar Shakespeare, William
* Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor * Jungle, The Sinclair, Upton
Color Purple, The Walker, Alice * Jungle Book, The Kipling, Rudyard
Crucible, The Miller, Arthur * King Lear Shakespeare, William
Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan Labyrinths Borges, Jorge, Luis
Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond * Lantern in Her Hand, A Aldrich, Bess Streeter
* David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
* Last of the Mohicans, The Cooper, James Fenimore * Red Badge of Courage, The Crane, Stephen
Learning Tree, The Parks, Gordon * Republic, The Plato
* Les Miserables Hugo, Victor Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas
Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Laura * Robe, The Douglas, Lloyd C.
Look Homeward, Angel Wolfe, Thomas Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Bellamy, Edward * Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William
Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph Roots Haley, Alex
Lord of the Flies Golding, Willliam * Scarlet Letter, The Hawthorne, Nathaniel
* Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.R. * Screwtape Letters Lewis, C.S.
* Macbeth Shakespeare, William Sea Wolf, The London, Jack
Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave * Selected Essays Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Magic Mountain, The Mann, Thomas Seize the Day Bellow, Saul
Main Street Lewis, Sinclair Separate Peace, A Knowles, John
* Merchant of Venice Shakespeare, William * Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
* Metamorphoses Ovid Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann
Metamorphosis and Other Stories Kafka, Franz * Silas Marner Eliot, George
Midsummer Night's Dream, A Shakespeare, William Silicon Snake Oil Stoll, Clifford
Mill on the Floss, The Eliot, George Sister Carrie Dreiser, Theodore
Member of the Wedding, The McCullers, Carson Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut, Kurt
* Moby Dick Melville, Herman * Song of the Lark, The Cather, Willa
* Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel Son's and Lovers Lawrence, D.H.
* My Antonia Cather, Willa * Sophie's World Gaarder, Jostine
My Name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner, William
* Mythology Hamilton, Edith Stranger, The Camus, Albert
* Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert A.
Native Son Wright, Richard Sula Morrison, Toni
Natural, The Malamud, Bernard Sun Also Rises, The Hemingway, Ernest
Night Weisel, Elie Swanns Way Proust, Marcel
* Odyssey Homer * Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles
* Oedipus the King Sophocles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John * That Hideous Strength Lewis, C.S.
* Old Jules Sandoz, Mari * Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale
* Old Man and the Sea, The Hemingway, Ernest Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua
On the Beach Shute, Nevil Things They Carried, The O'Brien, Tim
* Once and Future King, The White, T.H. Thirteen Stories Welty, Eudora
* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn * Three Musketeers, The Dumas, Alexandre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken * Till We Have Faces Lewis, C.S.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez, Gabriel * Time Machine, The Wells, H. G.
* Our Town Wilder, Thornton Tin Drum, The Grass, Gunter
* Out of the Silent Planet Lewis, C.S. * To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
* Othello Shakespeare, William To The Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil Gogol, Nikolai * Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis
Ox-Bow Incident, The Clark, Walter VanTilburg Trial, The Kafka, Franz
Parable of the Sower Butler, Octavia Turn of the Screw, The James, Henry
* Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained Milton, John * Twelfth Night Shakespeare, William
Passage to India, A Forster, E.M. * Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Pearl, The Steinbeck, John Vanity Fair Thackeray, William
Pere Goriot Balzac, Honore de Waiting for Godot Beckett, Samuel
* Perelandra Lewis, C.S. Walden Thoreau, Henry David
Picture of Dorian Gray, The Wilde, Oscar * War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo
* Pilgrim's Progress, The Bunyan, John * War of the Worlds Wells, H. G.
Portrait of a Lady, The James, Henry * Waste Land, The Eliot, T.S.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Joyce, James Way of All Flesh, The Butler, Samuel
* Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane Winesburg Ohio Anderson, Sherwood
* Puddin'head Wilson Twain, Mark * Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
* Pygmalion Shaw, George Bernard Yellow Raft in Blue Water, A Dorris, Michael
Rebecca DuMaurier, Daphne
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*These titles will contain little to no offensive material. Nonasterisked titles may contain offensive language and/or adult situations.
