Reading List for College-Bound High School Students

Compiled by the Book List Committee of the

Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English

Printed about 1962

Given me in 1964 by an English teacher at Lanier Jr High, Macon, GA

Presented Here by Ernie Seckinger

with the permission of the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English




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Very Highly Recommended

Arthurian Tales
Austen:Pride and Prejudice
TheBible
Cervantes: DonQuixote
Defoe: RobinsonCrusoe
Dickens: DavidCopperfield
Franklin: Autobiography
Hawthorne: TheScarlet Letter
Homer: Iliad,Odyssey
Melville: MobyDick
Mythologyby Bulfinch and Hamilton
Sophocles:Oedipus
Swift: Gulliver'sTravels
Thoreau: Walden
Twain: HuckleberryFinn
Virgil: Aeneid

Highly Recommended

Bronte, Charlotte: JaneEyre
Bronte, Emily: WutheringHeights
Buck: TheGood Earth
Carson: TheSea Around Us
Cather: My Antonia
Conrad: LordJim
Cooper: LeatherstockingTales
Crane: RedBadge of Courage
Dickens:Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; Tale of Two Cities
Dostoevsky: Crimeand Punishment
Doyle: SherlockHolmes
Eliot: TheMill on the Floss
Emerson: Essays
Fitzgerald: TheGreat Gatsby
TheFederalist Papers
Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Hardy: The Return of the Native
Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea
Hugo: Les Miserables
Huxley: Brave New World
Lewis:Babbit ;Main Street
London: Call of the Wild
Miller: Death of a Salesman
Nordhoff and Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty
O'Neill: Emperor Jones
Orwell:Nineteen Eighty-Four ;Animal Farm
Parkman: Oregon Trail
Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
Poe: Tales
Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Roberts: Northwest Passage
Robin Hood Tales
Rolvaag: Giants in the Earth
Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac
Sarton: Six Wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance
Scott: Quentin Durward
Shaw: Pygmalion; Saint Joan
Sheridan: The Rivals
Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis
The Song of Roland
Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days
White, W. H.: Organization Man
Wilder: Our Town

Recommended

Adler: How to Read a Book
Allen: Only Yesterday
Austen: Mansfield Park
Butler: Way of All Flesh
Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Chesterton: Father Brown
Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident
Conrad: Heart of Darkness; Victory
Dante Inferno
Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers
Eliot: Adam Bede
Faulkner: The Bear; Intruder in the Dust
Fermi: Atoms in the Family
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Galsworthy: Man of Property
Greene: The Power and the Glory
Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hudson: Green Mansions
James: The Turn of the Screw
Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kipling: Jungle Books
Lewis, C.S.: Out of the Silent Planet
Marquand: The Late George Apley
Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
Plato: Dialogues
Plutarch's Lives
Reade: The Cloister and the Hearth
Sandburg: Lincoln
Scott: Ivanhoe
Shaw: Androcles and the Lion
Stevenson: Treasure Island
Strachey: Eminent Victorians; Queen Victoria
Twain: Life on the Mississippi
Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter
White, E.B.: One Man's Meat


 
 

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