Back To School Reading List
With summer coming to its close, and school almost back in session, we got to thinking… what will be on school reading lists this upcoming year? We compiled a short list of some of the most common books read by our guides in their high school English classes. How many on this list have you read? Only a couple of weeks left to catch up!
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Beowulf
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Elie Wiesel, Night
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know in the comments!