ENGLISH COLLEGE READING
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The 43 Books Most Frequently Taught in 5% of More of Public Schools, Grades 7-12
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Schools % (n = 322)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm Antigone Call of the Wild Catcher in the Rye A Christmas Carol The Crucible A Day No Pigs Would Die Death of a Salesman The Diary of a Young Girl Fahrenheit 451 The Glass Menagerie The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Hamlet Johnny Tremain Julius Caesar The Light in the Forest Lord of the Flies Macbeth The Miracle Worker 1984 The Odyssey Oedipus Rex Of Mice and Men Othello Our Town The Outsiders The Pearl The Pigman Pygmalion The Read Badge of Courage The Red Pony Romeo and Juliet The Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Shane A Tale of Two Cities To Kill a Mockingbird Where the Red Fern Grows Wuthering Heights |
Mark Twain Mark Twain George Orwell Sophocles Jack London J.D. Salinger Charles Dickens Arthur Miller Robert Newton Peck Arthur Miller Anne Frank Ray Bradbury Tennessee Williams John Steinbeck Charles Dickens F. Scott Fitzgerald William Shakespeare Esther Forbes William Shakespeare Conrad Richter William Golding William Shakespeare William Gibson George Orwell Homer Sophocles John Steinbeck William Shakespeare Thorton Wilder S.E. Hinton John Steinbeck Paul Zindel George Bernard Shaw Stephen Crane John Steinbeck William Shakespeare Nathaniel Hawthorne John Knowles Jack Shaefer Charles Dickens Harper Lee Wilson Rawls Emily Bronte |
78 32 51 28 51 26 20 47 22 36 56 20 24 28 44 54 56 21 71 24 56 81 32 28 29 21 60 20 44 39 64 38 21 47 31 90 62 48 28 41 74 21 26 |
Source: Arthur Applebee, A Study of Book-Length Works Taught in High School English (Albany: Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature, State University of New York, Albany, Report Series 1.2, 1989), App. 2.
Reading List for the College-Bound
This reading list for college-bound students is a combination of many lists compiled by colleges and universities for high school reading. College professors expect incoming students to be familiar with these works; in many cases they will be reread and studied in more depth at college. Students not planning to attend college should not shy away from this list.
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POETRY
Beowulf Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales Dickinson, Emily poems Emerson, Ralph Waldo poems Frost, Robert poems Homer The Iliad; The Odyssey Milton, John Paradise Lost Virgil The Aeneid Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
NONFICTION
Adams, Henry The Education of Henry Adams Aristotle Politics; Poetics Bible Declaration of Independence Douglas, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Didion, Joan essays Freud, Sigmund Civilization and Its Discontents Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Johnson, James Weldon Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior King, Martin Luther I Have a Dream Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince Marx, K. and F. Engels Communist Manifesto Montaigne, Michel de Selected Essays Plato The Republic Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Confessions (selected) St. Augustine Confessions (selected) Thoreau, Henry Walden Thurber, James essays Tocqueville, Alexis de Democracy in America
FICTION (Novels and Short Stories) - continued
*Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye * Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath Stendhal The Red and the Black Stevenson, Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Swift, Jonathan Gullivers Travels Thackeray, William Vanity Fair Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace *Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Innocents Abroad Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five Waugh, Evelyn A Handful of Dust *Wright, Richard Native Son
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FICTION (Novels and Short Stories) *Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Bellow, Saul Humboldts Gift *Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Camus, Albert The Stranger *Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote *Conrad, Joseph The Red Badge of Courage Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe Dickens, Charles David Copperfield; Tale of Two Cities Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment Eliot, George Adam Bede *Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Faulkner, William The Unvanquished; Intruder in the Dust Fielding, Henry Joseph Andrews *Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Fowles, John The French Lieutenants Woman *Golding, William Lord of the Flies Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native *Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms; The Nick Adams Stories James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady Joyce, James Dubliners Kafka, Franz The Trial Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt; Arrowsmith Malamud, Bernard The Magic Barrel Melville, Herman Moby Dick Orwell, George 1984; Animal Farm *Paton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country Poe, Edgar Allan The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Pit and the Pendulum
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