Reading List For College Bound Students ======================================= [ // Ben's note: This list was passed out to English students // at Grants Pass High School in the early '90s. // key: // * public domain etexts online // # texts I have read // % texts I do not want to read // texts I have not found yet ] Must Read --------- *# ...... The Bible. (220.5 Bib) *# ...... Mythology (Bulfinch 291 Bul, Hamilton 291 Ham) # ...... Robin Hood Tales (Pap Eme) *# ...... The Song of Roland Burdick, Eugene & Lederer, William. The Ugly American. (Fic Led) *# Caroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. (Fic Car) *# Cooper, James F. Leatherstocking Tales. (Fic Coo) *# Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. (Fic Def) * Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. (Fic Dic) * Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. (Fic Dic) *# Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes. (SC Doy) * Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (Fic Fit) *# Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. (822 Gol) *# Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. (Fic Har, 823 Mor) # Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. (Fic Hem) *# Hersey, John. Hiroshima. (940.54 Her) * Homer. Illiad. (883 Hom) * Homer. Odyssey. (883 Hom) * Kipling, Rudyard. Jungle Books. (Fic Kip) *# Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. (Fic Lew) *% Shakespeare, William. Plays. (822.3 Ben, 822.3 Cha) *# Steinbeck, John. Grapes of Wrath. (Pap Ste, Fic Ste) *# Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. (Pap Ste, Fic Ste) * Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. (Pap Swi, Fic Swi) * Thoreau, Henry. Walden. (818 Tho, 820 Tho, Pap Tho) *# Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn. (Pap Cle, Fic Cle) *# Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (Fic Cle) *# Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. # Wright, Richard. Native Son. (Fic Wri) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Additional Titles ----------------- * ...... Arthurian Tales (398.2 Mal, 398.2 Gre) * ...... The Federalist Papers * Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. (921 Ada) * Allen, Fredrick. Only Yesterday. (973.91 All) * Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. (Fic Aus, SC Aus) Barnett, Lincoln. The Universe and Dr. Einstein. *# Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward. (Fic Bel) Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. (390 Ben) Benet, Stephen Vincent. John Brown's Body. (811 Ben) % Boswell, James. Life of Johnson. Bronowski, J. Common Sense of Science. *# Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. (Pap Bro, Fic Bro) * Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. (Pap Bro, Fic Bro) *# Brooks, Van Wyck. The Flowering of New England. # Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth. (Fic Buc) * Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's Progress. (Fic Bun) *# Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. (Fic But) *# Carroll, Lewiss. Through the Looking Glass. (Fic Car) # Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. (910 Car) * Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. (Fic Cat) * Cather, Willa. My Antonia (Fic Cat) *# Cervantes, Miguel De. Don Quixote. (Pap Cer, Fic Cer) Chase, Stuary. The Power of Words. * Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. (821 Cha, 821 COH) Cheney. The Story of Modern Art. Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. The Ox-Bow Incident. (Fic Cla) *# Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness (Fic Con) * Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. (Fic Con, Pap Con) # Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for in Music. *# Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. (Fic Cra, Pap Cra) Curie, Marie. Madam Curie. (Pap Mad) (921 Cur) * Dante, Alighieri. Inferno. (851 Dan) * Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. (Fic Dos) * Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. (Fic Dre) * Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers. (Fic Dum) * Eliot, George. Adam Bede. * Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. (Fic Eli) Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man. (Fic Ell) * Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays. (818 Kon, 810.81 Eme) Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust. (Fic Fal) Fenton. Life-Long Age: The Story of Fossils. Fermi, Laura. Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi. (921 Fer) *# Plaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. (Fic Fla) * Forster, E.M. Passage to India. (Fic For) *# Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. (921 Fra) *# Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough * Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte Saga. (Fic Gal) Gardner. Art Through the Ages. # Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. (Pap Gol, Fic Gol) Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. (Fic Gre) # Hall, Calvin S. A Primer of Freudian Psychology. *# Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. (Fic Haw, Pap Haw) # Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea. (Fic Hem) % Hemingway, Ernest. Short Stories. (SC Hem) * Hoyle. Frontiers of Astronomy. *# Hudson, William. Green Mansions. (Fic Hud, Pap Hud) * Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables. (Pap Hug, Fic Hug) *# Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. (Fic Hux, Pap Hux) *# Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House. (808.2 Ibs, 839.8 Fje) * James, Henry. Turn of the Screw (813.09 Jam, SC Jam) *% Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Fic Joy) Kennedy, John. Profiles in Courage. (920 Ken) # Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. (Pap Lee, Fic Lee) # Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet. (Fic Lew, Pap Lew) *# Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. (Fic Lew) *# Lin Yut'ang. Wisdom of China and India. (895 Lin) # Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley. (Fic Lle) *# London, Jack. Call of the Wild. (Pap Lon, Fic Lon, SC Lon) * Marquand, John P. The Late George Apley. * Marx, Carl. Capital. (335 Mar) * Maugham, Somerset. Oh Human Bondage. (Fic Mau) *# Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. (Fic Mel, Pap Mel) Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. (Pap Mil) (812 Mil) Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. (812 Mil) # Monsarrat, Nicholas. The Cruel Sea. (Fic Mon) *# Nordoff, Charles and Hall, James. Mutiny on the Bounty. (SC Nor) * O'Neill, Eugene. Emperor Jones. (812 O'Ne) * Orwell, George. Animal Farm. (Pap Orw, Fic Orw) *# Orwell, George. Nineteen Eughty-four. (Fic Orw, Pap Orw) Osborn. Our Plundered Planet. * Parkman, Francis. Oregon Trail. (978 Par) Pasternack, Boris. Dr. Zhivago. (Fic Pas) Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. (Fic Pat) * Plutarch. Lives. (920 Plu) * Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales. (SC Poe) Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. (Pap Rem) Richter, Conrad. The Sea of Grass. (Fic Ric) Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. (Fic Rob) Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth. (Fic Rol) * Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac. (842 Ros) Sachs. Our Musical Heritage. Saint Exupery, Antoine. Wind, Sand and Stars. (910 Sai) # Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. (Pap Sal, Fic Sal) Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln. (921 Lin) Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy. (Fic Sar) Sarton, George. Six Wings, Men of Science in the Renaissance. * Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe. (Pap Sco, Fic Sco) * Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. (822 Sha) * Shaw, George Bernard. Saint Joan. (822 Sha) * Sheridan, Richard. School for Scandal. * Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. (882.08 Lin) Stone, Irving. Lust for Life. (Fic Sto) * Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Victorians. Teale, Edwin. Adventures in Nature. * Thackeray, Wiliam. Vanity Fair. (Fic Tha) * Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. (Fic Tol) * Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons. (Fic Tur) * Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. * Veblen, Thorstein. Theory of the Leisure Class. * Virgil. Aeneid. (873 Ver, 873 Tay) Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men. (813 War) Well and Hezley. The Science of Life * Wells. H. G. Outline of History. (909 Wel-2 vol.) * Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. (Fic Wha) Whyte, William H. Organization Man. (302.3 Why) * Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. (822 Wil) Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. (Fic Wil) * Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. (Pap Wil) # Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. (812.08 Six) * Wister, Owen. The Virginian. (Fic Wis) * Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward Angel. (Fic Wol)