Upper School - Reading Lists
Suggested Reading - High School Level 1
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Adams, Richard. Watership Down
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya. Beloved
Ansary, Tamin. West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
Atwood, Margaret. Handmaid’s Tale
Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Cleopatra: Goddess of Egypt, Enemy of Rome
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game
Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain
Criddle, JoAn. To Destroy You is no Loss
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
Hersey, John. Hiroshima
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany
Krakauer, John. Into the Wild
Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy
Orczy, Baroness. The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Orwell, George. 1984
Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen
Preston, Richard. Hot Zone
Ryan, Frank. The Forgotten Plague: How the War against Tuberculosis was Won and Lost
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
White, T.H. The Once and Future King
Wiesel, Elie. Night
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own
Suggested Reading - High School Level 2
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh. The Most Beautiful Molecule
Archer, Jeffrey. First among Equals
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Beowulf
Camus, Albert. The Stranger
Cook, Robin. Coma
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime
Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment
Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hughes, Langston. The Fox in the Attic
Kafka, Franz. The Trial
Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Mailer, Norman. The Executioner’s Song
Mandela, Nelson Long Walk to Freedom
Massie, Robert. Nicholas and Alexandra
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
Pasternak, Boris. Dr. Zhivago
Perry, Anne. Resurrection Row
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar
Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev
Remarque, Erich. All Quiet on the Western Front
Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican
Shakespeare, William. Othello
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare, William. Taming of the Shrew
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces
Updike, John. The Witches of Eastwick
Vonnegut Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five
Wilde, Oscar. The Picuture of Dorian Gray
Woodward, Bob, and Scott Armstrong. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
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