Suggested+Reading+List

Reading List Suggestions for the College-Bound
Chaucer-Canterbury Tales Homer-The Iliad Homer-The Odyssey Milton-Paradise Lost Virgil-The Aenid
 * Poetry or poetry-type**:

Adams-The Education of Henry Adams Aristotle-Politics, Poetics Bible Delcaration of Independence Douglass-Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass Didion-Essays Emerson (Ralph Waldo)-essays Freud-Civilization and its Discontents Franklin-The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Johnson-Autobiography of an ex-Couloured Man Kingston-The Woman Warrior King-I have a Dream Machiavelli-The Prince Marx and Engels-Communist Manifesto Montaigne-Selected Essays Plato-The Republic Rousseau-Confessions St Augustine-Confessions Thoreau-Walden Thurber-essays Tocqueville-Democracy in America
 * Nonfiction**:

Austen-Pride and Prejudice Baldwin-Go Tell It on the Mountain Bellow-Humboldt's Gift Bronte-Wuthering Heights Camus-The Stranger Cervantes-Don Quixote Conrad-Heart of Darkness Crane-The Red Badge of Courage Defoe-Robinson Crusoe Dickens-David Copperfield Dickens-Tale of Two Cities Dostoyevsky-Crime and Punishment Eliot-Adam Bede Ellison-Invisible Man Faulkner-The Unvanquished Faulkner-Intruder in the Dust Fielding-Joseph Andrews Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby (we will read this in class) Flaubert-Madame Bovary Fowles-The French Lieutenant'sWoman Golding-The Lord of the Flies Hardy-The Return of the Native Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter Hemingway-A Farewell to Arms Hemingway-The Nick Adams Stories James-The Portrait of a Lady Joyce-Dubliners Kafka-The Trial Lewis=Babbitt or Arrowsmith Malamud-The Magic Barrell Melville-Moby Dick Orwell-1984 or Animal Farm Paton-Cry, The Beloved Country Poe-Tell-Tale Heart Poe-The Black Cat Poe-The Pit and The Pendulum Salinger-The Catcher in the Rye Scott-Ivanhoe Steinbeck-The Grapes of Wrath Stendahl-The Red and the Black Stevenson-The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Swift-Gulliver's Travels Thackeray-Vanity Fair Tolstoy-War and Peace Twain-Huckleberry Finn Twain-Tom Sawyer Twain-Innocents Abroad Vonnegut-Slaughterhouse Five Waugh-A Handful of Dust
 * Fiction and Short Stories**