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Books for High School Readers

Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart

Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility

Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time

Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre

Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales

Chopin, Kate, The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness

Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, White Nights

Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man

Fitzgerald, Francis Scott, Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustav, Madam Bovary

Golding, William, Lord of the Flies

Hemingway, Farewell to Arms

Hesse, Herman, Demian

Hesse, Herman, Siddhartha

Homer, Odyssey

Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Brave New World

Ibsen, HnriK, A Doll House

Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day

Kafka, Franz, Metamorphosis

Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, One Hundred Years of Solitude

McBride, James, The Color of Water 

Miller, Arthur, The Crucible              

Morrison, Toni, Beloved

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

Orwell, George, Animal Farm

Orwell, George, 1984

Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar

Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front

Shakespeare, William, Macbeth

Shakespeare, William, Othello

Shakespeare, William, Hamlet

Shakespeare, William, Midsummer Night's Dream

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein

Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men

Tan, Amy, Joy Luck Club

Tennesee, William, The Glass Managerie

Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde, Oscar, The Imporance of Being Honest

Wharton, Edith, Etahn Frome, 

Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence

Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth

Woolf, Virginia, Orlando

Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One's Own

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