Great Books (compiled from The College Board, SallieMae and other English resources)
---Achebe, Chinua
Agee, James
Alcott, Louisa May
Austen, Jane
Baldwin, James
Beckett, Samuel
Bellow, Saul
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Bunyan, John
Camus, Albert
Carroll, Lewis
Cather, Willa
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chekhov, Anton
Chopin, Kate
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Crane, Stephen
Dante
de Cervantes, Miguel
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, Frederick
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Dreiser, Theodore
Dumas, Alexandre
Eliot, George
Ellison, Ralph
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Faulkner, William
Faulkner, William
Fielding, Henry
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave
Ford, Ford Madox
Frank, Anne
Goethe
Golding, William
Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Heller, Joseph
Hemingway, Ernest
Homer
Homer
Hugo, Victor
Hurston, Zora Neal
Huxley, Aldos
Ibsen, Henrik
James, Henry
James, Henry
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Kipling, Rudyard
Beowulf
Things Fall Apart
A Death in the Family
Little Women
Pride and Prejudice
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Waiting for Godot
The Adventures of Augie March
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pilgrim’s Progress
The Stranger
Alice in Wonderland
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Canterbury Tales
The Cherry Orchard
The Awakening
Heart of Darkness
The Last of the Mohicans
The Red Badge of Courage
Inferno
Don Quixote
Robinson Crusoe
A Tale of Two Cities
Crime and Punishment
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Lee, Harper
Lewis, Sinclair
London, Jack
Mann, Thomas
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Melville, Herman
Melville, Herman
Millar, Arthur
Morrison, Toni
O’Connor, Flannery
O’Neill, Eugene
Orwell, George
Orwell, George
Pasternak, Boris
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allan
Porter, William Sydney (o. Henry)
Proust, Marcel
Pynchon, Thomas
Remarque, Erich Maria
Rostand, Edmond
Roth, Henry
Salinger, J.D.
Shakespeare, William
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Shakespeare, William
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Shakespeare, William
An American Tragedy
Shakespeare, William
The Three Musketeers
Shaw, George Bernard
The Mill on the Floss
Shelley, Mary
Invisible Man
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Selected Essays
Sophocles
As I Lay Dying
Sophocles
The Sound and the Fury
Steinbeck, John
Tom Jones
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Great Gatsby
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Madame Bovary
Swift, Jonathan
The Good Soldier
Thackeray, William
Diary of a Young Girl
Thoreau, Henry David
Faust
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Lord of the Flies
Tolstoy, Leo
Tess of the d’Ubervilles
Turgeney, Ivan
The Scarlet Letter
Twain, Mark
Catch 22
Verne, Jules
A Farewell to Arms
Voltaire
The Iliad
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
The Odyssey
Walker, Alice
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wharton, Edith
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Welty, Eudora
Brave New World
Whitman, Walt
A Doll’s House
Wilde, Oscar
The Portrait of a Lady
Wilder, Thornton
The Turn of the Screw
Williams, Tennessee
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Woolf, Virginia
The Metamorphosis
Wright, Richard
The Jungle Books
The Woman Warrior
To Kill a Mockingbird
Babbitt
The Call of the Wild
The Magic Mountain
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bartelby the Scrivener
Moby Dick
The Crucible
Beloved
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Animal Farm
1984
Doctor Zhivago
The Bell Jar
Selected Tales
Tales
Swann’s Way
The Crying of Lot 49
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cyrano de Bergerac
Call It Sleep
The Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Pygmalion
Frankenstein
Ceremony
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
The Grapes of Wrath
Treasure Island
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
Walden
Lord of the Rings
War and Peace
Fathers and Sons
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Around the World in 80 Days
Candide
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Color Purple
The House of Mirth
Collected Stories
Leaves of Grass
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Our Town
The Glass Menagerie
To the Lighthouse
Native Son
Poetry Recommendations (The College Board)
Blake, William
Keats, John
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Moore, Marianne
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
O’Hara, Frank
Dickinson, Emily
Shakespeare, William
Donne, John
Stein, Gertrude
Eliot, T.S.
Williams, William Carlos
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Wordsworth, William
Hughes, Langston
“London”, “The Tyger”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “The Eve of St. Agnes”
“We Real Cool,” “The Mother,” “The Bean Eaters”
“Marriage,” “Poetry,” “The Fish”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan,” “Frost at Midnight”
“Why I Am Not a Painter,” “The Day Lady Died,” “Poem”(Lana Turner Has Collapsed)
“There’s a certain Slant of light” (258), “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (280), “Because I
could not stop for Death” (712)
Sonnets
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “Death, be not proud” (Holy Sonnet 10)
Tender Buttons, Stanzas in Mediation
“The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This is Just to Say,” and Spring and All
“God’s Grandeur,” “Windhover,” “Carrion Comfort”
“Tintern Abbey,” “Prelude,” Lyrical Ballads (with S.T. Coleridge)
“Theme for English B,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Cultural / Historical Text
Recommendations
--Kennedy, John F.
--King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Adams, Henry
Malory, Sir Thomas
Aesop
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Anderson, Hans Christian
Marx, Karl
Aristotle
Paine, Thomas
DuBois, W.E.B.
Plato
Franklin, Benjamin
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Hamilton, Edith
Malcolm X w/ Alex Haley
Hamilton, John, et. al.
The Arabian Nights
Profiles in Courage
The Bible
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Education of Henry Adams
Le Morte D’Arthur
Aesop’s Fables
The Prince
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
The Communist Manifesto
Nicomachean Ethics
Common Sense
The Souls of Black Folk
The Republic
Autobiography
Democracy in America
Mythology
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Federalist Papers