I have stolen Universehall’s reading list:
READING LIST: HIGH SCHOOL
Fiction
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily. WutheringHeights
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Cather, Willa. My Antonia or Death Comes to the Archbishop
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Some Sherlock Holmes stories
Eliot, George. Silas Marner
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun
Harte, Bret. “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” “Tennessee‘s Partner”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
Irving, Washington. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Rip Van Winkle”
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild
Maugham, Somerset. Of Human Bondage
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Benito Cereno
Orwell, George. Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Purloined Letter,” “The Cask of Amontillado”
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Sir Walter. A novel (Waverly, Rob Roy), Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men or The Pearl
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island, Kidnapped or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer or The Prince and the Pauper
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds or The Time Machine
Wright, Richard. Black Boy
Poetry
Arnold, Matthew. “DoverBeach”
Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess”
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
de la Mare, Walter. “The Listeners”
Dickinson, Emily. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” “I Like to See It Lap the Miles”
FitzGerald, Edward. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Frost, Robert. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches”
Gray, Thomas. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Housman, A.E. “To an Athlete Dying Young,” “When I Was One and Twenty”
Hunt, Leigh. “Abou Ben Adhem”
Keats, John. “Eve of St. Agnes,” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “To Autumn”
Kipling, Rudyard. “A Ballad of East and West,” “Mandalay”
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “The Village Blacksmith,” “Paul Revere’s Ride,” The Song of Hiawatha
Marvell, Andrew. “To His Coy Mistress”
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven,” “The Bells,” “Annabel Lee,” “To Helen”
Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago,” “Grass”
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Ozymandias”
Tennyson, Alfred. “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Crossing the Bar”
Whitman, Walt. “I Hear America Singing,” “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Wordsworth, William. “My Heart Leaps Up,” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
I have crossed out everything I’ve read. I have, in some sense, read “The Song of Hiawatha,” but I can’t keep my mind on it at all, so I can’t say I’ve ever really read it. The underlinings are Universehall’s. You could copy this, too, and add a code of your own.
Wow! You’ve more or less aced the high school reading list – looks like you’re ready to start an undergraduate degree!
I notice you haven’t read “Last of the Mohicans” either. Any particular reason, or (like me) did it just never appeal to you?
@universehall – I guess it’s one of those that you only read if it happens to be assigned. And it never was. And no one has ever said, “Oh you’ve GOT to read Last of the Mohicans!” to me. Maybe someday I will.
Wow!! I have read some of those books. Most of them as an adult though.