College Prep. Required Reading List

1. Julius Ceasar
2. Hamlet
3. King Lear
4. Macbeth
5. Romeo and Juliet

Poets - British

1. W. H. Auden
2. William Blake
3. Robert Browning
4. Robert Burns
5. Lord Byron
6. Geoffrey Chaucer
7. Samuel T. Coleridge
8. Thomas Hardy
9. Robert Herrick
10. Gerard Manley Hopkins
11. A. L. Hausman
12. John Keats
13. John Milton
14. William Shakespeare
15. Percy B. Shelley
16. Alfred Lord Tennyson
17. Dylan Thomas
18. William Wordsworth
19. William Butler Yeats

Poets - American

1. e. e. cummings
2. James Dickey
3. Emily Dickinson
4. T. S. Eliot
5. Robert Frost
6. Allen Ginsberg
7. Langston Hughes
8. Robert Lowell
9. Mariane Moore
10. Edgar Allen Poe
11. Ezra Pound
12. Edwin Arlington Robinson
13. Theodore Roethke
14. Carl Sandburg
15. Walt Whitman
16. Richard Wilbur
17. William Carlos Williams

1. The Bible {Many Selections}
2. Homer's Odyssey
3. Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice and Emma
4. James Baldwin Go Tell It On The Mountain
5. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
6. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
7. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
8. Albert Camus The Stranger
9. Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
10. Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us
11. Willa CatherMy Antonia
12. Cervantes Don Quixote
13. Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice
14. Joseph Conrad , Lord Jim
15. James Fennimore Cooper The Pathfinder {Last of the Mohicans}
16. Stephen Crane THe Red Badge of Courage
17. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
18. Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
19. Fyodor Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov
20. Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
21. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays
22. William Faulkner The Bear
23. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews
24. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
25. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
26. William Gerald Golding Lord of the Flies
27. Grahm Greene The Power and the Glory
28. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native
29. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
30. Joseph Heller Catch-22
31. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Short Stories, The Sun Also Rises
32. Hermann Hesse Siddhartha

33. Homer Iliad
34. Victor Hugo Les Miserables
35. Aldous Huzley The Brave New World
36. Henry James The Turn of the Screw
37. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
38. John Knowles A Separate Peace
39. Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
40. Herman Melville Billy Bud
41. Authur Miller Deth of a Salesman
42. Mythology, Bulfinch's Collection or Hamilton's Collection
43. Eugene O'Neill Desire Under the Elms, Long Day's Journey Into Night
44. George Orwell Animal Farm, 1984
45. Francis Parkman Oregon Trail
46. Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
47. Plutarch Lives {Selections}
48. Edgar Allen Poe Tales
49. Ole Edvart Rolvaag Giants in the Earth
50. Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Beregerac
51. Jerome D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye
52. Bernard Shaw Androcles and the Lion, Pygmalion, Saint Joan
53. Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus Rex
54. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
55. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
56. Henry David Thoreau Walden
57. John Ronald Renel Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
58. Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi
59. Virgil Aeneid
60. Thornton Wilder Our Town
61. Tennessee WilliamsThe Glass Menagerie
62. Richard Wright Black Boy