• Suggested Someday Reading:
    The Classics
     
    (This list is based on suggestions made by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The ones Mrs. Beltz has read, so far, are in blue.)
     

    Grades 9 through 12

    • Agee, James - A Death in the Family
    • Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
    • Austen, Jane -
      • Emma
      • Northanger Abbey
      • Pride and Prejudice
      • Sense and Sensibility
    • Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
    • Balzac, Honore de - Pere Goriot
    • Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
    • The Bible -
      • Old Testament
      • New Testament
    • Bolt, Robert - A Man for All Seasons
    • Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
    • Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
    • Browning, Robert - Poems
    • Buck, Pearl - The Good Earth
    • Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
    • Camus, Albert -
      • The Plague
      • The Stranger
    • Cather, Willa -
      • Death Comes for the Archbishop
      • My Antonia
    • Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
    • Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
    • Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
    • Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
    • Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
    • Conrad, Joseph -
      • Heart of Darkness
      • Lord Jim
      • The Secret Sharer
      • Victory
    • Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
    • Dante - The Divine Comedy
    • Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders
    • Dickens, Charles -
      • Bleak House
      • David Copperfield
      • Great Expectations
      • Hard Times
      • Oliver Twist
      • A Tale of Two Cities
    • Dickinson, Emily - Poems
    • Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa
    • Dostoevski, Fyodor -
      • Brothers Karamazov
      • Crime and Punishment
      Dreiser, Theodore -
      • An American Tragedy
      • Sister Carrie
    • Eliot, George -
      • Adam Bede
      • Middlemarch
      • Mill on the Floss
      • Silas Marner
    • Eliot, T.S. - Murder in the Cathedral
    • Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
    • Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays
    • Faulkner, William -
      • Absalom, Absalom!
      • As I Lay Dying
      • Intruder in the Dust
      • Light in August
      • The Sound and the Fury
    • Fielding, Henry -
      • Joseph Andrews
      • Tom Jones
    • Fitzgerald, F. Scott -
      • The Great Gatsby
      • Tender Is the Night
    • Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
    • Forster, E.M. -
      • A Passage to India
      • A Room with a View
    • Franklin, Benjamin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    • Galsworthy, John - The Forsyte Saga
    • Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
    • Goldsmith, Oliver - She Stoops to Conquer
    • Graves, Robert - I, Claudius
    • Greene, Graham -
      • The Heart of the Matter
      • The Power and the Glory
    • Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
    • Hardy, Thomas -
      • Far From the Madding Crowd
      • Jude the Obscure
      • The Mayor of Casterbridge
      • The Return of the Native
      • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    • Hawthorne, Nathaniel -
      • The House of the Seven Gables
      • The Scarlet Letter
    • Hemingway, Ernest -
      • A Farewell to Arms
      • For Whom the Bell Tolls
      • The Sun Also Rises
    • Henry, O. - Stories
    • Hersey, John - A Single Pebble
    • Hesse, Hermann -
      • Demian
      • Siddhartha
      • Steppenwolf
    • Homer -
      • The Iliad
      • The Odyssey
    • Hughes, Langston - Poems
    • Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
    • Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
    • Ibsen, Henrik -
      • A Doll's House
      • An Enemy of the People
      • Ghosts
      • Hedda Gabler
      • The Master Builder
      • The Wild Duck
    • James, Henry -
      • The American
      • Daisy Miller
      • Portrait of a Lady
      • The Turn of the Screw
    • Joyce, James -
      • Portrait of the Artist
      • As a Young Man
      • Dubliners
    • Kafka, Franz -
      • The Castle
      • Metamorphosis
      • The Trial
    • Keats, John - Poems
    • Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
    • Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at Noon
    • Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
    • Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee - Inherit the Wind
    • Lewis, Sinclair -
      • Arrowsmith
      • Babbitt
      • Main Street
    • Llewellyn, Richard - How Green Was My Valley
    • Machiavelli - The Prince
    • MacLeish, Archibald - J.B.
    • Mann, Thomas -
      • Buddenbrooks
      • The Magic Mountain
    • Marlowe, Christopher - Dr. Faustus
    • Maugham, Somerset - Of Human Bondage
    • McCullers, Carson - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    • Melville, Herman -
      • Billy Budd
      • Moby-Dick
      • Typee
    • Miller, Arthur -
      • The Crucible
      • Death of a Salesman
    • Monsarrat, Nicholas - The Cruel Sea
    • O'Neill, Eugene -
      • The Emperor Jones
      • A Long Day's Journey into Night
      • Mourning Becomes Electra
    • Orwell, George -
      • Animal Farm
      • 1984
    • Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
    • Poe, Edgar Allan - Short stories
    • Remarque, Erich - All Quiet on the Western Front
    • Rolvaag, O.E. - Giants in the Earth
    • Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
    • Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
    • Sandburg, Carl -
      • Abraham Lincoln:
      • The Prairie Years
      • Abraham Lincoln:
      • The War Years
    • Saroyan, William - The Human Comedy
    • Sayers, Dorothy - The Nine Tailors
    • Shakespeare, William - Plays and sonnets
    • Shaw, George Bernard -
      • Arms and the Man
      • Major Barbara
      • Pygmalion
      • Saint Joan
    • Sheridan, Richard B. - The School for Scandal
    • Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
    • Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
    • Sophocles -
      • Antigone
      • Oedipus Rex
    • Steinbeck, John -
      • East of Eden
      • The Grapes of Wrath
      • Of Mice and Men
    • Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
    • Thackeray, William M. - Vanity Fair
    • Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
    • Tolstoy, Leo -
      • Anna Karenina
      • War and Peace
    • Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers
    • Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
    • Twain, Mark - Pudd'nhead Wilson
    • Updike, John - Rabbit Run
    • Vergil - The Aeneid
    • Voltaire - Candide
    • Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
    • Waugh, Evelyn -
      • Brideshead Revisited
      • A Handful of Dust
    • Wharton, Edith - Age of Innocence
    • White, T.H. -
      • The Once and Future King
      • The Sword in the Stone
    • Wilde, Oscar -
      • The Importance of Being Earnest
      • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    • Wilder, Thornton - Our Town
    • Williams, Tennessee -
      • The Glass Menagerie
      • A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward, Angel
    • Woolf, Virginia -
      • Mrs. Dalloway
      • To the Lighthouse
    • Wouk, Herman - The Caine Mutiny
    • Wright, Richard -
      • Black Boy
      • Native Son