READING LIST FOR COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS

Compiled by Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English

THE TOP 13

Twain, HUCKLEBERRY FINN *

The BIBLE *

Homer, ILIAD and ODYSSEY *

Dickens, DAVID COPPERFIELD

MYTHOLOGY (Bulfinch,Gayley, Hamilton, etc.) *

Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS *

Twain, TOM SAWYER *

Defoe, ROBINSON CRUSOE *

Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND *

Stevenson, TREASURE ISLAND

Steinbeck, GRAPES OF WRATH *

Thoreau, WALDEN *

The Next 30

Hawthorne, THE SCARLET LETTER *

Crane, RED BADGE OF COURAGE *

Scott, IVANHOE *

Poe, TALES *

Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Shaw, PYGMALION *

Melville, MOBY DICK *

Sophocles, OEDIPUS REX *

Virgil, AENEID *

Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD *

Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR *

Franklin, AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Wilder, OUR TOWN *

Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY *

Rostand, CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Salinger, CATCHER IN THE RYE *

Bronte, C , JANE EYRE

Bronte, E., WUTHERlNG HEIGHTS

ARTHURIAN TALES *

Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE

Hemingway, OLD MAN AND THE SEA *

Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN *

Bunyan, PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD *

Carson, THE SEA AROUND US

London, THE CALL OF THE WILD *

Benedict, PATTERNS OF CULTURE

Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES *

Hugo, LES MISERABLES

Kennedy, PROFILES IN COURAGE *

The Second Thirty

Cather, MY ANTONIA

Chaucer, CANTERBURY TALES *

Plutarch, LIVES *

Carroll, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS *

Doyle, SHERLOCK HOLMES *

Hardy, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Hemingway, FAREWELL TO ARMS *

Wright, NATIVE SON

Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY *

Kipling, JUNGLE BOOKS *

THE SONG OF ROLAND *

Cooper, LEATHERSTOCKING TALES

Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS *

Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS *

Goldsmith, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

Hersey, HIROSHIMA *

Lewis, Sinclair, MAIN STREET

.ROBIN HOOD TALES *

Burdick and Lederer, UGLY AMERICAN

Orwell, ANIMAL FARM *

Sandburg, LINCOLN

Adler, HOW TO READ A BOOK

Emerson, ESSAYS *

Rolvaag, GIANTS IN THE EARTH

Conrad, HEART OF DARKNESS *

Lewis, S., ARROWSMITH

Remarque, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Thackery, VANITY FAIR

Tolstoy, WAR AND PEACE

Twain, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI *

Additional Titles

Maugham, OF HUMAN BONDAGE *

Buck, THE GOOD EARTH *

Dostoevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT *

Frazer, THE GOLDEN BOUGH

Wharton, ETHAN FROM

Wilde, IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST *

Williams, THE GLASS MENAGERIE *

Wolfe, LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL

Benet, JOHN BROWN'S BODY

Ibsen, A DOLL'S HOUSE *

Saint-Exupery, WIND, SAND & STARS

Warren, ALL THE KING' S MEN

Curie, MADAME CURIE

Nordhoff and Hall, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

Roberts, NORTHWEST PASSAGE

Greene, THE POWER AND THE GLORY

Sheridan, SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

Conrad, LORD JIM *

Dreiser, AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

James, TURN OF THE SCREW

Wilder, BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

Adams, EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS

Dante, INFERNO *

Faulkner, INTRUDER IN THE DUST

Hudson, GREEN MANSIONS *

Joyce, PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Forster, PASSAGE TO INDIA

Saroyan, THE HUMAN COMEDY

Clark, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT

Eliot, THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

Llewellyn, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Shaw, ST. JOAN

Stone, LUST FOR LIFE *

Parkman, OREGON TRAIL

Boswell, LIFE OF JOHNSON

Butler, THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

Cather, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

O'Neill, EMPEROR JONES

Wister, THE VIRGINIAN

Flaubert, MADAME BOVARY

Galsworthy, THE FORSYTHE SAGA

Miller, THE CRUCIBLE *

Allen, ONLY YESTERDAY

Marquand, THE LATE GEORGE APPLEBY

Allen, ONLY YESTERDAY

Bellamy, LOOKING BACKWARD

Pasternak, DR. ZHIVAGO

Turgenev, FATHERS AND SONS

McCullers, MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

Strachey EMINENT VICTORIANS

Bowen, YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS

Veblen, THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS *(Part)