SUGGESTED READING

The English Departments recommends that during the summer, that a youth should read 3 to 4 selections from his/her grade level list, and at least 1 work from the general college bound reading list.

FRESHMAN LIST:
Baker - GROWING UP
Bradbury - DANDELION WINE
Brown - MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND
Dickens - A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Douglass - THE LIFE OF FREDRICK DOUGLASS
Doyle - SHERLOCK HOLMES: SELECTED STORIES
Gaines - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN
Gibson - THE MIRACLE WORKER
Keller - THE STORY OF MY LIFE
London - THE CALL OF THE WILD
Orwell - ANIMAL FARM
Sophocles - ANTIGONE
Verne - 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
SUGGESTED READING SELECTIONS

SOPHOMORE LIST:
Bronte, E - WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Carson - SILENT SPRING
Chaucer - THE CANTERBURY TALES
Conrad - LORD JIM
Defoe - ROBINSON CRUSOE
Eliot - MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
Eliott - SILAS MARNER
Hardy - FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Goldsmith - SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Kipling - CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Scott - IVANHOE
Shakespeare - anything written
Shaw - anything written
Shelley - FRANKENSTEIN
Stevenson - TREASURE ISLAND
Swift - GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
SUGGESTED READING SELECTIONS

JUNIOR LIST:
Anderson - WINESBURG, OHIO
Austen - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Agee - A DEATH IN THE HOUSE
Baldwin - GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Brown - BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Buck - THE GOOD EARTH
Cather - MY ANTONIA
Cooper - LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Crane - RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Faulkner - AS I LAY DYING
Fitzgerald - THE GREAT GATSBY
Greene - THE POWER AND THE GLORY
Hawthorne - THE SCARLET LETTER
Irving - THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Lee - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Maugham - OF HUMAN BONDAGE
Melville - BILLY BUDD
- MOBY DICK
Miller - THE CRUCIBLE
Poe - TALES OF TERROR
Sandburg - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Sinclair - THE JUNGLE
Steinbeck - THE PEARL
Twain - HUCKLEBERRY FINN
- TOM SAWYER
Warren - ALL THE KING'S MEN
Wilder - OUR TOWN
Williams - THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Wright - BLACK BOY
SUGGESTED READING SELECTIONS

SENIOR LIST:
Borland - WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE
Bradbury - FAHRENHEIT 451
Camus - THE STRANGER
Ellison - THE INVISIBLE MAN
Fitzgerald - TENDER IS THE NIGHT
Golding - LORD OF THE FLIES
Heller - CATCH 22
Hemingway - A FAREWELL TO ARMS
- THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Hesse - SIDDHARTHA
Huxley - BRAVE NEW WORLD
James - THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Joyce - A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Kesey - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Lawrence/Lee - INHERIT THE WIND
- THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL
Miller - DEATH OF A SALESMAN
O'Neill - LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Orwell - 1984
Paton - CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
Salinger - THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
Shakespeare - any of his works
Sophocles - OEDIPUS REX
Steinbeck - THE GRAPES OF WRATH
- OF MICE AND MEN
Thurber - MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES
Vonnegut - SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
Wiesel - NIGHT
Williams - THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Wright - NATIVE SON

SUGGESTED READING SELECTIONS
GENERAL COLLEGE BOUND READING:
- THE BIBLE
Angelou - I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
Cervantes - DON QUIXOTE
Charriere - PAPILLION
Dante - DIVINE COMEDY
Dostoyevsky - CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- THE BROTHERS KARAMOZOV
Dumas - THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Euripides - MEDEA
Frank - THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
Griffen - BLACK LIKE ME
[Haley] - MALCOLM X
Homer - ODYSSEY
- ILIAD
Hugo - LES MISERABLES
Ibsen - A DOLL'S HOUSE
- HEDDA GABLER
Morrison - BELOVED
Potok - THE CHOSEN
Read - ALIVE
Remarque - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Rostand - CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Simon - BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS other plays
Toffler - FUTURE SHOCK
Tolstoy - WAR AND PEACE
Uris - EXODUS
Walker - THE COLOR PURPLE
White - THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
Wolfe - THE RIGHT STUFF