Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Senior Reading List (By Genre)

Adventure/Historical Fiction
The Three Musketeers, Dumas
The Count of Monte Christo, Dumas
Les Miserables, Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
War and Peace, Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Don Quixote, Cervantes
A Passage to India, Forester
Treasure Island, Stevenson
Science Fiction/Dystopian
Brave New World, Huxley
War of the Worlds, Wells
The Invisible Man, Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau, Wells
1984, Orwell
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
Greek and Roman/Mythology/Epics
Medea, Euripides
The Trojan Women, Euripides
Bacchae, Euripides
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
The Eumenides, Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Sophocles
Antigone, Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles
The Aenied, Virgil
The Iliad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
Medieval Literature
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Beowulf
Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur), Sir Thomas Mallory
The Song of Roland
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
The Decameron, Boccaccio
War (Non-Fiction, Memoir, Fiction)
The Forgotten Soldier, Sajer
Storm of Steel, Junger
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Sassoon
Empire of the Sun, Ballard
Homage to Catalonia, Orwell
Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Tolkien
The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Silmarillion, Tolkien
Literary Fiction
Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
 The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf
Oliver Twist, Dickens
A Christmas Carol, Dickens
David Copperfield, Dickens
Hard Times, Dickens
Great Expectations, Dickens
Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
Renaissance Literature
The Prince, Machiavelli
Paradise Lost, Milton
The Faerie Queen, Spenser
Hamlet, Shakespeare
The Tempest, Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare
Measure for Measure, Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare
Love's Labour Lost, Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
As You Like It, Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare
King John, Shakespeare
Richard II, Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I, Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part II, Shakespeare
Henry V, Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part I, Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part II, Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part III, Shakespeare
Richard III, Shakespeare
Henry VIII, Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare
Coriolanus, Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare
Timon of Athens, Shakespeare
King Lear, Shakespeare
Othello, Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare
Cymbeline, Shakespeare
Romance
Pride and Prejudice, Austen
Mansfield Park, Austen
Emma, Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Satire/Comedy
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Candide, Voltaire
Horror/Gothic
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
Faust, Goethe
Frankenstein, Shelley
Dracula, Stoker
The Phantom of the Opera, Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
Non-Fiction/Memoir
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn
The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
Twentieth-Century Literature/Contemporary
The Stranger, Camus
The Bell Jar, Plath
The Plague, Camus
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde (1895)
Pygmalion, Shaw
The Trial, Kafka
The Waste Land, Eliot
Ulysses, Joyce
The Lord of the Flies, Golding