Back To School Reading List

With summer coming to its close, and school almost back in session, we got to thinking… what will be on school reading lists this upcoming year? We compiled a short list of some of the most common books read by our guides in their high school English classes. How many on this list have you read? Only a couple of weeks left to catch up!

Albert Camus, The Stranger

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Beowulf

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Elie Wiesel, Night

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know!