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Summer Reading List

Drama    History/Biography     Narrative     Philosophy     Poetry

Drama

Lamb, Charles & Mary

Tales From Shakepeare. Comedy of Errors
Tales From Shakespeare. Macbeth
Tales From Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet
Tales From Shakespeare. Twelfth Night

Rostand, Edmund

Cyrano de Bergerac

Shakespeare, William

Comedy of Errors
Macbeth
Romeo & Juliet
Twelfth Night

Shaw, G.B.

Pygmalion

Sophocles

Antigone

History/Biography

Caesar, Julius

Commentaries on the Gallic Wars

Curie, Eve

Madame Curie: A Biography

Frank, Anne

Diary of Anne Frank

Hyerdahl, Thor

Kon Tiki Expedition

Nordhoff, Charles & J.N. Hall

Mutiny on the Bounty

Tuchman, Barbara

A Distant Mirror. Chs 2, 3, 4, 5

Narrative

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

Barrie, J.M.

Peter Pan

Baum, Frank L.

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451
Illustrated Man
Martian Chronicles

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

Buchan, John

Thrity-Nine Steps

Bunyan, John

Pilgrim's Progress

Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Chopin, Kate

Short Stories

Chrichton, Michael

Andromeda Strain

Cooper, James Fennimore

Last of the Mohicans

Dana, Richard Henry

Two Years Before the Mast

Defoe, Daniel

Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Nicholas Nickleby
Oliver Twist

Dinesen, Isak

Babette's Feast
Out of Africa

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexander

Count of Monte Cristo
Three Musketeers

Eliot, George

Silas Marner

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Great Gatsby

Forester, C.S.

African Queen
Horatio Hornblower series

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies

Hemingway, Ernest

Old Man and the Sea
Snows of Kilimanjaro

Herbert, Frank

Dune
White Plague

Hilton, James

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Lost Horizons

Homer

Odyssey

Hugo, Victor

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Kipling, Rudyard

Jungle Book
Kim

Lewis, C.S.

Chronicles of Narnia
Hideous Strength
Perelandra
Screwtape Letters

London, Jack

Call of the Wild

Malory, Sir Thomas

Le Morte d'Arthur

Maugham, W. Somerset

Razor's Edge

Melville, Herman

Moby Dick

Mitchell, W.O.

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Orczy, Baroness Emma

Scarlet Pimpernel

Orwell, George

Animal Farm

Paton, Alan

Cry the Beloved Country

Poe, Edgar Allan

Cask of Amontillado
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Pit and the Pendulum
Telltale Heart

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

Little Prince

Salinger, J.D.

Catcher in the Rye

Scott, Sir Walter

Ivanhoe

Shelley, Mary

Frankenstein

Steinbeck, John

Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Kidnapped
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island

Stoker, Bram

Dracula

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels

Tolkein, J.R.R.

Hobbit
Lord of the Rings

Twain, Mark

A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Huckleberry Finn

Verne, Jules

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days

Wells, H.G.

Time Machine
War of the Worlds

Wharton, Edith

Age of Innocence
Short Stories

Wilde, Oscar

Importance of Being Earnest
Picture of Dorian Grey

Philosophy

Gaarder, Justine

Sophie's World

Thoreau, Henry David

Walden

Poetry

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Kubla Khan
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Dickenson, Emily

Poems

Eliot, T.S.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Poems

Frost, Robert

Mending Wall
Poems
Road Not Taken
Telephone

Shakespeare, William

Sonnets

Yeats, W.B

Poems

 

 

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