SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR MACOMB SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
FICTION
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
| Anderson Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio |
| Anonymous | Beowulf |
| Aristotle | Poetics |
| Arrick, Fran | What You Don't Know Can Kill You |
| Austen, Jane | Emma, Pride & Prejudice |
| Avi | Nothing But the Truth |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Bellow, Saul | Seize the Day |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Carroll, Lewis | Adventures in Wonderland |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | The Ox-Bow Incident |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Crutcher, Chris | Ironman |
| Dante | The Divine Comedy |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations, David Copperfield |
| Dickinson, Peter | Eva |
| Dorris, Michael | A yellow raft in blue water |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime & Punishment |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The American Scholar, Essays |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water For Chocolate |
| Euripides | Medea |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Forester, E. M. | A Passage to India |
| Franklin, Benjamin | An Autobiography |
| Gaines, Ernest | Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Greene, Graham | The Power & the Glory |
| Hamilton, Edith | Mythology |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the O'Urbervilles, Return of the Native |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea |
| Hesse, Hermann | Steppenwolf |
| Homer | The Odyssey, The Illiad |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables |
| Hurston, Zora | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Ibsen, Henrik | The Doll's House (play) |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw |
| Joyce, James | Portrait of the Artist as a Young man |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Lawrence, Jerome | Inherit the Wind |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbit, Main Street |
| Llewellyn, Richard | How Green Was my Valley |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member Of the Wedding |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Maugham, Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman, The Crucible (plays) |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula, Song of Solomon |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm, 1984 |
| Pasternak, Boris | Dr. Zhivago |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Plato | Republic |
| Rand, Ann | Atlas Shrugged |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion (play) |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Shute, Nevil | A Town Like Alice |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Thackeray, William M. | Vanity Fair |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace, Anna Katerina |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer |
| Tyler, Anne | Dinner at Homesick Restaurant |
| Updike, John | Rabbit Run |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men |
| Wells, H.G. | The Time Machine |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| White, T.H. | The Once and Future King |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilder, Thortnon | Our Town (play) |
| Williams, Tennessee | A streetcar named Desire (play) |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Wouk, Herman | The Caine Mutiny |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy, Native Son |
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