Suggested Classic Books for Middle and High School – By Title

1984. Orwell, George.

Adventures of Robin Hood. Green, Roger Lancelyn.

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Defoe, Daniel.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll, Lewis.

All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque, Erich Maria

Animal Farm. Orwell, George.

Anne of Green Gables.  Montgomery, Lucy Maud.

Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne, Jules.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Gaines, Ernest

Beowulf. Anonymous

Billy Budd. Melville, Herman

Black Beauty. Sewell, Anna.

The Black Stallion, Farley, Walter.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Wilder, Thornton.

Call of the Wild. London, Jack.

The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, J.D.

The Chocolate Wars.  Cormier, Robert.

The Chosen.Potok, Chaim.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Twain, Mark.

The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas, Alexandre

Cry, The Beloved Country. Paton, Alan

The CrystalCave.Stewart, Mary.

Cyrano. Rostand (new adaptation by McCaughrean, Geraldine).

David Copperfield. Dickens, Charles.

Death Comes For the Archbishop. Cather, Willa.

A Death in the Family. Agee, James

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson, Robert Louis.

Dracula. Stoker, Bram.

East of Eden. Steinbeck, John

Emma. Austen, Jane.

Ethan Frome. Wharton, Edith

Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury, Ray.

The Good Earth. Buck,Pearl.

The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck, John.

The Great Gatsby.

Gulliver’s Travels. Swift, Jonathan.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Dodge, Mary Mapes.

Heidi. Spryi, Johanna.

The Hobbitt. Tolkien, J.R.R.

Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The House of Dies Drear. Hamilton, Virginia.

House of Seven Gables. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Huckleberry Finn. Twain, Mark

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hugo, Victor.

I heard the Owl Call My Name. Craven, Margaret.

The Invisible Man.Wells, H. G.

Island of the Blue Dolphins. O’Dell, Scott.

The Illiad. Homer (new translation by Lombardo, Stanley).

Ivanhoe. Scott, Sir Walter.

Jane Eyre. Bronte,Charlotte.

Journey To the Center of the Earth. Verne, Jules.

Joy Luck Club.

The Jungle Book. Kipling, Rudyard.

Kidnapped. Stevenson, Robert Louis.

Last of the Mohicans.Cooper, James Fenimore.

The Light in the Forest. Richter, Conrad.

A Little Princess. Burnett, Frances Hodgson.

Little Women. Alcott, Louisa.

Life on The Mississippi. Twain, Mark.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Lewis, C. S.

The Little Prince. Saint-Exupery, Antoine de.

Lord Jim.

Lord of the Flies. Golding, William.

Lorna Doone. Blackmore, R. D.

Lost Horizon. Hilton, James.

The Man in the Iron Mask. Dumas, Alexandre.

The Member of the Wedding. McCullers, Carson.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Pyle, Howard.

Moby Dick. Melville, Herman.

The Moon is Down. Steinbeck, John.

Moonstone.  Collins, Wilkie.

The Mouse That Roared. Wibberly, Leonard.

My Antonia. Cather, Willa.

National Velvet. Bagnold, Enid.

The Odyssey. Homer.

Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck, John.

The Old Man and the Sea. Steinbeck, John.

Old Yeller. Gipson, Fred.

Oliver Twist. Dickens, Charles.

The Once and Future King. White, T. H.

Otto of the Silver Hand. Pyle, Howard.

The Oxbow Incident. Clark, Walter Van Tilburg.

The Pearl. Steinbeck, John.

Peter Pan. Barrie, J. M.

Phantom of the Opera.Leroux, Gaston.

Pioneers. Cooper, James Fenimore.

Pride and Prejudice. Austen, Jane.

The Prince and the Pauper. Twain, Mark.

Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twain, Mark.

Rebecca. du Maurier, Daphne.

Red Badge of Courage.Crane, Stephen.

Red Pony. Steinbeck, John.

Reluctant Dragon. Grahame, Kenneth.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Wiggins, Kate Douglas.

Robinson Crusoe. Defoe, Daniel.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Taylor, Mildred.

The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

The Scarlet Pimpernel. Orczy, Baroness.

The SecretGarden.Burnett, Frances Hodgson.

A Separate Peace. Knowles, John.

Silas Marner. Eliot, George.

The Sword in the Stone. White, T.H.

Sounder. Armstrong, William.

Swiss Family Robinson. Wyss, Johann.

Summer of My German Soldier. Greene, Bette.

Tale of Two Cities. Dickens, Charles.

Three Musketeers. Dumas, Alexandre

The Time Machine. Wells, H. G.

To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee, Harper.

Tom Sawyer. Twain, Mark.

Treasure Island. Stevenson, Robert Louis.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Smith, Betty

Two Years Before the Mast. Dana, Richard Henry.

The War of the Worlds.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stowe, Harriet Beecher

White Fang, London, Jack

The Wind in the Willows. Grahame, Kenneth.

The Wizard of Oz. Baum, L. Frank.

A Wrinkle in Time. L’Engle, Madeleine.

WutheringHeights. Bronte, Emily.

The Yearling. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan