Suggested Reading - Classics
Suggested Reading for a Rainy Day:
American Classics
Grades 9 through 12
- Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
- Bierce, Ambrose - Stories
- Cather, Willa - O, Pioneers
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
- Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
- Cummings, E.E. - Poems
- Dickinson, Emily - Poems
- Douglass, Frederick - The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays
- Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Franklin, Benjamin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises
- Henry, O. - Stories
- Hughes, Langston - Poems
- James, Henry - Portrait of a Lady
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- Masters, Edgar Lee - Spoon River Anthology
- Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick
- Miller, Arthur - The Crucible, Death of a Salesman
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Short stories and poems
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Wharton, Edith - Age of Innocence
- Wilder, Thornton - Our Town
- Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Wright, Richard - Black Boy, Native Son