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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