The following titles are recommended reading for any student intrested in pursuing college after high school.  I encourage you to read outside of assigned readings both to maintain fluency, improve reading levels, and to promote independent reading. You may find these titles at libraries and bookstores. 

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Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Alvarez, Julia. How The García Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Bagdad
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Baker, Russell. Growing Up
Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Queen Eleanor, Independent Spirit of The Medieval World: Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim
Cooper, James Fenimore. Last of the Mohicans
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca
Eliot, George. Silas Marner
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud
Haley, Alex. Roots
Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises
Homer. The Iliad
Homer. The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace
Kuralt, Charles. Charles Kuralt's America

Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City...
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack. The Sea Wolf
Malamud, Bernard. The Natural
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong
McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind
Myers, Walter Dean. The Glory Field
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried
Orwell, George. 1984
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems
Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev.
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
Shakespeare, William. King Lear
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Shepard, Alan and Deke Slayton. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times
Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie
Wright, Richard. Black Boy
 

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