The Most Recognized Children’s Book Guide, Podcast, and K-
Twelth Grade Reading List
Austen, Jane
Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Bulwer-
The Last Days of Pompeii
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh; Erehwon
Camus, Albert
The Stranger
Conrad, Joseph
Nostromo; Lord Jim; Victory; Heart of Darkness
Defoe, Daniel
Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles
The Pickwick Papers; The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Eliot, George
Middlemarch; Silas Marner; Adam Bede
Flaubert, Gustav
Madame Bovary
Forster, E.M.
Passage to India; Howard’s End; Maurice; A Room with a View
Goldsmith, Oliver
The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer (play)
Hardy, Thomas
The Return of the Native;
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Heller, Joseph
Catch-
Hudson, William H.
Green Mansions
Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Joyce, James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Kafka, Franz
Metamorphosis
Lawrence, D.H.
Sons and Lovers; Women in Love
Maugham, William Somerset
Of Human Bondage
Milton, John
Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained
Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country
Plato
The Republic; The Last Days of Socrates
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Richardson, Samuel
Pamela
Sartre, Jean-
No Exit
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William
Hamlet; Othello; The Tempest
Sophocles
The Oedipus Cycle of plays
Sterne, Laurence
Tristam Shandy
Stewart, Mary
The Hollow Hills; The Crystal Cave; The Wicked Day; The Last Enchantment
Stoker, Bram
Dracula (it’s different from the movie!)
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
Tolstoi, Leo
War and Peace
White, T.H.
The Once and Future King
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest (play)
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; A Room of One’s Own