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Grades 7 and 8
- Alcott, Louisa May -
Little Men
- Bagnold, Enid - National Velvet
- Blackmore, Richard D. -
Lorna Doone
- Boulle, Pierre -
The Bridge over the River Kwai
- Bradbury, Ray -
- Dandelion Wine
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Illustrated Man
- Martian Chronicles
- Buchan, John -
The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Bunyan, John -
The Pilgrim's Progress
- Carroll, Lewis -
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Through the Looking Glass
- Clark, Walter -
The Ox-Bow Incident
- Cooper, James Fenimore -
- The Deerslayer
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Curie, Eve -
Madame Curie: A Biography
- Dana, Richard Henry -
Two Years before the Mast
- Day, Clarence -
Life with Father
- Defoe, Daniel -
Robinson Crusoe
- Dickens, Charles -
A Christmas Carol
- Douglas, Lloyd C. -
The Robe
- Doyle, Arthur Conan -
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Dumas, Alexander -
- The Count of Monte Christo
- The Three Musketeers
- Du Maurier, Daphne -
Rebecca
- Edmonds, Walter D. -
Drums along the Mohawk
- Ferber, Edna -
Cimarron
- Forbes, Esther -
Johnny Tremain
- Forester, C.S. -
- The African Queen
- The Hornblower series
- Frank, Anne -
Diary of a Young Girl
- Frost, Robert -
Poems
- Gallico, Paul -
The Snow Goose
- Gunther, John -
Death Be Not Proud
- Guthrie, A.B. -
The Big Sky
- Haggard, H. Rider -
King Solomon's Mines
- Hansberry, Lorraine -
Raisin in the Sun
- Hemingway, Ernest -
The Old Man and the Sea
- Hersey, John -
- A Bell for Adano
- Hiroshima
- The Wall
- Heyerdahl, Thor -
Kon-Tiki
- Hilton, James -
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Lost Horizon
- Hudson, W.H. -
Green Mansions
- Hughes, Richard -
A High Wind in Jamaica
- Hugo, Victor -
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Irving, Washington -
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Keller, Helen -
Story of My Life
- Kennedy, John F. -
Profiles in Courage
- Kipling, Rudyard -
Kim
- Knowles, John -
A Separate Peace
- Lee, Harper -
To Kill a Mockingbird
- London, Jack -
The Sea Wolf
- Lord, Walter -
A Night to Remember
- Malory, Sir Thomas -
Le Morte d'Arthur
- Maxwell, Gavin -
Ring of Bright Water
- McCullers, Carson -
Member of the Wedding
- Michener, James -
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
- Mitchell, Margaret -
Gone with the Wind
- Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall -
Mutiny on the Bounty
- O'Dell, Scott -
Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Orczy, Baroness Emma -
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Paton, Alan -
Cry, the Beloved Country
- Pyle, Howard -
Men of Iron
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan -
The Yearling
- Renault, Mary -
The King Must Die
- Roberts, Kenneth -
Northwest Passage
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de -
- The Little Prince
- Wind, Sand and Stars
- Saki -
Stories
- Schaefer, Jack -
Shane
- Scott, Sir Walter -
Ivanhoe
- Shelley, Mary -
Frankenstein
- Smith, Betty -
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Steinbeck, John -
- Stevenson, Robert Louis -
- The Black Arrow
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde
- Stoker, Bram -
Dracula
- Thurber, James -
The Thurber Carnival
- Tolkien, J.R.R. -
- The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings
- Twain, Mark -
- The Adventures of
- Huckleberry Finn
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Innocents Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Verne, Jules -
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Mysterious Island
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
- Wallace, Lewis -
Ben-Hur
- Washington, Booker T. -
Up from Slavery
- Wells, H.G. -
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds
- Wharton, Edith -
Ethan Frome
- Wilder, Thornton -
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Wister, Owen -
The Virginian
- Yates, Elizabeth -
Amos Fortune, Free Man
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Grades 9 through 12
- Agee, James -
A Death in the Family
- Anderson, Sherwood -
Winesburg, Ohio
- Austen, Jane -
- Emma
- Northanger Abbey
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Baldwin, James -
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Balzac, Honore de -
Pere Goriot
- Beckett, Samuel -
Waiting for Godot
- The Bible -
- Old Testament
- New Testament
- Bolt, Robert -
A Man for All Seasons
- Bronte, Charlotte -
Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily -
Wuthering Heights
- Browning, Robert -
Poems
- Buck, Pearl -
The Good Earth
- Butler, Samuel -
The Way of All Flesh
- Camus, Albert -
- Cather, Willa -
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- My Antonia
- Cervantes, Miguel -
Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Geoffrey -
The Canterbury Tales
- Chekhov, Anton -
The Cherry Orchard
- Chopin, Kate -
The Awakening
- Collins, Wilkie -
The Moonstone
- Conrad, Joseph -
- Heart of Darkness
- Lord Jim
- The Secret Sharer
- Victory
- Crane, Stephen -
The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante -
The Divine Comedy
- Defoe, Daniel -
Moll Flanders
- Dickens, Charles -
- Bleak House
- David Copperfield
- Great Expectations
- Hard Times
- Oliver Twist
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickinson, Emily -
Poems
- Dinesen, Isak -
Out of Africa
- Dostoevski, Fyodor -
- Brothers Karamazov
- Crime and Punishment
Dreiser, Theodore -
- An American Tragedy
- Sister Carrie
- Eliot, George -
- Adam Bede
- Middlemarch
- Mill on the Floss
- Silas Marner
- Eliot, T.S. -
Murder in the Cathedral
- Ellison, Ralph -
Invisible Man
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -
Essays
- Faulkner, William -
- Absalom, Absalom!
- As I Lay Dying
- Intruder in the Dust
- Light in August
- The Sound and the Fury
- Fielding, Henry -
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott -
- The Great Gatsby
- Tender Is the Night
- Flaubert, Gustave -
Madame Bovary
- Forster, E.M. -
- A Passage to India
- A Room with a View
- Franklin, Benjamin -
The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin
- Galsworthy, John -
The Forsyte Saga
- Golding, William -
Lord of the Flies
- Goldsmith, Oliver -
She Stoops to Conquer
- Graves, Robert -
I, Claudius
- Greene, Graham -
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Power and the Glory
- Hamilton, Edith -
Mythology
- Hardy, Thomas -
- Far From the Madding Crowd
- Jude the Obscure
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Return of the Native
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- 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
- Hersey, John -
A Single Pebble
- Hesse, Hermann -
- Demian
- Siddhartha
- Steppenwolf
- Homer -
- Hughes, Langston -
Poems
- Hugo, Victor -
Les Miserables
- Huxley, Aldous -
Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik -
- A Doll's House
- An Enemy of the People
- Ghosts
- Hedda Gabler
- The Master Builder
- The Wild Duck
- James, Henry -
- The American
- Daisy Miller
- Portrait of a Lady
- The Turn of the Screw
- Joyce, James -
- Portrait of the Artist
- As a Young Man
- Dubliners
- Kafka, Franz -
- The Castle
- Metamorphosis
- The Trial
- Keats, John -
Poems
- Kerouac, Jack -
On the Road
- Koestler, Arthur -
Darkness at Noon
- Lawrence, D.H. -
Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee -
Inherit the Wind
- Lewis, Sinclair -
- Arrowsmith
- Babbitt
- Main Street
- Llewellyn, Richard -
How Green Was My Valley
- Machiavelli -
The Prince
- MacLeish, Archibald -
J.B.
- Mann, Thomas -
- Buddenbrooks
- The Magic Mountain
- Marlowe, Christopher -
Dr. Faustus
- Maugham, Somerset -
Of Human Bondage
- McCullers, Carson -
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Melville, Herman -
- Billy Budd
- Moby-Dick
- Typee
- Miller, Arthur -
- The Crucible
- Death of a Salesman
- Monsarrat, Nicholas -
The Cruel Sea
- O'Neill, Eugene -
- The Emperor Jones
- A Long Day's Journey into Night
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- Orwell, George -
- Pasternak, Boris -
Doctor Zhivago
- Poe, Edgar Allan -
Short stories
- Remarque, Erich -
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rolvaag, O.E. -
Giants in the Earth
- Rostand, Edmond -
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Salinger, J.D. -
The Catcher in the Rye
- Sandburg, Carl -
- Abraham Lincoln:
- The Prairie Years
- Abraham Lincoln:
- The War Years
- Saroyan, William -
The Human Comedy
- Sayers, Dorothy -
The Nine Tailors
- Shakespeare, William -
Plays and sonnets
- Shaw, George Bernard -
- Arms and the Man
- Major Barbara
- Pygmalion
- Saint Joan
- Sheridan, Richard B. -
The School for Scandal
- Shute, Nevil -
On the Beach
- Sinclair, Upton -
The Jungle
- Sophocles -
- Steinbeck, John -
- East of Eden
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Of Mice and Men
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Swift, Jonathan -
Gulliver's Travels
- Thackeray, William M. -
Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Henry David -
Walden
- Tolstoy, Leo -
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
- Trollope, Anthony -
Barchester Towers
- Turgenev, Ivan -
Fathers and Sons
- Twain, Mark -
Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Updike, John -
Rabbit Run
- Vergil -
The Aeneid
- Voltaire -
Candide
- Warren, Robert Penn -
All the King's Men
- Waugh, Evelyn -
- Brideshead Revisited
- A Handful of Dust
- Wharton, Edith -
Age of Innocence
- White, T.H. -
- The Once and Future King
- The Sword in the Stone
- Wilde, Oscar -
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton -
Our Town
- Williams, Tennessee -
- The Glass Menagerie
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Wolfe, Thomas -
Look Homeward, Angel
- Woolf, Virginia -
- Mrs. Dalloway
- To the Lighthouse
- Wouk, Herman -
The Caine Mutiny
- Wright, Richard -
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The National Endowment for the Humanities solicited
supplemental reading lists from public and private schools in
every state. Many of the schools had been chosen by the U.S.
Department of Education as exemplary schools; others were
known to have strong humanities programs. Sixty of the
extracurricular lists that NEH received were used to compile
this list. The list includes all titles published in 1960 or
before that appeared on at least five of those reading lists.
The only exception is in the early grades: Because many
schools did not submit suggested readings for these grades,
some titles that were mentioned fewer than five times have
been added to the K-3 category.
For more information about NEH programs, ask for the
Overview. Write to NEH, Room 402, Washington, D.C. 20506.
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