High school reading list

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Here is a collection of novels at the high school level:

9th grade:

  • Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London (serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, June 20-July 18, 1903)

Liberal novels which are often required but which induce depression:

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

10th grade:

11th grade:

Liberal:

  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

12th grade:

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • Turn of the Screw by Henry James (serialized in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898)
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Liberal:

  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner