Highschooler’s Reading List

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Reading forms a fundamental part of everyone’s education. Here are some of our recommendations for college-bound 11th and 12th graders – books that you can read in high school. This high school reading list spans novels, plays, biographies, autobiographies; many are timeless classics and award-winning books.

ReachIvy has compiled a must-read list of books with the goal to nourish your intellect. In the process, we hope you increase your love for reading!

Must Read 11th and 12th-grade reading list:
• 1984 – George Orwell
• A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
• A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
• A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest Gaines
• A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt
• A Passage to India – E.M. Foster
• A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
• An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
• An Enemy of the People – Henrik Ibsen
• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
• Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
• Black Boy – Richard Wright
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Candide – Voltaire
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
• Cyrano de Bergerac – Rostand
• Demian – Hermann Hesse
• Don Quixote – Cervantes
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
• Fences – August Wilson
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• Grendel – John Gardner
• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
• Hard Times – Charles Dickens
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
• Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
• Jubilee – Margaret Walker
• Macbeth – William Shakespeare
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
• Malgudi Days: Swami & Friends – R K Narayan
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• Murder in the Cathedral – T.S. Eliot
• My Antonia – Willa Cather
• No Exit – Jean-Paul Satre
• Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man- James Joyce
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw
• Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
• Sister Carrie -Theodore Dreiser
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm Little
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Crucible – Arthur Miller
• The Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
• The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
• The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail – Jerome & R. E. Lee Lawrence
• The Plague – Albert Camus
• The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
• The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• The Story of my Experiments with Truth – MK Gandhi
• The Tempest – William Shakespeare
• Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
• Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
• Turn of the Screw – Henry James
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

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