100 Books Every High School Student Should Read?
Do you agree with the list? How many books on this list have you read (High school or not)? Are there any books you'd add to this list? I didn't read any of these in high school, read some of them in college, and some I've read on my own. Some are on my to-read list. Atonement is my favorite book of all time. This list comes from the Accredited Online Colleges website. 1 Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 2 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 4 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 5 One Thousand and One Nights Anon 6 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 8 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre 9 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 10 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki 11 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 12 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 13 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 14 On the Road by Jack Kerouac 15 Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac 16 The Red and the Black by Stendhal 17 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 18 Germinal by Emile Zola 19 The Stranger by Albert Camus 20 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 21 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 22 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 23 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 24 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 25 The Trial by Franz Kafka 26 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 27 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan 28 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 29 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 30 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin 31 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 32 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 33 Crash by JG Ballard 34 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul 35 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 36 Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 37 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 38 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 39 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 40 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 41 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 42 London Fields by Martin Amis 43 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaoo 44 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 45 The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass 46 Austerlitz by WG Sebald 47 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 48 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 49 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 50 Underworld by Don DeLillo 51 Beloved by Toni Morrison 52 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 53 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 54 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 55 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 56 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 57 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 58 The Rabbit books by John Updike 59 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 60 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 61 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 62 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 63 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 64 The Warden by Anthony Trollope 65 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 66 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis: An uncommitted history lecturer clashes with his pompous boss, gets drunk and gets the girl. 67 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 68 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 69 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 70 Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 71 Atonement by Ian McEwan 72 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec 73 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 74 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 75 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 76 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 77 Ulysses by James Joyce 78 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 79 A Passage to India by EM Forster 80 1984 by George Orwell 81 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 82 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 83 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 84 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 85 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 86 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 87 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 88 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 89 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 90 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 91 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 92 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 93 Disgrace by JM Coetzee 94 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 95 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 96 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 97 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 98 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 99 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 100 Middlemarch by George Eliot @Emily - Nope, a quick copy/paste. ;) You'll be surprised what technology can do for you. :D Even though I haven't read it, I'm quite surprised that JRR Tolkien is at the top of her list. Most of these books I'd never read, though. Just not my taste, including the non-fiction books.
Books & Authors - 5 Answers
People's Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
Answer 1 :
Yes. I loved the great gatsby! Another book I liked was the crucible.
Answer 2 :
Add East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli Uncle Toms Cabin by Charles Dickens Good books for High school students.
Answer 3 :
LotR is number one? Whaaa? Good series, don't get me wrong, but I don't see the Millennium Trilogy or His Dark Materials on there! Personally, I don't care for Mark Twain.
Answer 4 :
Interesting list. I've read about half the list & some of them BLEAH! I am not a Lord of the Rings fan & Ulysses gave me a headache. No Hemingway, no Shakespeare, no Carson McCullers , no Faulkner. I'd add one work from each. Don Quixote is a masterpiece but long. I much prefer East of Eden & Cannery Row to Grapes of Wrath. Heart of Darkness is wonderful.
Answer 5 :
Interesting list. I've read 8 total...well, maybe 7. Portrait of a Lady was absolute hell for me and I didn't so much read it as I just skimmed over the words. I'm not too surprised LotR is on the list. Its a brilliant series and classic fantasy. I'm a bit surprised by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, though. Interesting choice. Any high school student should be able to get through that, though, even the ones who hate reading and sleep through class. There's some others on there I plan on reading sometime in my life and some I probably will never read, but its a pretty good list, I think
Do you agree with the list? How many books on this list have you read (High school or not)? Are there any books you'd add to this list? I didn't read any of these in high school, read some of them in college, and some I've read on my own. Some are on my to-read list. Atonement is my favorite book of all time. This list comes from the Accredited Online Colleges website. 1 Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 2 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 4 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 5 One Thousand and One Nights Anon 6 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 8 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre 9 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 10 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki 11 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 12 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 13 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 14 On the Road by Jack Kerouac 15 Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac 16 The Red and the Black by Stendhal 17 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 18 Germinal by Emile Zola 19 The Stranger by Albert Camus 20 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 21 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 22 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 23 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 24 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 25 The Trial by Franz Kafka 26 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 27 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan 28 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 29 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 30 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin 31 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 32 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 33 Crash by JG Ballard 34 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul 35 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 36 Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 37 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 38 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 39 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 40 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 41 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 42 London Fields by Martin Amis 43 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaoo 44 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 45 The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass 46 Austerlitz by WG Sebald 47 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 48 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 49 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 50 Underworld by Don DeLillo 51 Beloved by Toni Morrison 52 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 53 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 54 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 55 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 56 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 57 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 58 The Rabbit books by John Updike 59 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 60 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 61 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 62 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 63 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 64 The Warden by Anthony Trollope 65 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 66 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis: An uncommitted history lecturer clashes with his pompous boss, gets drunk and gets the girl. 67 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 68 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 69 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 70 Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 71 Atonement by Ian McEwan 72 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec 73 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 74 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 75 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 76 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 77 Ulysses by James Joyce 78 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 79 A Passage to India by EM Forster 80 1984 by George Orwell 81 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 82 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 83 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 84 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 85 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 86 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 87 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 88 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 89 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 90 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 91 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 92 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 93 Disgrace by JM Coetzee 94 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 95 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 96 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 97 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 98 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 99 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 100 Middlemarch by George Eliot @Emily - Nope, a quick copy/paste. ;) You'll be surprised what technology can do for you. :D Even though I haven't read it, I'm quite surprised that JRR Tolkien is at the top of her list. Most of these books I'd never read, though. Just not my taste, including the non-fiction books.
Books & Authors - 5 Answers
People's Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
Answer 1 :
Yes. I loved the great gatsby! Another book I liked was the crucible.
Answer 2 :
Add East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli Uncle Toms Cabin by Charles Dickens Good books for High school students.
Answer 3 :
LotR is number one? Whaaa? Good series, don't get me wrong, but I don't see the Millennium Trilogy or His Dark Materials on there! Personally, I don't care for Mark Twain.
Answer 4 :
Interesting list. I've read about half the list & some of them BLEAH! I am not a Lord of the Rings fan & Ulysses gave me a headache. No Hemingway, no Shakespeare, no Carson McCullers , no Faulkner. I'd add one work from each. Don Quixote is a masterpiece but long. I much prefer East of Eden & Cannery Row to Grapes of Wrath. Heart of Darkness is wonderful.
Answer 5 :
Interesting list. I've read 8 total...well, maybe 7. Portrait of a Lady was absolute hell for me and I didn't so much read it as I just skimmed over the words. I'm not too surprised LotR is on the list. Its a brilliant series and classic fantasy. I'm a bit surprised by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, though. Interesting choice. Any high school student should be able to get through that, though, even the ones who hate reading and sleep through class. There's some others on there I plan on reading sometime in my life and some I probably will never read, but its a pretty good list, I think
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