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Grades 7 and 8
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little
Men 813 A355LM
- 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 823 B942P3
- Carroll, Lewis -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland;
Through the Looking Glass 823 D645A2
- Clark, Walter - The Ox-Bow
Incident 813 C596O
- Cooper, James Fenimore
-
- The Deerslayer
813 C777D1961
- The Last of the Mohicans
813 C777LA
- Curie, Eve - Madame Curie:
A Biography 509.2 C92C9
- Dana, Richard Henry - Two
Years before the Mast 910.4 D167T1985
- Day, Clarence - Life with
Father 818 D33L
- Defoe, Daniel - Robinson
Crusoe 823 D314R1945
- Dickens, Charles - A Christmas
Carol 823 D548CH
- Douglas, Lloyd C. - The
Robe 813 D743R
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes 823 D754a
- Dumas, Alexander -
- The Count of Monte Christo
843 D89CE
- The Three Musketeers
843 D89TE1952
- Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
823 D886R
- Edmonds, Walter D. - Drums
along the Mohawk 813 E242DR
- Ferber, Edna - Cimarron
813 F346CI
- Forbes, Esther - Johnny
Tremain J. 813 F692J1970
- Forester, C.S. -
- The African Queen
823 F717A1940
- The Hornblower series
823 F717
- Frank, Anne - Diary of
a Young Girl 940.53492 F85AE1967
- Frost, Robert - Poems
811 F925
- Gallico, Paul - The Snow
Goose 813 G168SN
- Gunther, John - Death Be
Not Proud 818 G799D
- Guthrie, A.B. - The Big
Sky
- Haggard, H. Rider - King
Solomon's Mines
- Hansberry, Lorraine - Raisin
in the Sun 812 H197R1966
- Hemingway, Ernest - The
Old Man and the Sea 813 H489O
- Hersey, John -
- A Bell for Adano
- Hiroshima 940.544
H572H
- The Wall 813
H572W
- Heyerdahl, Thor - Kon-Tiki
- Hilton, James -
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips 823
H656GO
- Lost Horizon 823
H656LO
- Hudson, W.H. - Green Mansions
823 H886GR
- Hughes, Richard - A High
Wind in Jamaica 823 H894H
- Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback
of Notre Dame 843 H87H
- Irving, Washington - The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow 813 I72YG28
- Keller, Helen - Story of
My Life
- Kennedy, John F. - Profiles
in Courage 328.73 K382P1961
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
823 K62K
- Knowles, John - A Separate
Peace 813 K73s 1996
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a
Mockingbird J. 813 L478T1987
- London, Jack - The Sea
Wolf
- Lord, Walter - A Night
to Remember 910.45 T5L8N
- Malory, Sir Thomas - Le
Morte d'Arthur 823 M257M1
- Maxwell, Gavin - Ring of
Bright Water
- McCullers, Carson - Member
of the Wedding 813 M133ME
- Michener, James - The Bridges
at Toko-Ri
- Mitchell, Margaret - Gone
with the Wind 813 M682G
- Nordhoff, Charles and J.N.
Hall - Mutiny on the Bounty 813 N832MU
- O'Dell, Scott - Island
of the Blue Dolphins
- Orczy, Baroness Emma -
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Paton, Alan - Cry, the
Beloved Country 823 P27C
- Pyle, Howard - Men of Iron
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- The Yearling 813 R259Y
- Renault, Mary - The King
Must Die 823 R396K
- Roberts, Kenneth - Northwest
Passage 813 R645N
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine
de -
- The Little Prince
843 S137L
- Wind, Sand and Stars
843 S137TE
- Saki - Stories 828
S158
- Schaefer, Jack - Shane
- Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe
823 S431i 1983
- Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
823 S545F
- Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn 813 S643T
- Steinbeck, John -
- The Pearl 813
S819P
- Tortilla Flat 813
S819T
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
-
- The Black Arrow
823 S84B
- The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 823 S84S
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Thurber, James - The Thurber
Carnival 817 T427TA
- Tolkien, J.R.R. -
- The Hobbit 823
T649h 1997
- The Lord of the Rings
823 T649L 1993
- Twain, Mark -
- The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
- The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer 817 C59A
- A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court 817 C59CON
- Innocents Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi 917.7
C59L
- The Prince and the Pauper
817 C59PR
- Verne, Jules -
- Around the World in Eighty
Days
- Journey to the Center
of the Earth
- Mysterious Island
- 20,000 Leagues under
the Sea 843 V531T
- Wallace, Lewis - Ben-Hur
813 W188B
- Washington, Booker T. -
Up from Slavery 301.45196 W317U1993
- Wells, H.G. -
- The Time Machine
823 W46T1982
- War of the Worlds
- Wharton, Edith - Ethan
Frome 813 W55e
- Wilder, Thornton - The
Bridge of San Luis Rey 813 W673B1928
- Wister, Owen - The Virginian
813 W817V
- Yates, Elizabeth - Amos
Fortune, Free Man J. 326.92 F745Y31
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Grades 9 through 12
- Agee, James - A Death in
the Family
- Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg,
Ohio 813 A549WI
- Austen, Jane -
- Emma 823
A933EM
- Northanger Abbey 823
A933N
- Pride and Prejudice 823
A933PR
- Sense and Sensibility
823 A933S
- Baldwin, James -
- Go Tell It on the Mountain 813
B181go 1995
- Balzac, Honore de - Pere
Goriot 843 B21PE
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting
for Godot 843 B21PE1950
- The Bible
-
- Old Testament (many
copies available - see Illinet Online catalog)
- New Testament (many
copies available - see Illinet Online catalog)
- Bolt, Robert - A Man for
All Seasons 812 B694M
- Bronte, Charlotte - Jane
Eyre - 823 B78J
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering
Heights 823 B78W1943
- Browning, Robert - Poems
821 B821
- Buck, Pearl - The Good
Earth 813 B888HO
- Butler, Samuel - The Way
of All Flesh 823 B986W
- Camus, Albert -
- The Plague 843
C15psE 1995
- The Stranger 843
C15ETE1993
- Cather, Willa -
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
813 C285D
- My Antonia - 813
C285m 1996
- Cervantes, Miguel - Don
Quixote - 863 C419DER
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - The
Canterbury Tales 821 C496C1929
- Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry
Orchard (Sound Recording: 891.7 C41C)
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening 813
C549A1964
- Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone 823
C713M1931
- Conrad, Joseph -
- Heart of Darkness 823
C75H1963
- Lord Jim 823
C75L
- The Secret Sharer
- Victory 823
C75V
- Crane, Stephen - The Red
Badge of Courage 813 C891R
- Dante - The Divine Comedy
851.1 P218
- Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders 823
D314m 1991
- Dickens, Charles -
- Bleak House 823
D548B
- David Copperfield
823 D548D
- Great Expectations 823
D548GR
- Hard Times 823
D548h
- Oliver Twist 823
D548O
- A Tale of Two Cities
823 D548TA
- Dickinson, Emily - Poems 811
D561955
- Dinesen, Isak - Out of
Africa 916.762 D583O1985
- Dostoevski, Fyodor -
- Brothers Karamazov 891.7
D74BE
- Crime and Punishment
891.7 D74pE 1993
Dreiser, Theodore -
- An American Tragedy
813 D814A
- Sister Carrie
813 D814S
- Eliot, George -
- Adam Bede 823
E42A
- Middlemarch 823
E42M
- Mill on the Floss 823
E42MI
- Silas Marner 823
E42S1961
- Eliot, T.S. - Murder in
the Cathedral 822 E42m Ym412
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible
Man 813 E469I
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -
Essays 818 E53E
- Faulkner, William -
- Absalom, Absalom!
813 F272a 1951
- As I Lay Dying 813
F272AS1964
- Intruder in the Dust
813 F272h
- Light in August 813
F272L1959
- The Sound and the Fury
813 F272L1959
- Fielding, Henry -
- Joseph Andrews
823 F46J1946
- Tom Jones 823
F46T
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott -
- The Great Gatsby 813
F57gr
- Tender Is the Night 813
F553YL184A
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame
Bovary 843 F61m
- Forster, E.M. -
- A Passage to India
823 F76P
- A Room with a View 823
F76RO
- Franklin, Benjamin
- The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin 818 F831WF81
- Galsworthy, John - The
Forsyte Saga 823 G1785f 1943
- Golding, William - Lord
of the Flies - 823 G618L
- Goldsmith, Oliver - She
Stoops to Conquer 822 G57S
- Graves, Robert - I, Claudius
- 823 G78I
- Greene, Graham -
- The Heart of the Matter 823
G83HE
- The Power and the Glory
823 G83PO
- Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
292.13 H217
- Hardy, Thomas -
- Far From the Madding
Crowd 823 H272F
- Jude the Obscure
823 H272J
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
823 H272M
- The Return of the Native 823
H272R1922
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
823 H272T
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel -
- The House of the Seven
Gables 813 H399HO
- The Scarlet Letter 813
H399S
- Hemingway, Ernest -
- A Farewell to Arms 813
H489F
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
813 H489FO
- The Sun Also Rises 813
H489S
- Henry, O. - Stories
- 813 P83BE1945
- Hersey, John - A Single
Pebble 813 H572S
- Hesse, Hermann -
- Demian 833
H587DE1981
- Siddhartha 833
H587si
- Steppenwolf 833
H587ST1974
- Homer -
- The Iliad 881
H8IELA2
- The Odyssey 882
L8H8O
- Hughes, Langston - Poems
811 H893s 1974
- Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
843 H87M
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave
New World 823 H986b 1998
- Ibsen, Henrik -
- A Doll's House
in 839.8 I14t
- An Enemy of the People
in 839.82 I141935
- Ghosts in
839.82 I141935
- Hedda Gabler
in 839.8 I14t
- The Master Builder
in 839.82 I141935
- The Wild Duck
in 839.8 I14t
- James, Henry -
- The American Springfield
Campus FIC JAM
- Daisy Miller
in 813 J23GR
- Portrait of a Lady
813 J23PO1936
- The Turn of the Screw
in 813 J23GR
- Joyce, James -
- Dubliners 823
J85d
- Portrait of the Artist As
a Young Man 823 J85PO
- Kafka, Franz -
- The Castle
- Metamorphosis
- The Trial 842
G453
- Keats, John - Poems
821 K25
- Kerouac, Jack - On the
Road 813 K39o 1999
- Koestler, Arthur - Darkness
at Noon 823 K78D
- Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and
Lovers 823 L43s
- Lawrence, Jerome and Robert
E. Lee - Inherit the Wind
- Lewis, Sinclair -
- Arrowsmith 813
L58AR
- Babbitt 813
L58B
- Main Street 813
L58MA
- Llewellyn, Richard - How
Green Was My Valley 823 L791H
- Machiavelli - The Prince
320.81 M18pE
- MacLeish, Archibald - J.B.
812.5 M163
- Mann, Thomas -
- Buddenbrooks 833
M31BUE1984
- The Magic Mountain 833
M31M
- Marlowe, Christopher -
Dr. Faustus in 822 M341903
- Maugham, Somerset - Of
Human Bondage 823 M44OF1942
- McCullers, Carson - The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 813 M133HE
- Melville, Herman -
- Billy Budd 812
M49B
- Moby-Dick 813
M49M
- Typee 813
M49T1923
- Miller, Arthur -
- The Crucible PD.
812 M615C1972 sound recording
- Death of a Salesman 812
M615D1958
- Monsarrat, Nicholas - The
Cruel Sea
- O'Neill, Eugene -
- The Emperor Jones
812 O58E
- A Long Day's Journey
into Night 812 O58LO
- Mourning Becomes Electra
812 O58MR
- Orwell, George -
- Animal Farm 823
O79A
- 1984 823
O79N1983
- Pasternak, Boris - Doctor
Zhivago 891.7 P26D
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Short
stories 813 P743189
- Remarque, Erich - All Quiet
on the Western Front 833 R384iE 1975
- Rolvaag, O.E. - Giants
in the Earth 813 R755G
- Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano
de Bergerac 842 R839ca
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher
in the Rye 813 S165C1964
- Sandburg, Carl -
- Abraham Lincoln: The
Prairie Years 973.7 L63ES21
- Abraham Lincoln: The
War Years 973.7 L63AS21
- Saroyan, William - The
Human Comedy 813 S246HU
- Sayers, Dorothy - The Nine
Tailors 808.838 S274NI
- Shakespeare, William -
Plays and sonnets 822.33 IU
- Shaw, George Bernard -
- Arms and the Man
822 S534a
- Major Barbara PD.
822 S53MA sound recording
- Pygmalion 822
S534p
- Saint Joan 822
S534sa
- Sheridan, Richard B. -
The School for Scandal 822 S552S
- Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
813 S616j
- Sophocles -
- Antigone 881
S5AN
- Oedipus Rex 881
S5OEF1977
- Steinbeck, John -
- East of Eden 813
S819e
- The Grapes of Wrath
813 S819GR
- Of Mice and Men 813 S819O
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Uncle Tom's Cabin 813 S892U
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's
Travels 827 S977G4
- Thackeray, William M. -
Vanity Fair 823 T363V
- Thoreau, Henry David -
Walden 818 T488WA
- Tolstoy, Leo -
- Anna Karenina 891.7
T58A
- War and Peace 891.7
T58VE
- Trollope, Anthony - Barchester
Towers 823 T847B
- Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers
and Sons 891.7 T84FE
- Twain, Mark - The Tragedy
of Pudd'nhead Wilson 817 C59P1964
- Updike, John - Rabbit Run
813 U66r 1960
- Vergil - The Aeneid
871 V58A
- Voltaire - Candide
848 V935C
- Warren, Robert Penn - All
the King's Men 813 W292
- Waugh, Evelyn -
- Brideshead Revisited
823 W35B
- A Handful of Dust 823
W35h
- Wharton, Edith - Age of
Innocence 813 W55A
- White, T.H. -
- The Once and Future King
813 W589ON
- The Sword in the Stone
813 W589SW
- Wilde, Oscar -
- The Importance of Being
Earnest 822 W672
- The Picture of Dorian
Gray 823 W64p 1992
- Wilder, Thornton - Our
Town 812 W64O
- Williams, Tennessee -
- The Glass Menagerie 812
W677G
- A Streetcar Named Desire
812 W677S
- Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward,
Angel 813 W83L
- Woolf, Virginia -
- Mrs. Dalloway 823
W88M1953
- To the Lighthouse 823
W88T
- Wouk, Herman - The Caine
Mutiny 813 W938CA
- Wright, Richard -
- Black Boy Springfield
Campus B W952 Wri-a
- Native Son 813 W952N
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Credits
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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