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The following comprises the reading list for Liberty Christian High School students. While, of course, we cannot endorse every concept of every book, we do believe that these are among the books one would read in order to be widely read. Many can be found in the school library.
High School Recommended Reading List
| A Death In The Family |
Agee, James |
American
Literature |
| Windsor Castle |
Ainsworth, William Harrison |
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A Lantern in Her Hand
Spring Came on Forever |
Aldrich |
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| Speak |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
American
Literature |
| Poor White |
Anderson, Sherwood |
American
Literature |
The Heart of a Woman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
American
Literature |
| Any |
Austen, Jane |
British
Literature |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain |
Baldwin, James |
American
Literature |
Eugenie Grandet
The Magic Skin
Pere Goriot |
Balzac, Honore de |
World Literature |
| The Lilies of the Field |
Barrett, William Edmund |
American
Literature |
| Waiting For Godot |
Beckett, Samuel |
British
Literature |
Devil's Dictionary
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter |
Bierce, Ambrose |
American
Literature |
| Lorna Doone |
Blackmore, R.D. |
British
Literature |
| A Man for All Seasons |
Bolt, Robert |
British
Literature |
| When the Legends Die |
Borland, Hal |
American
Literature |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Bradbury, Ray |
American
Literature |
The Mirror of Kong Ho
The Wallet of Kai Lung |
Bramah, Ernest |
British
Literature |
Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Bronte,Ann |
British
Literature |
Jane Eyre
The Professor
Shirley
Villette |
Bronte, Charlotte |
British
Literature |
| Wuthering Heights |
Bronte, Emily |
British
Literature |
The Good Earth
Mandala
This Proud Heart |
Buck, Pearl S. |
American
Literature |
The Fall
The Plague
The Stranger |
Camus, Albert |
World Literature |
Alexander's Bridge
My Antonia
One of Ours
O Pioneers!
Song of the Lark |
Cather, Willa |
American
Literature |
| Don Quixote de la Mancha |
Cervantes, Miguel |
World Literature |
| The Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
British
Literature |
The Ball and The Cross
The Club of Queer Trades
The Innocence of Father Brown
Manalive
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Trees of Pride
The Wisdom of Father Brown |
Chesterton, G. K. |
British
Literature |
| The Awakening |
Chopin, Kate |
American
Literature |
2001: A Space Odyssey
Childhoods End
The Other Side of the Sky |
Clark, Sir Arthur C. |
British
Literature |
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
The Secret Sharer
Victory |
Conrad, Joseph |
British
Literature |
| Captain Cook's Explorations |
Cook, James |
British
Literature |
The Deerslayer
Last of the Mohicans
The Pilot |
Cooper, James Fenimore |
American
Literature |
The Chocolate War
Heroes
Beyond the Chocolate War |
Cormier, Robert |
American
Literature |
| The Red Badge of Courage |
Crane, Stephen |
American
Literature |
| Two Years Before the Mast |
Dana, Richard Henry |
American
Literature |
The Divine Comedy
Inferno |
Dante |
World Literature |
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe, Daniel |
British
Literature |
| Any |
Dickens, Charles |
British
Literature |
| Out of Africa |
Dinesen, Isak |
World
Literature |
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
Notes from Underground |
Dostoevsky , Fyodor |
World
Literature |
| Travels in Arabian Deserts |
Doughty, Charles |
British
Literature |
An American Tragedy
Sir Gawain and the Green Night
Sister Carrie |
Dreiser, Theodore |
American
Literature |
Count of Monte Cristo
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Queen's Necklace
Taking of the Bastille |
Dumas, Alexander |
World
Literature |
Adam Bede
Brother Jacob
The Lifted Veil |
Eliot, George |
British
Literature |
| Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
American
Literature |
| The Edge of Time |
Erdman, Loula Grace |
American
Literature |
Absolam! Absolam!
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
The Sound of the Fury |
Faulkner, William |
American
Literature |
Cimarron
Showboat |
Ferber, Edna |
American
Literature |
The Last Tycoon
Tender is the Night |
Fitzgerald , F. Scott |
American
Literature |
| Madame Bovary |
Flaubert, Gustave |
World
Literature |
| A Passage to India |
Forster, E.M. |
British
Literature |
| Cold Comfort Farm |
Gibbons, Stella |
British
Literature |
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Wilheim Meister |
Goethe, Johann |
World
Literature |
Dead Souls
Taras Bulba |
Gogol, Nikolai |
World
Literature |
| Don Juan |
Gordon, George Lord Byron |
British
Literature |
The Flounder
The Tin Drum |
Gras, Gunter |
World
Literature |
| I, Claudius |
Graves, Robert |
British
Literature |
An Abundance of Katherines
Looking for Alaska |
Green, John |
American
Literature |
Heart of the Matter
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
Greene, Hannah |
American
Literature |
| Black Like Me |
Griffin, John |
American
Literature |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
Haddon, Mark |
British
Literature |
| Any |
Hardy, Thomas |
British
Literature |
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
American
Literature |
| Catch-22 |
Heller, Joseph |
American
Literature |
| Any (except Old Man and the Sea) |
Hemingway, Ernest |
American
Literature |
All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Wise and Wonderful |
Herriot, James |
British
Literature |
| Out of the Dust |
Karen Hesse |
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| Jungle Pilot |
Hitt |
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| Two From Galilee |
Holmes, Marjorie |
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The Iliad
The Odyssey |
Homer |
British
Literature |
A Modern Instance
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
Howells, William Dean |
American
Literature |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Ninety-Three
Toilers of the Sea |
Hugo, Victor |
World Literature |
| Up a Road Slowly |
Hunt, Irene |
American
Literature |
Brave New World
Point Counter Point |
Huxley, Aldous |
British
Literature |
| The Flame Trees of Thika |
Huxley, Elspeth |
World Literature |
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Ibanez, V.B |
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| Ramona |
Jackson, Helen Hunt |
American
Literature |
| Any |
James, Henry |
American
Literature |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses |
Joyce, James |
British
Literature |
| Kira-Kira |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
American
Literature |
America
The Castle
Metamorphosis
The Trial |
Kafka, Franz |
World Literature |
| One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
Kesey, Ken |
American
Literature |
| In the Hall of the Dragon King |
Lawhead, Stephen R. |
American
Literature |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Rainbow
Sons and Lovers
Women in Love |
Lawrence, David H. |
British
Literature |
| Inherit the Wind |
Lawrence, Jerome |
American
Literature |
Russia House
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
LeCarre, John |
British
Literature |
| My Fair Lady |
Lerner, Alan Jay |
British
Literature |
| Phantom of the Opera |
Leroux, Gaston |
World Literature |
| The Monk |
Lewis, Matthew |
British
Literature |
4 Loves
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
Screwtape Letters
That Hideous Strength
Till We Have Faces |
Lewis. C.S. |
British
Literature |
| How Green Was My Valley |
Llewellyn, Richard |
British
Literature |
| The Great God Plan |
Machen, Arthur |
British
Literature |
| At the Back of the North Wind |
MacDonald, George |
British
Literature |
| The Fixer |
Malamud, Bernard |
American
Literature |
| Joseph and His Brothers |
Mann, Thomas |
World Literature |
| Doctor Faustus |
Marlowe, Christopher |
British
Literature |
Of Human Bondage
The Razor's Edge |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
British
Literature |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
McCullers, Carson |
American
Literature |
| Casuals of the Sea |
McFee, William |
British
Literature |
Benito Cerino
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
Omoo
Typee
White Jacket |
Melville, Herman |
American
Literature |
| Hawaii |
Michener, James |
American
Literature |
| Death of a Salesman |
Miller, Arthur |
American
Literature |
| Paradise Lost |
Milton, John |
British
Literature |
| Hugh Wynne |
Mitchell, Silas |
American
Literature |
Beloved
The Bluest Eye |
Morrison, Toni |
American
Literature |
| Never Cry Wolf |
Mowat, Farley |
World Literature |
| A Long Days' Journey Into Night |
O'Neill, Eugene |
American
Literature |
Animal Farm
1984 |
Orwell, George |
British
Literature |
| Crisis |
Paine, Thomas |
American
Literature |
| Doctor Zhivago |
Pasternak, Boris |
British
Literature |
| Cry, the Beloved Country |
Patan, Alan |
British
Literature |
The Oath
Piercing the Darkness
Prophet
This Present Darkness
The Visitation |
Peretti, Frank |
American
Literature |
| Stonewyke Legacy |
Phillips, Michael & Pella, Judith |
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| The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear |
Plait |
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| The Promise |
Potok, Chaim |
American
Literature |
Beloved Invader
Lighthouse
Maria
New Moon Risign |
Price, Eugenia |
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Anthem
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
We, the Living |
Rand, Ayn |
American
Literature |
All's Quiet on the Western Front
Shadows in Paradise |
Remarque, Erich Maria |
World Literature |
| The Sea of Grass |
Richter, Conrad |
American
Literature |
| Cyrano de Bergerac |
Rostand, Edmond |
World Literature |
Ivanhoe
Rob Roy
The Talisman |
Scott, Sir Walter |
British
Literature |
| Any (except Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet) |
Shakespeare, William |
British
Literature |
| Pygmalion |
Shaw, George Bernard |
British
Literature |
| In His Steps |
Sheldon, Charles |
American
Literature |
| Light on Snow |
Shreve, Anita |
American
Literature |
| On the Beach |
Shute, Nevile |
British
Literature |
| Quo Vadis |
Sienkiewicz, Henry |
World Literature |
| The Jungle |
Sinclair, Upton |
American
Literature |
Enemies, A Love Story
The Family Moskat |
Singer, Issac B. |
American
Literature |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Smith, Betty |
American
Literature |
| I Capture the Castle |
Smith, Dodie |
British
Literature |
Cancer Ward
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |
World Literature |
| Miriam |
Somerfelt, Aimee |
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Antigone
Oedipus the King |
Sophocles |
World Literature |
| Fiddler on the Roof |
Stein, Joseph |
American
Literature |
| Any (except Red Pony and Pearl) |
Steinbeck, John |
American
Literature |
| The Red and the Black |
Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle |
World Literature |
| The Great War Syndicate |
Stockton, Frank |
American
Literature |
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Lady of the Shroud
The Lair of the White Worm
The Man |
Stoker, Bram |
World Literature |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
American
Literature |
Joy Luck Club
Kitchen God's Wife |
Tan, Amy |
American
Literature |
| Border of Yale |
Taylor |
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| Idylls of the King |
Tennyson, Alfred Lord |
British
Literature |
The Daughter of Time
The Franchise Affair |
Tey, Josephine |
British
Literature |
| Vanity Fair |
Thackeray, William W. |
British
Literature |
| On Walden Pond |
Thoreau, Henry David |
American
Literature |
The Hobbit
The
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
British
Literature |
Anna Karenina
Death of Ivan Ilyitch
My Confessions
Resurrection
Sevastopol Sketches
War and Peace |
Tolstoy, Leo |
World Literature |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Life on the Mississippi
Roughing It |
Twain, Mark |
American
Literature |
| Fathers and Sons |
Turgenev, Ivan |
World Literature |
Brazil
The Centaur
Couples
Gertrude and Claudius
A Month of Sundays
The Poorhouse Fair
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Updike, John |
American
Literature |
Exodus
Trinity |
Uris, Leon |
American
Literature |
| Candide |
Voltaire |
World Literature |
| The Color Purple |
Walker, Alice |
American
Literature |
| Ben Hur |
Wallace, Lew |
American
Literature |
| Day of Infamy |
Walter |
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| All the King's Men |
Warren, Robert Penn |
American
Literature |
| Up From Slavery |
Washington, Booker T. |
American
Literature |
| War of the Worlds |
Wells, H. G. (George) |
British
Literature |
| Delta Wedding |
Welty, Eudora |
American
Literature |
| Friendly Persuasion |
West, Jessamyn |
American
Literature |
The Age of Innocence
House of Mirth
The Old Maid |
Wharton, Edith |
American
Literature |
| The Once and Future King |
White, T.H. |
British
Literature |
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilde, Oscar |
American
Literature |
| The Glass Menagerie |
Williams, Tennessee |
American
Literature |
| Any |
Woolf, Virginia |
British
Literature |
The Book Thief
Getting the Girl
I Am the Messenger |
Zusak, Markus |
World Literature |
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