RECOMMENDED READING: An Era reader shared a recommended book list for college-bound students that they received as they entered the 10th grade. This was “some years ago,” according to the attached note. However, some of the book titles remain recognizable to those who have more recently made their way through high school.
According to the list, which is from Literary Cavalcade, “It is not likely that even the most voracious reader will get through this entire list, but if you’re a high school sophomore you should have time to read at least 75 of these before arriving at college.” The list states a junior could read 50 and a senior should “find as much time as possible for reading.”
We include the list below:
Aeschylus. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Choephoroe
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name.
Balzac, Honore de. Pere Goriot.
Barrie, James. What Every Woman Knows.
Beebe, William. Jungle Peace.
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward.
Bennett, Arnold. The Old Wives’ Tale.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Bulfinch, Thomas. The Age of Fable.
Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Butler, Samuel. Erewhon
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh.
Camus. The Stranger.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass.
Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia.
Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tale.
Chekhov, Anton. Short Stories.
Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard.
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain). Life on the Mississippi.
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon.
The list will continue in a future RTS.
