BOOK LIST: We have been sharing a recommended reading list for college-bound students, provided to an Era reader as they entered 10th grade “some time ago.” Up to this point, we have covered some pretty recognizable authors with last names that start with A — I.

Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book.

James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw.

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady.

Keats, John. Poems.

Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life.

Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.

Michener, James. Hawaii.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm.

Orwell, George. 1984.

Poe, Edgar Allen. Poems.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Sonnets.

Shaw, George Bernard. Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Pygmalion.

Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony and Other Stories, The Grapes of Wrath.

Stevenson, Robert S. Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Stowe, Harriet Beacher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels.

Thoreau, Henry. Walden.

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, War and Peace.

Verne, Jules. Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Wells, H.G. The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Outline of History.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

We did skip a few as the list went on, but this gives you an idea of the literature considered important in the past, most of which is still valued in today’s literary circles as well.