Have Your Seniors Read These???


As the year draws to a close, many seniors are receiving acceptance letters to the college of their choice. Although they have covered numerous titles in their English courses and many read voraciously on their own, have they digested the titles which many college professors. In perusing The Literature Teacher's Book of Lists by Judie L. H. Strouf, I found a list, one of many that exists, of novels and short stories that seniors should read and be familiar with before they reach their freshman English or literature course in college. The lists that follows is from Judie Strouf's book.

NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES Austin, Jane (Pride and Prejudice) Baldwin, james (Go Tell It on the Mountain) Bellow, Saul (Humbolt's Gift) Bronte, Emily (Wuthering Heights) Camus, Albert (The Stranger) Cervantes, Miguel de (Don Quixote) Conrad, Joseph (Heart of Darkness) Crane, Stephen (The Red Badge of Courage) Defoe, Daniel (Robinson Crusoe) Dickens, Charles (David Copperfield; Tale of Two Cities) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Crime and Punishment) Eliot, George (Adam Bede) Faulkner, William (The Unvanquished; Intruder in the Dust) Fielding, Henry (Joseph Andrews) Fitzgerald, F. Scott (The Great Gatsby) Flaubert, Gustave (Madame Bovary) Fowles, John (The French Lieutenant's Woman) Golding, William (Lord of the Flies) Hardy, Thomas (The Return of the Native) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (The Scarlet Letter) Hemingway, Ernest (A Farewell to Arms; The Nick Adams Stories) James, Henry (The Portrait of a Lady) Joyce, James (Dubliners) Kafka, Franz (The Trial) Lewis, Sinclair (Babbitt; Arrowsmith) Malamud, Bernard (The Magic Barrel) Melville, Herman (Moby Dick) Orwell, George (1984; Animal Farm) Paton, Alan (Cry, The Beloved country) Poe, Edgar Allan (The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Pit and the Pendulum) Salinger, J. D. (The Catcher in the Rye) Scott, sir Walter (Ivanhoe) Steinbeck, John (The Grapes of Wrath) Stendhal (The Red and the Black) Stevenson, Robert Louis (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) Swift, Jonathan (Gulliver's Travels) Thackeray, William (Vanity Fair) Tolstoy, Leo (War and Peace) Twain, Mark (Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Innocents Abroad) Vonnegut, Kurt (Slaughterhouse Five) Waugh, Evelyn (A Handful of Dust) Wright, Richard (Native Son)

After perusing these titles myself, I realize that there are many titles that I have not thought of since I was in high school, and some that I have not even read; thus, I believe that I have my reading list for the summer cut out for me. Happy reading.

Beka Kojetin rachelwilson@suite101.com high school English teacher

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