Required Reading
- My Antonia (Enriched Classics)
, by Willa Cather
- The Awakening
, by Kate Chopin
- The Red Badge of Courage
, by Stephen Crane
- A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
, by Charles Dickens
- Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
, by Gustave Flaubert
- Alas, Babylon
, by Pat Frank
- The Scarlet Letter
, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Separate Peace
, by John Knowles
- Animal Farm (Signet Classics)
, by George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye
, by J. D. Salinger
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Look Homeward, Angel
, by Thomas Wolfe
Chronicles the hard life of Antonia, daughter of immigrant Bohemians, on a Nebraska farm.
During the sweltering heat of New Orleans in the 1890s, families of prosperous businessmen go to a coastal community and spend the summer away from their husbands.
Crane tells of a young Union soldier and his experiences fighting in the American Civil War.
The story of Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, an English Lawyer, and their love for Lucie Manette in Paris during the Reign of Terror.
A middle-class French woman, Emma Bovary, is bored and unhappy with her husband and marriage and longs to escape from her provincial life.
After Fort Repose in central Florida is bombed and contaminated, a diverse group of people plan for survival.
Hester Prynne has an affair with a member of her Puritan community and bears his child. She suffers punishment from her neighbors as a result.
This coming of age story tells of the friendship of two prep school students in New Hampshire during World War II.
Farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government in this satire on totalitarianism.
Holden Caulfield is expelled from his prep school in Pennsylvania and this novel tells of his experiences in New York City for the next three days.
Depicts one day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s.
A semi-autobiographical novel set in Altamont, North Carolina tells the story of a restless young man who longs to escape his family and his small town.
