What to Read(From How to Prepare for College, by Abraham H. Lass)
Freshman YearBulfinch, Thomas--The Age of Fables
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Conrad, Joseph--Typhoon
Cooper, James Fenimore--The Last of the Mohicans
Day, Clarence--Life with Father
Defoe, Daniel--Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles--Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexander--The Three Muskateers
Heyerdahl, Thor--Kon-tiki
Hilton, James--Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Keller, Helen--The Story of My Life
Kipling, Rudyard--Captains Courageous
de Kruif, Paul--Microbe Hunters
London, Jack--The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf
Nordhoff and Hall--Mutiny on the Bounty
O’Hara, Mary--My Friend Flicka
Poe, Edgar Allan--Poems, Tales
Porter, W. S. (O’Henry)--Short Stories
Sandburg, Carl--Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
Scott, Sir Walter--Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William--Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream
Steinbeck, John--The Red Pony and other stories
Stevenson, Robert Louis--Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Swift, Jonathan--Gulliver’s Travels
Tarkington, Booth--Penrod, Penrod and Sam
Van Loon, Henderick William--The Story of Mankind
Verne, Jules--Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Washington, Booker T.--Up from Slavery
Wells, H. G.--The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Conrad, Joseph--Typhoon
Cooper, James Fenimore--The Last of the Mohicans
Day, Clarence--Life with Father
Defoe, Daniel--Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles--Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexander--The Three Muskateers
Heyerdahl, Thor--Kon-tiki
Hilton, James--Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Keller, Helen--The Story of My Life
Kipling, Rudyard--Captains Courageous
de Kruif, Paul--Microbe Hunters
London, Jack--The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf
Nordhoff and Hall--Mutiny on the Bounty
O’Hara, Mary--My Friend Flicka
Poe, Edgar Allan--Poems, Tales
Porter, W. S. (O’Henry)--Short Stories
Sandburg, Carl--Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
Scott, Sir Walter--Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William--Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream
Steinbeck, John--The Red Pony and other stories
Stevenson, Robert Louis--Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Swift, Jonathan--Gulliver’s Travels
Tarkington, Booth--Penrod, Penrod and Sam
Van Loon, Henderick William--The Story of Mankind
Verne, Jules--Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Washington, Booker T.--Up from Slavery
Wells, H. G.--The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Sophomore Year
Beebe, William--Jungle Peace
Bronte, Charlotte--Jane Eyre
Buck, Pearl S.--The Good Earth
Carroll, Lewis--Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)--The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Crane, Stephen--The Red Badge of Courage
Dickens, Charles--Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities
Dumas, Alexander--The Count of Monte Cristo
Mary Ann Evans (Eliot, George)--Silas Marner
Fabre, Jean-Henri--Social Life in the Insect World
Grahame, Kenneth--The Wind in the Willows
Homer--The Odyssey
Hudson, W.H.--Green Mansions
Hugo, Victor--Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Irving, Washingto-- The Sketch Book
Leacock, Stephen--The Best of Stephen Leacock
De Maupassant, Guy--Short Stories
Morley, Victory--The Haunted Bookshop, Parnassus on Wheels, Verse
Nash, Ogden--Poems
Remarque, Eric M.--All Quiet on the Western Front
Shakespeare, William--The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shaw, George Bernard--Pygmalion
Junior YearAusten, Jane--Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Honore de--Pere Goriot
Bellamy, Edward--Looking Backward
Benet, Stephen Vincent--John Brown’s Body
Bronte, Emily--Wuthering Heights
Bunyan, John--Pilgrim’s Progress
Burke, Edmund--Reflections on the Revolution in France
Carson, Rachel--The Sea Around Us
Cather, Willa--My Antonia
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de--Don Quixote
Conrad, Joseph--Lord Jim
Curie, Eve--Madame Curie
Franklin, Benjamin--Autobiography
Galsworthy, John--The Forsyth Saga
Goldsmith, Oliver--She Stoops to Conquer
Hawthorne, Nathaniel--The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
Hershey, John--Hiroshima
Housman, A.E.--A Shropshire Lad
Kipling, Rudyard--Poems
Lamb, Charles--The Essays of Elia
Lewis, Sinclair--Babbit, Arrowsmith
Ludwig, Emil--Napoleon
Maeterlinck, Maurice--The Life of the Bee
Masters, Edgar Lee--Spoon River Anthology
Munro, H. H.--Short Stories of “Saki”
O’Neill, Eugene--Ah, Wilderness, The Emperor Jones
Orwell, George--Animal Farm, 1984
Paine, Thomas--The Rights of Man
Palgrave, Francis--The Golden Treasury
Plutarch--The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Robinson, James--The Mind in the Making
Rolviag, O.E.--Giants in the Earth
Rostand, Edmond--Cyrano de Bergerac
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de--Wind, Sand and Stars
Sandberg, Carl--The People, Yes
Shakespeare, William--Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Othello, Richard III
Shaw, George Bernard--Arms and the Man
Sheridan, Richard B.--The Rivals
Steffens, Lincoln--Autobiography
Strachey, Lytton--Eminent Victorians
Thurber, James--A Thurber Carnival
Untermeyer, Louis, Editor--Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry
Wharton, Edith--Ethan Frome
Wilde, Oscar--The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Thornton--Our Town, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Senior YearAeschylus--Plays
Bennett, Arnold--The Old Wives’ Tale
Butler, Samuel--Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh
Chekov, Anton--The Cherry Orchard, Short Stories
Dickens, Charles--The Pickwick Papers
Dostoyevski, Fyodor--Crime and Punishment
Durant, Will--The Story of Philosophy
Emerson, Ralph Waldo--Essays
Euripides--Plays
Flaubert, Gustave--Madame Bovary
Hamilton, Edith--Mythology
Hardy, Thomas--The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure
Homer--The Illiad
Ibsen, Henrik--A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People
James, Henry--The Turn of the Screw, Portrait of a Lady
Khayam, Omar--The Rubiyat
Lewis, Sinclair--Main Street
Mann, Thomas--Buddenbrooks
Marquand, John P.--The Late George Appley
Maugham, Somerset--Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence
Miller, Arthur--The Death of a Salesman
Melville, Herman--Moby Dick
Plato--The Dialogues
Rolland, Romain--Jean-Christophe
Shakespeare, Willam--Hamlet, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), The Sonnets
Shaw, George Bernard--Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman
Sophocles--Plays
Synge, J. M.--Playboy of the Western World
Thackeray, Willam M.--Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David--Walden
Tolstoy, Leo--Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan--Fathers and Sons
Whitman, Walt--Leaves of Grass
Wolfe, Thomas--Look Homeward, Angel
Balzac, Honore de—The Human Comedy
Barrie, James--The Admirable Crichton, What Every Woman KnowsBeebe, William--Jungle Peace
Bronte, Charlotte--Jane Eyre
Buck, Pearl S.--The Good Earth
Carroll, Lewis--Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)--The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Crane, Stephen--The Red Badge of Courage
Dickens, Charles--Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities
Dumas, Alexander--The Count of Monte Cristo
Mary Ann Evans (Eliot, George)--Silas Marner
Fabre, Jean-Henri--Social Life in the Insect World
Frank, Ann—The Diary of a Young Girl
Goldsmith, Oliver—The Vicar of WakefieldGrahame, Kenneth--The Wind in the Willows
Homer--The Odyssey
Hudson, W.H.--Green Mansions
Hugo, Victor--Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Irving, Washingto-- The Sketch Book
Leacock, Stephen--The Best of Stephen Leacock
De Maupassant, Guy--Short Stories
Morley, Victory--The Haunted Bookshop, Parnassus on Wheels, Verse
Nash, Ogden--Poems
Remarque, Eric M.--All Quiet on the Western Front
Shakespeare, William--The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shaw, George Bernard--Pygmalion
Junior YearAusten, Jane--Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Honore de--Pere Goriot
Bellamy, Edward--Looking Backward
Benet, Stephen Vincent--John Brown’s Body
Bronte, Emily--Wuthering Heights
Bunyan, John--Pilgrim’s Progress
Burke, Edmund--Reflections on the Revolution in France
Carson, Rachel--The Sea Around Us
Cather, Willa--My Antonia
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de--Don Quixote
Conrad, Joseph--Lord Jim
Curie, Eve--Madame Curie
Franklin, Benjamin--Autobiography
Galsworthy, John--The Forsyth Saga
Goldsmith, Oliver--She Stoops to Conquer
Hawthorne, Nathaniel--The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
Hershey, John--Hiroshima
Housman, A.E.--A Shropshire Lad
Kipling, Rudyard--Poems
Lamb, Charles--The Essays of Elia
Lewis, Sinclair--Babbit, Arrowsmith
Ludwig, Emil--Napoleon
Maeterlinck, Maurice--The Life of the Bee
Masters, Edgar Lee--Spoon River Anthology
Munro, H. H.--Short Stories of “Saki”
O’Neill, Eugene--Ah, Wilderness, The Emperor Jones
Orwell, George--Animal Farm, 1984
Paine, Thomas--The Rights of Man
Palgrave, Francis--The Golden Treasury
Plutarch--The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Robinson, James--The Mind in the Making
Rolviag, O.E.--Giants in the Earth
Rostand, Edmond--Cyrano de Bergerac
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de--Wind, Sand and Stars
Sandberg, Carl--The People, Yes
Shakespeare, William--Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Othello, Richard III
Shaw, George Bernard--Arms and the Man
Sheridan, Richard B.--The Rivals
Steffens, Lincoln--Autobiography
Strachey, Lytton--Eminent Victorians
Thurber, James--A Thurber Carnival
Untermeyer, Louis, Editor--Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry
Wharton, Edith--Ethan Frome
Wilde, Oscar--The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Thornton--Our Town, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Senior YearAeschylus--Plays
Bennett, Arnold--The Old Wives’ Tale
Butler, Samuel--Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh
Chekov, Anton--The Cherry Orchard, Short Stories
Dickens, Charles--The Pickwick Papers
Dostoyevski, Fyodor--Crime and Punishment
Durant, Will--The Story of Philosophy
Emerson, Ralph Waldo--Essays
Euripides--Plays
Flaubert, Gustave--Madame Bovary
Hamilton, Edith--Mythology
Hardy, Thomas--The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure
Homer--The Illiad
Ibsen, Henrik--A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People
James, Henry--The Turn of the Screw, Portrait of a Lady
Khayam, Omar--The Rubiyat
Lewis, Sinclair--Main Street
Mann, Thomas--Buddenbrooks
Marquand, John P.--The Late George Appley
Maugham, Somerset--Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence
Miller, Arthur--The Death of a Salesman
Melville, Herman--Moby Dick
Plato--The Dialogues
Rolland, Romain--Jean-Christophe
Shakespeare, Willam--Hamlet, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), The Sonnets
Shaw, George Bernard--Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman
Sophocles--Plays
Synge, J. M.--Playboy of the Western World
Thackeray, Willam M.--Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David--Walden
Tolstoy, Leo--Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan--Fathers and Sons
Whitman, Walt--Leaves of Grass
Wolfe, Thomas--Look Homeward, Angel
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