The
following list consists of works of literature recommended for high school
students by the OHS staff. These
works have earned a permanent place in our culture, and may often be referred
to in popular culture and conversation.
English/Foreign
Language
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Angelou, Maya - I know why the Caged Bird Sings Asimov, Issac - I, Robot Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice Borland, Hal - When the legend dies Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights Brown, Dee - Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote de la Mancha Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales Crane, Stephen - Red Badge of Courage Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations Dickens, Charles - A tale of two cities Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby Gibson, William - The Miracle Worker Golding, William - Lord of the Flies Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter Heller, Joseph - Catch 22 Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a
Mockingbird
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - 100 Years of Solitude Miller, Arthur - The Crucible Orwell, George - 1984 Orwell, George - Animal Farm Poe, Edgar Allen - Collected Stories Rostard - Cyrano De Bergerac Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William - Hamlet Shakespeare, William - Julius Caesar Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John - Grapes of Wrath Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin Styron, William - Sophie's Choice Thoreau, Henry David - Walden Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Voltaire - Candide Wiesel, Elie - Night Wright, Richard - The Native Son |
Poetry
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Anonymous - Beowulf Dickinson, Emily - Collected Poems Frost, Robert - Collected Poems |
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass |
Math & Science
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Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring |
Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time Huff, Darrell - How Statistics Lie |
History & Social Studies
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Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation Speaks |
Kennedy, John F. - Profiles in Courage Kennedy, John F. - Declaration of Independence |