WHAT BOOKS SHOULD STUDENTS READ BEFORE LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL?

 Olympia High School

Recommended Reading List

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

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

 

 

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

Anonymous - Beowulf

Dickinson, Emily - Collected Poems

Frost, Robert - Collected Poems

Homer - The Iliad

Homer - The Odyssey

Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass

Math & Science

Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring

Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time

Huff, Darrell - How Statistics Lie

History & Social Studies

Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation

Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation Speaks

Kennedy, John F. - Profiles in Courage

Kennedy, John F. - Declaration of Independence