READING LIST FOR THE WELL-EDUCATED ADULT

NECESSARY READING

Aeschylus. THE ORESTEIA (trilogy): THE AGAMEMNON: THE CHOEPHOROE: THE EUMENTDES

Anonymous. EVERYMAN

ARABIAN NIGHTS

Aristotle. ETHICS

BIBLE: The Old Testament and the New Testament

Bronte, Emily. WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Bulfinch, Thomas. MYTHOLOGY

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. DON QUIXOTE

Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES

Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain). THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Conrad, Joseph. HEART OF DARKNESS

Dante (Dante Alighieri). THE DIVINE COMEDY

Darwin, Charles. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (U.S., 1776)

Dickens, Charles. GREAT EXPECTATIONS

BLEAK HOUSE

Dostoevsky, Fydor. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

THE BROTHERS KARAMASOV

Euripides. MEDEA

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS

Franklin, Benjamin. AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Golding, William. LORD OF THE FLIES

Graves, Robert. THE GREEK MYTHS, Parts I & II

Herodotus. THE HISTORIES

Homer. THE ILIAD

THE ODYSSEY

Huxley, Aldous. BRAVE NEW WORLD

Malory, Sir Thomas. LE MORTE D'ARTHUR

Marlowe, Christopher. THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS

McLuhan, Marshall. THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE

Milton, John. PARADISE LOST

PARADISE REGAINED

SAMSON AGONISTES

Orwell, George. ANIMAL FARM

1984

Ovid. METAMORPHOSES

Parkman, Francis. THE OREGON TRAIL

Plato. THE REPUBLIC

Plutarch. LIVES

Riesman, David. THE LONELY CROWD

Shakespeare, William. HAMLET

KING LEAR

MACBETH

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

HENRY IV, Parts I & II

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Shaw, George Bernard. PYGMALION

Sophocles. OEDIPUS THE KING

OEDIPUS AT COLONUS

ANTIGONE

Steinbeck, John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Swift, Jonathan. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Tennyson, Alfred (Lord). IDYLLS OF THE KING

Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (U.N., 1948)

Wilder, Thornton. OUR TOWN

Williams, Tennessee. THE GLASS MENAGERIE

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Aeschylus. PROMETHEUS BOUND

Agee, James. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY

Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE WOMEN

Anonymous. BEOWULF

Anonymous. ROBIN HOOD TALES

Anonymous. THE SONG OF ROLAND

Anonymous. THE CID

Aristophanes. THE FROGS

LYSISTRATA

Aristotle. RHETORIC

POETICS

POLITICS

PHYSICS

Augustine, Saint. CONFESSIONS

Aurelius, Marcus. MEDITATIONS

Austen, Jane. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Bacon, Francis. WRITINGS

Balzac, Honoré De. PÈRE GORIOT

THE HUMAN COMEDY

Beckett, Samuel. WAITING FOR GODOT

Brecht, Bertolt. THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

Bronte, Charlotte. JANE EYRE

Bunyan, John. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

Caesar, Julius. THE GALLIC WARS

Camus, Albert. THE STRANGER THE PLAGUE

THE FALL

THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS

Gather, Willa. A LOST LADY

MY ANTONIA

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

Churchill, Winston S. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (4 vol.)

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. ORATIONS AND LETTERS

Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain). TOM SAWYER

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Congreve, William. WAY OF THE WORLD

Conrad, Joseph. LORD JIM

THE SECRET SHARER

VICTORY

NOSTROMO

YOUTH

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Tales:

THE DEERSLAYER

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

THE PATHFINDER

THE PIONEERS

THE PRAIRIE

Crane, Stephen. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN (France, 1789)

Defoe, Daniel. MOLL FLANDERS

ROBINSON CRUSOE

Dewey, John. WRITINGS

Dickens, Charles. A TALE OF TWO CITIES

DAVID COPPERFIELD

OLIVER TWIST

A CHRISTMAS TALE

Dodgson, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll). ALICE IN WONDERLAND

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

Dos Passes, John. U.S.A.

Dostoevsky, Fydor. NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

THE POSSESSED

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

Dreiser, Theodore. SISTER CARRIE

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

Dumas, Alexander. THE THREE MUSKETEERS

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans). SILAS MARNER

ADAM BEDE

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. ESSAYS

REPRESENTATIVE MEN

Euripides. TROJAN WOMEN

BACCHAE

ELECTRA

IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS

Fanon, Frantz. THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH

Faulkner, William. LIGHT IN AUGUST

THE SOUND AND THE FURY ABSALOM, ABSALOM!

AS I LAY DYING

INTRUDER IN THE DUST

Fielding, Henry. TOM JONES

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. THE GREAT GATSBY

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

Flaubert, Gustave. MADAME BOVARY

Forster, E.M. A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Frank, Anne. THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL

FREEDOM CHARTER (South Africa, 1956)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von. FAUST

Grahame, Kenneth. A WIND IN THE WILLOWS

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE SCARLET LETTER

THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES

Hemingway, Ernest. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

THE SUN ALSO RISES

Heyerdahl, Thor. KON-TIKI

Hilton, James. LOST HORIZON

Hitler, Adolph. MEIN KAMPF

Horace. ODES

Hugo, Victor. LES MISERABLES

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Hurston, Zora. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Ibsen, Henrik. GHOSTS

A DOLL'S HOUSE

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

Joyce, James. THE DUBLINERS

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

ULYSSES

Keller, Helen. THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Koestler, Arthur. DARKNESS AT NOON

Lee, Harper. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Left Handed. SON OF OLD MAN HAT

Lewis, Sinclair. BABBITT

MAIN STREET

London, Jack. CALL OF THE WILD

Lucretius. ON THE NATURE OF THINGS

Machiavelli, Niccolo. THE PRINCE

MacLeish, Archibald. J.B.

Mao Tse-Tung. QUOTATIONS

Marx, Karl. DAS KAPITAL

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

McCullers, Carson. A MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER

Melville, Herman. TYPEE

MOBY DICK BILLY BUDD

Miller, Arthur. THE CRUCIBLE

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Mitchell, Margaret. GONE WITH THE WIND

More, Thomas UTOPIA

Nordhoff and Hall. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

O'Neill, Eugene. THE HAIRY APE

STRANGE INTERLUDE

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS

MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (trilogy)

Paredes, Americo. WITH HIS PISTOL IN HIS HAND

Paton, Alan. CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

Plato. THE APOLOGY DIALOGUES

Plautus. THE MENAECHMI

POPOL VUH (a Maya creation myth)

Racine. PHAEDRA

Remarqué, Erich Maria. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Richter, Conrad. THE SEA OF GRASS

LIGHT IN THE FOREST

Rostand, Edmund. CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Salinger, J.D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (6 vol.)

Scott, Sir Walter. IVANHOE

Shakespeare, William. OTHELLO

ROMEO AND JULIET

RICHARD II

HENRY V

RICHARD III

JULIUS CAESAR

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

TWELFTH NIGHT

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

THE TEMPEST

MERCHANT OF VENICE

CORIOLANUS

A COMEDY OF ERRORS

AS YOU LIKE IT

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

THE WINTER'S TALE

Shaw, George Bernard. ST. JOAN

MAN AND SUPERMAN

MAJOR BARBARA

ARMS AND THE MAN

Shelley, Mary. FRANKENSTEIN

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. QUO VADIS

Sinclair, Upton. THE JUNGLE

Spinoza, Benedict de. ETHICS

Steinbeck, John. OF MICE AND MEN

THE PEARL

Stoker, Bram. DRACULA

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Stratton-Porter, Gene. A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST

Tacitus. ANNALS

Thackeray, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR

Thucydides. THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS

Tolstoy, Leo. WAR AND PEACE

ANNA KARENINA

Turgenev, Ivan. FATHERS AND SONS

Virgil. AENEID

Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS

Wilder, Thornton. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

THE IDES OF MARCH

Williams, Tennessee. STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Wollstonecraft, Mary. VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN