April 16, 2008

• I have stolen Universehall's reading list:

  READING LIST: HIGH SCHOOL

  Fiction

  Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women

  Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre

  Bronte, Emily. WutheringHeights

  Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass

  Cather, Willa. My Antonia or Death Comes to the Archbishop

  Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans

  Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage

  Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe

  Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Some Sherlock Holmes stories

  Eliot, George. Silas Marner

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

  Golding, William. Lord of the Flies

  Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun

  Harte, Bret. "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Tennessee's Partner"

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, "The Minister's Black Veil"

  Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms

  Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World

  Irving, Washington. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Rip Van Winkle"

  London, Jack. The Call of the Wild

  Maugham, Somerset. Of Human Bondage

  Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Benito Cereno

  Orwell, George. Animal Farm

  Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Purloined Letter," "The Cask of Amontillado"

  Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

  Scott, Sir Walter. A novel (Waverly, Rob Roy), Ivanhoe

  Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth

  Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels

  Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men or The Pearl

  Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island, Kidnapped or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer or The Prince and the Pauper

  Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds or The Time Machine

  Wright, Richard. Black Boy

   

   

  Poetry

  Arnold, Matthew. "DoverBeach"

  Browning, Robert. "My Last Duchess"

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

  de la Mare, Walter. "The Listeners"

  Dickinson, Emily. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "I Like to See It Lap the Miles"

  FitzGerald, Edward. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  Frost, Robert. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Road Not Taken," "Birches"

  Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

  Housman, A.E. "To an Athlete Dying Young," "When I Was One and Twenty"

  Hunt, Leigh. "Abou Ben Adhem"

  Keats, John. "Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "To Autumn"

  Kipling, Rudyard. "A Ballad of East and West," "Mandalay"

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith," "Paul Revere's Ride," The Song of Hiawatha

  Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress"

  Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee," "To Helen"

  Sandburg, Carl. "Chicago," "Grass"

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias"

  Tennyson, Alfred. "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Crossing the Bar"

  Whitman, Walt. "I Hear America Singing," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d"

  Wordsworth, William. "My Heart Leaps Up," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

   

  I have crossed out everything I've read. I have, in some sense, read "The Song of Hiawatha," but I can't keep my mind on it at all, so I can't say I've ever really read it. The underlinings are Universehall's. You could copy this, too, and add a code of your own.

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