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100 Classic Books and Plays to Read Before You Graduate Highschool v2




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100 Classic Books and Plays to Read Before You Graduate Highschool v2


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Note: I made this list for my brother and little sister, who don't read a lot. Books were added simply because I considered them to be essential reading material, even if one did not enjoy them. They are in no particular order.

1-The Holy Bible(KJV)
2- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Bugess
3-The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
4-Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
5-Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
6-Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
7-Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
8-The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
9-Walden by Henry David Thoreau
10-Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11-Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
12-Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
13-Macbeth by William Shakespeare
14-The Crucible by Arthur Miller
15-The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
16-Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
17-Anthem by Ayn Rand
18-Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
19-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
20-Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
21-Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
22-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23-1984 by George Orwell
24-Animal Farm by George Orwell
25-Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
26-The Cantebury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
27-Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
28-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
29-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
30-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
31-One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32-Beowulf
33-The Witch of Blackbird Pond
34-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
35-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
36-The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
37-Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
38-A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
39-Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
40-Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
41-The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
42-The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
43-Inferno by Dante Alighieri
44-Paradise Lost by John Milton
45-The Last of the Mohicans by Stephen Crane
46-A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
47-Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
48-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
49-A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
50-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
51-A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
52-The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
53-Roots by Alex Haley
54-A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
55-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
56-The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
57-White Fang by Jack London
58-The Call of the Wild by Jack London
59-Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
60-Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
61-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Loius Stevenson
62-Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
63-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
64-Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
65-The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G.Wells
66-The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells
67-The time Machine by H.G.Wells
68-Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
69-The Color Purple by Alice Walker
70-The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
71-A Moveable Feast by WErnest Hemingway
72-Dracula by Bram Stoker
73-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
74-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
75-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
76-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
77-Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
78-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
79-Howl by Allen Ginsberg
80-The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
81-A Little Princess
82-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
83-The Qu'ran
84-David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
85-The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
86-The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
87-The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
88-Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
89-Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
90-Common Sense by Thomas Paine
91-The Dialogues of Plato
92-The Art of War
93-This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
94- Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake
95-The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
96-The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
97-The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
98-The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
99-Robinson Crusoe
100-The Sea Wolf by Jack London


This List is not definitive. If you have any books that you think should be added to the list, please leave a comment with the title(s) in it. I'll review the comments, and when I get one hundred more books that I think should be added, there will either be an updated list, or a new list.

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