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English 1 - Classic Literature

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• To Kill a Mockingbird. by Harper Lee

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

English 2 - American Literature

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

English 3 - Literature & World View

• The Book of Job

• Everyman

• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

• The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

• Confessions by St. Augustine

• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

• Collected Stories by Flannery O’Connor

English 3 - World Literature

• The Iliad

• The Ramayana

• One Thousand and One Nights

• Inferno by Dante Alighieri

• The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

• Poems by Emily Dickinson

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

English 4 - British Literature

• Beowulf

• The Canterbury Tales

• Shakespearean sonnets

• Frankenstein

• The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle

• 1984

• Brave New World

• Essays by Virginia Wolf

Reading lists for high school language courses are provided below. Students are not required to purchase the books—some texts will be available digitally, and others can be borrowed from a local library. If students prefer to have their own copies, they’re welcome to shop from the links provided here. Additional poems and short readings, not listed below, will also be provided throughout the course.

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