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Timeless Works of Fiction
This list was compiled by the National Endowment for the Humanities from supplemental reading lists provided by public and private schools nationwide.
Grades 7 and 8
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Men
Bagnold, Enid - National Velvet
Blackmore, Richard D. - Lorna Doone
Boulle, Pierre - The Bridge over the River Kwai
Bradbury, Ray - Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Martian Chronicles
Buchan, John - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Bunyan, John - The Pilgrim's Progress
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Clark, Walter - The Ox-Bow Incident
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
Douglas, Lloyd C. - The Robe
Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexander - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
Edmonds, Walter D. - Drums along the Mohawk
Ferber, Edna - Cimarron
Forbes, Esther - Johnny Tremain
Forester, C.S. - The African Queen, The Hornblower series
Gallico, Paul - The Snow Goose
Guthrie, A.B. - The Big Sky
Haggard, H. Rider - King Solomon's Mines
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
Hersey, John - A Bell for Adano, The Wall
Hilton, James - Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon
Hudson, W.H. - Green Mansions
Hughes, Richard - A High Wind in Jamaica
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack - The Sea Wolf
Malory, Sir Thomas - Le Morte d'Arthur
Michener, James - The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, J.N. - Mutiny on the Bounty
O'Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins
Orczy, Baroness Emma - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country
Pyle, Howard - Men of Iron
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan - The Yearling
Renault, Mary - The King Must Die
Roberts, Kenneth - Northwest Passage
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince
Saki - Stories
Schaefer, Jack - Shane
Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Steinbeck, John - The Pearl, Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Black Arrow, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, Bram - Dracula
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Innocents Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper
Verne, Jules - Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mysterious Island, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Wallace, Lewis - Ben-Hur
Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine, War of the Worlds
Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wister, Owen - The Virginian
Grades 9 and Up
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
Austen, Jane - Emma, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Balzac, Honore de - Pere Goriot
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl - The Good Earth
Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
Camus, Albert - The Plague, The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia
Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Sharer, Victory
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles - Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoevski, Fyodor - Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
Eliot, George - Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Intruder in the Dust, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India, A Room with a View
Galsworthy, John - The Forsyte Saga
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert - I, Claudius
Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter, The Power and the Glory
Hardy, Thomas - Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises
Henry, O. - Stories
Hersey, John - A Single Pebble
Hesse, Hermann - Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
James, Henry - The American, Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
Kafka, Franz - The Castle, Metamorphosis, The Trial
Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at Noon
Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
Lewis, Sinclair - Arrowsmith, Babbitt, Main Street
Llewellyn, Richard - How Green Was My Valley
Mann, Thomas - Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain
Maugham, Somerset - Of Human Bondage
McCullers, Carson - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Melville, Herman - Billy Budd, Moby-Dick, Typee
Monsarrat, Nicholas - The Cruel Sea
Orwell, George - Animal Farm, 1984
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Poe, Edgar Allan - Short stories
Remarque, Erich - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rolvaag, O.E. - Giants in the Earth
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Saroyan, William - The Human Comedy
Sayers, Dorothy - The Nine Tailors
Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William M. - Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - Pudd'nhead Wilson
Updike, John - Rabbit Run
Voltaire - Candide
Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust
Wharton, Edith - Age of Innocence
White, T.H. - The Once and Future King, The Sword in the Stone
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward, Angel
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
Wouk, Herman - The Caine Mutiny
Wright, Richard - Black Boy, Native Son
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