WORLD LITERATURE READING LIST
The following list contains selections for you to choose from for your outside reading requirement. Each book has a numerical value assigned to it; you need to read and report on books that total 200+ points by the end of the semester. I will evaluate each report, and that will be your grade for this part of your total semester grade. You will be given 5 due dates and a final deadline that you will need to follow in order to avoid penalties. You will also need to turn in a 4x6 index card with your report—directions are on the back of page 4.
Author Book Title Point Value
Alcott Little Women 30
Austin Pride & Prejudice 50
Benet John Brown’s Body 40
Blackmore Lorna Doone 50
Bronte, C. Jane Eyre 50
Bronte, D. Wuthering Heights 50
Brown, C. Manchild in a Promised Land 60
Brown, D. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 60
Buck The Good Earth 40
Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress 40
Burdick The Ugly American 40
Butler The Way of All Flesh 50
Carroll Alice in Wonderland 25
Through the Looking Glass 25
Carson The Sea Around Us 40
Cather Death Comes to the Archbishop 45 My Antonia 50
Cervantes Don Quixote—abridged edition 60
unabridged edition 75
Chekhov The Cherry Orchard 30 Three Sisters 30
Clark The Ox-Bow Incident 35
Cooper The Last of the Mohicans 50
Costain The Robe 40
Curie Madam Curie 30
Defoe Robinson Crusoe 30
Dickens David Copperfield 60
Great Expectations 60
Oliver Twist 60
Tale of Two Cities 60
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment 60
Dreiser The American Tragedy 50
Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo 60
The Three Musketeers 60
Eliot Silas Marner 50
Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 40
Forster Passage to India 40
Frank The Diary of a Young Girl 45
Franklin The Autobiography of Ben Franklin 30
Fuller Loon Feather 45
Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer 50
Goldstein Lord of the Flies 40
Greene The Power and the Glory 45
Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X 50
Hawthorne House of the Seven Gables 35
Scarlet Letter 45
Hemingway Farewell to Arms 50
Old Man and the Sea 35
Homer Odyssey 50
Hope The Prisoner of Zenda 45
Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame 60
Les Miserables 60
Huxley Brave New World 50
Ibsen A Doll’s House 30
Enemy of the People 30
Ghosts 30
Kipling Captain Courageous 45
Kim 45
Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 45
Lewis, CS Chronicles of Narnia (7 in series) 15 for each book
The Great Divorce 35
Out of the Silent Planet 30
Screwtape Letters 30
Lewis, S. Arrowsmith 50
Babbitt 50
Main Street 50
Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley 45
London The Call of the Wild 25
White Fang 25
Marshall A Man Called Peter 50
Melville Moby Dick 60
Miller The Crucible 30
Death of a Salesman 30
The Price 30
Mitchell Gone With the Wind 45
Nardoff/Hall Mutiny on the Bounty 50
O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night 35
Orwell Animal Farm 25
1984 50
Parkman The Oregon Trail 45
Pasternak Dr. Zhivago 45
Paton Cry the Beloved Country 50
Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows 30
Remargue All Quiet on the Western Front 40
Roberts Northwest Passage 40
Rolvaag Giants in the Earth 50
Rostand Cyrano DeBergerac 30
Sandburg Lincoln 30
Saroyan The Human Comedy 30
My Name is Aram 30
Scott Ivanhoe 60
Shakespeare Any play of his plays 35
Shaw Pygmalion 30
St. Joan 30
Shelley Frankenstein 45
Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis 50
Sinclair The Jungle 50
Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago 60
Sophocles Oedipus Rex 25
Oedipus at Colonus 25
Antigone 25
Steinbeck Cannery Row 25
The Grapes of Wrath 60
Of Mice and Men 25
The Moon is Down 30
The Pearl 25
The Red Pony 25
Stevenson Kidnapped 25
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 25
Treasure Island 25
Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 60
Swift Gulliver’s Travels 60
Ten Boom Hiding Place 40
Tramp for the Lord 40
Thackeray Vanity Fair 45
Thoreau Walden 40
Tolkien The Hobbit 35
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) 40/each
Tolstoy War and Peace 75
Turgenev Fathers and Sons 50
Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 50
Huckleberry Finn 35
Life on the Mississippi 40
Tom Sawyer 25
Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 40
Virgil Aeniad 60
Wallace Ben Hur 50
Wharton Ethan Frome 40
Wilder By the Skin of our Teeth 30
The Matchmaker 30
Our Town 30
Williams The Glass Menagerie 30
Wouk The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall—play 30
novel 50
Wright Native Son 60
4 x 6 Card Instructions
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Author’s name (last name is first) date of report
Name of book (underline title)
Synopsis: (Give a brief plot summary but don’t give away the ending.)
My Opinion: (Write what you thought of the book and why.)
My Recommendation: (Tell if you would recommend the book or not and why and to
whom)
your signature
your year in school
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You may use one or both side of the card—no more, though. You may supply your own card or you can get one from me.