Honors English Classics Reading List

--------------EARLY--------------

Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Hans Christian Anderson: Collected Tales
(Anonymous): Beowulf
John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress
Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Homer: The Iliad
Homer: The Odyssey
Sir Thomas Mallory: L'Morte d'Arthur
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Samuel Richardson: Pamela
(Anonymous): Robin Hood Tales
Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac
Sir Walter Scott: Heart of Midlothian
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth
(Anonymous): The Song of Roland
Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queene
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Vergil: The Aeneid

--------------LATER--------------

Jane Austen: Emma
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Samuel Butler: Erewhon
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
James F. Cooper: The Deerslayer
James F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Richard Henry Dana: Two Years before the Mast
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens: Tale of Two Cities
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
Georg Eliot: Middlemarch
Georg Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Georg Eliot: Silas Marner
Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Gustav Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer & The Vicar of Wakefield
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne:  The Scarlet Letter (summer reading)
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Washington Irving: The Sketchbook
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Charles Reade: The Cloister and the Hearth
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Thomas Smollet: Humphrey Clinker
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
William M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Mark Twain: (The Adventures of) Huckleberry Finn - AP "must-read"
Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

--------------MODERN--------------

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
G.K. Chesterton: Father Brown
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Aldus Huxley: Brave New World
Thomas Heggen: Mister Roberts
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce: Ulysses
Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling: Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling: Kim
C.S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet trilogy
C.S. Lewis: Screwtape Letters & The Great Divorce
George Orwell: 1984
Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis
Alexander Solhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
John Steinbeck: The Moon is Down & Of Mice and Men
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
Lew Wallace: Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells: War of the Worlds
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
Herman Wouk: The Caine Mutiny
Richard Wright: Black Boy