Books to Read

E-D	Title	Author	Category	P(lay)	Cliff’s?	B(ook)/T(ape)	Length	A/W/B
D	Beowolf			Epic		Y		B
M	Bhagavad Gita			Epic		Y		W
M	Gilgamesh			Epic				W
M	Islamic Literature					Y		W
D	Koran							W
M	New Testament					Y		W
M	Old Testament					Y		W
M	Song of Roland							W
E	Thousand and One Arabian Nights							W
M	Upanishads					Y		W
M	Agamemnon	Aeschylus		P		Y		W
M	Eumenides	Aeschylus		P		Y		W
M	Libation Bearers	Aeschylus		P		Y		W
M	Oresteia	Aeschylus		P		Y		W
M	Prometheus Bound	Aeschylus		P		Y		W
D	A Death in the Family	Agee, James	Childhood Remembered					A
E	The American Dream	Albee, Edward		P		Y		A
M	The Sandbox	Albee, Edward		P		Y		A
M	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Albee, Edward		P		Y		A
M	Zoo Story	Albee, Edward		P		Y		A
M	Eight Cousins	Alcott, Louisa May	Childhood Remembered			Y		A
M	Jo’s Boys	Alcott, Louisa May	Childhood Remembered			Y		A
M	Little Women	Alcott, Louisa May	Childhood Remembered			Y		A
M	House of the Spirits	Allende, Isabel						W
M	Elizabeth the Queen	Anderson, Maxwell	History in Fiction					A
M	Winesburg, Ohio	Anderson, Sherwood				Y		A
E	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Angelou, Maya	Childhood Remembered		Y			A
M	Becket	Anouilh, Jean	History in Fiction	P		Y		W
M	Peace, The Birds	Aristophanes		P		Y		W
M	The Frogs	Aristophanes		P		Y		W
E	Fantastic Voyage	Asimov, Isaac	Science Fiction and Fantasy					A
M	The Handmaid’s Tale	Atwood, Margaret			Y			W
M	Saint Augustine’s Confessions	Augustine			Y			W
D	Meditations	Aurelius, Marcus				Y		W
D	Emma	Austin, Jane	Love and Romance		Y			B
D	Mansfield Park	Austin, Jane	Love and Romance			Y		B
D	Persuasion	Austin, Jane	Love and Romance			YT		B
D	Pride and Prejudice	Austin, Jane	Love and Romance		Y	YT		B
D	Sense and Sensibility	Austin, Jane	Love and Romance			T		B
M	The Chalk Garden	Bagnold, Enid	Mystery and Darkness					B
M	Go Tell It On the Mountain	Baldwin, James	Social Issues		Y			A
M	Nobody Knows My Name	Baldwin, James	Social Issues			Y		A
M	Notes of a Native Son	Baldwin, James	Social Issues			Y		A
M	Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone	Baldwin, James	Social Issues			Y		A
	Pere Goriot	Balzac, Honore				Y		W
	Lilies of the Field	Barrett, William				Y		A
E	Marvelous Land of Oz	Baum, Frank				Y		A
M	Henderson, the Rain King	Bellow, Saul				Y		A
M	Herzog	Bellow, Saul				Y	416	A
M	The Actual	Bellow, Saul				Y		A
M	Humbolt’s Gift	Bellow, Saul				Y		A
M	The Dean’s December	Bellow, Saul				Y		A
	Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty	Bligh, William				Y		B
E	The Hiding Place	Bloom, Corrie Ten	Social Issues					W
	Decameron	Boccaccio, Giovanni						W
M	A Man for All Seasons	Bolt, Robert		P		Y		B
M	When the Legends Die	Borland, Hal	Maturing			Y		A
M	Fahrenheit 451	Bradbury, Ray	Science Fiction and Fantasy		Y			A
M	Martian Chronicles	Bradbury, Ray	Science Fiction and Fantasy					A
E	To Sir, With Love	Braithwaite, E.R.	Social Issues					W
M	Mother Courage	Brecht, Bertold		P		Y		W
E	A Walk in the Woods	Bryson, Bill				Y		A
M	Jane Eyre	Bronte, Charlotte	Maturing		Y	Y		B
D	Wuthering Heights	Bronte, Emily	Love and Romance		Y	Y		B
M	Dragon Seed	Buck, Pearl	Social Issues			Y		A
M	Kinfolk	Buck, Pearl	Social Issues			Y		A
M	The Good Earth	Buck, Pearl	Social Issues		Y			A
M	The Kennedy Women	Buck, Pearl	Social Issues			Y		A
M	The Living Reed	Buck, Pearl	Social Issues			Y		A
M	The Water Buffalo Children	Buck, Pearl	Social Issues			Y		A
D	The Pilgrim’s Progress	Bunyan, John	Allegorical/religious					B
E	The Secret Garden	Burnett, Frances				Y		B
M	Myth of Sisyphus	Camus, Albert		Essays		Y		W
M	The Fall	Camus, Albert		P		Y		W
M	The Stranger	Camus, Albert		P				W
E	The Annotated Alice in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis				Y		B
M	My Antonia	Cather, Willa	Childhood Remembered		Y			A
M	Five Stories	Cather, Willa	Childhood Remembered		Y	Y		A
M	Oh, Pioneers	Cather, Willa				Y		A
M	The Professor’s House	Cather, Willa				Y		A
M	Song of the Lark	Cather, Willa						A
M	Don Quixote	Cervantes						W
E	Farewell, My Lovely	Chandler, Raymond	Mystery			T		A
E	The Long Goodbye	Chandler, Raymond	Mystery			Y		A
D	Canterbury Tales	Chaucer, Geoffrey				Y		B
M	The Wapshot Chronicles	Cheever, John				Y		A
M	The Sea Gull	Chekhov, Anton		P		Y		W
	Father Brown	Chesterton, G.K.	Mysteries					B
M	The Awakening	Chopin, Kate			Y	Y		A
E	And Then There Were None, et al	Christie, Agatha	Mystery and Darkness			Y		B
M	The Mousetrap	Christie, Agatha	Mystery and Darkness	P				B
M	Basic Writings	Chuang Tzu				Y		W
M	Letters of Cicero	Cicero						W
M	2001: A Space Odyssey	Clarke, Arthur	Science Fiction and Fantasy					A
M	Soul On Ice	Cleaver, Eldridge				Y		A
M	The Analects	Confucius				Y		W
D	Heart of Darkness	Conrad, Joseph	Adventure and Survival		Y			B
D	Lord Jim	Conrad, Joseph	Adventure and Survival			Y		B
D	Last of the Mohicans	Cooper, James F.	Adventure and Survival		Y	Y		A
M	Stories and Tales	Crane, Stephen	Adventure and Survival		Y	Y		A
M	Red Badge of Courage	Crane, Stephen	Adventure and Survival		Y	Y		A
M	Two Years Before the Mast	Dana, R.H.				Y		A
D	Devine Comedy	Dante	Adventure and Survival		Y	Y		W
E	Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza De Vaca	De Vaca, Cabeza	Adventure and Survival	Journal		Y		W
M	Robinson Carusoe	Defoe, Daniel	Adventure and Survival		Y	Y		B
D	A Tale of Two Cities	Dickens, Charles	History in Fiction		Y	Y		B
M	Bleak House	Dickens, Charles	Social Issues		Y	Y		B
M	Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Maturing		Y	Y		B
M	David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles	Maturing			Y		B
M	Great Expectations	Dickens, Charles	Maturing		Y	YT		B
D	Hard Times	Dickens, Charles	History in Fiction		Y	YT		B
M	Little Dorrit	Dickens, Charles	Maturing					B
D	Mystery of Edwin Drood	Dickens, Charles	History in Fiction		Y	Y		B
M	Oliver Twist	Dickens, Charles	Maturing		Y	Y		B
M	Out of Africa	Dinesen, Isak						W
M	Seven Gothic Tales	Dinesen, Isak				Y		W
M	The Waterworks	Doctorow, E.L.				Y		A
M	World’s Fair	Doctorow, E.L.				Y		A
M	The Big Money	Dos Passos, John				Y		A
M	Poor Folk	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor			Y	Y		W
M	Brothers Karamazov	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor			Y			W
M	Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor			Y			W
M	Notes from the Underground	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor			Y	Y		W
M	Hound of the Baskervilles	Doyle, Arthur Conan	Mystery and Darkness			Y		B
M	Sister Carrie	Dreiser, Theodore				Y		A
M	House on the Strand	Du Maurier, Daphne	Mystery and Darkness			Y