Mountain Home
High School
Recommended Reading
Lists
American Authors are noted in Bold type.
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Mountain Home
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| Author | Title | Birth Year | Country |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | 1775-1817 | British |
| Baldwin, James A. | If Beale Street Could Talk | 1924-1987 | American |
| Barrie, James | Peter Pan | 1860-1937 | Scottish |
| Baum, Frank L. | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | 1856-1919 | American |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | 1920- | American |
| Bradbury, Ray | Something Wicked This Way Comes | 1920- | American |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | 1818-1848 | British |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth | 1892-1973 | American |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1832-1898 | British |
| Carter, Forrest | The Education of Little Tree | ||
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | 1857-1924 | Polish-Born, moved to London |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans | 1789-1851 | American |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage | 1871-1900 | American |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | 1812-1870 | British |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | 1812-1870 | British |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | 1821-1881 | Russian |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1859-1930 | British |
| du Maurier,Daphne | Rebecca | 1907-1986 | British |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers | 1802-1870 | French |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom! Absalom! | 1897-1962 | American |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury | 1897-1962 | American |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | 1911-1993 | British |
| Hawthorne,Nathaniel | The Scarlett Letter | 1804-1864 | American |
| Hilton,, James | Lost Horizon | 1900-1954 | British |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | 1894-1963 | British |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace | American | |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1926- | American |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Wrinkle in Time | 1918- | American |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Lion,the Witch,& the Wardrobe | 1898-1963 | British |
| Llewellyn, Richard | How Green Was My Valley | ||
| London, Jack | White Fang | 1876-1916 | American |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild | 1876-1916 | American |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1928- | Spanish |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick | 1819-1891 | American |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind | 1900-1949 | American |
| Orwell, George | Nineteen Eighty-Four a Novel | 1903-1950 | British |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm | 1903-1950 | British |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the Rye | 1919- | American |
| Sobol, Rose | Woman Chief | ||
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men | 1902-1968 | American |
| Steinbeck, John | The Pearl | 1902-1968 | American |
| Steinbeck, John | The Red Pony | 1902-1968 | American |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath | 1902-1968 | American |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Kidnapped | 1850-1894 | Scottish |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island | 1850-1894 | Scottish |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1811-1896 | American |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit | 1892-1973 | British |
| Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn | 1835-1910 | American |
| Twain, Mark | Tom Sawyer | 1835-1910 | American |
| Verne, Jules | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | 1828-1905 | French |
| Verne, Jules | Journey To the Center of the Earth | 1828-1905 | French |
| Wells, H.G. | The Time Machine | 1866-1946 | British |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son | 1908-1960 | American |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy | 1908-1960 | American |