HONORS ENGLISH 12, READING LIST, 2011NAME _____________________
1
You are required to read and write an analysis on a total of 4 books, one per quarter. Only one title per
author is permitted. All books you read must be starred (*) books. Two books are from summer reading
requirement. Four of these books will be in-class assignments. For the other 2 you must read at least one
other each semester. It is advised that you read as many books and as widely as possible if you plan to take
the AP exam.
A
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Austen, Jane
B
Baines.
Bede, Venerable
Bronte, Ann
Bronte, Charlotte
C
Bronte, Emily
Bunyan, John
Chaucer, Geoffery
Conrad, Joseph
Dante, Alighieri
DeFoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
E
F
G
Dostoyevsky, F. M.
Dryden, John
Eliot, George
Forster, E.M.
Goldsmith, Oliver
H
Goodrich, Norma
Hardy, Thomas
I
J
Huxley, Aldous
Isherwood, C.
Joyce, James
K
L
M
Kafka, Franz
Lamb, Charles
Lewis, C. S.
Lattimore, R.
(Homer)
Milton, John
Moliere
Morrell, J. M.
*Prometheus Bound
882 AES
*Lysistrata and The Clouds
882 ARI
*Poetics (In-class assignment)
881 ARI
*Pride and Prejudice
823 AUS
*Sense and Sensibility
823 AUS
*Mansfield Park
823 AUS
*Emma
823 AUS
*Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur
823 MAL
*The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation 270.2 BED
*Agnas Gray
823 BRO
*Jane Eyre
823 BRO
*Shirley
823 BRO
*Wuthering Heights (In Class Assignment) 823 BRO
*The Holy War
823 BUN
*Canterbury Tales
821 CHA
*Heart of Darkness (In-class Assignment) 823 CON
*The Inferno
851 DAN
*Purgatory
851 DAN
*Paradise
851 DAN
*Moll Flanders
823 DEF
*Bleak House
823 DIC
*Hard Times
823 DIC
*Pickwick Papers
823 DIC
Crime and Punishment
891.7 DOS
*Virgil’s Aeneid
873 VER
*The Mill on the Floss
823 EIL
*A Passage to India
823 FOR
*She Stoops to Conquer
822 GOL
*The Vicar of Wakefield
823 GOL
Medieval Myths
808.81 GOO
*Far from the Madding Crowd
823 HAR
* Jude the Obscure (In Class Assignment) 823 HAR
*The Return of the Native
823 HAR
*Tess of the D’Urbervilles
823 HAR
Brave New World
813 HUX
Great English Short Stories
Not in collection
*A Portrait of the Young Man
823 JOY
*Dubliners
823 JOY
*The Metamorphosis
833 KAF
Tales from Shakespeare
823.7 LAM
*The Screwtape Letters
823 LEW
*The Odyssey of Homer
883 HOM
*The Iliad of Homer
883 HOM
*Paradise Lost
821 MIL
*Paradise Regained
Not in collection
*Tartuffe/The Misanthrope
842 MOL
*Four English Comedies
822 MOR
HONORS ENGLISH 12, READING LIST, 2011NAME _____________________
O
O’Neill, Eugene
Orwell, George
S
Ovid
Scott, Sir Walter
Shakespeare, W.
Singer, Isaac
Sophocles
T
V
W
Swift, Jonathan
Thackeray, W. M.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Voltaire
Walker, Hugh
Walpole, Horace
Wells, H. G.
Wilde, Oscar
2
*A Long Day’s Journey into Night
812 ONE
*Homage to Catalonia
946 ORW
*1984
823 ORW
*Metamorphases
872 OVI
*Ivanhoe
823 SCO
*Hamlet
822.3 SHA
*King Lear
822.3 SHA
*Othello
822.3 SHA
Gimpel the Fool
Not in collection
*Oedipus the King (In-class assignment)
882 SOP
*The Oedipus Cycle
882 SOP
*Gulliver’s Travels
823 SWI
*Vanity Fair
823 THA
*Idylls of the King
821 TEN
*Candide and Zidig
847 VOL
*Selected English Short Stories 808.83 WAL
*The Castle of Otranto
823 WAL
Selected Short Stories
823 WEL
*The Picture of Dorian Gray
823 WIL
BIOGRAPHY
Anderson, Courtney
Boothroyd, Basil
Carter, Violet B.
D’Aubigne, Merle
de Vilallonga, Jose
Dinesen, Isak
Edwards, Brian H.
Ford, Sallie R.
Fraser, Antonia
Garfinkel, Gernard
Hummel, Charles E.
Luke, Mary M.
MacLean, Alistair
Murray, Iain
Pollock, John
Reid, W. Stanford
Shelter, Joanne
To The Golden Shores (Adonirim Judson)
Prince Philip (Philip of England)
Winston Churchill
The Protector: A Vindication (Cromwell)
The King (Juan Carlos I)
Out of Africa
Through ManyDangers (Newton)
Mary Bunyan
Mary Queen of Scotts
Margaret Thatcher
The Galileo Connection
Catherine the Queen
Captain Cook
The Forgotten Spurgeon
The Apostle (Paul)
Hudson Taylor and Maria
The Master (Christ)
Trumpeter of God (John Knox)
And the Word Came with Power
(Modern day missionary biography)
266 AND
B PHI
B CHU
B CRO
B CAR
B DIN
B NEW
B BUN
Not in collection
B THA
509 HUM
B CAT
B COO
B SPU
226.6 POL
B TAY
232 POL
B KNO
Not in collection