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Mrs. Henke's List of Books To
Read before College
**Parents, please note that this list
includes books that you may want to censor your child from reading at a
young age.
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The Count of
Monte Cristo (1844) Alexandre Dumas
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Last of the Mohicans (1826) James Fenimore Cooper
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Moby Dick (1851) Herman Melville
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Charles Dickens
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Les Miserables (1862) Victor Hugo
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain
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The Corsican
Brothers (1845) Alexandre Dumas
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Oliver Twist (1838) Charles Dickens
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Jane Eyre (1847) Charlotte Bronte
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Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher (1838)
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Great Expectations (1861) Charles Dickens
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Jules Verne
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David Copperfield (1850) Charles Dickens
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Mark Twain
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Silas Marner (1861) George Eliot (Marian Evans)
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Wuthering Heights
(1847) Emily Bronte
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Treasure Island
(1883) Robert Louis Stevenson
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Benjamin Franklin (1817) Benjamin Franklin
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The Iliad (962 B.C.) Homer
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) Edmond Rostand
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The Odyssey (927 B.C.) Homer
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Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1845)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (185%) William
Shakespeare
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Crime and Punishment (1866) Feodor Dostoevsky
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The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) Erich Maria
Remarque
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Hamlet (1603) William Shakespeare
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War of the Worlds (1898) H.G. Wells
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Macbeth (1606) William Shakespeare
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The Time Machine (1895) H.G. Wells
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Romeo and Juliet (1597) William Shakespeare
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) Jules
Verne
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Faust (1808/1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Pygmalion (1913) George Bernard Shaw
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
(1845)Fredrick Douglas
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Catcher in Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger
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Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Anne Frank
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Fantastic Voyage (1966)Issac Asimov
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Night (1955) Elie Wiesel
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Hamlet (1600) William Shakespeare
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The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert
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Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding
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Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley
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Oedipus the King (429 BC) Sophocles
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The Bell Jar (1963) Silvia Plath
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Uncle Tom’s cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Candide (1759) Voltaire
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The Scarlet letter (1850) Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Portrait of a Lady (1881) Henry James
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) Edmond Rostand
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The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker
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Fahrenheit 451 (1951) Ray Bradbury
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Flowers for Algernon (1966) Daniel Keyes
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And Then There Were None (1939) Agatha Christie
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Zora Neale
Hurston
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A Brief History of Time (1988) Stephen Hawking
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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1962) Ken Kesey
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Roots (1976) Alex Haley
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The Right Stuff (1979) Tom Wolfe
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Freakonomics (2005) Steven Levitt
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Nickel and Dimed (2001) Barbara Ehrenreich
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Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison
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