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College Bound Reading List
 
List 2 - J-Z
J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | W | Z
 
Genre Abbreviations:
Lit=literature, H=historical fiction or in pleasing narrative form, Play=play, Bio=biography,
Phil=philosophy, F=fantasy, SF=science fiction, E=ethnic/multi-cultural
 
~J~
 

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 Jane Eyre (col++) 1830  Bronte, Charlotte  Lit
 The Joy Luck Club (col+) Tan, Amy   Lit
 
 
~K~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
Kidnapped  Stevenson  Lit
 Kim (col) Kipling  Lit
     
 
 
~L~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 Ladies of the Club  London, Jack  Lit
 Lakota Woman (fight for Nat Amer Rights) col  Dog, Mary Crow  Bio
 Left Hand of Darkness (col)  Le Guin, Ursula  Lit
 Les Miserables (col)  Hugo  Lit
 Little Women (col)  Alcott, Louisa  Lit
 London (800 A.D. - 1970)  Rutherford Lit
 Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (travel to 2000-col)  Bellamy, Edward  SF
 Lord of the Flies (col+)  Golding, Will  Lit
 Lord of the Rings (col+)  Tolkien  Lit
 Lost Horizon  Hilton, James  Lit
 
 
~M~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 MacBeth (col)  Shakespeare, William  Play
Madame Curie (daughter's bio of mom) col   Curie, Eve  Bio
Major Barbara (col)   Ibsen, Henrik  Play
 A Man Without a Country (Set in Am Revolution about man who rejects U.S...patriotic) written about 1863  Hale  Lit/H
 Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography  Sanger, Margaret  Bio
Me Too (Dealing with mentally handicapped sister)  Cleaver, Vera & Bill  Lit
 Mill on the Floss (col) (Maggie & romance)  Eliot, Geo.  Lit
 Millenium: Tribal Wisdom& Modern World (Members of several Tribal Cultures)  Maybury-Lewis, David  Lit
 Mists of Avalon (Read)  Bradley, Marion Zimmer  Lit
 Moby Dick (col)  Melville, Herman  Lit
 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress  Heinlein, Robert  SF
 Morte d'Arthur (col)  Malory  Lit
 Mother Courage and Her Children (woman view on futility of war) (col)  Brecht, Bertolt  Lit
 Mrs. Mike (Alaska pioneer)  Freedman,  Lit
 My Antonia (col+)(Westward move 1850)  Cather, Willa  Lit
     
 
 
~N~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
     
 
 
~O~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 The Odyssey (col)  Homer  Lit
 Oedipus Rex (col+)  Sophocles  Play
 Of Human Bondage (col)  Maugham  Lit
 Oliver Twist (col)  Dickens, Charles  Lit
 The Once and Future King (col)  White, T.H.  Lit
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(col)  Kesey. Ken  Lit
 Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga (Self-esteem)  Cresswell, Helen  Lit
 Our Town (col+)  Wilder, Thornton  Ref
 
 
~P~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 The Pearl (col)  Steinbeck  Lit
 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Read)  Wilde, Oscar  Lit
 Pippi Longstocking  Lindgren  Lit
 Poes Stories: (col)
"The Pit and the Pendulum
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
 Poe, Edgar Alan  Lit
 Portable Faulkner (short stories - COL)  Faulkner  Lit
 Pride & Prejudice (col+) Austen, Jane   Lit
 The Prince (col)  Machiavelli  Phil
 Profiles in Courage (WWII) (col)  Kennedy, John F  Bio
Pygmalion (col)  Shaw, Bernard  Play
 
 
~R~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 The Ransom of Red Chief  Henry, O.  SS
 Rebecca (col)  DuMaurier, Daphne  Lit
 Red Badge of Courage (CIVIL WAR-col+)  Crane, Stephen  Lit/H
Robinson Crusoe (col+)  Defoe, Daniel  Lit
 Romeo and Juliet (col)  Shakespeare, William  Play
 Roots (col+)  Haley, Alex  Bio
 
 
~S~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 Sacajaweca (Lewis & Clark Guide)  Waldo  H
 Scarlett Letter (col-12)+  Hawthorne, Nathaniel  Lit
Schindler's List  Keneally  Bio
 The Sea Wolf (col)  London, Jack  Lit
 Shy Charles (self-esteem) Wells, Rosemary  Lit
 Song of Solomon  Morrison, Toni  Lit
 Sophie's World (Highly recommended-HS)    Phil
 Stardance  Robinson  SF
 The Story of My Life (col)  Keller, Helen  Bio
 The Sun Also Rises  Hemingway, Ernest  Lit
 Swiss Family Robinson  Wyss, Jon  Lit
 
 
~T~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 The Three Musketeers (col)  Dumas  Lit
The Time Machine (col)  Wells, H.G.  Lit
 The Trojan Women (col)  Euripides  Play
 Their Eyes were Watching God (col+)(self-fulfillment)  Hurston, Zora  Lit
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (sharecroppers Daughter) (col)    
 
 
~U~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 Uncle Tom's Cabin (col) Stowe, Harriet B  Lit
 
 
~W~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
Walden (col) Thoreau, Henry Lit
War of the Worlds Wells, H.G. SF
The Wizard of Oz (col) 1860 Baum, L. Frank Lit
The World Must Know: History of Holocaust (Holocaust Museum) Berenbaum, Michael Bio
Where the Lilies Bloom (14 yo in Appalachia) Cleaver, Vera & Bill Lit
 Winesburg, OH# (short stories of small town-col)  Sher. Anderson  SS
 Wuthering Heights (Col+) 1830  Bronte, Emily  Lit
     
 
 
~Z~

 Title (and Notes)

 Author

 Genre
 Zorba the Greek Kazanzakis, N  Play
 
 
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