Books You Should Read Before You Graduate High School
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Chinua Achebe
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Paula
Isabel Allende
Medicine Woman
Lynn V. Andrews
The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Emma
Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
Merrill D. Beal
Beyond The Four Corners Of The World : A Navajo Woman’s Journey
Emily Benedek
Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota
Wallace Black Elk
We Are Witnesses : Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust
Jacob Boas
When The Legends Die
Hal Borland
Mad Bear : Spirit, Healing, and the Sacred in the Life of a Native American Medicine Man
Doug Boyd
The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rolling Thunder
Doug Boyd
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ohitika Woman
Mary Brave Bird
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter
My Antonia
Willa Cather
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
The Ox-Bow Incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
Sherwood Anderson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Life on the Mississippi
Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Power of One
Bryce Courtenay
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Maggie : A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven
Lakota Woman
Mary Crow Dog
Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place
Angie Debo
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
Michael Dorris
John Dos Passos : U.S.A. : The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
John Dos Passos
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Trail of Tears : The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
John Ehle
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Tracks
Louise Erdrich
Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Light in August
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust
William Faulkner
Giant
Edna Ferber
Show Boat
Edna Ferber
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dreams of the Centaur: A Novel
Montserrat Fontes
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
Arthur Golden
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Snow Falling on Cedars : A Novel
David Guterson
The Fire Carrier
Jean Hager
Ravenmocker
Jean Hager
The Redbird’s Cry
Jean Hager
The Spirit Caller
Jean Hager
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway
The Blessing Way
Tony Hillerman
Dance Hall of the Dead
Tony Hillerman
The Dark Wind
Tony Hillerman
The First Eagle
Tony Hillerman
Listening Woman
Tony Hillerman
People of Darkness
Tony Hillerman
Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Jeanne Houston
Saga of Chief Joseph
Helen Howard
A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells
A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Henry James
The Ambassadors
Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Messengers of the Wind
Jane Katz
Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Ishi, the Last of His Tribe
Theodora Kroeber
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History
Rhoda Lewin, ed.
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Martin Eden
Jack London
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Parrot in the Oven : Mi vida
Victor Martinez
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Billy Budd
Herman Melville
The Egoist
George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
George Meredith
The Ancient Child
N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
The Man Made of Words
N. Scott Momaday
Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday
Blue Highways : A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Paradise
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Sula
Toni Morrison
Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
John Neilhardt
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Hans Nolan
The Octopus : A Story of California
Frank Norris
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris
On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot (Native Americans of the Northeast)
Berry O’Connell
Sing Down the Moon
Scott O’Dell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
Clarissa : Or the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson
Once They Moved Like The Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars
David Roberts
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
The Heart of Midlothian
Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
Storyteller
Leslie Marmon Silko
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Dragon’s Teeth I (World’s End)
Upton Sinclair
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett
My People, the Sioux
Luther Standing Bear
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Tristam Shandy
Laurence Sterne
Dreamwalker: The Path of Sacred Power
Mary Summer Rain
Gulliver’s Travels
Johnathan Swift
The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Kitchen God’s Wife
Amy Tan
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
Cane
Jean Toomer
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
Night of Many Dreams
Gail Tsukiyama
The Samurai’s Garden
Gail Tsukiyama
Celestial Navigation
Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Macho!
Victor Villasenor
Rain of Gold
Victor Villasenor
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders
Steve Wall and Harvey Arden
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
Man Who Killed The Deer
Frank Waters
Fools Crow
James Welch
Winter in the Blood
James Welch
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Night
Elie Wiesel
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Simon Wiesenthal
The Ways of My Grandmothers
Beverly Hungry Wolf
The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest
Donald Worcester


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