Classics for Homeschoolers

  • Achebe – Things Fall Apart
  • Aeschylus – The Oresteia
  • Alger – Ragged Dick/Struggling Upward
  • Allende – Eva Luna
  • Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Anonymous - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Aristophanes - Lysistrata
  • Atwood – Cat’s Eye
  • Austen – Emma
  • Austen - Persuasion
  • Austen – Pride and Prejudice
  • Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Beckett – Waiting for Godot
  • Bellow - Seize the Day
  • Bernstein – West Side Story
  • Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
  • Bronte, C. - Jane Eyre
  • Bronte, E. – Wuthering Heights
  • Camus - The Stranger
  • Capote – In Cold Blood
  • Cather, Willa   My Antonia
  • Cerventes - Don Quixote
  • Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
  • Chopin – The Awakening
  • Conrad – Heart of Darkness
  • Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
  • Dante – The Inferno
  • Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
  • Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
  • Dickens – Great Expectations
  • Dickens – Oliver Twist
  • Dickens, Charles        David Copperfield
  • Doyle – Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Du Maurier, Daphne      Rebecca
  • DuMaurier – Jamaica Inn
  • Eliot - Silas Marner
  • Ellison - Invisible Man
  • Emecheta – Bride Price
  • Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
  • Faulkner – Light in August
  • Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
  • Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise
  • Flaubert – Madame Bovary
  • Forster - A Passage to India
  • Frank – The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Franklin - Autobiography
  • Fugard – Master Harold and the Boys
  • Golding – Lord of the Flies
  • Hamilton - Mythology
  • Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
  • Hardy – Return of the Native
  • Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
  • Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
  • Heller – Catch-22
  • Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
  • Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
  • Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
  • Hersey, John    Hiroshima
  • Hesse, Hermann  Siddhartha
  • Hinton – The Outsiders
  • Homer – The Odyssey
  • Hugo – Les Miserables
  • Huxley – Brave New World
  • Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House
  • James – Daisy Miller
  • James - Washington Square
  • Kanafani – Men in the Sun
  • Kincaid – Annie John
  • Kingston – The Woman Warrior
  • Knowles – A Separate Peace
  • Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Lewis - Babbitt
  • London – Call of the Wild
  • Machiavelli – The Prince
  • Malamud - The Assistant
  • Malamud – The Natural
  • Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Marshall - Christy
  • McCullers, Carson       Member of the wedding
  • Miller – Death of a Salesman
  • Miller – The Crucible
  • Morrison - Beloved
  • Morrison – Song of Solomon
  • Morrison – The Bluest Eye
  • O’Neill – Mourning Becomes Electra
  • Orwell - 1984
  • Orwell – Animal Farm
  • Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
  • Plath – The Bell Jar
  • Potok – The Chosen
  • Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Salinger – Catcher in the Rye
  • Scott - Ivanhoe
  • Shakespeare – Hamlet
  • Shakespeare – Julius Caesar
  • Shakespeare - Macbeth
  • Shakespeare - Othello
  • Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
  • Shelley - Frankenstein
  • Sinclair – The Jungle
  • Sophocles - Antigone
  • Sophocles - Oedipus Cycle
  • Steinbeck – Cannery Row
  • Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath
  • Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
  • Stevenson – Kidnapped
  • Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
  • Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
  • Thackeray - Vanity Fair
  • Thoreau - Walden
  • Tolkien, J. R. R.       Hobbit, The
  • Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
  • Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
  • Walker – The Color Purple
  • Wharton – Ethan Frome
  • Wiesel - Night
  • Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Williams – Streetcar Named Desire
  • Williams – The Glass Menagerie
  • Wright – Black Boy
  • Wright – Native Son
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