Classic Books for High Schoolers (in addition to some of my favorites)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

anything by Ray Bradbury

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

anything by Ernest Hemingway

anything by William Faulkner

anything by Virginia Woolf

1984 or Animal Farm by George Orwell

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

anything by H. G. Wells

anything by Jules Verne

any of the Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

anything by Agatha Christie

anything by Ursula LeGuin

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

anything by Charles Dickens

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner) by Philip K. Dick

Silas Marner by George Eliot

anything by Jane Austen

anything by Leo Tolstoy

anything by Mark Twain

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

anything by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

My Antonia by Willa Cather

others as I come upon them