Classics, Recommended Reading

Books listed here are books that have lasted the test of time or will last the test of time for literature classes, writing classes, history classes, etc. They are recommendations only. The list is not intended for you to be forced to read a book from the list. Not all books are in our library. Some would be considered children's books, others will be considered adult books. Reading anything on this list is at your discretion. * indicates that the library owns a copy. No *, the link leads you to Amazon.

*Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
*Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
*The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
*In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
*The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
*Beowulf by Unknown, Translated by Charles Crossley-Holland
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
*Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
*The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*The Hounds of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
*The Black Stallion By Walter Farley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Endgame by Nancy Garden
*Grendel by John Gardner
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
*Roots by Alex Haley
*The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
*A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
*For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
*All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
*Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Houston
*Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*Diary of Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl) by M.H. Lewittes
*The Giver by Lois Lowry
*Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1984 by George Orwell
*The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath
*The Chosen by Chian Potok
*The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
*Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
*Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders
*Black Beauty by Anne Sewell
*Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
*Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
*The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
*The Old Man and the Sea by John Steinbeck
*The Red Pony BY John Steinbeck
*The Help by Kathryn Stockett
*Dracula by Bram Stoker
*The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
*The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Exodus by Leon Uris
*Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
*Night by Elie Wiesel
*The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
*Black Boy by Richard Wright
*Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss