12th-Grade Reading List

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

Othello by William Shakespeare (1603)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949)

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1879)

Fences by August Wilson (1985)

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)

"The Gilded Six Bits" and "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston (1933; 1926))

"Gimpel the Fool" by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1953)

"Good Country People" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (1955)

"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1968)

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1968)

Selected poems by Derek Walcott

Selections from The Norton Reader