William Bryant High School, Global 1 Reading List

These books were selected by Barbara J. Tutino, from the Social Studies Department at William Bryant High School in New York. OBJECTIVE: to provide students with essential independent reading to supplement the state-mandated history course.

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Table of Contents

Austen, Jane

• Pride and Prejudice

Bronte, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily

• Wuthering Heights

Bulfinch, Thomas

• The Age of Fable

Cather, Willa

• O Pioneers

Catullus, translated by Robinson Ellis

• Poems and Fragments

Cervantes, Miguel de

• Don Quixote

Chaucer, Geoffrey

• Canterbury Tales

Cicero, translated by E S Shuckburgh

• On Friendship and On Old Age

Conrad, Joseph

• The Heart of Darkness
• Lord Jim

Cooper, James Fenimore

• The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen

• The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel

• Robinson Crusoe

Hardy, Thomas

• The Return of the Native

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• The House of the Seven Gables
• The Scarlet Letter

Homer

• The Iliad translated by Andrew Lang
• The Odyssey translated by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang

Hugo, Victor

• Les Miserables

London, Jack

• The Sea Wolf

Melville, Herman

• Moby Dick

Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett

• Alcibiades I
• Apology
• Charmides (and preface to the collection)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthydemus
• Euthyphro
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William

• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein

Sophocles

• Oedipus Rex (in Oedipus Trilogy, which also include Oedipus at Colonnus and Antigone)

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Treasure Island

Swift, Jonathan

• Gulliver's Travels

Tacitus

• The Histories, volumes 1 and 2

Twain, Mark

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Tom Sawyer

Virgil

• The Aeneid

Wharton, Edith

• Ethan Frome