Here is a collection of novels at the high school level:
9th grade:
- Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London (serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, June 20-July 18, 1903)
Liberal novels which are often required but which induce depression:
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
10th grade:
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
11th grade:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Liberal:
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12th grade:
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Turn of the Screw by Henry James (serialized in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Liberal:
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner