High school reading list

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