Mama T has a new summer reading plan. I wonder if this might be a start for High School home schoolers?
(I've read around 84 - a couple I didn't finish, though)
A
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - yep
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - yep
The Aeneid - yep
All Quiet on the Western Front
And Then There Were None
Angela's Ashes
Animal Farm -yep
Anna Karenina
Anne of Green Gables - yep
Anthem
Antony and Cleopatra - yep
As I Lay Dying
As You Like It - yep
The Awakening
B
The Bean Trees
The Bell Jar - yep
Beloved
Beowulf
Billy Budd -yep (hated it, too!)
Black Boy
Bless Me, Ultima (It has a midwife in it!)
The Bluest Eye
Brave New World - yep
The Brothers Karamazov -yep
C
The Call of the Wild -yep
Candide - in French and in English - much better in French!
The Canterbury Tales - parts only
Catch-22 - yep
The Catcher in the Rye - yep
The Chosen
Cold Mountain
Cold Sassy Tree
The Color Purple
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
The Crucible
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cyrano de Bergerac
D
Death of a Salesman - yep
The Death of Socrates
The Diary of a Young Girl - yep
A Doll's House - yep
Don Quixote -yep
Dr. Faustus
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Dune -yep
E
Emma
Ethan Frome -yep
F
Fahrenheit 451 - yep
Fallen Angels
A Farewell to Arms
Flowers for Algernon - yep
The Fountainhead - yep (ayn rand is just plain weird!)
Frankenstein
G
The Glass Menagerie - yep
Gone with the Wind
The Good Earth - yep
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations - yep
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels -yep
H
Hamlet -yep
The Handmaid's Tale - yep (a really strange tale, this)
Hard Times
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone no (and don't intend to read!)
Heart of Darkness
Henry IV, Part I -yep
Henry V-yep
Hiroshima - yep
The Hobbit -yep
The House of the Seven Gables
I
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad -yep
Inferno
Invisible Man -yep
J
Jane Eyre-yep
Johnny Tremain -yep
The Joy Luck Club
Julius Caesar - yep
The Jungle -yep
K
King Lear -yep
L
The Last of the Mohicans
Les Misérables
A Lesson Before Dying
The Little Prince - yep
Little Women -yep
The Lord of the Flies -yep
M
Macbeth - yep
Madame Bovary - yep
A Man for All Seasons - yep
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Merchant of Venice -yep
A Midsummer Night's Dream - yep
Moby-Dick - yep
Much Ado About Nothing - yep
My Ántonia
Mythology - yep
N
Narrative of the Life
Native Son - yep
The New Testament -yep
Night
1984 - yep
Notes from Underground
O
The Oedipus Plays - yep
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea - yep
The Old Testament - most of it
Oliver Twist - yep
The Once and Future King -yep
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - yep
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Othello - yep
Our Town - yep
The Outsiders
P
Paradise Lost
A Passage to India
The Pearl
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Poe's Short Stories - yep
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice (I'm still trying!!!)
The Prince -yep
R
A Raisin in the Sun - yep
The Red Badge of Courage - yep
The Republic -yep
Richard III-yep
Robinson Crusoe - yep
Romeo and Juliet -yep
S
A Separate Peace
The Scarlet Letter - yep
Silas Marner
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-yep
Slaughterhouse-Five -yep
Snow Falling on Cedars
Song of Solomon - yep
The Sound and the Fury
Steppenwolf - yep
The Stranger
A Streetcar Named Desire -yep
The Sun Also Rises -yep
T
A Tale of Two Cities - yep
The Taming of the Shrew -yep
The Tempest -yep
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
The Things They Carried
To Kill a Mockingbird - yep
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island - yep
Twelfth Night -yep
U
Ulysses -yep
Uncle Tom's Cabin
W
Walden - yep
War and Peace
Wuthering Heights
Y
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Just look! You've read ALL the R's!
I'm trying to decide whether to just start with the A's and read on (after C&P, which may take the rest of my life!), or skip around. Part of me thinks it would be good just to take a pencil and point at something and check it out!