Book List

Grace Prep. Approved Reading List

A, B
A Farewell To Arms by Hemingway
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain *
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank *
Animal Farm by George Orwell *
Anne of Green Gables (the series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaires
The Boys of ’76 by Charles Coffin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *

C, D
Call It Courage (1941 Newberry) by Armstrong Sperry
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Chariots of Fire
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Courtship of Miles Standish by Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

The Crucible by Arthur Miller *
Dangerous Journey by John Bunyan
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Otto Frank *
Dracula by Bram Stoker

E, F, G
Emma by Jane Austen *
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury *
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley *
The Father Brown Mysteries by C.K. Chesterton
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. Tolkien
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck *
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

H, I, J
Harry Potter (the series) by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros *
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Every Burnford
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Invisable Man by H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

K, L
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding *
The Lord of the Rings (the trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien

M, N
Macbeth by William Shakespeare *
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
My Antonia by Willa Cather *
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Night by Elie Wiesel
1984 by George Orwell

O, P
The Odyssey by Homer *
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck *
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw *

R, S
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane *
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Redwall (the series) by Brian Jacques
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe *
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne *
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

T, W, Y
The Tempest by William Shakespeare *
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee *
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson *
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James *
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
White Fang by Jack London
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte *
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

* These books are included in the high school curriculum, so you may have to read them again.

These are books which we would allow you to read for credit. However, your parents have the ultimate authority to approve a book or not.