20 Books
Your favorite Prep teachers have compiled a list of must-read books. We consider these to be essential to your intellectual growth. Each week a few will be highlighted on the home page of the library website as well as displayed at the circulation desk. Feel free to check any out from the library.
In no particular order:
- The Bible
- Iliad and Odyssey. Homer
- Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli
- Henry V, Richard III, Othello, Coriolanus, Julius Ceasar. Shakespeare
- Frankenstein or Prometheus Unbound. Mary Shelley
- Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Great Expectations. Charles Dickens
- Moby Dick. Herman Melville
- Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamozov. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain
- The Jungle. Upton Sinclair
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Dead. James Joyce
- The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sun Also Rises. Ernest Hemingway
- Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl. John Steinbeck
- Animal Farm, 1984. George Orwell
- Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl
- Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger
- On the Road. Jack Kerouac
- The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy. J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Separate Peace. John Knowles
- To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Malcolm X
- The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: the quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would heal the world. Tracy Kidder
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini