12th Grade Reading List

I recommend the following titles to maintain fluency and reading level and to encourage independent reading. These are a sampling of the titles that often appear on high-school reading lists for 12th grade. Literature programs vary by high school. The books on this list are important introductions to world literature--regardless of your age and/or skill level.

• Aeneid, The - Vergil
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Chekhov: The Major Plays - Anton Chekhov
• Candide - Voltaire
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Paton
• Cyrano de Bergerac - Rostand
• A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
• Don Quixote - Cervantes
• Ghandi: His Life and Message to the World - Fischer
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• Oedipus - Sophocles
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn
• Plato's Dialogues - Plato
• Stranger, The - Albert Camus