Senior High Reading List
Listed below are 100 works of literature we believe may be beneficial for all 9th-12th grade students to read during their tenure at SBA. A title being listed does not signify an endorsement of philosophies that may be contained in these works. However, we do believe they can enhance the student’s intellectual capability and broaden his understanding about the nature of man and the world that we are surrounded by.
Author Title
Allen, Robert Daniel Webster
Aurelius, Marcus Meditations
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane Emma
Barton, David The Bulletproof George Washington
Bennett, William J. The Book of Virtues
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Bunyan, John Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey
Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cartwright, Peter Autobiography of Peter Cartwright
Cathy, Truett Eat Mor Chikin
Catton, Bruce Banners at Shenandoah
Cecil, Richard The Life of John Newton
Cicero The Republic
Cooper, James Fenimore The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore The Deerslayer
Covey, Stephen Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Crosby, Fanny An Autobiography, or A Memory of Eighty Years
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Devoto, Bernard Journals of Lewis and Clark
Dick, Lois Hadley Isobel Kuhn
Dickens, Charles Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Doyle, Arthur C. The Hound of the Baskervilles and Other Sherlock Holmes'
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Eliot, Elisabeth Through Gates of Splendor
Eliot, George Silas Marner
Foxe, John Foxe's Christian Martyrs
Frank, Anne Diary of A Young Girl
Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost
George, Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain
Glennan, Ed Surviving Andersonville
Goforth, Rosalind Goforth of China
Grady, William What Hath God Wrought
Grubb, Norman C.T. Studd
Hale, Edwin Everett The Man Without a Country
Hautitz, Esther The Endless Steppe
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The House of the Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea
Hersey, John Hiroshima
Hillebrand, Lauren Unbroken
Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan
Homer The Iliad
Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Keller, Helen The Story of My Life
Kennedy, John F. Profiles In Courage
Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous
Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Books
L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity
Lindbergh, Charles The Spirit of St. Louis
Livingstone, David Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
McCullough, David John Adams
Melville, Herman Moby Dick, or the Whale
Miller, Basil Florence Nightingale: Lady of the Lamp
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables
Moody, William The Life of D.L. Moody
Nordhoff, Charles The Mutiny on the Bounty
O'Dell, Scott The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day
Orwell, Goerge Animal Farm
Pascal, Blaise Pensees
Pierson, Arthur T. George Mueller of Bristol
Popov, Haralan Tortured for His Faith
Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows
Reit, Seymour Guns for General Washington
Remarque, Erich All Quiet On the Western Front
Rossiter, ed. Clinton The Federalist Papers
Scott, Sir Walter Lady of the Lake
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William MacBeth
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Sheldon, Charles In His Steps
Speare, Elizabeth The Bronze Bow
Sperry, Armstrong Call It Courage
Spurgeon, Charles The Soulwinner
Spyrie, Joanna Heidi
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathon Gulliver's Travels
Ten Boom, Corrie The Hiding Place
Tiner, John Hudson Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science
Tunis, Edwin Colonial Living
Tunis, Edwin Frontier Living
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wallace, Lew Ben-Hur
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Laura Ingalls The Little House on the Prairie Series
Williamson, Mary L. The Life of Robert E. Lee
King James Bible
US Constitution