Curricula and Learning Links - High School
Literature
Below are some suggestions from our HomeschoolChristian.com message board participants for recommended literature to read before finishing high school. Please preview the books before assigning to your high schooler so that you can be assured that the content is appropriate for your family. For more information about analyzing literature and other language arts topics, please see HomeschoolChristian.com's Language Arts section.
American Literature
The Silver Chalice Thomas Costain
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Cheaper by the Dozen by Gilbreth and Carey
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare
The Robe Lloyd Douglas
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Man O'War by Walter Farley
Sgt. York and the Great War by Alvin York
Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes
Gone With The Wind by Margarett Mitchell
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451
Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Little Men, Little Women, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
British Literature
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ring boxed set by J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff
The Silver Branch Rosemary Sutcliff
Thoughts for Young Men by J.C. Ryle
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The New Atlantis Francis Bacon
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. (Some stories may not be suitable for all family members.)
The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White
Knight of the White Cross and other books by G.A. Henty
World Literature
The Analects by Confucious
The Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Odysessy and The Iliad by Homer
The Greek Plays translated by Ellen McLaughlin. A collection of classic plays from ancient Greece.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
