Twelfth Grade Reading Lists
Here is the recommended reading list for the twelfth grade.
1. Witness, Whittaker Chambers
2. Wisdom of the Desert, Thomas Merton
3. Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
4. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
5. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
8. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
9. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
11. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery
12. Travels in Arabian Deserts, Charles Doughty
13. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
14. Thirty Nine Steps, John Buchan
15. Tale of the South Downs, Richard Blackmore
16. Snow Goose, Paul Gallico
17. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
18. Servant of Slaves, Grace Irwin
19. Scaramouch, Rafael Sabatini
20. Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Scott’s Last Expedition, Robert Scott
22. Red and the Black, Stendahl
23. Roots of the Mountains, William Morris
24. Roots, Alex Haley
25. Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope Hawkins
26. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
27. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Mark Twain
28. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
29. Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
30. Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
31. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
32. Paradise War, Stephen R. Lawhead
33. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
34. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
35. My Confession, Leo Tolstoy
36. How I found Livingstone, Sir Henry Morton Stanley
37. In this Sign, Joanne Greenburg
38. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
39. Jerusalem, Selma Lagerlof
40. Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. Green Mansions, William H. Hudson
42. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe
43. Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
44. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
45. Beloved, Toni Morrison
46. Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King
47. A Man for all Seasons, Robert Bolt
48. Animal Farm, George Orwell
49. Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Elliot
50. Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Huston