My goal as a teacher of English is to encourage my students to not only appreciate the written word but more importantly to enjoy reading.  Whether you choose to read classics or contemporary literature, simply enjoy reading.  Books can open up a world that is untouchable in any other form. This page includes:  an adult reading list, a teen reading list, and a children's reading list Adult Reading List The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid The Awakening by Kate Chopin Beloved by Toni Morrisson Crosscreek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Jungle by Upton Sinclair King Lear by William Shakespeare Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Lord of the Flies by William Golding Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achébé To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee   Short Stories: “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst "The Storyteller” by Saki “The Very Old Angel with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner Poetry: “Dreams” by Langston Hughes “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden “If” by Rudyard Kipling J. 67 by Emily Dickinson “On Children” by Kahlil Gibran “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats “Warning” by Jenny Joseph “When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed” by Walt Whitman “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats   Children’s Reading List Some books are fun to read, and others teach a lesson.  Whatever they do, let them be FUN! Charlie the Caterpillar by Dom DeLouise Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Williams Fireboat by Maira Kalman The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown The Happy Lion by Fatio Duvoisin I'll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm The Lorax by Dr. Seuss The Magic Hat by Mem Fox Moosestach by Margie Palatini Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss   Teen Reading List The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Charlotte’s Web by EB White Holes by Louis Sachar Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton         That Was Then This Is Now by S.E. Hinton The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Or Give Me Death by Anne Rinaldi The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnian Rawlings Acquaintance with Darkness by Anne Rinaldi