#personal
A transcription of Grandpa's Recommended Reading List. Grandpa was an English Teacher and had a set of literature he found enjoyable.
# Grandpa's Reading List
## Fiction
- *Huckleberry Finn*, Mark Twain
- *O Pioneers* , Willa Cather
- *Great Expectations*, Charles Dickens
- *1984*, George Orwell
- *Of Mice and Men*, John Steinbeck
- *The Old Man and the Sea*, John Steinbeck
- *The Mayor of Casterbridge*, Thomas Hardy
- *Animal Farm*, George Orwell
- *Don Quixote*, Miguel De Cervantes
- *The Odyssey*, Homer
- *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley
- *The Stranger*, Albert Camus
## Non-Fiction
- *Walden*, Henry David Thoreau
- *The Declaration of Independence*, Jefferson, et. al
- *A Letter from Birmingham Jail*, Martin Luther King Jr.
- *Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee*, Dee Brown
- *Night*, Elie Wiesel
- *To America*, Stephen Ambrose
- *Prime Minister*, and *Dunkerque*, Winston Churchill
- *Glory Road*, *Mr. Lincoln's Army*, and *A Stillness at Appomattox*, Bruce Catton
- *A World Lit Only By Fire*, William Manchester
## Drama
- *Oedipus the King*, Sophocles
- *Hamlet*, William Shakespeare
- *All My Sons*, Arthur Miller
## Poetry
- *Tilbury Town*, E. A. Robinson
- *Mending Wall*, Birches, Robert Frost
- *Ulysses*, Alfred Lord Tennyson
- *Sonnets from the Portuguese*, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
## Short Stories
- *[[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]]*, Mark Twain
- *[[The Deerhide]]*, Stephen Rosen
- *Harry Gertz and the Forty-Seven Crappies*, Jean Shepherd
- *Barn Burning*, William Faulkner
- *The Girls in Their Summer Dresses*, Irwin Shaw
- *How Much Land Does a Man Need?*, Leo Tolstoy
- *Silent Snow, Secret Snow*, Conrad Aiken