#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