Homeschool Reading List - 11th Grade Early U.S. History & American Literature

Here is the reading list I put together for my 11th grader. That year they were studying American history up to 1877 so quite a few of these titles fit with that time period. (the + means any title by that author) Enjoy!

Title	Author
A Death in the Family	Agee, James
A Doll's House	Ibsen, Henrik
A Handful of Dust	Waugh, Evelyn
A Single Pebble	Hersey, John
A Town Like Alice	Shute, Nevil
Abraham Lincoln	Sandburg, Carl
All Quiet on the Western Front	Remarque, Erich
Amazing Adventures of Father Brown	Chesterton, G.K.
Americanization of Edward Bok	Bok, Edward
And Quiet Flows the Don	Sholokhov, Mikhail
Babbitt	Lewis, Sinclair
Bleak House	Dickens, Charles
Borden of Yale	Taylor, Mrs. Howard
Captain Cook's Explorations	Cook, James
Charterhouse of Parma +	Stendahl
Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Cripps, the Carrier	Blackmore, Richard
Darkness at Noon	Koestler, Arthur
Darwin's Black Box	Behe, Michel
David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles
Death Comes for the Archbishop	Cather, Willa
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams	ed. Butterfield, L.
Doctor Zhivago	Pasternak, Boris
Education of Henry Adams	Adams, Henry
Emma	Austen, Jane
Erewhon	Butler, Samuel
Fathers and Sons +	Turgenev, Ivan
Four Voyages to the New World	Columbus, Christopher
Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary
From Basic to Baghdad
How I Found Livingstone	Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor
Life of George Washington	Irving, Washington
Life on the Mississippi	Twain, Mark
Little Novels of Sicily	Verga, Giovanni
Look Homeward, Angel	Wolfe, Thomas
Lord Jim	Conrad, Joseph
Martin Chuzzlewitt	Dickens, Charles
Master of Ballantrae	Stevenson, Robert Louis
Miracle at Philadelphia	Bowen, Catherine
Moby Dick +	Melville, Herman
North and South	Gaskell, Elizabeth
Oregon Trail	Parkman, Francis
Our Mutual Friend	Dickens, Charles
Poems	Dickinson, Emily
Poems	Frost, Robert
Poems (The Works of…)	Rossetti, Christina
Pygmalion	Shaw, George Bernard
Raven: a Biography of Sam Houston	James, Marquis
Rob Roy	Scott, Sir Walter
Scaramouche	Sabatini, Rafael
Servant of Slaves +	Irwin, Grace
Sevastopol Sketches +	Tolstoy, Leo
Sons and Lovers	Lawrence, D.H.
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The Cherry Orchard	Chekhov, Anton
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas, Alexandre
The Covenant +	Michener, James
The Crisis	Paine, Thomas
The Fault in Our Stars	Green, John
The House of Seven Gables +	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Journal of George Fox	Fox, George
The Journal of John Wesley	Wesley, John
The Last of the Mohicans	Cooper, James Fenimore
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd	Brainerd, David
The Life and Voyages of Columbus	Irving, Washington
The Life of Samuel Johnson	Boswell, James
The Mill on the Floss	Eliot, George
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde, Oscar
The Red and the Black	Stendahl
The Song at the Scaffold	von Le Fort, Gertrud
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Virginians +	Thackery, William
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Up From Slavery	Washington, Booker T.
Villette	Bronte, Charlotte
Washington Square	James, Henry
Wuthering Heights	Bronte, Emily