Homeschool Reading List - 12th Grade Modern History

Here is the reading list I put together for my 12th grader. That year they were studying modern American history (1877 to the present) so quite a few of these titles fit with that time period. You'll also notice quite a few poetry selections just for exposure. (+ means any title by that author) Enjoy!

Title	Author
1984	Orwell, George
Against All Hope	Valladares, Armando
All Creatures Great and Small +	Herriot, James
All the King's Men	Warren, Robert Penn
American Leonardo	Mabee, Carleton
Brave New World	Huxley, Aldous
Diary of a Country Priest +	Bernanos, George
Divergent +	Roth, Veronica
Dream Thief	Lawhead, Stephen
Every Living Thing	Herriot, James
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway, Ernest
Gone with the Wind	Mitchell, Margaret
Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Green Mansions +	Hudson, William H
Heart of Darkness +	Conrad, Joseph
In This Sign	Greenberg, Joanne
Inherit the Wind	Lawrence, Jerome
Invisible Man	Ellison, Robert
Looking Backward	Bellamy, Edward
Lord of the Flies	Golding, William
Lord Peter +	Sayers, Dorothy
Master and Commander	O'Brian, Patrick
Murder on the Orient Express	Christie, Agatha
My Antonia	Cather, Willa
Night	Wiesel, Elie
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck, John
Old Creole Days +	Cable, George Washington
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich +	Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	Dillard, Annie
Poems	Lewis, C.S.
Poems	Keats, John
Poems	Byron, Lord
Poems	Shelley, Percy  Blythe
Poems	Scott, Sir Walter
Poems	Wordsworth, William
Poems of Coleridge	Symons
Ramona	Jackson, Helen Hunt
Scott's Last Expedition	Scott, Robert
Short Stories and Tales, Complete	Poe, Edgar Allan
The Age of Innocence	Wharton, Edith
The Caine Mutiny	Wouk, Herman
The Catcher in the Rye	Salinger, J.D.
The Contender	Lipsyte, Robert
The Cross and the Switchblade	Wilkerson, David
The Cruel Sea	Monsarrat, Nicholas
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch	Tolstoy, Leo
The Fairy Tale of My Life	Anderson, Hans Christian
The Giver	Lowry, Lois
The Good Earth	Buck, Pearl S
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John
The Man Who Was Called Thursday	Chesterton, G.K.
The Necklace and Other Stories +	DeMaupassant, Guy
The Nine Tailors	Sayers, Dorothy
The Old Man and the Sea	Hemingway, Ernest
The Power and the Glory +	Greene, Graham
The Trial	Kafka, Franz
Things Fall Apart	Achebe, Chinua
To Kill a Mockingbird	Lee, Harper
To the Lighthouse	Woolf, Virginia
Unbroken	Hillenbrand, Laura
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David
War and Peace	Tolstoy, Leo
War of the Worldviews	DeMar, Gary
Witness	Chambers, Whittaker