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Teachers'First list of all-time great works for students young and old.
While this list contains many classics for adult and young adult readers, it also includes many contemporary works, as well as material suitable for milddle school students.

Adams, Richard - Watership Down
Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A
Adamson, Joy - Born Free
Albee, Edward - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
Aligheri, Dante - Divine Comedy
Allende, Isabel - House of the Spirits, The
Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey, others
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - Humbolt's Gift, Henderson the Rain King
Blake, William - Poems
Boccaccio - Decameron, The
Bolt, Robert - A Man for All Seasons
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
Bradley, Marion Zimmer - Mists of Avalon
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre -
Browning, - Robert Poems
Buck, Pearl - Good Earth, The
Burgess, Anthony - Clockwork Orange, A
Burnett, Frances H. - Secret Garden, The
Burnford, Sheila - Incredible Journey, The
Burns, Olive Ann - Cold Sassy Tree
Byatt, A.S. - Possession
Byron, George Gordon Lord Poems
C.S. Lewis - Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The
Camus, Albert - Plague, The
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
Cather, Willa My - Antonia, Song of the Lark
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey - Canterbury Tales
Chekov, Anton - Cherry Orchard, The
Chinua, Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Chopin, Kate - Awakening, The
Cisneros, Sandra - House on Mango Street, The
Coleridge - Poems
Collins, Wilkie - Moonstone, The
Conrad, Joseph - Secret Sharer, Heart of Darkness
Crane, Stephen - Red Badge of Courage, The
Craven, Margaret - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Crichton, Michael - Andromeda Strain, The, others
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method, A
Dickens, Charles - -Tale of Two Cities, A
Dickinson, Emily - Poems
Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa
Donleavy, J.P. - Ginger Man, The
Dostoevsky, Feodor - -Crime and Punishment
Douglas, Lloyd C. - Robe, The
Doyle, Arthur Conan = Hound of the Baskervilles, others
Dreeiser, Theodore = An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre = Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
DuMaurier, Daphne = Rebecca
Eliot, George Adam Bede, - Mill on the Floss
Eliot, T.S. - Murder in the Cathedral, Poems
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Poems
Esquivel, Laura - -Like Water for Chocolate
Euripides - Tragedies
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Forster, E. M. Passage to India, - A Room With a View
Fowles, John French - -Lieutenant's Woman, others
Frank, Pat Alas, - Babylon
Franklin, Benjamin - Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Frazer, James - Golden Bough, The
Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain
Freud, Sigmund - any work
Fromm, Erich - Escape from Freedom, others
Frost, Robert - Poetry
Gaines, Ernest - A Gathering of Old Men
Gaines, Ernest - Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman, The
Galsworthy, John Forsythe - Saga, The
Goethe, Wolfgang - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Goldsmith, Oliver - She Stoops To Conquer
Green, Hannah - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Greene, Graham - Power and the Glory, The
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Scarlet Letter, The
Heinlein, Robert - Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea, The, others
Herriot, James - All Creatures Great and Small, others
Hesse, Herman - Siddartha, others
Hilton, James - Lost Horizon
Homer Iliad, The - The Odyssey
Hudson, W.H. - Green Mansions
Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
Hume, David - Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World -
Ibsen, Henrick - Hedda Gabler, others
Irving, Washington - Stories
Irving, John - A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp
James, Henry - Turn of the Screw, The
Jean-Paul Sarte - No Exit
Jones, James - From Here To Eternity
Joyce, James - Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - Metamorphosis
Kant, Immanuel - Kant Metaphysics
Keats, John - Poems
Keller, Helen - Story of My Life, The
Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kesselring, Joseph - Arsenic and Old Lace
Kinsella, W.P. - Shoeless Joe
Kinston, Maxine - Hong Woman Warrior, The
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim, others
Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at Noon
Lamb, Charles - Essays
Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers, others
Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
LeGuin, Ursula - A Wizard of Earthsea
Llewellyn, Richard - How Green Was My Valley
London, - Jack Call of the Wild, The
Machiavelli, Nicolo - Prince, The
MacLeish, Archibald - J.B.
Malamud, Bernard - Assistant, The
Malory, Thomas - Le Morte d' Arthur
Mann, Thomas - Magic Mountain, The
Marlowe, Christopher - Dr. Faustus
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marshall, Catherine - Christy
Maugham, Somerset - Of Human Bondage
McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
McCullers, Carson - Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick, Billy Budd
Michener, James - Hawaii
Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
Miller, Walter M. - Canticle for Leibowitz, A
Miller, Arthur - Death of a Salesman
Milton, John - Paradise Lost
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
Moliere - Misanthrope, The
Momaday, M. Scott - Ancient Child, The
Montaigne - Essays
Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Green Gables series
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Nordhof, Charles B. - -Bounty triology, The
O'Connor, Flannery --Wise Blood
Orwell, George - 1984, Animal Farm
Paine, Thomas - Rights of Man
Pasternak, Boris - Dr. Zhivago
Paton, Alan - Cry the Beloved Country
Percy, Walker - Moviegoer, The
Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato - Dialogues
Plutarch - Lives
Poe, Edgar Allen - Short Stories and Poems
Pope, Alexander - -Rape of the Lock, The
Porter, Katherine - Anne Ship of Fools
Potok, Chaim - Chosen, The - The Promise, others
Proulx, Annie - Shipping News, The
Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past
Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
Rand, Ayn Anthem, - The Fountainhead
Rawlings, Marjorie - Cross Creek, The Yearling
Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys, Jean Wide - Sargasso Sea
Richard D. Blakemore - Lorna Doone
Rostand, Edmond - -Cyranno de Bergerac
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Confessions
Rusdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - Little Prince, The
Salinger, J.D. -- Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William - All!
Shaw, G. B. - Pygmalion, others
Shelley, Percy - Bysshe Poems
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein -
Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
Silone, Ignazio - Bread and Wine
Sinclair, Upton - Jungle, The
Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Short Stories
Smith, Betty Tree - Grows in Brooklyn, The
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - First Circle, The - others
Sophocles Oedipus Rex, - Antigone
Soto, Gary Pacific Crossing
Steinbeck, John - Grapes of Wrath, others
Stendhal - Red and the Black, The
Sterne, Laurence - Tristram Shandy
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, others
Stoker, Bram - Dracula
Stone, Irving - Agony and the Ecstasy, The
Stoppard, Tom - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
Tan, Amy - Joy Luck Club, The
Ten Boom, Corrie - Hiding Place, The
Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Poems
Thackery, William - Vanity Fair
Theroux, Paul - Mosquito Coast, The
Thurber, James - Stories
Tolkein, J.R.R. - Hobbit, The
Tolkien, J.R.R. - Lord of the Rings
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Illich, others
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Tyler, Anne - Accidental Tourist, The
Undset, Sigrid - Kristin Lavansdatter
Updike, John - Rabbit, Run, others
Uris, Leon - Trinity
Verne, Jules - Around the World in Eighty Days, others
Virgil - Aeneid, The
Virginia Woolf - -To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5, others
Walker, Alice - Color Purple, The
Walker, Alice - Temple of my Familiar, The
Waltari, Mika - The Egyptian, The Roman, The Etruscan
Warren, Robert Penn - All The Kings Men
Washington, Booker T. - Up From Slavery
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
Welty, Eudora - Optimist's Daughter, The
Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
White, T.H. - Once and Future King, The
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Wilder, Thornton - Our Town
Williams, Tennessee - Glass Menagerie, The
Wister, Owen - Virginian, The
Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward, Angel
Wordsworth - Poems
Wouk, Herman - Caine Mutiny, The
Wright, Richard - Black Boy
Wyss, Johann - Swiss Family Robinson