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Tenth Grade Honors English Reading List This is the list that is used for outside reading. Titles in the Traditional Classics and Contemporary Works sections link to catalog records for copies in the Reading List Collection which is located in the Young Adult area. ***There may be additional copies available. Ask a librarian for help in finding them.*** Go to: Traditional Classics • Contemporary Works • Drama CATEGORY ONE: TRADITIONAL CLASSICS Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources,      criticism.   Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad   David Copperfield - Charles Dickens   Great Expectations - Charles Dickens   Intruder in the Dust - William Faulkner   Light in August - William Faulkner   A Passage to India - E.M. Forster   Candide - Voltaire Candide Classic Theatre: the Humanities in Drama (translated and adapted for      television)   Emma - Jane Austen   How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn   Back to Top CATEGORY TWO: CONTEMPORARY WORKS Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood The Stranger - Albert Camus Desire Under the Elms - Eugene O'Neill Eight Great Tragedies The Best Plays of 1924-25 Modern Drama   The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks   The Homecoming - Harold Pinter   My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok   All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy   Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo A. Anaya   The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver   Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver   Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson   Back to Top CATEGORY THREE: DRAMA **Some of these plays may be found in the play pamphlet section, filed by title. Others are in the volumes listed. Click on the links to find where the title is kept and its availability** Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra - several copies at 822.33 A5 - check the shelf! William Shakespeare: the Tragedies Antony and Cleopatra (sound recording) Antony and Cleopatra (video recording)   Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man Eight Great Comedies Plays by George Bernard Shaw Seven Plays   Blood Wedding - Frederico Garica Lorca Masters of Modern Drama III Tragedies   The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard Masters of Modern Drama The Modern Theatre   Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus - several copies at 822 M36d - check the shelf! Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays   The Great White Hope - Howard Sackler The Great White Hope Best Plays of the Sixties   Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara Twentieth Century Drama: England, Ireland, and the United States The Dramatic Moment Masters of Modern Drama The Modern Theatre Selected Plays Vol.1   Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare Measure for Measure - several copies at 822.33 M4 - check the shelf! Measure for Measure (sound recording)   The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding   Richard III - William Shakespeare Richard III - several copies at 822.33 R52 - check the shelf!   The Sandbox - Edward Albee The Zoo Story and The Sandbox: two short plays   The Tempest - William Shakespeare The Tempest - several copies at 822.33 T4 - check the shelf! Romance Dramatic Romance: plays, theory, and criticism The Contemporary Shakespeare Series Ten Great Plays The Tempest (sound recording)   The Zoo Story - Edward Albee The Zoo Story and The Sandbox: two short plays Twentieth Century Drama: England, Ireland, and the United States The Dramatic Moment Back to Top Back to the School Reading Lists page