It’s school-time again! Something us avid readers here at the VC loved about school is all the great classic books we got read during our educational journey. We’ve complied a list of the school classics that we think are quintessential to anyone looking to be well read. How many have you read?
THINGS FALL APART
Chinua Achebe
FARHRENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury
THE GREAT GATSBY
F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE OLD MAN & THE SEA
Ernest Hemmingway
ON THE ROAD
Jack Kerouac
1984
George Orwell
OF MICE AND MEN
John Steinbeck
LITTLE WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott
JANE EYRE
Charolette Brontë
PASSAGE TO INDIA
E.M. Forster
THE ODYSSEY
Homer
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Harper Lee
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
Katherine Paterson
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Mark Twain
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Jane Austen
HEART OF DARKNESS
Joseph Conrad
LORD OF THE FLIES
William Golding
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Aldous Huxley
THE GIVER
Lois Lowery
CATCHER IN THE RYE
J.D. Salinger
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
Kurt Vonegut
BEOWULF
Anonymous
OLIVER TWIST
Charles Dickens
THE SCARLET LETTER
Nathaniel Hawthorne
DUBLINERS
James Joyce
THE CRUCIBLE
Arthur Miller
ROMEO AND JULIET
William Shakespeare
NIGHT
Elie Wiesel