ARHS Recommended Reading Lists: Honors LA 10 and Advanced Placement Literature

Vivacious Elizabeth Bennet is fascinated and repelled by the arrogant Mr. Darcy. Their spirited courtship is conducted against a background of assembly-ball flirtations and drawingroom intrigues.

The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.

Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.

After being shipwrecked on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe endures a lonely struggle for survival.

Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren so that they can live in peace.

Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about the relationship of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies during the mid-nineteenth century in New England.

As headman of his teenage gang, Rufus Henry has to deal not only with other gangs, but also with the police sanctioned sponsor who has involved himself with Rufus and his friends.

After being betrayed by his own people and by white men, a Ute Indian boy tries to regain his pride in himself and his heritage.

A story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land and more land, while weathering famine and drought and revolution.

In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains.

A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters

During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war

Dapper detective Hercule Poirot, who agrees to interview all aboard the famous train's Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive.

A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.

When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.

The story of Robert Jordan, an American fighting during the Spanish Civil War with the anti-fascist guerillas in the mountains of Spain.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Focuses on a "lost generation" of Americans who fought in France during World War I and who expatriated themselves from America after the war.

An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.

A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.

Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman.

The novel's hero, Randall Patrick McMurphy, enters a psychiatric hospital in order to avoid weeding peas on a penal farm. But his little joke on the system is by a mild obscenity compared to what the opposition's got on its side--Nurse Ratched--the head nurse from hell.

After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life.

When Lily Owens flees her father's peach farm in South Carolina with Rosaleen, the black housekeeper, they are taken in by three beekeeping sisters.

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.

The call of the wild is the story of a dog stolen from his home and taken into the Arctic north. White Fang is part dog, part wolf--first abused, then transformed by patience and affection.

In 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves her comfortable home to teach in a one-room schoolhouse in an isolated area of the Great Smokies.

Married to a man she did not love, Janie was not yet forty when Joe died. Then she found true happiness.

Jean Valjean, a peasant who is released from prison, where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family, only to find himself threatened by people and events from his past.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her Georgia plantation home.

Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.

A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

The adventures of a ten-year-old boy and the two dogs he bought with money he had earned

An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.

Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter and creates a monster who, scorned for being ugly, swears revenge on his creator and the human race.

Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn, New York slum.

Ownership of a beautiful red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.

In the Pearl terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.

Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist, takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde by night.

An Englishman's voyages carry him to Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, and to Brobdingang, a land of giants.

An African-American family in Depression era Mississippi battles the odds to hold onto their property and their self-respect.

A color-illustrated edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel about Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit who lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return

The escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, nineteenth-century town on the Mississippi River.

Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Abandoned by their father and then their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

A wealthy young Jew and his family, experiencing changing fortunes under Roman tyranny, are affected by the life and teachings of a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.

The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

An intellectually-superior race from Mars invades the Earth with plans to enslave human beings.

Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.