This list is taken from Vocabulary Classic Texts. This list is an important first step in becoming a well-read individual. They, of course, will be sorted through with discretion:

180 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading,
1984
Absolutely Normal Chaos
All Quiet on the Western Front
Angela’s Ashes
Animal Farm
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Awakening
The Bean Trees
Beowulf
Black Boy
Call of the Wild
Canterbury Tales
Catcher in the Rye
The Chocolate Wars
Cold Mountain
The Crucible
Cry, The Beloved Country
Da Vinci Code
David Copperfield
Death of a Salesman
Diary of Anne Frank
Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes
The Double Helix
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Emma
Ethan Frome
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Gifted Hands
The Glass Menagerie
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Guests
Gulliver’s Travels
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix
Holes
The House of the Spirits
The House on Mango Street
Huckleberry Finn
The Human Comedy
I Heard The Owl Call My Name
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Invisible Man
Jane Eyre
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Tremain
The Joy Luck Club
Kidnapped
Lord Jim
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Maggie’s American Dream
Of Mice and Men
Moby Dick
No-No Boy
Not Without My Daughter
Old Yeller
Of Human Bondage
The Once & Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Our Town
A Passage to India
Pigs in Heaven
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince and the Pauper
Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
A Separate Peace
Slaughterhouse Five
Something Wicked This Way Comes
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Street
The Sun Also Rises
The Taming of the Shrew
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Things They Carried
Tuesdays wih Morrie
Treasure Island
Ulysses
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Warriors Don’t Cry
When I Was Puerto Rican
White Fang
Wuthering Heights