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  • Kindergarten to Grade 2:

    • "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss

    • "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak

    • "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss

    • "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle

    • "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown

    • "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White (for advanced readers)

  • Grade 3 to Grade 5:

    • "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling

    • "The Chronicles of Narnia" series by C.S. Lewis

    • "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

    • "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

    • "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

    • "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    • "Holes" by Louis Sachar

  • Grade 6 to Grade 8:

    • "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

    • "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

    • "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

    • "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien

    • "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton

    • "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

    • "The Lord of the Rings" series by J.R.R. Tolkien (for advanced readers)

  • Grade 9 to Grade 12:

    • "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

    • "1984" by George Orwell

    • "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

    • "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

    • "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

    • "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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College Level Reading

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  • "The Republic" by Plato

  • "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius

  • "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

  • "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare

  • "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

  • "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud

  • "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell

  • "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

  • "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

  • "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

  • "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

  • "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan

  • "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

  • "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn

  • "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin

  • "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

  • "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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College Level Readying by Subject

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  • Literature:

    • "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (1813)

    • "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville (1851)

    • "Ulysses" by James Joyce (1922)

    • "The Odyssey" by Homer (8th century BCE)

    • "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1605, 1615)

    • "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century)

    • "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

    • "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)

    • "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (1929)

    • "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1890)

  • Philosophy and Ethics:

    • "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius (2nd century)

    • "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)

    • "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" by Immanuel Kant (1785)

    • "Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill (1863)

    • "The Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)

    • "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)

    • "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)

    • "A Theory of Justice" by John Rawls (1971)

    • "Nicomachean Ethics" by Aristotle (4th century BCE)

    • "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes (1651)

  • Science and Mathematics:

    • "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin (1859)

    • "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking (1988)

    • "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" by Richard P. Feynman (1963-1965)

    • "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter (1979)

    • "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins (1976)

    • "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

    • "Principia Mathematica" by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell (1910-1913)

    • "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene (1999)

    • "The Code Book" by Simon Singh (1999)

    • "The Joy of x" by Steven Strogatz (2012)

  • History and Social Sciences:

    • "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman (1962)

    • "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn (1980)

    • "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer (1960)

    • "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith (1776)

    • "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

    • "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)

    • "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond (1997)

    • "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962)

    • "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt (1951)

    • "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud (1899)

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