2017年美国高中英语文学63本核心读物

这63本书组成《美国高中英语文学核心读物》，并按照阅读的难易程度（文字本身的难度和理解的难度）分成入门级（相当于九年级）、初级（十年级）、中级（十一年级）、高级（十二年级）分成四个等级，每个等级里面再分成Classics、British Literature、 American Literature、International Literature四个类别，每个类别里都尽量含有各种文体（戏剧小说诗歌等）。我们国内申请去美国读本科的高中生可可以直接按照自己的阅读水平，选择适合自己的读物。多读英文原著对SAT考试阅读有很大帮助。
入门级 (18本)：
Classics:
1. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
2. Machiavelli: the Prince
British:
1. Austen: Pride and Prejudice
2. Orwell: Animal Farm
3. Dickens: Great Expectations
4. Golding: Lord of the Flies
5. Green: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
American:
1. Buck: The Good Earth (注：此为 中国通 作家、《水浒传》的英文译者赛珍珠创作的以20世纪初中国为主题的《大地》，是美国人对中国的认识的文学基础）
2. Hersey: Hiroshima
3. Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
4. Tan: Joy Luck Club (美国的华人文学代表作）
5. Steinbeck: The Pearl
6. Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs
7. Frank: Alas, Babylon
International:
1. von Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther
2. Julia Alvarez: How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
3. Chekhov: Cherry Orchard
4. Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
初级 (17本)：
Classics:
1. Shakespeare: Macbeth
2. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
British:
1. Austen: Emma
2. Orwell: 1984
3. Dickens: Oliver Twist
4. Huxley: Brave New World
5. Chaucer: the Canterbury Tales
American:
1. Hemingway: the Old Man and the Sea
2. Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
3. London: The Call of the Wild
4. Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
5. Miller: The Crucible
6. Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
7. Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
8. Heller: Catch 22
International:
1. Ibsen: A Doll's House
2. Achebe: Things Fall Apart
中级 (16本)：
Classics:
1. Shakespeare: King Lear
2. Homer: Illiad
British:
1. Bronte: Jane Eyre
2. Beckett: Waiting for Godot
3. Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
4. More: Utopia
5. Ishiguro: Remains of the Day
American:
1. Twain: Adventure of Tom Sawyer
2. Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
3. Chopin: The Awakening
4. Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
5. Miller: Death of a Salesman
6. Margaret: Gone with the Wind
International:
1. Kafka: Metamorphosis
2. Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
3. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
高级 (12本)：
Classics:
1. Shakespeare: Hamlet
2. Homer: Odyssey
British:
1. Conrad: Heart of Darkness
2. Dickens: Bleak House
3. Milton: Paradise Lost
American:
1. Hamilton: The Federalist Papers
2. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
3. Kerouac: On the Road
4. Faulkner: the Sound and the Fury
International:
1. Camus: The Stranger
2. Hugo: Les Miserables
3. Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude