Enlightium Academy Reading List

Reading List Disclaimer

This reading list is neither exhaustive nor are the books on this list suggestions. This list is merely a platform to start generating ideas on books that could be used. Students are more than welcome to request a book of their own choice; however, because the Reading Program is tied to extra credit, all books that are not on this list must be approved by the teacher in order to generate an appropriate point value.

Enlightium Academy provides an eLibrary system exclusively for Enlightium students, called Sora eLibrary. You will find the Sora links below for many of the books.

You will also find a Common Sense Media review below for many of the books. While Common Sense Media provides helpful age-based ratings and reviews on entertainment choices for families, the responsibility falls on the parent to review and choose the appropriate books for their student.

For help on determining your student's reading level, please refer to this link.

The books are organized into three reading levels: easy, medium, and hard.

* nonfiction

Easy

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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Easy Easy

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

1984 by George Orwell

The Odyssey by Homer Homer

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Medium Medium

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Fredrick Douglass

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

*Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth

*Hawai’i Story by Hawai’i’s Queen by Queen Lili’uokalani

Hard Hard

*Born Again by Charles W. Colson

*A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

*Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

*The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

*The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee

*Witness by Whittaker Chambers

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

MacBeth by William Shakespeare

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

*Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

*Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

*The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall

*Bioethics: A Primer for Christians by Gilbert Meilaender

*Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stuart Atkins (Translator)

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Medium

Hard