1. Brown, Dee–Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

2. Hemingway, Ernest–The Old Man and the Sea

3. Huxley, Aldous –Brave New World

4. Golding, William –Lord of the Flies

5. Lee, Harper –To Kill a Mockingbird

6. Neihardt, John —- Black Elk Speaks

7. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

8. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein

9. Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

10. Thoreau, Henry David Walden

Honorable Mention (It was hard to narrow it down to ten books–so I have to mention these).

O’Brien, Tim–The Things They Carried

Orwell, George Animal Farm

Tolkein, JRR–The Lord of the Rings (series)

Wiesel, Elie–Night

2. Their Eyes Were Watching God

3. Black Boy

4. Hedda Gabler

5. Darkness at Noon

6. Night

7. Things Fall Apart

8. The Bluest Eye

9. The Color of Water

10. Hamlet