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My 10th grader will be studying World History this year. For Literature, I would like him to study World Literature. Do you have any suggestions?
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orzcky (sp?)
David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities, Martin Chuzzlewut by Dickens...or any other Dickens
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, or any other
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Julius Caesar, Henry V, Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
The Ballad of the White Horse (poetry) by Chesterton
Father Brown Stories by Chesterton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Treasure Island by RL Stevenson
Ivanhoe by Scott
Captain's Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Beowulf
Chaucer's Canterbury tales.....adaptations okay
Murder in the Cathedral by TS Eliot
CS Lewis' Space Trilogy
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Tennyson's Poetry, esp The Lady of Shallot
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
gee.....this is mostly British.......are there any other authors in other countries......that are translated into English?
.....put together by yours truly and Willa, too! 
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The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Don Quixote (for advanced readers - it's long but hilarious) by Miguel de Cervantes
The Path to Rome by Hillaire Belloc (nonfiction)
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang (easier reading level but very intense book - my son read it in a night)
Excellent list, Chari and Willa! I plan to steal it.
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Robynn
I got some great suggestions here and at the bottom I found a whole lot of teenage lists.
Some Australian titles for an older child only that come straight to mind are;
A Hard God- Peter Kenna (A Play)
I would recommend that you read and discuss this together. So much he will not get unless you help him draw it out. (Actually you should read first to check that it fits with your family culture)
I remember being fascinated in grade 10 by it, the play is based on an Irish Catholic family, the young teenage boy struggles with 'the world' and making sense of his part, coming to terms with his Catholicism and all it embraces. Sin and consequences is a big part of his struggle, he has a homosexual encounter with another boy, this is mentioned not acted out (I'd have to read it again as an adult as I just didn't get it all then ) anyway lots of Catholic meaning in this, Confession, redemption etc
"We just have to stumble on blindly" says Martin, head of the embattled Cassidy family "with His mercy raining down on us like thunderbolts"
Memories of his own Irish Catholic childhood people the stage in Peter Kenna's famous study of youth and age in a working class family as suffers the pangs of love, death adolescence and survival in the Sydney of the 1940's.
Written in 1973 "A Hard God" has become an icon of Australian literature and has been performed many times on stage, film and television, There are two things about this play which make it a piece to which Australians respond profoundly. The first is the Irish Catholic nature of the family; the second is the ever-present imagery of dislocation.
Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow is an Australian novel. Set in the late 1940s.
"Semi-autobiographical, yet not a self-portrait, this story of a boy growing up as part of an Australian clan in a small town and the country around it marvelously evokes a sense of the identity of Australia, its history and its fate."
Read this one first I vaguely remember that there may be something a bit strange in it too.
To be really honest alot of Australian literature can be a bit dark, disturbing in some ways.
If you want Chinese books (we are studying China for Geography at present) I would add to Nancy's list;
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin (ed. adapted for younger readers)
Ties that Bind, Ties That Break- Lensey Namioka
And for Around the World
this site (generously shared here recently) has some great titles for teens for different countries (scroll down page) and I love scrolling
this site for great book recommendations. Click on the Geography and History Links especially.
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Also look at the Sonlight British Literature list - very good, a good mix, with some humour ( like P.G. Wodehouse) mixed in...
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Chari and Willa thank you for the list. It looks great. Nancy thank you for adding your thoughts, they look great too. Erin, I am definitely going to try to get your first book, thank you. Ah Leonie, I didn't think of looking there, but I will, thank you.
For some reason, I was just drawing a blank. Now I have some great suggestions.
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Robynn
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