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It's been suggested several times to add high school selections to the Real Learning Booklist. I think there are some books that are on the list that I would move to a high school list too. So, here's a place to make your high school suggestions.
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I'll grab my 4 real list and see what is already there and then maybe I can add educated suggestions! 
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Well, I am just finishing Jane Eyre myself here, and am enjoying it so much. I was just thinking today that it will be wonderful to discuss this book with dds when they are old enough to read it, i.e. high school, imo. I never realized that there are so many moral dilemmas and examples of virtue and character in this book.
I'd also include Pride and Prejudice, although my 7th grader is reading it now.
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I know there is some Chesterton in the upper grades now, but I would want more Chesterton in high school. I just don't know his work well enough to know which ones.
Those upper years are also the ones I would include books on chastity, courtship, Steve Woods "ABCs of Choosing a Good Husband/Wife ' type books.
ETA: I'm sorry, I just realized you were looking for fiction.
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My daughter is getting together once a week for a couple of Freshman level classes with other Catholic homeschoolers. One of the classes is literature.
They are reading this year:
Homer's Iliad and Odessey
C.S. Lewis--The Screw Tape Letters
Shakespeare--Julius Caeser and The Merchant of Venice
Lilies of the Field
The Song of Roland
G.K. Chesterton-- Favorite Father Brown Stories
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I would like to suggest two of my favorites:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Christy by Catherine Marshall
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Such a good book for study and a boy-pleaser, man-grower as well. I used to teach it to 9th graders, but it would be appropriate for 10th as well.
And, you know I loved William Saroyan's Human Comedy so much when I studied it in High School that I ended up buying it. I haven't read it since, but I saw it on my shelf yesterday and was thinking about picking it up again. Has anyone read this more recently than I? Would this fit here?
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The Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester! Sam (age 17) and I are reading throught these now.(I noticed the 10 year old has been reading them by flashlight after bedtime)These are like Jane Austen for boys.
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Lewis' Space Trilogy...I see that Kolbe has that on the Middle school reading list, and it can be read in ms, but there are so many layers in these stories that you can read them on a better level in high school, especially That Hideous Strength.
Les Miserables.
Trip is reading Great Expectations.
All my kids loved Jane Eyre as a read aloud, but it is a wonderful high school book.
Brother Cadfael books.
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For girls my dd loves the Anne books by LM Montgomerry there is also the Little Women series by LM Alcott, and then you have Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejusice. Oh and don't forget Lorna Doone.
For boys you have Robert Louis Stevenson's books and RM Ballanytne.
Charles Dickens works can be read by either. My dd also enjoys GA HEnty's works which are heavy history. Some are from a Protestant perspective so you may need to have a disclaimer for some. What about Louis de Wohl books as older dc saints stories?
Also don't forget some of the older Bethlehem books, Shadow bear, Rose Red and Downright Dencey etc.
For mysteries as well as Chesterson's Fr Brown mysteries there is Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
These are just some that come to mind instantly. I'll think of some more 
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Love the suggestions so far!
How about these - we have loved them and had many follow ups/rabbit trails -
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden ( and/or In This House of Brede, perhaps)
Canterbury Tales ( or re-tellings)
I love humour/satire for this age group so what about - anything by P.G. Wodehouse,James Thurber, Truckers by Terry Pratchett, Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
Pygmalion by Shaw
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton ( modern, re gangs, very powerful discussions!)
Novels re China/the Communists - maybe Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin ( Young Reader's Edition perhaps?) or Red Scarf Girl by Jlang
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
If you want an Aussie story - maybe A Fortunate Life by Albert Facey or My Story by Sally Morgan (maybe younger reader's edition?)
Any book from yuor Transitions list, Elizabeth!
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Ooh, forgot to add science fiction - this genre has been very helpful for us in discussing a Catholic world view..
Perhaps Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham or The Giver by Lois Lowry or The Tripods series by John Christopher or Fahrenheit 421 by Ray Bradbury...
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With Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes, you could add Poe's mysteries (e. g. "The Gold Bug") and do a mystery unit.
My son loved Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
I'm thinking through some of the things I read in (Catholic) high school...hopefully I'll have more to add later.
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OK, Leonie, the gloves are off . Trip has to read The Outsiders next, and I pre-read it and watched the film. I thought it was the most awful, cliched book on teen angst I have ever read!!!  And the movie???? It's an early brat-pack film--just dreadful. What was Coppola thinking???
After Great Expectations, it's a bit of a let down ! Heheh... OK. I'll get back into my corner!
OTOH, I loved the Tripod series! Great sci fi!
I would also cautiously recommend Dune to older high school kids. There is no se*, though there are allusions to some issues that I did not get in high school (thickly veiled homose*uality in the most insidious character). But the overall theme of a desert culture controlling the one substance that runs the universe is powerful and prophetic .
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We absolutely loved The Lonesome Gods, by Louis L'Amour. It was recommended in A Thomas Jefferson Education. It set Charlie off on a long run of reading other Louis L'Amour books.
TJEd had some other good recommendations. I will have to get it out and look again. ONe I remember is called The Chosen by Chaim Potok. I really liked it, Charlie didn't like it as much because it wasn't as exciting. It is more emotional and thought-provoking.
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teachingmyown wrote:
We absolutely loved The Lonesome Gods, by Louis L'Amour. It was recommended in A Thomas Jefferson Education. It set Charlie off on a long run of reading other Louis L'Amour books.
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Louis L'Amour!
Why I'd have never thought.
Mark had a close cousin of his who read all Louis L'Amour's books. Mark never read any but when we moved into his parent's house we found his father's closet loaded with Louis L'Amour books.
We gave them all to Annie's godfather who reads them like water.
I'm going to have to see if he still has them. Perhaps they'd be something my 13 yr old would be interested in.
Thanks for the recommendation, Molly.
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The Lonesome Gods really stands towers above his other books. The others are fun, but lack the depth.
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MacBeth wrote:
| OK, Leonie, the gloves are off . Trip has to read The Outsiders next, and I pre-read it and watched the film. I thought it was the most awful, cliched book on teen angst I have ever read!!! And the movie???? It's an early brat-pack film--just dreadful. What was Coppola thinking??? |
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Never saw the movie - but the discussions we had following The Outsiders was good. About teens, groups, gangs, social pressures, life for those with less advantages, writing style.... It was written when the author was 17 and we discussed how age may influence writing style - would the novel have been different if written at, say, age 35 and after university? Same writing discussion with Eragon, btw
( but I wouldn't put that on a bok list! ).
I think Dune may be a good inclusion, too.
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Leonie wrote:
MacBeth wrote:
| OK, Leonie, the gloves are off . Trip has to read The Outsiders next, and I pre-read it and watched the film. I thought it was the most awful, cliched book on teen angst I have ever read!!! |
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Never saw the movie - but the discussions we had following The Outsiders was good. About teens, groups, gangs, social pressures, life for those with less advantages, writing style.... |
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I missed this conversation between you two elitist. Can I throw my gloves off too? I wanna play.
I read The Outsiders in high school...or was it middle school? I would hate the book now. I know I would. I wasn't impressed with it when we started reading it way back then. But I do remember being very inspired and moved at the end of the book...enough that I remember it vividly today. I remember it moving a very emotional part of me. Enough for me to defend the selection today.
Of course, back then I was coming from a lifetime of public school exposure and reading it from a teenager's perspective. I wouldn't say it's appropriate for hsed teenagers and wouldn't give it to my teens to read. There's better stuff out there to read, imho.
But, remembering how the book spoke to me as a teenager, I have to say it isn't a "bad" book. It has good points.
Know what I mean?
And Leonie is right. It's definitely a great draught for discussion. 
Buuuttt...(an aside for Elizabeth)...I would not list it on any booklist I promoted.
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Cay Gibson wrote:
Buuuttt...(an aside for Elizabeth)...I would not list it on any booklist I promoted. |
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Hey, its on the Sonlight book list!
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