The Lamppost recommends these great books
Every high school student should read these books before going on to work, college, or university.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- Watership Down, by Richard Adams
- Next Episode, by Hubert Aquin
- Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
- Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
- Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
- The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
- Emma, by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
- The Sea, by John Banville
- Last of the Curlews, by Fred Bodsworth
- Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
- The Master and Marguerita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
- Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekov
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- The Plains of Abraham, by James Oliver Curwood
- Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
- Leaven of Malice, by Robertson Davies
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment, by Fydor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fydor Dostoevsky
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
- The Last of the Crazy People, by Timothy Findley
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
- The Mayer of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Odyssey, by Homer
- High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
- Colony of Unrequited Dreams, by Wayne Johnston
- The Navigator of New York, by Wayne Johnston
- Dubliners, by James Joyce
- The Fionavar Tapestry, by Guy Gavriel Kay
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
- The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
- English Passengers, by Matthew Kneale
- Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
- The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence
- The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
- Barometer Rising, by Hugh MacLennan
- The Watch That Ends the Night, by Hugh MacLennan
- Two Solitudes, by Hugh MacLennan
- Island, by Alistair MacLeod
- No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeaod
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
- Paradise Lost, by John Milton
- Who Has Seen the Wind, by W.O. Mitchell
- Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami
- Silverwing, by Kenneth Oppel
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
- The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
- All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
- Barney’s Version, by Mordecai Richler
- Joshua Then and Now, by Mordecai Richler
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler
- Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
- The Tin Flute, by Gabrielle Roy
- Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- The Trade, by Fred Stenson
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by R.L. Stevenson
- Treasure Island, by R.L. Stevenson
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
- All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
- The Crysalids, by John Wyndham