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sharp_young_lady's "Texts read for International Baccalaureate"

Although certainly not comprehensive of all world literature, certainly not even for the IB program, here are some texts common to the study of IB students in Higher Level English, History (of the Americas), Theatre, and other areas of study, for students in the United States.
1.
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 Things Fall Apart: An Adapted Classic
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
3. Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cliffs Complete)
by William Shakespeare
  
4. My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
  
5. An American Childhood
by Annie Dillard
  
6. Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
by Kamala Markandaya
  
7. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
8. Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
  
9. Arcadia: A Play
by Tom Stoppard
  
10. A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
by Henrik Ibsen
  
11. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
12. The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
  
13. Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
by Arthur Miller
  
14. Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Plays, Penguin)
by Athol Fugard
  
15. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE
by Patrick McCarthy
  
16. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
17. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
  
18. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
  
19. Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991 (2nd Edition) (Seminar Studies in History Series)
by Martin McCauley
  
20. Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions)
by Ray Bradbury
  
21. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
22. Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
  
23. Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire
  
24. Inherit the Wind
by Robert E. Lee Jerome Lawrence
  
25. Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
26. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
27. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
  
28. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
29. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
30. Woza Albert (Methuen Drama)
by Percy Mtwa
  
31. Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production)
by Peter Thomson
  
32. The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht
  
33. The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
  
34. Shakuntala (Clay Sanskrit Library)  
35. The Lion and the Jewel (Three Crowns Book)
by Wole Soyinka
  
36.
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 Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
by Leonard Baskin
  
37. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
38.
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 The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (G. Schirmer's Edition of Scores of Orchestral Works and Cham)
by Frederic Stocks
  
39. Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
40.
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 Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
  
41. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
42. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
43. Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
  
44. Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Edmond Rostand
  
45. The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
  
46. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books)
by Joseph Campbell
  
47. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce Archive)
by James Joyce
  
48. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (An Evergreen Book)
by Tom Stoppard
  
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Created by sharp_young_lady on May 31, 2006.