Lists of Bests: sharp_young_lady's "Texts read for International Baccalaureate" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6945 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. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:10:58 GMT en-us 0 50 48 0 0 Things Fall Apart: An Adapted Classic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1353661 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cliffs Complete) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103630 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0764585681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> My Name Is Asher Lev http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28869 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28869"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chaim Potok</div> An American Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1190 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060915188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13960 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kamala Markandaya</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Leviathan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73194 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73194"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684842955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div> Arcadia: A Play http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16317 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16317"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571169341.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056456601_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Stoppard</div> A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741991 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741991"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495982.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik Ibsen</div> Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315016 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315016"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143058142.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Importance of Being Earnest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51961 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51961"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158049580X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103988 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103988"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140247734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Plays, Penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/268657 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/268657"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140481877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131418748_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Athol Fugard</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521539773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805066691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dee Brown</div> Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991 (2nd Edition) (Seminar Studies in History Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1455042 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1455042"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0582784824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121201952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin McCauley</div> Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15740 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15740"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553277537.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Chronicle of a Death Foretold http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28929 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28929"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003471X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Bless Me, Ultima http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035634 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035634"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudolfo Anaya</div> Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486266893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> Inherit the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336695 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336695"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E3XPE6.01-A2BR5SAJRAPPA1._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert E. Lee Jerome Lawrence</div> Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319314 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319314"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9356 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757376.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Anthem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51451 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51451"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57650 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57650"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006I4OX.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21549 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21549"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Woza Albert (Methuen Drama) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467068 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467068"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413530000.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Percy Mtwa</div> Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children (Plays in Production) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/642933 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/642933"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521597749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114624544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Thomson</div> The Threepenny Opera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374248 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559702524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertolt Brecht</div> The Communist Manifesto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114229 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114229"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922483.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Marx</div> Shakuntala (Clay Sanskrit Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467079 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467079"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0814788157.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Lion and the Jewel (Three Crowns Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/268827 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/268827"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0199110832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wole Soyinka</div> Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633508 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Baskin</div> The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13926 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13926"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451526759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (G. Schirmer's Edition of Scores of Orchestral Works and Cham) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467120 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederic Stocks</div> Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57571 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57571"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591021251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44174875_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Taylor Coleridge</div> Pilgrim At Tinker Creek http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/903851 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15485 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15485"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552995886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Nine Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962192 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962192"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316767727.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41961 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41961"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080751.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098441650_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmond Rostand</div> The Crucible (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19996 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19996"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691017840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115281946_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce Archive) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948513 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948513"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0815312784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (An Evergreen Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24065 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802132758.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Stoppard</div>