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General Recommended Reading Lists for Middle and High School Students This list was compiled by librarians around the country and combine a mix of adult and young adult authors; some books are located in our Adult Collections, while others you will find in the Young Adult Section. NOTE: the 2007 Recommended Reading Lists from the East Haddam High School and the Middle School are also available here at the Library. Remember -- save gas and order online! CLASSICS   ROMANCE - INNOCENT Austen, Jane Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emil Cather, Willa Crane, Stephen Dickens, Charles Dumas, Alexandre Forster, E. M. Golding, William Hardy, Thomas Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hemingway, Ernest Hugo, Victor James, Henry London, Jack McCullers, Carson Melville, Herman Poe, Edgar Allan Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Sinclair, Upton Steinbeck, John Trollope, Anthony Twain, Mark Verne, Jules Welty, Eudora Wharton, Edith Cookson, Catherine [early novels] Dailey, Janet [early novels] Goudge, Elizabeth Hill, Pamela Pilcher, Rosamunde Price, Eugenia Spencer, LaVyrle Stirling, Jessica MYSTERIES - HUMOROUS Babson, Beaton, M. C. Braun, Lilian Jackson Cannell, Dorothy Cooper, Susan Rogers Davidson, Dianne Mott Gash, Jonathan Gilman, Dorothy Hart, Carolyn Hess, Joan Keating, H. R. F. MacLeod, Charlotte Myers, Tamar Sanders, Lawrence Trocheck, Kathy Westlake, Donald E.   FANTASY ADVENTURE Adams, Richard Anthony, Piers Bradley, Marion Zimmer Brooks, Terry Donaldson, Stephen R. Dragonlance series Eddings, David Feist, Raymond E. Gaiman, Neil Goodkind, Terry Hambly, Barbara Keyes, J. Gregory Lackey, Mercedes McKillip, Patricia Saberhagen, Fred Stewart, Mary Tolkien, J. R. R. Weis, Margaret Wrede, Patricia C. Yolen, Jane Conrad, Joseph Cooper, James Fenimore Cornwell, Bernard Cussler, Clive (sea) Dumas, Alexandre Forester, C. S. (sea) Hemingway, Ernest Higgins, Jack Kipling, Rudyard London, Jack MacLean, Alistair Nordhoff, Charles (sea) O'Brian, Patrick (sea) Smith, Wilbur Stevenson, Robert Louis Verne, Jules SOUTHERN WRITERS HORROR for TEENS Burns, Olive Ann Flagg, Fannie Gibbons, Kaye Karon, Jan Lee, Harper McCorkle, Jill McCullers, Carson Mason, Bobbie Anne Mitchell, Margaret Price, Eugenia Siddons, Anne Rivers Warren, Robert Penn Welty, Eudora Bradley, Marion Zimmer Burgan, Michael Cook, Robin Cooney, Caroline DuMaurier, Daphne Duncan, Lois Hambly, Barbara Huff, Tanya King, Stephen MacDonald, Margaret Read Nixon, Joan Lowry Pike, Christopher Poe, Edgar Allan Schwartz, Alvin Sleator, William Stevenson, Robert Louis Stine, R.L. Stoker, Bram SPORTS FICTION SURVIVAL Crutcher, Chris Francis, Dick (MYS) Holland, Robert Lardner, Ring Myers, Walter Dean Soto, Gary Spinelli, Jerry Voight, Cynthia Conly, Jane Leslie Defoe, Daniel Farmer, Nancy George, Jean Craighead Golding, William Krakauer, Jon (Into the Wild) Paulsen, Gary Rumsey, Marian Updated June 2007 Home Page