To encourage the joy of reading, the Mensa Foundation has developed the Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Program, a year-round challenge to kids of all ages based on the NEH's "Summertime Favorites" reading list, with some alterations.
Abraham Lincoln
by Carl Sandburg
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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The Aeneid
by Virgil
Against all Hope
by Armando Valladares
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Remarque
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All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
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Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
Beowulf
Anonymous
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
Candide
by Voltaire
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
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The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
Collected Short Stories
by Eudora Welty
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The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry: The Top 100 Poems in English
Edited by William Harmon
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
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The Cruel Sea
by Nicholas Monsarrat
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
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A Death in the Family
by James Agee
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
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Dr. Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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The Good Earth
by Pearl Buck
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
Inherit the Wind
by Jerome and Robert E. Lee Lawrence
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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The Iliad
by Homer
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O’Neill
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Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
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A Man for All Seasons
by Robert Bolt
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral
by T.S. Eliot
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Native Son
by Richard Wright
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy Sayers
1984
by George Orwell
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The Odyssey
by Homer
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Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
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Of Human Bondage
by Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Once and Future King
by T.H. White
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
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The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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Profiles in Courage
by John F. Kennedy
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The School for Scandal
by Richard B. Sheridan
Short Stories and Tales, Complete
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Silas Marner
by George Eliot
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
A Single Pebble
by John Hersey
Sonnets (all 154)
by William Shakespeare
Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
by O. Henry
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
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A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Vanity Fair
by William M. Thackeray
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Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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