The following list is based on what I and others teach at the Youth Initiative High School here in Viroqua, WI. Please also see my blog entry, Books for Teens, for further recommendations.
Books marked * are my special recommendations.
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Comedy and Tragedy main lesson (drama):

• Electra (Sophocles) *

• Twelfth Night *

• The Damask Drum * (a Noh play)

• Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry *

Choose from:

• The Odyssey

• Animal Farm *

• The Pearl - Steinbeck

• The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

• Romeo and Juliet *

• Great Expectations

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*

• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Short stories such as The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, as well as stories by O. Henry *, de Mauppasant, Saki and Maya Angelou *.

Poetry main lesson:
A wide range of poets including Robert Frost, Basho, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, William Carlos Williams, Edward Lear and Emily Dickinson.

Choose from:

• Gilgamesh

• Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

• Brave New World - Huxley

• The Crucible - Miller *

• Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

• Cannery Row - Steinbeck *

• 1984 - Orwell *

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers *

Short stories: Kipling, Alice Walker, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, G.K. Chesterton

Parzival main lesson:
Many Waldorf resources on this book

Choose from:

• Jane Eyre - Bronte

• The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

• Hamlet *

• My Antonia - Cather

• Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut *

• Catch-22 - Heller

• The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck *

• Autobiography of Malcolm X

• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Short stories: as above plus Ernest Hemingway *

Transcendentalism main lesson:

• Thoreau - Walden

• Emerson - Self-Reliance and other essays

• Whitman - Song of Myself

World Literature main lesson:

• Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky *

• The Stranger - Camus *

Choose from:

• Macbeth *

• Faust

• Moby Dick

• The Tempest

• The Death of Ivan Illich - Tolstoy

• White Noise - Don Delilo

• The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy *

• The House in Mango Street - Susan Cisneros *

Short stories: Flannery O'Connor *, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates *, Alice Walker *, Mikhail Sholokhov, Edwidge Dandicat *