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죽기전에 꼭 읽어야 할 양서모음 (The Bucket-Book List)

죽기전에 꼭 읽어야 할 양서모음
The Bucket-Book List

이 목록은 모든 사람이 죽기전에 읽어야 할 100권의 책을 간추린 것입니다. 좋은 책은 우리의 삶을 더 풍요롭게 해 줄뿐 아니라 더 의미있는 삶을 사는 것을 허락합니다. 개인적으로 양서는 다른 곳에서는 찾을 수 없는 살아야 할 의지와 삶에 대한 고찰을 주었습니다. 여러분도 이 책들을 통해 많은 즐거움을 얻으시기를 바랍니다. 일년에 세 권을 읽을면 33.3 년에 모든 책을 읽을 수 있습니다. 목록에 있는 책을 몇 권을 이미 읽었는지를 계산하면 여러분의 지적수준을 간단하게 계산할 수도 있습니다. 한 권의 책을 한 살이라고 생각합니다. 당신이 16세인데 5권의 책을 읽었다면 지적연령이 5세 입니다 – 11 권을 더 읽어야 육체적인 연령과 맞습니다. 한 번 재미로 해보세요.

These are the books that everyone should attempt to read in his or her life-time. Good books not only enrich your life, but they also point to a more meaningful life. For me, books render me the sense of belonging and insight into life that you cannot have anywhere else. Hope you will enjoy the books and attempt to read at least 3 books a year. If you do that, you can read all these books in 33.3 years. You can also gauge your academic aptitude by simply counting how many books you have read already. Each book goes for one year of your life. If you are 16 and have read only 5, your academic age is 5 – try to read 11 more to catch up. Do it just for fun.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
5. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Ulysses, James Joyce
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Aeneid, Virgil
23. Odyssey, Homer
24. Iliad, Homer
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. Hamelt, William Shakespeare
57. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
66. Shogun, James Clavell
67. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
68. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
69. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. In the Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
73. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
85. Alchemist, Paolo Kohelo
86. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Beloved, Toni Morrison
99. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
100. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

추천도서 (초등학교) - Recommended Reading List (2nd-4th Gr.)

Grade Two

• Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery* Adler
• Prairie School Avi
• Digby and Kate and the Beautiful Day Baker
• One Saturday Afternoon Baker
• Ant Plays Bear* Byars
• Hooray for the Golly Sisters* Byars
• The Friendship Tree Caple
• Agapanthus Hum and Major Bark* Cowley
• The Bug in Teacher’s Coffee: And Other School Poems Dakos
• What a Trip, Amber Brown* Danziger
• Boss for a Day* dePaola
• Iris and Walter* Guest
• Kitty Riddles* Hall
• Arthur’s Birthday Party* Hoban
• The Garden That We Grew Holub
• Lionel at School* Krensky
• Captain and Matey Set Sail Laurence
• Emma’s Yucky Brother* Little
• Harley Livingstone
• Frog and Toad Are Friends* Lobel
• Shawn and Keeper: Show and Tell London
• Geese Find the Missing Piece:School Time Riddle Rhymes Maestro
• Fox on Stage* Marshall
• When Tiny Was Tiny* Meister
• Gus and Grandpa at Basketball* Mills
• Harry’s Birthday* Porte
• Henry and Mudge and Annie’s Perfect Pet* Rylant
• High Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Climbing Cat* Rylant
• Mr. Putter and Tabby Paint the Porch* Rylant
• Poppleton Has Fun* Rylant
• Nate the Great and the Monster Mess* Sharmat
• George and Diggety* Stern
• Oliver and Albert, Friends Forever* VanLeeuwen


Grade Three

• I Was a 3rd Grade Spy* Auch
• Little Sister, Big Sister Brisson
• Arthur and the Lost Diary* Brown/Krensky
• The Gator Girls* Calmenson
• The Captain Contest* Christopher
• Annabel the Actress Starring in “Gorilla my Dreams”* Conford
• Jenny Archer* Conford
• Butterfly Buddies Cox
• Zero Grandparents Edwards
• Albertina, the Animals, and Me* Fowler
• Rosie’s Big City Ballet* Giff
• Runaway Radish Haas
• Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors* Howe
• Summer with Elisa* Hurwitz
• Lady Lollipop King-Smith
• Horrible Harry Goes to the Moon* Kline
• Louise Goes Wild* Krensky
• Beezy Magic* McDonald
• Judy Moody* McDonald
• Tonight on the Titanic* Osborne
• Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor* Parish
• Junie B. Jones is (Almost) a Flower Girl* Park
• The T. F. Letters Ray
• Not My Dog Rodowsky
• Some Good News* Rylant
• Josie to the Rescue Singer
• Good Night, Good Knight Thomas
• Jumping into Nothing Willner-Pardo
• Beany and the Dreaded Wedding* Wojciechowski
• The Ghost in Room 11 Wright


Grade Four

• Andy and Tamika* Adler
• A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart* Adler
• Poppy* Avi
• Howie Bowles, Secret Agent* Banks
• Seal Island School Bartlett
• Skateboard Renegade* Christopher/Mantell
• Ramona Forever* Cleary
• Jake Drake, Bully Buster* Clements
• The School Story Clements
• The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive* Cole
• Third Grade Pet Cox
• I, Amber Brown* Danziger
• 26 Fairmount Avenue* dePaola
• Cody Unplugged* Duffey
• Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe Giff
• Owen Foote, Frontiersman* Greene
• Beware the Mare* Haas
• Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Diary* Hermes
• PeeWee’s Tale* Hurwitz
• Ghost Trap: A Wild Willie Mystery* Joosse
• Herbie Jones and the Birthday Showdown* Kline
• Morgy Makes his Move Lewis
• Zooman Sam* Lowry
• Sarah, Plain and Tall* MacLachlan
• Surviving Brick Johnson Myers
• Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake* Sachar
• See You Later, Gladiator* Scieszka
• Oh No, It’s Robert* Seuling
• So You Want to Be President? St. George
• Hannah of Fairfield* Van Leeuwen
• Leftover Lily* Warner
• Spider Storch’s Desperate Deal* Willner-Pardo
• Ghost in the Family Wright

추천도서 중고등학교 - Recommended Reading List (Jr. & High School)

Recommended Reading List
English Literature
Book Lists by Grade

Sixth Grade Book List

Title Author
A Midsummer’s Night Dream William Shakespeare
A Wrinkle in Time Madeline D’Engle
Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix
Because of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo
Bud, not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Hatchet Gary Paulson
Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan
Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Cay Theodore Taylor
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt

Seventh Grade Book List

Title Author
Julius Ceasar William Shakespeare
Lyddie Katherine Patterson
Night Elie Wiesel
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Midred Taylor
Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolen
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Odyssey Geraldine McCaughrean
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place E.L. Konigsburg
Timothy of the Cay Theodore Taylor
White Fang Jack London

Eighth Grade Book List

Title Author
Dicey’s Song Cynthia Voigt
Dragonwings Laurence Yep
In Summer Light Zibby O’Neal
Martin Luther King Jr. Jacqueline L. Harris
Number the Stars Lois Lowry
Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska
Silent Storm Anne Sullivan Macy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Clay Marble Minfong Ho
The Contender Robert Lipsyte
The December Rose Leon Garfield
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
The Owl’s Song Janet C. Hale
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane

Ninth Grade Reading List

Title Author
1984 George Orwell
A Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
A Marriage Proposal Anton Chekhov
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Aeneas Virgil
All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Cyrano do Bergerac Edmond Rostand

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship me Home Tim O’Brien
If Not Now, When? Primo Levi
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
The Chosen Chaim Potok
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
The Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
When Rain Clouds Gather Bessie Head

Tenth Grade Book List

Title Author
Pride and Prejudice (o) Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (o) Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights (o) Emily Bronte
Death Comes to the Archbishop Willa Cather
Don Quixote (o) Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales (r) Chaucer
The Awakening (i) Kate Chopin
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (n) Stephen Crane
Great Expectations (r) Charles Dickens
Hard Times (r) Charles Dickens
Silas Marner (r) George Eliot
Medea (c) Euripedes
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter Nathanial Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises (r) Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes are Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
The American (i) Henry James
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
Beloved Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Patan
Merchant of Venice (o) William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew (o) William Shakespeare
Antigone (c) Sophocles
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Our Town Thorton Wilder


Eleventh and Twelfth Grade Reading List

Title Author
The Cherry Orchard (r) Anton Chekov
Heart of Darkness (i) Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer (i) Joseph Conrad
The Lagoon (i) Joseph Conrad
A Tale of Two Cities (r) Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment (r) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An American Tragedy (r) Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (r) Theodore Dreiser
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying (n) William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (n) William Faulkner
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
Faust (o) Goethe
Jude the Obscure (n) Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Ubervilles (n) Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables (o) Hugo
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (e) James Joyce
Dubliners (e) James Joyce
The Metamorphosis (e) Franz Kafka
The Trial (e) Franz Kafka
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
The Crucible Arthur Miller
Paradise Lost (c) John Milton
Tartuffe (c) Moliere
Desire Under the Elms (e) Eugene O’Neill
The Hairy Ape (e) Eugene O’Neill
The Iceman Cometh (e) Eugene O’Neill
On the Nature of Tragedy (c) Plato
The Apology (c) Plato
The Allegory of the Cave (c) Plato
An Essay on Man (c) Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism (c) Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Neck (c) Alexander Pope
Hamlet (o) William Shakespeare
King Lear (o) William Shakespeare
Macbeth (o) William Shakespeare
Othello (o) William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (o) William Shakespeare
The Jungle (n) Upton Sinclair
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina (r) Leo Tolstoy
Candide (c) Voltaire
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
A Streetcar Named Desire (n) Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (n) Tennessee Williams
To the Light House Virginia Woolf
Native Son Richard Wright

* Books are carefully selected to balance different literary movements and listed accordingly: classicism (c), realism (r), romanticism (o), impressionism (i), expressionism (e), and naturalism (n). Knowing each literary movement will further enhance readers’ appreciation and comprehension of masterpieces.

추천도서 (Recommended Reading List)

"책이 없는 집은 창문이 없는 방과 같다."

책을 읽지 않는 사람은 영혼을 꽉 막힌 방에 가두는 사람이다. 책을 사랑하는 마음을 가꾸고 책을 읽는 습관을 만들어주는 것보다 부모가 정신적으로 자식에게 해 줄수 있는 더 좋은 것은 없다. 배우는 사람에게 가장 중요한 것이 독서이고 독서야 말로 작문을 발전시킬 수 있는 유일한 방법이다. 베이컨이 말한 것처럼 "독서는 온전한 사람을 만들고 대화는 준비된 사람을 만들고 작문은 정확한 사람을 만든다."

가장 일반적인 추천도서를 모았습니다. 다만 양서는 (제가 영문학선생인고로) 문학적인 가치가 있는 (내용이 길고 추상적인) 책만을 엄선했습니다. 초등학교책을 제외하고... 학생들과 학부모님께 큰 도움이 되었으면합니다. 명작을 읽을 때는 초반부 (100-200 쪽정도)는 이해하지 못해도 인내심을 갖고 읽어나가야 합니다. 처음에는 어떤 의미도 발견하지 못하지만 후반부에 가면 모든 것이 이해가 됩니다.

"A House without books is like a book without windows."

Men who don't read are men who imprison their souls in an enclosed room. For parents, nothing is better than inculcating the love of reading and developing the habit of reading in their children. Reading is the most important and only step to good writing. As Bacon stated, "Reading makes a perfect man, conference a ready man, and writing a precise man."

The lists are comprehensive and progressive.

SAT and ACT Score and their meanings

SAT and ACT Score and their meanings

A good question to ask is how good a score one has to get into a good college? One easy answer is percentile score: a percentile score gives one’s relative standing over all the students who have taken the same test. Since SAT and ACT are standardized tests, they are very valuable in finding one’s relative national academic standing.
To interpret the scores, find the appropriate score range and look at the percentile score. For example, if Tom gets 1910 in SAT or 28 in ACT, his percentile score is 88, which means that he scored better than 88 percent of the students who took the same exam. By the same token, we see that about 21,000 students get higher than 2,200 in SAT every year (This number is not precise because some students repeat the test).
Another interesting question to ask is how many students actually get a perfect score? We know that 2.1 million students took the SAT the previous year. Multiply 2.1 million by .0002, and we get 420 students. About 420 students get perfect score every year. I think it is safe to assume that a person who gets a perfect score would not repeat the test.

Percentile SAT (2400) ACT (36)
99.98 2400 36
99+ 2290–2390 34-35
99 2200–2280 33
98 2140-2190 32
97 2100-2130 31
88 1900-2090 28-30
83 1800-1890 26-27
78 1770-1790 25
72 1700-1760 24
61 1600-1690 23
48 1500-1590 21-22
36 1400-1490 19-20
15 1200-1290 16-18
4 1010-1190 13-15
1 790-1000 11-12