Progeny Press Literature Genre List 2014

genre |ˈ zh änrə|
noun
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

What are literature genres? I discuss this often at homeschool and teacher conferences across the country. In literature, we tend to classify books by where the author is from and/or lived.
Common genres include:
American Literature: 
All the authors are American. This is generally taught a full year in 9th or sometimes 10th grade.

British Literature: 
All the authors are British or from somewhere in the United Kingdom. This is generally taught in 10th or sometimes 9th grade.

World Literature:
All the authors are pretty much from anywhere else in the world. This is generally taught in 11th grade, usually for one semester.

Even more fun, (once done with American, British, and World Lit) in high school is developing your own semester-long classes based on "African literature," "Christian authors," "Plays and Stage History," "Non-fiction," "Black authors," "Asian authors," "Female authors," "Early American authors," "Science Fiction," "Mystery and Murder in Literature," "Newbery Children's Classics in Literature," "Poetry," and so on...

Choosing from among these ideas and any of your own, you can build a rich a rewarding literature program for high school.

Here, for your perusal is our Progeny Press Title list sorted into high school genres for you. I hope you find this helpful planning for next fall!
American Literature
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (targeted release date end of April 2014)
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fennimore Cooper
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

British Literature
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy
The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Shakespeare’s Plays (these also count as British Literature)
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

World Literature
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

Poetry
Introduction to Poetry: Forms and Elements
Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse

Literature by Christian Authors
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien 
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe