Suggested Honors English Reading List



Suggested Honors 9 Reading List

Directions: Along with Lord of the Flies, please choose 1 additional books to read during the summer.

Due dates for both parts of the assignment are 8/24/18.

The following is a list of suggested reading for college-bound students (preferably Lexile score of 900-1400). Since I have not read them all, it would be unfair to offer summaries of some and not others with this listing. My suggestion for you is to select a book based on one or more of these three criteria: your knowledge of the author, a skimming of the book (read the cover or jacket, a bit of the beginning, and a portion somewhere in the middle.), or advice of others who have recommended the book.

You may pick up most of these books at your local library or the Norwell Media Center, and I may have a few of the titles listed below (*). You may also purchase them at your local bookstores—it’s sometimes nice to have your own copy so that you can write in the book. I cannot promise that all the books on this list will be free of objectionable material. What is objectionable to one may not be objectionable to another. Choose wisely. (Some titles may have “The,” “An” or ”A” removed from the beginning of the title.)

FICTION

Achebe, Chinua A Man of the People/Arrow of God/Things Fall Apart

Adams, Richard *Watership Down

Agee, James A Death in the Family

Alvarez, Julia *How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents/*In the Time of Butterflies

Anaya, Rudolpho *Bless Me, Ultima

Asimov, Isaac The End of Eternity/The Last Man on Earth/The Gods Themselves/Foundations

Atwood, Margaret *The Handmaid’s Tale/*Alias Grace

Austen, Jane *Emma/*Pride and Prejudice/*Sense and Sensibility/*Mansfield Park/*Northanger Abbey/*Persuasion

Baldwin, James *Go Tell It on the Mountain/If Beale Street Could Talk

Banks, Russell Cloudspitter

Bellow, Saul Seize the Day/The Adventures of Augie March

Boccacio, Giovanni *The Decameron

Bohjahlain, Chris *Skeletons at the Feast

Bradbury, Ray *Fahrenheit 451/*Martian Chronicles/A Graveyard for Lunatics

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre/*Shirley

Bronte, Emily *Wuthering Heights

Brooks, Geraldine *People of the Book

Buck, Pearl S. *The Good Earth

Bunyan, John The Pilgrim’s Progress

Butler, Octavia Kindred

Camus, Albert The Stranger/The Plague

Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop/My Antonia/O Pioneers!

Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote

Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales

Chute, Carolyn *The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey/2010: Odyssey 2/2061: Odyssey 3/ 3001: The Final Odyssey

Clark, Walter Van T. The Ox-Bow Incident

Coelho, Paulo *The Alchemist/*The Valkyries

Conrad, Joseph *Lord Jim

Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans/The Prairie

Crane, Stephen *The Red Badge of Courage

Crichton, Michael *Prey/Next/The Andromeda Strain/Sphere/*Timeline

Defoe, Daniel *Robinson Crusoe/Moll Flanders

De Maurier, Daphne Rebecca

Dickens, Charles Bleak House/David Copperfield/A Tale of Two Cities/*Great Expectations

Dillard, Annie An American Childhood

Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime

Dos Passos, John U.S.A.

Dostoevski, Feodor The Brothers Karamazov/Crime and Punishment

Doyle, Arthur Conan *The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (collection of short stories)

Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy/Sister Carrie

Dugan, Bill *Chief Joseph

Dumas, Alexander The Count of Monte Cristo/*The Three Muskateers

Eliot, George Middlemarch/The Mill on the Floss/*Silas Marner

Ellison, Ralph *Invisible Man

Erdrich, Louise *The Beet Queen/Love Medicine/Tracks

Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom!/ As I Lay Dying/Light in August/*The Sound and the Fury

Fielding, Henry Joseph Andrews/Tom Jones

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Last Tycoon/Tender is the Night/This Side of Paradise

Flaubert, Gustav *Madame Bovary

Forster, E.M. A Passage to India/A Room with a View/Howard’s End

Frazier, Charles *Cold Mountain

Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying/*The Autobio. of Miss Jane Pittman/*A Gathering of Old Men

Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel *Love in the Time of Cholera/One Hundred Years of Solitude

Garnder, John Grendel

Greene, Graham Brighton Rock/The Quiet American/The Heart of the Matter/The Power and the Fury

Haley, Alex *Roots

Hall, Brian *I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company

Hamill, Pete *North River

Hardy, Thomas Mayor of Casterbridge/The Return of the Native/Tess of the D’Ubervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel The House of Seven Gables

Hazzard, Shirley *The Great Fire

Hegi, Ursula *Stones from the River/Salt Dancers/Intrusions/*Floating in My Mother’s Palm

Heinlein, Robert *Stranger in a Stranger Land

Hemingway, Ernest Farewell to Arms/For Whom the Bell Tolls/*Sun Also Rises/*Old Man and the Sea/*To Have and Have Not

Heller, Joseph Catch-22/Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22/Something Happened

Hesse, Hermann *Siddhartha

Homer *The Odyssey (in its entirety)/The Iliad (in its entirety)

Hosseini, Khaled *The Kite Runner/*A Thousand Splendid Suns

Howells, Wm Dean *The Rise of Silas Lapham

Hugo, Victor Les Miserables/Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Hurston, Zora Neal *Their Eyes Were Watching God/Mules and Men

Huxley, Aldous *Brave New World

Irving, John *A Prayer for Owen Meany/The Cider House Rules/*The World According to Garp

James, Henry The Ambassadors/The Portrait of a Lady/*The Turn of the Screw/The American/*What Maisie Knew

Jin, Ha *War Trash

Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/The Dubliners/Ulysses

Kafka, Franz The Trial/ *The Metamorphosis/*Amerika

Kantor, MacKinlay Andersonville

Kerouac, Jack *On the Road

Kesey, Ken *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest/Sometimes a Great Notion

Kingsolver, Barbara *The Poisonwood Bible/The Bean Trees/*The Prodigal Summer

Knowles, John *A Separate Peace

Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover/Sons and Lovers

LeRoux, Gaston *The Phantom of the Opera

Lessing, Doris The Golden Notebook

Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt/Main Street/*Arrowsmith

London, Jack Sea Wolf

McCarthy, Cormac *The Road

McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead/*At the Barbary Shore/*An American Dream

Malamud, Bernard The Natural/The Assistant

Mann, Thomas Death in Venice

Mason, A.E.W. *The Four Feathers

Maugham, Somerset Of Human Bondage

McMurtry, Larry Anything for Billy/The Crossing/Lonesome Dove

Melville, Herman *Moby Dick/*Billy Budd

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind

Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn

Morrison, Toni *The Bluest Eye/*Song of Solomon/*Sula/Tar Baby/Paradise/*Beloved/*Jazz

Mrazek, Robert *Unholy Fire

Murphy, Louise *The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Myers, Walter Dean *Fallen Angels/*Sunrise over Fallujah

Newth, Mette & Tiina Nunnally The Abduction

Nabokov, Vladimer *Lolita

O’Brien, Tim *The Things They Carried/*Nuclear Age/Going After Cacciato

O’Connor, Flannery Wise Blood/*A Good Man is Hard to Find

Olsen, Tillie Tell Me a Riddle

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska *The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orwell, George *1984

Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country/Too Late the Phalarope

Peet, Mal *Tamar

Plath, Sylvia *The Bell Jar

Porter, Gene Stratton A Girl of the Limberlost/The Harvester/Freckles/Her Father’s Daughter/Laddie

Porter, Katherine Ann *Pale Horse, Pale Rider/Ship of Fools

Portis, Charles True Grit

Potok, Chaim *My Name Is Asher Lev/*The Chosen/Davita’s Harp

Price, Susan *The Sterkarm Handshake

Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News/Postcards

Pychon, Thomas *The Crying of Lot #49

Rand, Ayn Anthem/The Fountainhead/*The Romantic Manifesto/We the Living/Atlas Shrugged

Remarque, Enrich Maria *All Quiet on the Western Front

Reynolds, Sheri *The Rapture of Canaan

Richter, Conrad *A Light in the Forest

Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth

St. Exupery, Antoine de Wind, Sand, and Stars

Salinger, J.D. *Catcher in the Rye/Franny and Zoey

Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe/Waverly

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein

Shaara, Jeff Gods and Generals/*Rise to Rebellion/The Last Full Measure/The Glorious

Cause/Gone for Soldiers

Shaara, Michael *Killer Angels

Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony

Sinclair, Upton *The Jungle

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Soto, Gary Buried Onions

Stein, Gertrude *Three Lives

Steinbeck, John *The Grapes of Wrath/*Of Mice and Men/East of Eden/Cannery Row/*The Acts of King Arthur

Stoker, Bram Dracula

Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels

Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club/Bonesetter’s Daughter/Hundred Secret Senses/Kitchen God’s Wife

Thackeray, Wm Makepeace Vanity Fair

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings/ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers/ The Lord of the Rings:Return of the King

Tolstoy, Leo (Tolstoi) Anna Karenina/War and Peace/The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Trumbo, Dalton Johnny Got His Gun

Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/*The Prince and the Pauper/A Connecticut Yankee

Updike, John Rabbit, Run/*Terrorist/*Seek My Face

Voltaire Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five/*Cat’s Cradle

Walker, Alice *The Color Purple/*Meridian

Warren, Robert Penn *All the King’s Men

Wells, H.G. *The Invisible Man/The War of the Worlds/*The Time Machine

West, Jessamyn *The Massacre at Fall Creek/Friendly Persuasion

Wharton, Edith *The Age of Innocence/*Ethan Frome/*The House of Mirth

White, T.H. The Once and Future King

Wilde, Oscar *The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wister, Owen The Virginian

Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel

Woolfe, Virginia *Mrs. Dalloway/To the Lighthouse/*A Room of One’s Own

Wright, Richard Native Son

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NONFICTION

Angelou, Maya All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes/*Singing and Swinging and Getting Merry Like Christmas/*The Heart of a Woman/A Song Flung Up to Heaven*/I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/*Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Bahrampour, Tara To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America

Baldwin, James *The Fire Next Time

Bascomb, Neal *The Perfect Mile

Bitton-Jackson, Livia *I Have Lived a Thousand Years/*My Bridges of Hope

Blanco, Jodee *Please Stop Laughing at Me

Brown, Dee *Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bryson, Bill *A Walk in the Woods/Lost Continent/Neither Here Nor There/*I’m a Stranger Here Myself/*In a Sunburned Country/*At Home

Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha *Bound Feet and Western Dress: A Memoir

Churchill, Sir Winston Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Clinton, Catherine *The Plantation Mistress

Darwin, Charles Origin of the Species

Delaney, Sarah & Elizabeth Delaney *Having Our Say

Didion, Joan Slouching Towards Bethlehem/Miami/Play It as It Lays

Dillard, Annie For the Time Being, Teaching a Stone to Talk (essay collections)

Dorris, Michael The Broken Cord

Durant, Michael *In the Company of Heroes

Egan, Timothy *The Worst Hard Time

Eisenstein, Bernice *I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

Emerson, Ralph Waldo The American Scholar

Feinstein, John *The Punch

Foreman, Amanda *The Duchess

Freud, Sigmund Civilization and Its Discontents

Getchell, Robert Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Goodwin, Doris Kearns *Wait Until Next Year

Greene, Bob *Duty

Griffin, John Howard Black Like Me

Gunther, John *Death Be Not Proud

Halberstam, David *The Teammates

Hale, Janet Campbell *Bloodlines

Hegi, Ursula Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America

Hersey, John Hiroshima

Hickam, Homer *Rocket Boys

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki & James Houston *Farewell to Manzanaar

Jiang, Ji-li Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

Johnson, James Weldon *The Autobio. of an Ex-Colored Man

Jones, Howard Mutiny on the Amistad

Jones, Thomas Henry *Fear No Evil

Junger, Sebastian The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea/Fire

Karr, Mary The Liars’ Club: A Memoir/Cherry

Kingsolver, Barbara Small Wonder (essay collections)

Kingston, Maxine Hong China Men/The Woman Warrior

Klein, Gerda Weissman All But My Life

Konigsberg, Eric *Blood Relations

Krakauer, Jon *Into Thin Air

Larson, Erik *The Devil in the White City/In the Garden of Beasts/Thunderstruck/Isaac’s Storm/

Lethal Passage/The Naked Consumer

Lesley, Craig *Burning Fence

Machiavelli, Niccolo *The Prince

Malcolm X *The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Mah, Adeline Yen *Chinese Cinderella

Mahmoody, Betty Not Without My Daughter

Mailer, Norman Executioner’s Song

Marx, Karl Communist Manifesto

Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy

Matias, Tito *Child of the City

McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir/’Tis

Momaday, N. Scott The Man Made of Words (essay collection)

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks

Nesaule, Agate *A Woman in Amber

O’Brien, Tim If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

Plato Republic

Potok, Chaim Wanderings/The Gates of November

Roach, Mary *Stiff

Scotti, R.A. *Sudden Sea

Sides, Hampton *Ghost Soldiers

Sobel, Dava *Galileo’s Daughter

Steinbeck, John Travels with Charlie

Sudetic, Chuck *Blood and Vengeance

Swanson, James *Manhunt

Swofford, Anthony *Jarhead

Vincent, Norah *Self-made Man

Walls, Jeannette *The Glass Castle

Wiesel, Elie *Night

Williams, Gregory Howard Life on the Color Line

Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff

Wright, Richard Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

*Note: Your book, regardless whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, should be an appropriate reading level (grade level or higher) and one not read in any other English class in the middle and/or high school or in the HONORS or AP reading schedule.

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