Academic English (10th) – Interesting Reading Mrs. Kramer
“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Title Author
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Animal Farm George Orwell
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Speak Laurie Anderson
A Room With a View E.M. Forster
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury - 1 -
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The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Foundation (Trilogy) Isaac Asimov
The Chosen Haim Potok
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
The Red Dragon Thomas Harris
Ellen Foster Kay Gibbons
Deathwatch Robb White
The Passage Justin Cronin
The Twelve Justin Cronin
The Pearl John Steinbeck
Z for Zacharia Robert O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
The Outsiders S. E. Hinton
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Divergent Veronica Roth
Insurgent Veronica Roth
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Allegiant Veronica Roth
Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen
A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
No Easy Day Mark Owen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Scarlet Letter Nathanial Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
The Green Mile Stephen King
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
Treasure Island Robert L. Stevenson
Wuthering Heights Charlotte Bronte
The Good Brother Chris Ouffet
The Giver Lois Lowry
Go Down, Moses William Faulkner
The River Gary Paulson
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula Le Guin
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart C. Achebe
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Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires Book #1) Rachel Caine
Boy Nobody Allen Zadoff
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Michelle Hodkin
The Evolution of Mara Dyer Michelle Hodkin
The Strain Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs
The Hollow City Ransom Riggs
If I Stay Gayle Forman
I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan
Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Night E. Wiesel
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert L. Stevenson
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
Don Quixote Cervantes
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
White Fang Jack London
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
The Last of the Mohicans James F. Cooper
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Emma Jane Austen
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Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Nothing But The Truth Avi
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
Moby Dick Herman Melville
The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough
The 39 Steps John Buchan
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet B. Stowe
Four Days to Glory Mark Kreidler
Another Kind of Monday William Coles
Far North Will Hobbs
Rats Saw God Rob Thomas
Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding
Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy E. Allison
The Client John Grisham
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
The Stand Stephen King
The Shining Stephen King
Dune Frank Herbert
Rebound Bob Krech
Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
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The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
Book of Blood and Shadow Robin Wasserman
Pop Goes the Weasel James Patterson
Marathon Man William Goldman
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen
Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Waiting to Exhale Terry McMillan
Paradise Lost John Milton
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
The Pelican Brief John Grisham
The Hunt for the Red October Tom Clancy
Patriot Games Tom Glancy
Eye of the Needle Ken Follett
The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum
Running with the Demon Terry Brooks
Dragonflight books Anne McCaffrey
Lord of the Rings Trilogy J. R. R. Tolkein
The Bone Collector J. Deaver
City of Thieves David Benioff
The Knife of Never Letting Go (#1 Chaos Walking) Patrick Ness
The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
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The Color of Water James McBride
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg
Alive (Story of the Andes Survivors) Piers Paul Read
The Round House Louise Erdrich
Go Ask Alice Anonymous
All The President's Men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
Sense & Sensibility Jane Austen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom
All The King's Men Robert Penn Warren
It Stephen King
Cell Stephen King
The Mist Stephen King
Needful Things Stephen King
Night Shift Stephen King
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Salem’s Lot Stephen King
Christine Stephen King
The Painted House John Grisham
Fences August Wilson
Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
Snow Falling on Cedars David Gutterson
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
I am Malala Malala Yousafzai
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
Watership Down Richard Adams
Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith
The Road Cormac McCarthy
The Chocolate War Robert Cormier
Holes Louis Sachar
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
Feed Mira Grant
Delirium Lauren Oliver
The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin
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Title Author
Beloved Toni Morrison
Catch-22 Joseph Keller
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pyncheon
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
Elegance of the Hedgehog Murial Barbery
Monster Walter Dean Myers
On the Road Jack Kerouac
The Manchurian Candidate Richard Condon
Presumed Innocent Scott Turow
Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Out of this Furnace Thomas Bell
The Lovely Bones Alice Seebold
Kiss the Girls James Patterson
Temple of the Winds Terry Goodkind
Neuromancer William Gibson
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer
An Abundance of Katherines John Green
War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
Angels & Demons Dan Brown
The Inferno Dan Brown
The Beach House James Patterson
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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins
Lockdown: Escape from Furnace #1 Alexander Gordon Smith
Seabiscut: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand
Rally Cry (Lost Regiment) William Forstchen
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
The Life of Pi Yann Martel
I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore
The Power of Six Pittacus Lore
The Rise of Nine Pittacus Lore
The Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Night to Remember Walter Lord
No-No Boy John Okada
House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
Donald Duk Frank Chin
Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee
Arabian Nights Diana Abu-Jabar
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
The Doom Stone Paul Zindel
The Fairy Godmother Mercedes Lackey
Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen
Maus I Art Spiegelman
Anthem Ayn Rand
The Help Kathryn Stockett
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
World War Z Max Brooks
Hemlock Grove Brian McGreevy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle Nicholas Sparks
A Walk to Remember Nicholas Sparks
The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger
The Nanny Diaries Emma McLaughlin/Nicola Kraus
House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III
I Love You, Beth Cooper Larry Doyle
A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray
Rebel Angels Libba Bray
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Known World Edward P. Jones
Twilight Stephenie Meyer
New Moon Stephenie Meyer
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Eclipse Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer
Wonderland Michael Bamberger
Timeline Michael Crichton
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Confessions of a Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan Sophie Kinsella
Looking for Alaska John Green
The Fault in our Stars John Green
Banished Sophie Littlefield
American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang
The Glass Castle (A Memoir) Jeannette Walls
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Blue Bloods Melissa De La Cruz
Interred with their Bones Jennifer Lee Carrell
Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland
City of Thieves David Benioff
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult
Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
My Most Excellent Year: a Novel Steve Kluger Of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park
The Ruins Scott Smith
Blood & Chocolate Annette Curtis Klause
Let The Right One In Lina Leandersson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
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Rocket Boys Homer Hickam, Jr.
Darkfever Karen Marie Moning
Beautiful Disaster Jamie McGuire
The Host Stephenie Meyers
Dark Life Kat Falls
Fail-Safe Eugene Burdick
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fatal Vision Joe McGinnis
The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
City of Bones: Mortal Instruments Book 1 Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes: Mortal Instruments Book 2 Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes: Mortal Instruments Book 3 Cassandra Clare
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Tourist Olen Steinhauer
Put me in Coach Mark Titus
The Bone Season Samantha Shannon
Savages Don Winslow
The Maze Runner James Dashner
The Scorch Trials James Dashner
The Death Cure James Dashner
The Kill Order James Dashner
Defending Jacob William Landay
Robopocalypse Daniel Wilson
Robogenesis Daniel Wilson
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Midwinter Blood Marcus Sedgwick
The Radleys Matt Haig
The Humans Matt Haig
The Circle Dave Eggers
Visit from the Good Squad Jennifer Egan
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
Close your Eyes, Hold Hands Chris Bohjalian
The Quick Lauren Owen
Tenth of December George Saunders
The 5th Wave Rick Yancey
The Monstrumologist Rick Yancey
Breed Chase Novak
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