sign in sign up
<<
Home , And Be a Villain, A Bell for Adano (novel), Ben Bova, Jack Finney, John Hersey, Laughing Boy (novel)

A Fine Diet of Books for Mr. Senger’s Eighth Graders “Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon

Enchantment, The Wicked Day) HEROIC ADVENTURE/FANTASY/HORROR Cynthia Voight: The Wings of a Falcon Walter Wangerin, Jr. The Book of the Dun Cow Richard Adams Watership Down The Book of Sorrows Three Hearts and Three Lions T.H. White: The Once and Future King Peter S. Beagle The Last Unicorn Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray John Bellairs: The Face in the Frost Tad Williams: Tailchaser's Song James Blaylock All the Bells on Earth Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (The Dragonbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, : Dandelion Wine To Green Angel Tower) Something Wicked This Way Comes : The Shannara Series (The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, The Wishsong of Shannara, etc.) Edgar R. Burroughs: The Tarzan of the Apes Series Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell : The Dark is Rising Series (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, etc) Edwin Abbott: Flatland David Eddings: The Belgariad (Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc. , Castle of Wizardry, etc.) Richard Adams The Plague Dogs Raymond Feist The Riftwar Saga (Magician: Apprentice, Magician: Master, Silverthorn, Poul Anderson: The Time Patrol etc.) Isaac Asimov: The Foundation Series (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second William Goldman The Princess Bride Foundation, etc.) H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines I, Robot She The Caves of Steel Robert E. Howard: The Conan Series The Naked Sun Brian Jacques: The Redwall Series (Mossflower, Redwall, Mattimeo, etc.) Pierre Boulle: Planet of the Apes Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time Series (The Eye of the World, etc.) Ben Bova: The Exiles Trilogy (Exiled from Earth, Flight of Exiles, End of Exile) Katherine Kurtz: The Chronicles of the Deryni (Deryni Rising, Deryni Checkmate, High The Multiple Man Deryni) Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles The Legends of Camber of Culdi (Camber of Culdi, Saint Camber, The Illustrated Man Camber the Heretic) : Ender's Game Stephen Lawhead: The Pendragon Cycle (Taliesan, Merlin , Arthur) Arthur C.Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey Byzantium Suzanne Collines: The Hunger Games trilogy Ursula LeGuin: The Earthsea Trilogy (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park Farthest Shore) The Lost World Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death, etc. The Andromeda Strain C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Gordon Dickson: Dorsai! Magician's Nephew, etc.) A. Conan Doyle: The Lost World George MacDonald Lilith Jack Finney: Time and Again Anne McCaffrey: Dragonsong Pat Frank: Alas Babylon Dennis L. McKiernan The Iron Tower Trilogy (The Dark Tide, Shadows of Doom, The Darkest Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers Day) Red Planet Patricia McKillip The Forgotten Beasts of Eld Frank Herbert: Dune The Book of Atrix Wolf L. Ron Hubbard: Battlefield: Earth George Orwell: Animal Farm C.S. Lewis: The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Frank Peretti This Present Darkness Strength) J. K. Rowling The Harry Potter Series Lois Lowry The Giver Fred Saberhagen: Empire of the East Walter Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz Book of Swords Trilogy L. Niven/J. Pournelle The Mote in God’s Eye The Books of Lost Swords Footfall Christopher Stasheff The Warlock Series (The Warlock in Spite of Himself, The Warlock Robert C. O'Brian: Z for Zachariah Unlocked, etc.) George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four Mary Stewart: The King Arthur Books (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Fred Saberhagen: The Berkerker Series (Berserker, Brother Assassin, etc.)

1 A Fine Diet of Books for Mr. Senger’s Eighth Graders “Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon

G.K. Chesterton: (Father Brown) The Complete Father Brown (short stories) Science Fiction - Continued The Man Who Was Thursday Agatha Christie: (Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Murder on the Orient Express Nevil Shute: On the Beach Curtain Harry Turtledove Guns of the South The Mysterious Affair at Styles World War: In the Balance And Then There Were None H.G. Wells: The Time Machine Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The War of the Worlds The Moonstone The Island of Dr. Moreau Daphne DuMarier Rebecca Connie Willis Doomsday Book Erle Stanley Gardner: (Perry Mason) The Case of the Crooked Candle The Case of the Perjured Parrot The Case of the Angry Mourner Richard Adams: Traveller Anna K. Green The Leavenworth Case James Clavell: Shogun Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade) Richard H. Dana, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast The Maltese Falcon Lloyd C. Douglas: The Robe Georgette Heyer: (Inspector Hannasyde) Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers A Blunt Instrument Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier Merely Murder Alex Haley: Roots Laurie R. King (Mary Russell) : A Monstrous Regiment of Women Marjorie Holmes: Two from Galilee Ralph McInerny: (Father Dowling) Three from Galilee Her Death of Cold Christopher Hudson: The Killing Fields Desert Sinner Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils A.A. Milne: The Red House Mystery Frederick Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy Joan Lowry Nixon: The Other Side of Dark Walter Dean Meyers Fallen Angels The Name of the Game was Murder James Michener: The Source The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore The Covenant Sr. Carol O'Marie: (Sister Mary Helen) : Gone With the Wind Advent of Dying Patrick O’Brien Master and Commander, etc. A Novena for Murder Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel The Missing Madonna Erich Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front Murder in Ordinary Time Kenneth Roberts: Northwest Passage Ellis Peters: (Brother Cadfael) Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe A Morbid Taste for Bones : One Corpse Too Many Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination Elie Wiesel Night Ellery Queen: (Ellery Queen) The Winds of War and War and Remembrance The King is Dead Markus Zusak The Book Thief The Greek Coffin Mystery Mary R. Rinehart: The Circular Staircase Dorothy Sayers: (Lord Peter Wimsey) Strong Poison The Nine Tailors MYSTERY/DETECTIVE Unnatural Death Clouds of Witness (Detective listed in parentheses) : () Isaac Asimov: Tales of the Black Widowers John Ball: (Virgil Tibbs) In the Heat of the Night

2 A Fine Diet of Books for Mr. Senger’s Eighth Graders “Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon

MYSTERY/DETECTIVE - CONTINUED RELIGIOUS FICTION/NON-FICTION Jim Bishop: The Day Christ Died Josephine Tey The Daughter of Time Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God Arthur Upfield: (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte) The Tree of Life Murder Down Under The Life of St. Francis The New Shoe G.K. Chesterton: St. Thomas Aquinas Death of a Lake St. Francis of Assisi The Devil's Steps Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness S.S. Van Dine: (Philo Vance) Louis DeWohl: The Quiet Light (St. Thomas Aquinas) The Benson Murder Case The Restless Flame (St. Augustine) The Bishop Murder Case Citadel of God (St. Benedict) Cynthia Voight: The Callender Papers Richard Foster: Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home Rumer Godden: In this House of Brede GENERAL FICTION Thomas A Kempis: Imitation of Christ Peter Kreeft: Yes or No Louisa May Alcott: Little Women Making Sense Out of Suffering Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Prayer for Beginners E.R. Braithwaite To Sir, With Love Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God Robert Cormier The Chocolate War C.S. Lewis: Miracles I Am the Cheese Mere Christianity : Giant The Problem of Pain C.S. Forester: The African Queen The Great Divorce Mr. Midshipman Hornblower A Grief Observed Lieutenant Hornblower Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World The Screwtape Letters The Solitaire Mystery Dorothy Sayers: The Man Born to Be King Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native Fulton Sheen: Life of Christ Jan Karon: The Mitford Years (At Home in Mitford, etc.) Franz Werfel: The Song of Bernadette W.P. Kinsella: Shoeless Joe Charles Williams War in Heaven The Iowa Baseball Conspiracy Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous The Jungle Book WESTERN John Knowles: A Separate Peace Peace Breaks Out Andy Adams: The Log of a Cowboy Ian Lawrence Ghost Boy Clifton Adams: Tragg's Choice : Ann Ashlewede: Hunting Wolf : Verne Athanas: Maverick Michelle Magorian Goodnight, Mr. Tom Todhunter Ballard: Gold in : The Natural Frank Bonham: Lost Stage Valley Walter Dean Meyers Monster Snaketrack Alan Paton: Cry, the Country B.M. Bower: Chip of the Flying U Chaim Potok: The Chosen Max Brand: Destry Rides Again The Promise Will C. Brown: The Nameless Breed My Name is Asher Lev W.R. Burnett: Saint Johnson : The Jungle Benjamin Capps: The Trail to Ogalla J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye Sam Chance Paul Zindel The Pigman Forrest Carter: The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales : O Pioneers! My Antonia W. Van Tilburg Clark: The Ox-bow Incident

3 A Fine Diet of Books for Mr. Senger’s Eighth Graders “Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon

WESTERN - continued J. Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer Sources: The Last of the Mohicans Anatomy of Wonder - Neil Barron, ed. Vardis Fisher: Children of God The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan - John Hardon, S.J. Norman A. Fox: Night Passage Great Books for Young Adults - Betty Carter Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage A Catalogue of Crime - Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Bill Gulick: A Drum Calls West Fantasy: The 100 Best Books - James Cawthorn and The Land Beyond Genre Favorites for Young Adults - Sally Estes, ed. A.B. Guthrie: The Big Sky The Lifetime Reading Plan - Clifton Fadiman The Mammoth Book of the Western - Jon E. Lewis, ed. Helen Hunt Jackson: Ramona Outstanding Books for the College Bound - Mary Ann Paulin and Susan Berlin Elmer Kelton: The Day the Cowboys Quit Read for Your Life The Time it Never Rained Reading List for College Bound Students - Estell, Satchwell and Wright Oliver LaFarge: Take and Read: Spiritual Reading – Eugene H. Peterson Louis L'Amour: Hondo Last Stand at Papago Wells Alan LeMay: The Searchers Elmore Leonard: Hombre from “The Pyramid of Books” by Mortimer Adler: Valdez is Coming Giles A. Lutz: The Honyocker “The great majority of the several million books that have been written in James Michener: Centennial the Western tradition alone—more than 99 percent of them—will not make Frank Norris: The Octopus Wayne D. Overholser: The Violent Land sufficient demands on you for you to improve your skill in reading. This : The Sea of Grass may seem like a distressing fact, and the percentages may seem an The Light in the Forest overestimate. But obviously, considering the numbers involved, it is true. Jack Schaefer: Shane These are the books that can be read only for amusement or information. Luke Short: Savage Range Owen Wister: The Virginian The amusement may be of many kinds, and the information may be interesting in all sorts of ways. But you should not expect to learn anything NON-FICTION of importance from them. In fact, you do not have to read them— Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book analytically—at all. Skimming will do.” Aristotle for Everybody Six Great Ideas Kevin Codd To the Field of the Stars Benjamin Franklin Autobiography John Gunther Death Be Not Proud Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X James Herriot All Creatures Great and Small John Hersey Farley Mowatt Never Cry Wolf Sayers I Am Third

4