High School Guided Outside Reading List Pride and Prejudice by Author Sense and Sensibility Achebe, Chinua: 1930-present; Nigerian novelist, Mansfield Park political activist Emma novels Northanger Abbey Things Fall Apart Persuasion Arrow of God Eliza’s Daughter Anthills of Savannah Baker, Russell: 1925-present American author, No Longer at Ease journalist, and biographer A Man of the People Growing Up poetry Baldwin, James:1924-1987; African American Beware Soul Brother essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, social activist Agee, James: 1909-1955; American novelist, Go Tell it on The Mountain, autobiographical pulitzer prize If Beagle Street Could Talk The Morning Watch Giovanni’s Room A Death in the Family Balzac, Honore de: 1799-1850; French novelist Albee, Edward : 1928-present; American Pierre Goroit playwright, Pulitzer prize Le Dernier Chouan The Zoo Story La Peau de Chagrin The Sandbox Eugenie Grandet Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Beck, Martha 1962-present American author Allende, Isabel: 1942-present; Chilean novelist, Expecting Adam The House of the Spirits Beckett, Samuel:1906-1989 Irish playwright Paths of Resistance Waiting for Godot Of Love and Shadows Bellow, Saul: 1915- present; Jewish American The Stories of Eva Luna anthropologist and novelist Alvarez, Julia: 1950-present Dominican-American Dangling Man author The Victim In the Time of the Butterflies Adventures of Augie March How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Henderson the Rain King Andric, Ivo: 1892-1975; Yugoslavian novelist, Berenbaum, Michael: 1945-present American author Nobel prize for literature and film maker The Bridge over the Drina The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust Anaya, Rudolpho A.: 1937-present; Mexican- as Told in the United States American novelist, short-story writer, essayist Bergner, David: Present American journalist who Bless Me Ultima researched Sierra Leone Angelou, Maya: 1928-present; American singer, In The Land of the Magic Soldiers dancer, actress, writer Bonhoffer, Dietrich: 1906-1945 German theologian, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, anti-Hitler activist executed for his activities (autobiographical) The Cost of Discipleship Souls Look Back in Wonder Life Together The Heart of a Woman Borges, Jorge Luis: 1899-1986; Argentinean short All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes story writer, essayist, poet and man of letters Andersen, Sherwood: 1876-1941; American Collected Fictions novelist, short story writer, essayist The Aleph and other Stories Winesburg, Ohio The Book of Sand Dark Laughter Seven Nights Asimov, Isaac : 1920-present; Russian-American Borland, Hal : 1900-1978 American writer novelist and science fiction writer When Legends Die As Far As Human Eye Could See Bradbury, Ray : Present American novelist, short Nine Tomorrows story writer and screenplay writer Atwood, Margaret: 1939-present; Canadian Dandelion Wine novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, Something Wicked This Way Comes numerous literary awards Fahrenheit 451 The Handmaid’s Tale The October Country Alias Grace Martian Chronicles Lady Oracle Brink, Andre: 1935-present South African activist and The Circle Game writer Austen, Jane: 1775-1817; English novelist A Dry White Season Bronte, Anne: 1829-1849; English novelist and Death Comes for the Archbishop poet Sapphira and the Slave Girl Agnes Grey Cervantes, Miguel de: 1547-1616; Spanish novelist The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Don Quixote Bronte, Charlotte: 1816-1855; English governess Chaucer, Geoffrey: Medieval English author and novelist The Canterbury Tales Jane Eyre Chopin, Kate: 1859-1904; American novelist Emma The Awakening The Professor Chekhov, Anton: 1860-1904; Russian novelist, Bronte, Emily: 1818-1848; English novelist playwright and short story writer Wuthering Heights The Cherry Orchard Buechner, Frederick 1926-present American author Uncle Vanya The Alphabet of Grace The Seagull Telling the Truth Chesterton, G. K.: 1874-1936 British theologian & Book of Bebb author Brendan The Man Who Was Thursday Buck, Pearl S.: 1892-1973; American novelist, Orthodoxy daughter of missionaries, raised in China, Pulitzer Chung, Jung: 1952-present Chinese-British author prize Wild Swans The Good Earth Cisneros, Sandra: 1957-present Mexican-American Sons author A House Divided The House on Mango Street Death in the Castle Coetzee, J. M. : 1940-present South African writer; Imperial Woman Nobel prize winner The Living Reed The Life and Times of Michael K To My Daughters Coelho, Paolo 1947-present Brazilian Bunyon, John: 1628-1688; English writer and philosopher/writer preacher The Alchemist Pilgrim’s Progress The Pilgrimage The Holy City or The New Jerusalem Conrad, Joseph: 1857-1924; Polish immigrant to Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners France, later English citizen, certified master seaman, (autobiography) novelist and short story writer Burns, Olive Anne: 1924-1990 American author Heart of Darkness Cold Sasy Tree Lord Jim Calvino, Italo: 1923-1985 Italian writer Cooper, James Fennimore: 1789-1851; American The Watcher and Other Stories novelist Our Ancestors The Last of the Mohicans Card, Orson Scott 1951-present American science- The Deerslayer fiction writer The Prairie Enders Game The Pathfinder Children of the Monday Courtenay, Bryce: 1934-present, Australian author Speaker for the Dead born in South Africa Camus, Albert: 1913-1960; French philosopher, The Power of One novelist, essayist, journalist, raised in Algeria Crane, Stephen: 1871-1900; American novelist, short The Stranger story writer and poet The Myth of Sysiphysus The Red Badge of Courage The Fall Maggie: A Girl of the Streets The Plague Crutcher, Chris: 1946-present American writer Caligula Whale Talk Carson, Rachel: 1907-1964; American writer and Athletic Shorts marine biologist Dante, Alighieri: 1265-1321; Italian poet The Sea Around Us The Divine Comedy The Edge of the Sea Darwin, Charles: 1809-1882; English scientist The Silent Spring The Voyage of the Beagle Cather, Willa: 1873-1947; American journalist, Origin of Species novelist, Nobel prize for literature Delany, Sara & Elizabeth: 1889-1999; 1891-1995 One of Ours American sisters O Pioneers Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years My Antonia Defoe, Daniel: 1660-1731; English poet, essayist, The Waste Land novelist, playwright Journey of the Magi Robinson Crusoe The Four Quartets Moll Flanders Little Gidding Jared Diamond 1937 American biologist drama Guns, Germs, and Steel Murder in the Cathedral Dickens, Charles: 1812-1870; English novelist The Cocktail Party Oliver Twist essay A Tale of Two Cities The Sacred Wood Hard Times After Strange Gods Great Expectations The Idea of a Christian Society David Copperfield Ellison, Ralph: 1914-present; American novelist Bleak House Invisible Man Dinesen, Isak or Baroness Karen Dinesen Blixen: Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 1803-1882 American essayist 1885-1962; Danish short story writer, lived in & poet British East Africa, modern Kenya Selected Essays Out of Africa Erdich, Louise: 1954 Native-American novelist Winter’s Tales Love Medicine Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 1821-1881; Russian novelist Esquivel, Laura: 1950-present Mexican author Crime and Punishment Like Water for Chocolate The Idiot Euripides: c. 480-407 B.C.; Greek writer of tragedy Brothers Karamazov Medea The Adolescent Electra Douglass, Frederick: 1817?-1895; American The Baccae abolitionist, orator and journalist, the son of a slave Faulkner, William: 1897-1962; American novelist and and a white father, escaped to the north short story writer, Nobel prize for literature Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Light in August Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: 1859-1930; English The Sound and the Fury novelist/mystery writer As I Lay Dying Sherlock Holmes Absolom, Absolom! The White Company Intruder in the Dust The Lost World Fielding, Henry: 1707-1754; English novelist Drieser, Theodore: 1871-1945; American novelist The Miser Sister Carrie The Life and Death of Tom Thumb An American Tragedy Tom Jones Dumas, Alexandre: 1802-1870; French dramatist Fitzgerald, F. Scott: American novelist and novelist This Side of Paradise The Count of Monte Cristo The Great Gatsby The Three Musketeers Tender is the Night The Man in the Iron Mask Flagg, Fannie: 1944-present American novelist Dumaurier, Daphne: 1907-1989; English novelist Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and short story writer Welcome to the World, Baby Girl Rebecca Flaubert, Gustave: 1821-1880, French novelist Jamaica Inn Madame Bovary Edwards, Kim: present American The Temptation of St. Anthony The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Forster, E.M.: 1879-1970; English novelist Eliot, Elizabeth: -present; American missionary, A Passage to India author, speaker Where Angels Fear to Tread A Chance to Die A Room With A View Through Gates of Splendor Howard’s End Eliot, George, or Mary Ann Evans: 1819-1880; Frankl, Victor E.: ; psychologist and author; English novelist Holocaust survivor Adam Bede Man’s Search for Meaning The Mill on the Floss Franklin, Benjamin: 1706-1790; American diplomat, Silas Marner scientist, publisher, inventor, author Middlemarch Autobiography Eliot, Thomas Stearns: 1888-1965: American, short stories British poet and essayist The Whistle Prufrock and Other Observations The Ephemera Gaarder, Josrein: 1952-present Norwegian writer Mythology Sophie’s World Hammett, Dashiell : 1894-1961; American detective Solitaire Mystery story writer Greene, Graham: 1904-1994 English playwright, The Maltese Falcon novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic The Thin Man The Power and the Glory Hansberry, Lorraine: 1930-1965; American The Heart of the Matter playwright Gains, Ernest J.: 1933- ; American novelist and A Raisin in the Sun short story writer Hardy, Thomas: 1840-1928; English novelist, poet Of Love and Dust Far From the Madding Crowd The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman The Return of the Native In My Father’s House Tess of the D’Urbervilles Galsworthy, John: 1867-1933; English novelist, The Mayor of Castorbridge playwright, essayist Hawking, Stephen: 1942-present British scientist The Forsythe Saga A Brief History of Time The Man of Property Hawthorne, Nathaniel: 1804-1864; American novelist Godwin, Gail: 1937-present American author and short story writer Father Melancholy’s Daughter The Scarlet Letter Philip Gourevitch 1961-present American author, The Blithesdale Romance inspired “Hotel Rwanda” The House of Seven Gables We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Heany, Seamus: 1939- ; Irish poet and writer Killed with out Families Death of a Naturalist Guterson, David: 1956-present American author Door into the Dark Snow Falling on Cedars Field Work Gardner, John: 1933-1982; American novelist and The Haw Lantern medievalist Heinlein, Robert A.: 1907-1988; American science The Sunlight Dialogues fiction writer, engineer and naval officer Grendel Stranger in a Strange Land Jason and Medeia Starship Troopers Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: 1749-1832; Heller, Joseph: 1923- ; American novelist and German poet, novelist, critic, dramatist, scientist W.W.II bombardier Faust Catch 22 Golden, Arthur 1956 – present American author Good as Gold Memoirs of a Geisha Hemingway, Ernest: 1898-1961; American novelist Golding, Sir William: 1911- ; English novelist, and short story writer Nobel Prize for literature The Old Man and the Sea Lord of the Flies A Farewell to Arms The Inheritors For Whom the Bell Tolls Pincher Martin The Sun Also Rises Rites of Passage Hersey, John: 1914-1993 American author and Gordimer, Nadine: 1923- ; South African novelist journalist and short story writer; Nobel Prize for literature Hiroshima The Lying Days James Herriott: 1916-1995 British veterinarian A Guest of Honor All Creatures Great and Small July’s People Hesse, Herman: 1877-1962; German novelist, critic, My Son’s Story poet, son and grandson of missionaries to India, Nobel Burger’s Daughter prize for literature Griffen, John Howard: 1920-1980 American Siddhartha Journalist Steppenwolf Black Like Me Magister Ludi Gunther, John: 1901 – 1970 American journalist Hinton, S.E. 1948-presentAmerican writer and writer The Outsiders Death Be Not Proud Homer: Ionian Poet Haley, Alex: 1921- ; American writer, Pulitzer Illiad prize winner Odyssey The Autobiography of Malcolm Hosseini, Khaled: 1965-present Afghani-American RootsX author Hamilton, Edith:1868-1963 German-American The Kite Runner author A Thousand Splendid Suns Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki & James :1934-present Metamorphosis writer confined in Manzanar Japanese internment Kawabata, Yasunari: 1899-1972; Japanese novelist, camp Nobel prize for literature Farewell to Manzanar Snow Country Hugo, Victor: 1802-1885; French dramatist, poet, Thousand Cranes novelist The Master of Go Notre Dame de Paris Keillor, Garrison 1942-present American writer & Les Miserables radio personality Hurston, Zora Neale: 1901-1960; American Lake Woebegone Days folklorist, novelist and short story writer Keller, Helen: 1880-1986; American memoirist, Tell My Horse essayist and counsellor on international relations for Their Eyes Were Watching God the American Foundation of the Blind Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiagraphy The Story of My Life Jonah’s Gourd Vine Out of Dark Huxley, Aldous: 1894-1973; English novelist, Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy essayist, satirist My Religion Brave New World Kesey, Ken: 1935-2001 American writer Ape and Essence One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ibsen, Henrik: 1828-1906; Norwegian dramatist Keneally, Thomas: 1935- ; Australian novelist Peer Gynt Bring Larks and Heroes A Doll’s House in Four Great Plays Gossip in the Forest An Enemy of the People in Four Great Plays Schindler’s Ark (U.S. Schindler’s List) Ghosts in Four Great Plays Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye: 1813-1855; Danish Hedda Gabler theologian Irving, John: 1942- ; American novelist, short Either/Or story writer and essayist Fear and Trembling A Prayer for Owen Meany Kidd, Sue Monk: 1948-present American Ishiguro, Kazuo: 1954-present Japanese-British The Secret Life of Bees author King, Martin Luther: 1929-1968; American minister, The Remains of the Day civil rights activist and writer Never Let Me Go Stride Toward Freedom James, Henry: 1843-1916; American novelist, Letter From a Birmingham Jail essayist, playwright Kingsolver, Barbara: 1955-present American novelist, The Portrait of a Lady essayist, and poet The Wings of the Dove The Poisonwood Bible Roderick Hudson The Bean Trees James, P. D.: 1920-present British mystery writer Pigs in Heaven Shroud for a Nightingale Animal Dreams A Taste for Death High Tide in Tuscon The Children of Men Small Wonders Johnson, Ben: 1572-1637: English poet and Kingston, Maxine Hone: 1940-present Chinese- dramatist American writer Every Man in His Humour The Woman Warrior Every Man out of His Humour Kipling, Rudyard: 1865-1936; English poet and Volpone, or The Fox novelist, raised in India, Nobel prize for literature The Alchemist Kim Joyce, James: 1882-1941; Irish poet, dramatist, The Jungle Book novelist Knowles, John: 1926- ; American novelist A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Separate Peace Finnegans Wake Koestler, Arthur: 1905-1983; Hungarian born English Dubliners (short stories) novelist and essayist, ardent Zionist Chamber Music (poetry) Spanish Treatment Exiles (drama) Scum of the Earth Ulysses (novel) Darkness at Noon Kafka, Franz: 1883-1924; German novelist Alex Kotlowitz: - Present American journalist and The Trial author The Castle There Are No Children Here short stories Jhumpa Lahiri 1967 Indian American author The Country Doctor The Interpreter of Maladies Lamott, Anne: 1954-present American novelist and Malamud, Bernard: 1914-1986 Jewish-American non-fiction writer author Traveling Mercies The Assistant Bird by Bird Malcolm X: 1925-1965 American civil rights activist Rosie and author Crooked Little Heart The Autobiography of Malcolm X Lawrence, D.H.: 1885-1930; English novelist Malraux, Andre: 1901-1976 French author, Sons and Lovers adventurer, and statesman Lady Chatterley’s Lover Man’s Fate Lee, Nelle Harper: 1926- present American Nelson Mandela 1918 South African activist, novelist, Pulitzer prize winner statesman & president To Kill A Mockingbird A Long Walk to Freedom LeGuin, Ursula: 1929-present American fantasy Mann, Thomas: 1875-1955; German novelist, short author story writer, literary critic A Wizard of Earthsea The Magic Mountain The Dispossessed Joseph and His Brothers The Left Hand of Darkness Death in Venice Levy, Primo: 1919-1987 Jewish-Italian chemist Joseph the Provider The Periodic Table Marshall, Catherine:1914- 1983 American author Lewis, Sinclair: 1885-1951; American novelist, the Christy first American to be awarded a Nobel prize for Martell, Yann: 1963-present Canadian author literature Life of Pi Babbitt Mathabane, Mark: South African novelist and political Arrowsmith activist Lewis, Clive Staples: 1898-1963; English novelist, Kaffir Boy literary scholar, essayist on Christian theology and Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: 1927-present Columbian moral problems novelist, winner of the Nobel prize for literature Out of the Silent Planet Love in the Time of Cholera Perelandra One Hundred Years of Solitude That Hideous Strength Markandaya, Kamala: 1924-2004 Indian novelist and The Problem of Pain journalist The Screwtape Letters ∆ Nectar in a Sieve London, Jack: 1876-1916; American novelist and Mauriac, Francois: 1885-1970; French novelist, short story writer dramatist, essayist White Fang The Desert of Love The Call of the Wild A Woman of the Pharisees The Iron Heel James McBride: 1957-present American author and Lowry, Lois: American novelist journalist The Giver The Color of Water Gathering Blue McCarthy, Cormac: 1933- ; American novelist The Messenger All the Pretty Horses L’Engle, Madeline: 1918-2007 American novelist The Orchard Keeper and writer of Christian reflection Outer Dark Certain Women Child of God A Small Rain Frank McCourt: 1930-present Irish American author A Severed Wasp Angela’s Ashes Walking on Water McCullers, Carson: 1917-1967; American novelist and The Rock that is Higher short story writer Lowry, Malcolm: 1909-1957 British poet & The Heart is A Lonely Hunter novelist The Ballad of the Sad Café Under the Volcano James McPherson: 1936-present American historian MacLeish, Archibald: 1892-1982; American poet, and author playwright, teacher Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era The Irresponsibles Melville, Herman: 1819-1891; American novelist, J.B. poet Machiavelli, Niccolo: 1469-1527 Italian Moby-Dick, or The Whale philosopher Typee The Prince Pierre or The Ambiguities Billy Budd The Confidence-Man, His Masquerade Pasternak, Boris: 1890-1960; Russian lyric poet and Miller, Donald: present American writer of novelist, awarded the Nobel prize for literature but Christian non-fiction forced to reject it by the Soviet Union Blue Like Jazz Doctor Zhivago Searching for God Knows What Paton, Alan: 1903-1988; South African novelist and Painted Deserts humanitarian Milton, John: 1608-1674; English poet and prose Cry, the Beloved Country writer Too Late the Phalarope Il Penseroso Tales from a Troubled Land Paradise Lost Ann Patchett: 1963-present American author Paradise Regained Bel Canto Samson Agonistes Percy, Walker: 1916- ; American novelist Miller, Arthur: 1915- ; American playwright, The Moviegoer essayist The Last Gentleman All My Sons The Second Coming The Crucible Harold Pinter: 1930-present British playwright Death of a Salesman The Homecoming Mistry, Rohinton: 1952-present Canadian writer The Caretaker A Fine Balance The Birthday Party Mitchell, Margaret; 1900-1949; American novelist Pirandello, Luigi: 1867-1936; Italian dramatist and Gone with the Wind novelist, awarded Nobel prize for literature Moliere or Jean Baptiste Poquelin: 1622-1673; Six Characters in Search of an Author French comic dramatist The Late Mattia Pascal The Imposter Plath, Sylvia: 1932-1963; American poet and novelist Tartuffe The Colossus The Misanthrope Winter Trees Morrison, Toni: 1931- ; American editor, novelist, The Bell Jar educator, playwright, and Nobel prize winner Plato: c.427-c.348; Greek philosopher and prose writer Sula Apology The Bluest Eye Republic Beloved The Last Days of Socrates Tar Baby Proust, Marcel: 1871-1922 French writer Myers, Walter Dean: 1937-present American writer Swann’s Way Monster Potok, Chaim: 1929- ; American novelist, ordained Fallen Angels rabbi, dealt with the incompatibility of artistry and Shooter religion V. S. Naipaul: 1932-present Trinidadian-Briitish The Chosen author The Promise A Bend in the River My Name is Asher Lev Oates, Joyce Carol: 1938-present American writer The Book of Lights Bellefleur Pynchon, Thomas: 1937-present American writer O’Connor, Flannery: 1925-1964; American short The Crying of Lot 49 story writer and novelist Remarque, Erich Maria: 1898-1970; German novelist short stories and journalist A Good Man is Hard to Find All Quiet on the Western Front Everything that Rises Must Converge A Time to Love and A Time to Die novels Richardson, Samuel: 1689-1761 English writer Wise Blood Clarissa The Violent Bear it Away Roosevelt, Eleanor: 1884-1962; American Eugene O’NeilU 1888-1953 American playwright humanitarian, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt Desire Under the Elms This I Remember Long Day’s Journey Into Night On My Own The Hairy Ape Rand, Ayn: 1905-1982; Russian born American Morning Becomes Electra novelist Orwell, George, or Eric Arthur Blair: 1903-1950; We the Living English novelist, essayist and critic The Fountainhead Animal Farm Rhys, Jean: 1894-1979; English novelist and short 1984 story writer, born in the West Indies After leaving Mr. Mackenzie Wide Sargasso Sea Antigone Rostand, Edmond: 1868-1918; French playwright Soyinka, Wole: 1934- ; Nigerian poet, playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac essayist, Nobel Prize for literature The Princess Faraway A Dance of the Forests The Woman of Samaria The Lion and the Jewel Salinger, J.D.: 1919- ; American novelist and Ake: The Years of Childhood (autobiographical) short story writer Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: 1918- ; Russian novelist, The Catcher in the Rye exiled by the Soviet Union, awarded Nobel prize for Sartre, Jean-Paul: 1905-1980 French philosopher literature & writer A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Nausea The First Circle Scott, Sir Walter: 1771-1832; Scottish novelist and Cancer Ward poet of the Romantic period Steinbeck, John: 1902-1968; American novelist, The Bride of Lammermoor awarded a Pulitzer prize and a Nobel prize for Ivanhoe literature Seierstad, Asne: Present Norwegian journalist Tortilla Flat The Bookseller of Kabul Of Mice and Men Shakespeare, William: English playwright and poet The Grapes of Wrath King Lear The Red Pony Hamlet Travels with Charley The Merchant of Venice East of Eden A Midsummernight’s Dream The Winter of Our Discontent Macbeth Stendhal: (Marie-Henri Beyle) 1783-1842 French Much Ado About Nothing writer As You Like It The Red and The Black Shaara, Michael: 1928-1988 American author Stephenson, Neal: 1959-present American writer The Killer Angels Snow Crash Gods and Generals Stevenson, Robert Lewis: 1850-1894; Scottish Shaw, George Bernard: 1856-1950 British novelist, poet, essayist playwright The Bodysnatcher Pygmalion The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Man and Superman: Kidnapped Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: 1797-1851; English Treasure Island novelist Stoppard Tom: 1937 – present Czech-British Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus playwright Sinclair, Upton: 1878-1968; American novelist and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead non-fiction writer Stowe, Harriet Beecher: 1811-1896; American The Jungle novelist and abolitionist King Coal Uncle Tom’s Cabin Sienkiewicz, Henryk: 1846-1916; Polish novelist, Swift, Jonathan: 1667-1745; English satirist, poet, awarded Nobel prize for literature political writer and clergyman, born in Dublin With Fire and Sword The Battle of the Books The Teutonic Knights Gulliver’s Travels Quo Vadis? A Modest Proposal Silko, Leslie Marmon: 1948-present Native- Tan, Amy:1952-present Chinese-American author American writer The Joy Luck Club Ceremony The Kitchen God’s Wife Singer, Isaac Bashevis: 1904- ; Yiddish novelist, Tocqueville, Alexis de: 1805-1859; French historian, short story writer, critic, journalist and Nobel prize known for studies of democracy winner Democracy in America The Family Moskat Tolkien, J.R.R.: 1892-1973; English philologist, writer Shosha of fantasies, professor of medieval literature Enemies The Hobbit Smith, Alexander McCall: 1948-present The Lord of the Rings, trilogy Zimbabwean-Scottish writer The Simarillion The Number One Ladies Detective Agency (entire Thurber, James: 1894-1961; American essayist, short series story writer, humorist, artist, early journalist for the Sophocles: 494-406BC Greek tragedian New Yorker Oedipus The Thurber Carnival Tuchman, Barbara: American historian You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down A Distant Mirror Meridian Turgenov, Ivan: 1818-1883 Russian writer The Color Purple Fathers and Sons Warren, Robert Penn: 1905- ; American poet, Twain, Mark, or Samuel Langhorne Clemens: novelist, first poet laureate of the United States 1835-1910; American humorist and novelist Night Rider A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court All The King’s Men The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Band of Angels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Wangeran, Walter: 1944-Present American author Pudd’nhead Wilson Book of the Dun Cow Tyler, Anne: 1941-present Pulitzer Prize winning Book of Sorrows American novelist Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915 American author Breathing Lessons and activist Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Up From Slavery The Accidental Tourist Wells, H.G.: 1866-1946; English novelist and St. Maybe journalist, science fiction writer and satirist Thackery, William: 1811-1863; English novelist The Time Machine and satirist, born in India The War of The Worlds The Yellowplush Correspondence Welty, Eudora: 1909- ; American short story writer The Virginians and novelist, Pulitzer prize Vanity Fair Delta Wedding Theroux, Paul: 1941- ; American novelist and The Ponder Heart travel writer, teacher in Malawi, Uganda, The Optimist’s Daughter Singapore Wharton, Edith: 1862-1937; American novelist and Saint Jack short story writer The Mosquito Coast The House of Mirth Tolstoy, Leo: 1828-1910; Russian novelist and The Valley of Derision moral philosopher Ethan Frome The Cossacks Wiesel, Elie: 1928- ; Rumanian-born Jewish- War and Peace American novelist and essayist, Nobel Peace prize Anna Karenina winner The Death of Ivan Ilyich Night Yoshiko Uchida:: 1922-present Japanese-American The Accident author Death Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese- Wilde, Oscar, or Fingal O’Flahertie Wills: American Family 1854-1900; Irish born dramatist, poet, novelist Updike, John: 1932- ; American novelist, short The Picture of Dorian Gray story writer, poet The Importance of Being Earnest Rabbit, Run Wilder, Thornton: 1897-1975; American novelist and Rabbit Redux playwright Rabbit is Rich The Bridge of San Luis Ray The Coup The Ides of March Marry Me The Eighth Day Undset, Sigrid: 1882-1949; Norwegian novelist, Our Town Nobel prize for literature Williams, Charles: 1886-1945; English novelist, poet, Kristin Lavransdatter playwright, and critic, friend of C.S. Lewis The Axe Descent into Hell In the Wilderness Williams, Tennessee:1911-1983 American playwright, Verne, Jules: 1828-1905; French novelist winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Glass Menagerie Voyage to the Center of the Earth Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Voltaire: 1694-1778 French philosopher August Wilson: 1945-2005 American playwright Candide The Piano Lesson Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: 1922- ; American novelist Whitman, Walt: 1819-1892; American poet, journalist, and essayist, science fiction writer essayist Cat’s Cradle Leaves of Grass Slaughterhouse Five White, T.H.: 1906-1964; English writer Walker, Alice: 1944- ; American novelist, short The Once and Future King story writer, poet Mistress Masham’s Repose Woolf, Virginia:1882-1941; English novelist and literary critic Jacob’s Room The Waves To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway’s Party Age of Innocence Wright, Richard: 1908-1960; American novelist Uncle Tom’s Children Native Son Black Boy The Outsiders Yancey, Philip: 1949-present American writer on Christian thought What’s so Amazing about Grace? Disappointment with God The Jesus I Never Knew Howard Zinn: 1922-present American historian A People’s History of the United States