Summer Reading List Books by Title

Literature: Non - American Death in Venice by ​ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes ​ ​ A Doll’s House by by J. M. Coetzee ​ ​ A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight ​ A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters by Alexandra Fuller ​ A Personal Anthology by Jorge L. Borges Dr. Zhivago by ​ ​ A Tale of Two Cities by Dubliners by ​ ​ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Emma by Jane Austen ​ ​ ​ A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot Enduring Love by Ian McEwan ​ ​ A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Everything is Illuminated ​ All Quiet on the Western Front by Jonathan Safran Foer by Erich Remarque Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev ​ All Rivers Run to by Elie Wiesel Freedom by Jonathan Franzen ​ ​ An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift ​ ​ Androcles and the Lion Half of a Yellow Sun by by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Animal Farm by Heart of Darkness by ​ Anna Karenina by Hound of the Baskervilles by Sherlock Holmes ​ ​ Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III ​ ​ Another Bull---- Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn I, Claudius by Robert Graves ​ ​ Atonement by Ian McEwan King Jesus by Robert Graves ​ ​ Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Independence Day by ​ ​ Marquez Island by Aldous Huxley ​ Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ​ ​ Beast of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy ​ ​ Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant Krakatoa by Simon Winchester ​ ​ Beowulf by L'Assommoir by Emile Zola ​ ​ Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Labyrinths by Jorge L. Borges ​ ​ by Aldous Huxley Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse ​ ​ Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ​ ​ Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke ​ ​ Candide by Voltaire Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad ​ ​ Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Lord of the Flies by ​ ​ Captains Courageous by Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien ​ ​ Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi Love in the TIme of Cholera ​ Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ​ Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres by Gustave Flaubert ​ ​ Crime and Punishment b​ y Fyodor Dostoyevsky Manon Lescaut by L’Abbaye Prevost ​ ​ Cry, The Country by Alan Paton Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard ​ ​ Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Mrs. Dalloway by ​ ​ Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey My Family and Other Animals Gerald ​ ​ My Son’s Story by The French Lieutenant’s Woman-John Fowles ​ ​ Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat The Gates of the Forest by Elie Wiesel ​ ​ No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre by ​ ​ Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles The Handmaid’s Tale by ​ ​ Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene ​ ​ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ​ ​ On the Beach by Nevil Shute The Human Comedy by Honore de Balzac ​ ​ Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo ​ ​ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by The Importance of Being Earnest ​ Alexander Solzhenitsyn by Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen The Iron Lance by Stephen R. Lawhead ​ ​ Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Last Gentleman Adventurer by Edward ​ ​ Parrot and Olivier in America by Beauclerk Maurice ​ Perfume by Patrick Suskind The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ​ ​ Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie The Lost Domain by Henri Alain-Fournier ​ ​ Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh ​ by James Joyce The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins ​ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco ​ ​ by George Bernard Shaw The Namesake by ​ ​ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Nine Tailor by Sayers ​ ​ Remains of the Day by The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ​ Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy by Alexander McCall Smith ​ ​ Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski ​ ​ Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ​ ​ Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell ​ ​ Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay ​ ​ Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol The Quiet American by Graham Greene ​ ​ Siddhartha by The Rage of the Vulture by ​ ​ Silas Marner by George Eliot The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence ​ ​ Songlines in by Bruce Chatwin The Red and the Black by Stendhal ​ ​ Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence from Coorain by Jill Conway ​ ​ Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi The Rumple Omnibus by John Mortimer ​ ​ Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis ​ ​ The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm The Stranger by ​ ​ The Art of War by Tzu Sun The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass ​ ​ by The Trial by ​ ​ The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Unbearable Lightness of Being ​ The Brothers Karamazov by by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The War of the by Jorge Amado ​ by The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame ​ ​ The Damnation of Theron Ware Thérèse Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac ​ by Harold Frederic Things Fall Apart by ​ ​ The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies Thousand Cranes by ​ ​ The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield ​ ​ The Dream of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ​ ​ by by ​ ​ The Feast of the Goat by White Teeth by Zadie Smith ​ ​ Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ​ Literature: American Ethan Frome by ​ A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman Evolution’s Captain by Peter Nichols ​ ​ A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ​ ​ A Gentleman of Color by Julie Winch Fences by August Wilson ​ ​ A Prayer for Owen Meany by Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates ​ ​ ​ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry by Tom Robbins ​ A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean For Whom the Bell Tolls by ​ ​ A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold Foundation by Isaac Asimov ​ ​ A Separate Peace by John Knowles Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger ​ ​ A Single Pebble by John Hershey Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel ​ ​ A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway ​ by Ray Bradbury Genome by Matt Ridley ​ ​ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Gwendolyn Brooks Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin ​ ​ A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz Gone with the Wind by ​ ​ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Henderson, The Rain King by ​ ​ Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Hiroshima by John Hershey ​ ​ All the King’s Men by Robert Warren House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne ​ ​ All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ​ by by Maya Angelou ​ And the Walls Came Tumbling Down If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien ​ by Ralph Abernathy Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley ​ Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ​ by by Harriet Jacobs ​ ​ Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner by Jhumpa Lahiri ​ ​ Behind the Beautiful Flowers by Katherine Boo Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer ​ ​ Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ​ ​ Beloved by Islandia by Austin Wright ​ ​ Black Boy by Richard Wright Lie Down in Darkness by ​ ​ Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by Maile Meloy by John & Mildred Teal Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ​ ​ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Lives of the Cell by Lewis Thomas ​ ​ Call of the Wild by Jack Longitude by Dava Sobel ​ ​ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Looking for a Ship by John McPhee ​ ​ Cat’s Cradle by Martin’s Hundred by Ivor Noel Hume ​ ​ Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick ​ ​ Chesapeake by James Michener Middle Passage by Charles Johnson ​ ​ Cider House Rules by John Irving by ​ ​ CivilWarLand in Bad Decline Moby Dick by Herman Melville ​ by Modoc by Ralph Helfer ​ Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough ​ ​ Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez My Antonia by ​ ​ Deliverance by James Dickey Native Son by Richard Wright ​ ​ Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks ​ ​ Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger ​ ​ Elmer Gantry by No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy ​ ​ by Noah’s Flood ​ Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee by William Ryan and Walter Pitman ​ ​ Of Mice and Men by by ​ ​ by The Confessions of Nat Turner by William ​ ​ On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Mosher Styron ​ On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Crucible by ​ ​ Once the Shore by Paul Yoon The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota ​ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Odyssey by Joe Starita ​ ​ Our Town by Wilder Thornton The Floating Opera by John Barth ​ ​ Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Gift of the by Thomas Cahill ​ ​ Oysterback Tales by Helen Chappell The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow ​ ​ Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ​ ​ Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ​ ​ Rabbit, Run by by ​ ​ Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell The Good Doctor by ​ ​ Red Moon by Benjamin Percy by Pearl S. Buck ​ ​ Right Hand Shore by Christopher Tilghman The Great Santini by Pat Conroy ​ ​ Roots by Alex Haley The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw ​ ​ Rough Crossings by Simon Schama The History of Love by Nicole Krauss ​ ​ Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings The House on Mango Street ​ Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks by Sandra Cisneros ​ Selected Poems by Robert Frost The Human Comedy by ​ ​ Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill ​ ​ Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack ​ Short Stories by Flannery O’Connor by Rebecca Skloot ​ ​ Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The Interesting Narrative & Other Writings ​ Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser by Olaudah Equiano ​ Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ​ ​ Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball The Jungle by ​ ​ Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon by ​ ​ St. Lucy’s Home for Girls by Karen Russell The Last Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor ​ ​ Stand Before Your God by Paul Watkins The Last Puritan by George Santayana ​ ​ Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein The Light in the Forest by ​ ​ Tender is the Night by S. Scott Fitzgerald The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy ​ ​ Tenth of December by George Saunders The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn ​ ​ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Lost City of Z by David Grann ​ ​ The American Dream by Edward Albee The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson ​ ​ The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman The by E. L. Doctorow ​ by Ernest J. Gaines The of her People by Harriet Tubman ​ The Awakening by by Ernest Hemingway ​ ​ The Beet Queen by The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan ​ ​ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin ​ ​ The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore ​ ​ The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder Thornton The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark ​ ​ The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen ​ by Junot Diaz The Red Tent by Anita Diamant ​ by Sartoris by ​ ​ The Chosen by Chaim Potok The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe ​ ​ The Circle by Dave Eggers The RIse of Silas Lapham by William Howells ​ ​ The Color of Water by James McBride The Road by Cormac McCarthy ​ ​ The Robber Bridegroom by ​ The Short Stories by ​ The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth ​ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ​ The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum ​ The Woman Warrior by Maxine H. Kingston ​ The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor ​ The Worst by Timothy Egan ​ The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte P. Gilman The Story by Edward Albee ​ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff ​ Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson ​ by ​ Towing Jehovah by James Morrow ​ Turning the Tide by Tom Horton ​ Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup ​ Two Old Women by Velma Wallis ​ Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ​ Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose ​ Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer ​ Vampires in the Lemongrove by Karen Russell ​ Walden by Henry D. Thoreau ​ Washington at War by David Brinkley ​ Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ​ What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg ​ Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver ​ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed ​ Wye Island by Boyd Gibbon ​ Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers ​ Young Lion by William Manchester ​ Your God is Too Small by J. B. Phillips ​ Zelda by Nancy Milford ​