Summer Reading List Books by Title
Literature: Non - American Death in Venice by Thomas Mann A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Disgrace 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 Boris Pasternak A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Dubliners by James Joyce 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 the Sea 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 George Bernard Shaw by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Animal Farm by George Orwell Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 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 Richard Ford 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 Seamus Heaney L'Assommoir by Emile Zola Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Labyrinths by Jorge L. Borges Brave New World 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 William Golding Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling 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 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Crime and Punishment b y Fyodor Dostoyevsky Manon Lescaut by L’Abbaye Prevost Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer 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 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 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 Oscar Wilde 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 Peter Carey 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 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Nine Tailor by Dorothy Sayers Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 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 Hermann Hesse The Rage of the Vulture by Barry Unsworth Silas Marner by George Eliot The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence Songlines in Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin The Red and the Black by Stendhal Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence The Road 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 Albert Camus The Art of War by Tzu Sun The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass The Bone People by Keri Hulme The Trial by Franz Kafka The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Brothers Karamazov by Milan Kundera by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The War of the Saints by Jorge Amado The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 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 Chinua Achebe The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata 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 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa White Teeth by Zadie Smith Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Literature: American Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 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 John Irving 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 Ernest Hemingway 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 Margaret Mitchell A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Henderson, The Rain King by Saul Bellow 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 American Rust by Philipp Meyer 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 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner by Harriet Jacobs Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner Interpreter of Maladies 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 Toni Morrison Islandia by Austin Wright Black Boy by Richard Wright Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron 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 London Longitude by Dava Sobel Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Looking for a Ship by John McPhee Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 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 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides CivilWarLand in Bad Decline Moby Dick by Herman Melville by George Saunders Modoc by Ralph Helfer Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez My Antonia by Willa Cather 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 Sinclair Lewis No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Empire Falls by Richard Russo Noah’s Flood Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee by William Ryan and Walter Pitman Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Color Purple by Alice Walker Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout The Confessions of Nat Turner by William On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Mosher Styron On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Crucible by Arthur Miller 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 Jews 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 John Updike The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell The Good Doctor by Neil Simon Red Moon by Benjamin Percy The Good Earth 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 William Saroyan 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 Upton Sinclair Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 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 Conrad Richter 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 March by E. L. Doctorow by Ernest J. Gaines The Moses of her People by Harriet Tubman The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich 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 Crane by Junot Diaz The Red Tent by Anita Diamant The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk The Reivers Sartoris by William Faulkner 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 Eudora Welty The Short Stories by John Cheever 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 Hard Times by Timothy Egan The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte P. Gilman The Zoo 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 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 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