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