ENG 095-College Reading & Study Skills Revised 9/08

ENG 095-College Reading & Study Skills Revised 9/08 Comprehensive Book List

Your novel must be chosen from this list unless you have received approval for a different book from your instructor before the due date.

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY A Child Called Noah by Josh Greenfield Brian's Song by William Blinn Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Don't Block the Blessings: Revelations of a Lifetime by Patti LaBelle Eric by Doris Lund It's Always Something by Gilda Radnor Karen by Marie Killilea Lauren Becall by Myself by Lauren Becall Midnight Express by Billy Hayes Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier Personal History by Katherine Graham Still Me by Christopher Reeve The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Tis by Frank McCourt

ETHNIC Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Having Our Say by Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou Jubilee by Margaret Walker Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane Nigger by Dick Gregory The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Color of Water by James McBride Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

FANTASY The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerine Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling The God Game by Andrew Greeley The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart Watership Dragon by Richard Adams

HISTORICAL 1 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Custer's Last Stand by Will Henry Freedom by Howard Fast Lincoln by Gore Vidal Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi The Immigrants by Howard Fast The Jews by Howard Fast The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Last Days of Patton by Ladislas Farago The Last Frontier by Howard Fast Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

HORROR All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark Bag of Bones by Stephen King Intensity by Dean Koontz Legion by William Peter Blatty Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark You Belong to Me by Mary Higgins Clark

HUMOR Chasing Cézanne by Peter Magee Do Black Patent Shoes Really Reflect Up by John R. Powers Fatherhood by Bill Cosby Fatso by Anne Bancroft Heartburn by Nora Ephron Me Talk Pretty Someday by David Sedaris Motherhood the Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck P.S. Your Cat is Dead by James Kirkwood Some Kind of Hero by James Kirkwood Time Flies by Bill Cosby Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman

MYSTERY After All These Years by Susan Issacs A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton Bear Island by Alistair McLean Black Friday by James Patterson Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts Contagion by Robin Cook Hugger Mugger by Robert Parker Magic Hour by Susan Issacs Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman Murder at the National Gallery by Margaret Truman Murder in the Blue Room by Elliott Roosevelt Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman MYSTERY (continued) 10 lb. Penalty by Dick Francis 2 The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman The Painted House by John Grisham The Partner by John Grisham The Street Lawyer by John Grisham The Testament by John Grisham To the Hilt by Dick Francis When the Wind Blows by James Patterson Worst Fear Realized by Stuart Woods

NEWS/DOCUMENTARY Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson Children's Hospital by Peggy Anderson Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss Serpentine by Thomas Thompson The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe

ROMANCE A Dangerous Man by Rosemary Rogers Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodwiss A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks Bittersweet by Danielle Steel Change of Heart by Sally Mandel Crossings by Danielle Steel Irresistible Forces by Danielle Steel It's OK If You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein Man, Woman, and Child by Erich Segal Mirror Image by Danielle Steel Mr. and Mrs. BoJo Jones by Ann Head Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon Second Heaven by Judith Guest Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodwiss Special Delivery by Danielle Steel The Loop by Nicholas Evans The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks The Promise by Danielle Steel The Ring by Danielle Steel The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Wedding by Danielle Steel

SCIENCE FICTION Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov I, Robot by Isaac Asimov The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 20I0: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clark

SPORTS 3 A Season on the Brink by Bobby Knight Distant Replay by Jerry Kramer Heir to a Dream by Pete Maravich I Am Third by Gale Sayers Meat on the Hoof by Gary Shaw Off the Court by Arthur Ashe Reggie by Reggie Jackson The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn The Franchise by Peter Gent The Only Way I Know by Cal Ripken and Mike Bryan When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss

SPY/INTRIGUE Cathedral by Nelson DeMille Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler Day of Drums by Phillip Shelby Double Image by Helen McInnes Last Rights by Phillip Shelby Saving Faith by David Baldacci The Charm School by Nelson DeMille The Simple Truth by David Baldacci The Venetian Affair by Helen McInnes The Winner by David Baldacci Where Eagles Dare by Alistair McLean

WAR Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt American Boys by Steven Phillip Smith April Morning by Howard Fast A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Bat-21 by William C. Anderson Better Times than These by Winston Groom Dispatches by Michael Herr Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler Flower of the Dragon by Richard Boyle Gardens of Stone by Nicholas Proffitt If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien Soldiers of '44 by William P. McGivern The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

WESTERN Alias Butch Cassidy by Will Henry All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Rebellion at Cripple Creek by Jack Ehrlich Sackett by Louis L'Amour Son of a Wanted Man by Louis L'Amour WESTERN (continued) The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Sooners by Lee Davis Willoughby 4 MISCELLANEOUS Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Empire Falls by Richard Russo Gap Creek by Robert Morgan Girl with a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier House of Fog and Sand by Andre Dubres III Jewel by Bret Lott Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler Life of Pi by Yann Martel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes Open House by Elizabeth Berg She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb Summer Sisters by Judy Blume The Archivist by Martha Cooley The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates While I Was Gone by Sue Miller White Oleander by Janet Fitch