11th Grade Recommended Readings

A Bell for Adano - John Hersey Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry Sophie's Choice - William Styron A Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams And the Earth Did Not Devour Him - Tomas Rivera Studs Lonigan - James Farrell Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton Black Boy - Richard Wright The Assistant - Bernard Malamud Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Daisy Miller - Henry James The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller The Crucible - Arthur Miller East of Eden - John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Fallen Angels - William Dean Myers The Great Santini - Pat Conroy Family - J. California Cooper The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison First Confession - Montserrat Fontes The Jungle - Upton Sinclair For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Singer Hunger of Memory - Richard Rodriguez The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett In Cold Blood - Truman Capote The Massacre at Fall Creek - Jessamyn West J.B. - Archibald McLeish The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain Light in August - William Faulkner The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Main Street - Sinclair Lewis The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane Moby Dick - Herman Melville The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne My Antonia - Willa Cather The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe The Things They Carried - Tim O'brien Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Native Son - Richard Wright Hurston No No Boy - John Okada Thief of Time - Tony Hillerman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Thousand Pieces of Gold - Ruthanne McCann Ordinary People - Judith Guest Thurber's Carnival - James Thurber Our Town - Thornton Wilder Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell Two Years Before the Mast - Richard H. Dana Reservation Blues - Alexie Sherman Winesburg Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (books in bold type highly recommended)