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Novel-Study-Book-List Grade 11 and 12 English • Independent Study Novel List Author Title(s) Call Number Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart FACH Richard Adams Watership Down PBADA Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Cure for Death by Lightning FAND A Recipe for Bees Margaret Atwood Alias Grace FATW Blind Assassin Cat's Eye Edible Women Handmaid's Tale Oryx and Crake Robber Bride Jane Austen Emma FAUS Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Saul Bellow Henog FBEL John Bemrose The Island Walkers FBEM Judy Blume Are you there God? It's me, Margaret PBBLU Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 PB BRA Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre FBRO Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights PB BRO Joseph Boyden Three Day Road FBOY Through Black Spruce Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth FBUC Imperial Woman Kinfolk Letter from Peking Mandala Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange FBUR Bonnie Burnard A Good House FBUR \ Morley Callaghan More Joy in Heaven PB CAL Such is my Beloved Albert Camus The Outsider FCAM Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey PBCLA Leonard Cohen Beautiful Losers PBCOH The Favourite Game Matt Cohen Elizabeth and After FCOH Joseph Conrad Heart ofDarkness FCON Lord Jim Robert Cormier Beyond the Chocolate Wars PBCOR Chocolate Wars I am the Cheese Douglas Coupland Generation X- Tales for an Accelerated FCOU · Culture Hey Nostradamus! Microserfs Robertson Davies · The Cunning Man FDAV The Manticore The Rebel Angels What's Bred in the Bone Anita Diamant The Red Tent FDIA Charles Dickens Adventures ofOliver Twist FDIC A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations The Life and Adventures ofNicholas Nickleby Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment PBDOY Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes FDOY The Hound ofthe Baskervilles The Lost World Alexander Dumas The Count ofMonte Cristo PBDUM The Man in the Iron Mask The Three Musketeers Daphne Du Maurier My Cousin Rachel FDUM Rebecca Kim A. Echlin The Disappeared FECH William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! FFAU The Sound and the Fury @) Herny Fielding Tom Jones FFIE Timothy Findlay Famous Last Words FFIN - Headhunter The Last ofthe Crazy People Not Wanted on the Voyage Piano Man's Daughter Pilgrim The Wars F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned FFIT Love ofthe Last Tycoon Tender is the Night E. M. Forster A Passage to India PB FOR Charles Frazier Cold Mountain FFRA Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World PBGAA Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying FGAI Arthur Golden Memoirs ofa Geisha FGOL William Golding Free Fall FGOL The Inheritors Lord ofthe Flies 1\- The Spire Barbara Gowdy The Romantic FGOW Philippa Gregory The Other Boleyn Girl FGRE Sara Gruen Water for Elephants FGRU David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars FGUT Mark Haddon Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time FHAD Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd FHAR Tess ofthe D 'Urbervilles Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter FHAW Joseph Heller Catch-22 FHEL Ernest Hemingway A Farewe/1 to Arms FHEM The Old Man and the Sea The Snows ofKilimanjaro The Sun also Rises Lawrence Hill The Book ofNegroes FHIL Nick Hornby High Fidelity FHOR ·8 A Long Way Down Janette Turner Hospital Due Preparations for the Plague FHOS Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner FHOS A Thousand Splendid Suns Victor Hugo Les Miserables FHUG Aldous Huxley Brave New World FHUX Anosh Irani Song ofKahunsha FIRA John Irving The Cider House Rules FIRV A Prayer for Owen Meany The World According to Garp Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest PB K.ES Yasmina Khadra The Swallows ofKabul FKHA W. P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe FKIN John Knowles Peace Breaks Out PBKNO A Separate Peace JoyKogawa Obasan Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed FLAM I Know This Much is True She's Come Undone Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms FLAN Lori Lansens The Girls FLAN • Rush Home Road Margaret Laurence The Diviners FLAU The Fire-Dwellers A Jest ofGod The Stone Angel The Tomorrow-Tamer D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers FLAW Stephen Leacock Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich FLEA Last Leaves Winnowed Wisdom John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold FLEC Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy Gaston Leroux The Phantom ofthe Opera FLER Ann-Marie MacDonald Fall on your Knees FMAC Hugh Maclennan Barometer Rising FMACL Two Solitudes Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in FMCC the West No Country for Old Men • The Road Frank McCourt Angela 's Ashes 929.2MCC IanMcEwan Atonement FMCE Ami McKay The Birth House: A Novel FMCK Herman Melville MobyDick FMEL Rohinton Mistry Family Matters FMIN A Fine Balance Such a Long Journey W. 0. Mitchell How I spent my Summer Holiday FMIT Ladybug.Ladybug Who has Seen the Wind Brian Moore Judith Hearne PBMOO Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye FMOR Farley Mowat The Black Joke FMOW The Curse of the Viking Grave The Farfarers .\ Grey Seas Under Never Cry Wolf Alice Munro Dance ofthe Happy Shades FMUN Lives of Girls and Women The Love ofa Good Woman The Progress ofLove Brian Murdoch All Quiet on the Western Front FMUR Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife FNIF Annie Proulx The Shipping News PB PRO Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass FPUL The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife Daniel Quinn Ishmael FQUI Joyce Carol Oates Them FOAT Flannery O'Connor Wise Blood FOCO Michael Ondaatje The English Patient FOND ,a Heather O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals FONE George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four PBORW Animal Farm Mordecai Richter A Choice ofEnemies FRJC - The Incomparable Atuk Joshua Then and Now Nino Ricci Lives ofSaints FRJC Testament Gabrielle Roy Children ofmy Heart PBROY Street ofRiches The Tin Flute J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye PB SAL Franny and Zooey Alice Sebold The Almost Moon FSEB The Lovely Bones Mary Shelley Frankenstein FSHE Carol Shields The Box Garden FSHI Larry's Party The Stone Diaries Unless John Steinbeck Cannery Row FSTE Grapes of Wrath OfMice and Men Bram Stoker Dracula FSTO Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom 's Cabin FSTO William Styron Sophie's Choice PB STY Jonathon Swift Gulliver's Travels FSWI Amy Tan Joy Luck Club FTAN Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 070.92 THO Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness: A Novel FTOE J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit PBTOL The Lord ofthe Rings The Silmarillion Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina FTOL War and Peace Mark Twain The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn FTWA The Adventures of Tom Sa»yer • Life on the Mississippi Anne Tyler IfMorning Ever Comes FTYL John Updike Terrorist FUPD Jane Urquhart The Stone Carvers FURQ The Whirlpool Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days FVER Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five PB VON Alice Walker The Color Purple FWAL Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle FWAL H. G. Wells The Time Machine PBWEL The War ofthe Worlds Oscar Wilde The Importance ofBeing Earnest 822.8WIL The Picture ofDorian Gray FWIL Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse FWOO Richard Wright Native Son FWRI Richard B.-Wright In the Middle ofa Life FWRI • Paul Zindel The Effects ofGamma Rays on Man-in-the- 82221N Moon Marigolds My Darling, My Hamburger FZIN The Pigman Markus Zusak The Book Thief FZUS .
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