Academic English (10th) – Interesting Reading Mrs. Kramer “Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.” – Vladimir Nabokov Title Author Brave New World Aldous Huxley The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1984 George Orwell The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson A Passage to India E.M. Forster American Gods Neil Gaiman Animal Farm George Orwell Lord of the Flies William Golding The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Speak Laurie Anderson A Room With a View E.M. Forster For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury - 1 - Title Author The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Lord Jim Joseph Conrad The Call of the Wild Jack London The Foundation (Trilogy) Isaac Asimov The Chosen Haim Potok The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder The Red Dragon Thomas Harris Ellen Foster Kay Gibbons Deathwatch Robb White The Passage Justin Cronin The Twelve Justin Cronin The Pearl John Steinbeck Z for Zacharia Robert O’Brien To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A Separate Peace John Knowles Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl The Outsiders S. E. Hinton The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Divergent Veronica Roth Insurgent Veronica Roth - 2 - Title Author Allegiant Veronica Roth Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens No Easy Day Mark Owen The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Scarlet Letter Nathanial Hawthorne The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Green Mile Stephen King The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Treasure Island Robert L. Stevenson Wuthering Heights Charlotte Bronte The Good Brother Chris Ouffet The Giver Lois Lowry Go Down, Moses William Faulkner The River Gary Paulson The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula Le Guin Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Great Expectations Charles Dickens Things Fall Apart C. Achebe - 3 - Title Author Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires Book #1) Rachel Caine Boy Nobody Allen Zadoff The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Michelle Hodkin The Evolution of Mara Dyer Michelle Hodkin The Strain Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs The Hollow City Ransom Riggs If I Stay Gayle Forman I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Night E. Wiesel All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert L. Stevenson Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Frankenstein Mary Shelley As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Don Quixote Cervantes Bel Canto Ann Patchett White Fang Jack London Cannery Row John Steinbeck The Last of the Mohicans James F. Cooper The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas The Color Purple Alice Walker Emma Jane Austen - 4 - Title Author Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Nothing But The Truth Avi The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo Moby Dick Herman Melville The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve Oliver Twist Charles Dickens The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough The 39 Steps John Buchan 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet B. Stowe Four Days to Glory Mark Kreidler Another Kind of Monday William Coles Far North Will Hobbs Rats Saw God Rob Thomas Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy E. Allison The Client John Grisham And Then There Were None Agatha Christie The Stand Stephen King The Shining Stephen King Dune Frank Herbert Rebound Bob Krech Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk - 5 - Title Author The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Book of Blood and Shadow Robin Wasserman Pop Goes the Weasel James Patterson Marathon Man William Goldman Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Waiting to Exhale Terry McMillan Paradise Lost John Milton Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel The Pelican Brief John Grisham The Hunt for the Red October Tom Clancy Patriot Games Tom Glancy Eye of the Needle Ken Follett The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum Running with the Demon Terry Brooks Dragonflight books Anne McCaffrey Lord of the Rings Trilogy J. R. R. Tolkein The Bone Collector J. Deaver City of Thieves David Benioff The Knife of Never Letting Go (#1 Chaos Walking) Patrick Ness The Last Lecture Randy Pausch - 6 - Title Author The Color of Water James McBride Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg Alive (Story of the Andes Survivors) Piers Paul Read The Round House Louise Erdrich Go Ask Alice Anonymous All The President's Men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Sense & Sensibility Jane Austen Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom All The King's Men Robert Penn Warren It Stephen King Cell Stephen King The Mist Stephen King Needful Things Stephen King Night Shift Stephen King - 7 - Title Author Salem’s Lot Stephen King Christine Stephen King The Painted House John Grisham Fences August Wilson Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon Snow Falling on Cedars David Gutterson The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson I am Malala Malala Yousafzai In Cold Blood Truman Capote The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie Watership Down Richard Adams Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith The Road Cormac McCarthy The Chocolate War Robert Cormier Holes Louis Sachar Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Feed Mira Grant Delirium Lauren Oliver The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin - 8 - Title Author Beloved Toni Morrison Catch-22 Joseph Keller Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pyncheon The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Elegance of the Hedgehog Murial Barbery Monster Walter Dean Myers On the Road Jack Kerouac The Manchurian Candidate Richard Condon Presumed Innocent Scott Turow Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Out of this Furnace Thomas Bell The Lovely Bones Alice Seebold Kiss the Girls James Patterson Temple of the Winds Terry Goodkind Neuromancer William Gibson The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer An Abundance of Katherines John Green War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Angels & Demons Dan Brown The Inferno Dan Brown The Beach House James Patterson - 9 - Title Author The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Catching Fire Suzanne Collins Mockingjay Suzanne Collins Lockdown: Escape from Furnace #1 Alexander Gordon Smith Seabiscut: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand Rally Cry (Lost Regiment) William Forstchen The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd The Life of Pi Yann Martel I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore The Power of Six Pittacus Lore The Rise of Nine Pittacus Lore The Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Night to Remember Walter Lord No-No Boy John Okada House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko Donald Duk Frank Chin Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee Arabian Nights Diana Abu-Jabar The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini - 10 - Title Author A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini The Doom Stone Paul Zindel The Fairy Godmother Mercedes Lackey Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen Maus I Art Spiegelman Anthem Ayn Rand The Help Kathryn Stockett A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines World War Z Max Brooks Hemlock Grove Brian McGreevy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt The Notebook Nicholas Sparks Message in a Bottle Nicholas Sparks A Walk to Remember Nicholas Sparks The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger The Nanny Diaries Emma McLaughlin/Nicola Kraus House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III I Love You, Beth Cooper Larry Doyle A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray Rebel Angels Libba Bray The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien The Known World Edward P. Jones Twilight Stephenie Meyer New Moon Stephenie Meyer - 11 - Title Author Eclipse Stephenie Meyer Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer Wonderland Michael Bamberger Timeline Michael Crichton A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Confessions of a Shopaholic