High School Guided Outside Reading List Pride and Prejudice by Author Sense and Sensibility Achebe, Chinua: 1930-present; Nigerian novelist, Mansfield Park political activist Emma novels Northanger Abbey Things Fall Apart Persuasion Arrow of God Eliza’s Daughter Anthills of Savannah Baker, Russell: 1925-present American author, No Longer at Ease journalist, and biographer A Man of the People Growing Up poetry Baldwin, James:1924-1987; African American Beware Soul Brother essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, social activist Agee, James: 1909-1955; American novelist, Go Tell it on The Mountain, autobiographical pulitzer prize If Beagle Street Could Talk The Morning Watch Giovanni’s Room A Death in the Family Balzac, Honore de: 1799-1850; French novelist Albee, Edward : 1928-present; American Pierre Goroit playwright, Pulitzer prize Le Dernier Chouan The Zoo Story La Peau de Chagrin The Sandbox Eugenie Grandet Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Beck, Martha 1962-present American author Allende, Isabel: 1942-present; Chilean novelist, Expecting Adam The House of the Spirits Beckett, Samuel:1906-1989 Irish playwright Paths of Resistance Waiting for Godot Of Love and Shadows Bellow, Saul: 1915- present; Jewish American The Stories of Eva Luna anthropologist and novelist Alvarez, Julia: 1950-present Dominican-American Dangling Man author The Victim In the Time of the Butterflies Adventures of Augie March How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Henderson the Rain King Andric, Ivo: 1892-1975; Yugoslavian novelist, Berenbaum, Michael: 1945-present American author Nobel prize for literature and film maker The Bridge over the Drina The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust Anaya, Rudolpho A.: 1937-present; Mexican- as Told in the United States American novelist, short-story writer, essayist Bergner, David: Present American journalist who Bless Me Ultima researched Sierra Leone Angelou, Maya: 1928-present; American singer, In The Land of the Magic Soldiers dancer, actress, writer Bonhoffer, Dietrich: 1906-1945 German theologian, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, anti-Hitler activist executed for his activities (autobiographical) The Cost of Discipleship Souls Look Back in Wonder Life Together The Heart of a Woman Borges, Jorge Luis: 1899-1986; Argentinean short All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes story writer, essayist, poet and man of letters Andersen, Sherwood: 1876-1941; American Collected Fictions novelist, short story writer, essayist The Aleph and other Stories Winesburg, Ohio The Book of Sand Dark Laughter Seven Nights Asimov, Isaac : 1920-present; Russian-American Borland, Hal : 1900-1978 American writer novelist and science fiction writer When Legends Die As Far As Human Eye Could See Bradbury, Ray : Present American novelist, short Nine Tomorrows story writer and screenplay writer Atwood, Margaret: 1939-present; Canadian Dandelion Wine novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, Something Wicked This Way Comes numerous literary awards Fahrenheit 451 The Handmaid’s Tale The October Country Alias Grace Martian Chronicles Lady Oracle Brink, Andre: 1935-present South African activist and The Circle Game writer Austen, Jane: 1775-1817; English novelist A Dry White Season Bronte, Anne: 1829-1849; English novelist and Death Comes for the Archbishop poet Sapphira and the Slave Girl Agnes Grey Cervantes, Miguel de: 1547-1616; Spanish novelist The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Don Quixote Bronte, Charlotte: 1816-1855; English governess Chaucer, Geoffrey: Medieval English author and novelist The Canterbury Tales Jane Eyre Chopin, Kate: 1859-1904; American novelist Emma The Awakening The Professor Chekhov, Anton: 1860-1904; Russian novelist, Bronte, Emily: 1818-1848; English novelist playwright and short story writer Wuthering Heights The Cherry Orchard Buechner, Frederick 1926-present American author Uncle Vanya The Alphabet of Grace The Seagull Telling the Truth Chesterton, G. K.: 1874-1936 British theologian & Book of Bebb author Brendan The Man Who Was Thursday Buck, Pearl S.: 1892-1973; American novelist, Orthodoxy daughter of missionaries, raised in China, Pulitzer Chung, Jung: 1952-present Chinese-British author prize Wild Swans The Good Earth Cisneros, Sandra: 1957-present Mexican-American Sons author A House Divided The House on Mango Street Death in the Castle Coetzee, J. M. : 1940-present South African writer; Imperial Woman Nobel prize winner The Living Reed The Life and Times of Michael K To My Daughters Coelho, Paolo 1947-present Brazilian Bunyon, John: 1628-1688; English writer and philosopher/writer preacher The Alchemist Pilgrim’s Progress The Pilgrimage The Holy City or The New Jerusalem Conrad, Joseph: 1857-1924; Polish immigrant to Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners France, later English citizen, certified master seaman, (autobiography) novelist and short story writer Burns, Olive Anne: 1924-1990 American author Heart of Darkness Cold Sasy Tree Lord Jim Calvino, Italo: 1923-1985 Italian writer Cooper, James Fennimore: 1789-1851; American The Watcher and Other Stories novelist Our Ancestors The Last of the Mohicans Card, Orson Scott 1951-present American science- The Deerslayer fiction writer The Prairie Enders Game The Pathfinder Children of the Monday Courtenay, Bryce: 1934-present, Australian author Speaker for the Dead born in South Africa Camus, Albert: 1913-1960; French philosopher, The Power of One novelist, essayist, journalist, raised in Algeria Crane, Stephen: 1871-1900; American novelist, short The Stranger story writer and poet The Myth of Sysiphysus The Red Badge of Courage The Fall Maggie: A Girl of the Streets The Plague Crutcher, Chris: 1946-present American writer Caligula Whale Talk Carson, Rachel: 1907-1964; American writer and Athletic Shorts marine biologist Dante, Alighieri: 1265-1321; Italian poet The Sea Around Us The Divine Comedy The Edge of the Sea Darwin, Charles: 1809-1882; English scientist The Silent Spring The Voyage of the Beagle Cather, Willa: 1873-1947; American journalist, Origin of Species novelist, Nobel prize for literature Delany, Sara & Elizabeth: 1889-1999; 1891-1995 One of Ours American sisters O Pioneers Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years My Antonia Defoe, Daniel: 1660-1731; English poet, essayist, The Waste Land novelist, playwright Journey of the Magi Robinson Crusoe The Four Quartets Moll Flanders Little Gidding Jared Diamond 1937 American biologist drama Guns, Germs, and Steel Murder in the Cathedral Dickens, Charles: 1812-1870; English novelist The Cocktail Party Oliver Twist essay A Tale of Two Cities The Sacred Wood Hard Times After Strange Gods Great Expectations The Idea of a Christian Society David Copperfield Ellison, Ralph: 1914-present; American novelist Bleak House Invisible Man Dinesen, Isak or Baroness Karen Dinesen Blixen: Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 1803-1882 American essayist 1885-1962; Danish short story writer, lived in & poet British East Africa, modern Kenya Selected Essays Out of Africa Erdich, Louise: 1954 Native-American novelist Winter’s Tales Love Medicine Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 1821-1881; Russian novelist Esquivel, Laura: 1950-present Mexican author Crime and Punishment Like Water for Chocolate The Idiot Euripides: c. 480-407 B.C.; Greek writer of tragedy Brothers Karamazov Medea The Adolescent Electra Douglass, Frederick: 1817?-1895; American The Baccae abolitionist, orator and journalist, the son of a slave Faulkner, William: 1897-1962; American novelist and and a white father, escaped to the north short story writer, Nobel prize for literature Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Light in August Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: 1859-1930; English The Sound and the Fury novelist/mystery writer As I Lay Dying Sherlock Holmes Absolom, Absolom! The White Company Intruder in the Dust The Lost World Fielding, Henry: 1707-1754; English novelist Drieser, Theodore: 1871-1945; American novelist The Miser Sister Carrie The Life and Death of Tom Thumb An American Tragedy Tom Jones Dumas, Alexandre: 1802-1870; French dramatist Fitzgerald, F. Scott: American novelist and novelist This Side of Paradise The Count of Monte Cristo The Great Gatsby The Three Musketeers Tender is the Night The Man in the Iron Mask Flagg, Fannie: 1944-present American novelist Dumaurier, Daphne: 1907-1989; English novelist Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and short story writer Welcome to the World, Baby Girl Rebecca Flaubert, Gustave: 1821-1880, French novelist Jamaica Inn Madame Bovary Edwards, Kim: present American The Temptation of St. Anthony The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Forster, E.M.: 1879-1970; English novelist Eliot, Elizabeth: -present; American missionary, A Passage to India author, speaker Where Angels Fear to Tread A Chance to Die A Room With A View Through Gates of Splendor Howard’s End Eliot, George, or Mary Ann Evans: 1819-1880; Frankl, Victor E.: ; psychologist and author; English novelist Holocaust survivor Adam Bede Man’s Search for Meaning The Mill on the Floss Franklin, Benjamin: 1706-1790; American diplomat, Silas Marner scientist, publisher, inventor, author Middlemarch Autobiography Eliot, Thomas Stearns: 1888-1965: American, short stories British poet and essayist The Whistle Prufrock and Other Observations The Ephemera Gaarder, Josrein: 1952-present Norwegian writer Mythology Sophie’s World Hammett, Dashiell : 1894-1961; American detective Solitaire Mystery story writer Greene, Graham: 1904-1994 English playwright, The Maltese Falcon novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic The Thin Man The Power and the