English Honors9 Reading List You may not read books more than once for credit (for summer reading, for class study, and/or for Reading Workshop). You must read three (3) books from this list. You will complete “My Reader’s Journal” for these three (3) books. Due on Monday, August 17. The following is a list of suggested reading for college-bound students. My suggestion for you is to select a book based on one or more of these three criteria: your knowledge of the author, a skimming of the book (read the cover or jacket, a bit of the beginning, and a portion somewhere in the middle.), or advice of others who have recommended the book. You may pick up most of these books at your local library or the Norwell Library Media Center. You may also purchase them at your local bookstores—it’s sometimes nice to have your own copy so that you can write in the book. Several of these books are also available as ebooks. If you have an ereader and your parents don’t mind purchasing the book, I would suggest this format. (Ebooks increase vocabulary because they allow the user to easily look up definitions in context.) I cannot promise that all the books on this list will be free of objectionable material. What is objectionable to one may not be objectionable to another. Choose wisely. FICTION Achebe, Chinua A Man of the People/Arrow of God/Things Fall Apart Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Agee, James A Death in the Family Aidinoff , Elsie V. The Garden Alexie, Sherman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Allende, Isabel Island Beneath the Sea/Daughter of Fortune Anderson, Laurie Halse Twisted Asimov, Isaac The End of Eternity/The Last Man on Earth/The Gods Themselves/Foundations Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale Austen, Jane Emma/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility/Mansfield Park Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain/If Beale Street Could Talk Eng9HSummerReadingLists Deb Shumaker Block, Francesca Lia Weetzie Bat Box, C.J. Any novel Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451/Martian Chronicles Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth Bunyan, John The Pilgrim’s Progress Burns, Olive Ann Cold Sassy Tree Butler, Octavia Kindred Camus, Albert The Stranger/The Plague Caletti, Deb The Story of Us Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop/My Antonia/O Pioneers! Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote Childress, Mark Crazy in Alabama Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey/2010: Odyssey 2/2061: Odyssey 3/ 3001: The Final Odyssey Clark, Walter Van T. The Ox-Bow Incident Cline, Ernest Ready Player One Coben, Harlan Fade Away/Any of his novels Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans/The Prairie Conroy, Pat The Prince of Tides/ South of Broad/ The Lords of Discipline Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Crichton, Michael Prey/Next/The Andromeda Strain/Sphere Dashner, James The Maze Runner De Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe/Moll Flanders Deuker, Cark Runner Dickens, Charles Bleak House/David Copperfield/A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations Dillard, Annie An American Childhood Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy/Sister Carrie Dumas, Alexander The Count of Monte Cristo/The Three Muskateers Eng9HSummerReadingLists Deb Shumaker Eliot, George Middlemarch/The Mill on the Floss/Silas Marner Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Emshwiller, Carol The Mount Erdrich, Louise The Beet Queen/Love Medicine/Tracks Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom!/ As I Lay Dying/Light in August/The Sound and the Fury Fielding, Henry Joseph Andrews/Tom Jones Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Last Tycoon/Tender is the Night/This Side of Paradise/The Great Gatsby Flagg, Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café/Standing in the Rainbow Flinn, Alex Fade to Black Forman, Gayle If I Stay Forster, E.M. A Passage to India/A Room with a View/Howard’s End Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain Frost, Helen Keesha's House Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying/The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera/One Hundred Years of Solitude Garden Nancy Endgame Garnder, John Grendel Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha Green, John Looking for Alaska (or any of his novels) Greene, Graham Brighton Rock/The Quiet American/The Heart of the Matter/The Power and the Fury Grisham, John A Time to Kill Gruen, Sara Water for Elephants Hale, Shannon The Goose Girl/Enna Burning/or any of the four Books of Bayern Hardy, Thomas Mayor of Casterbridge/The Return of the Native/Tess of the D’Ubervilles Hart, John The Last Child Haruf, Kent Plainsong Hawthorne, Nathaniel The House of Seven Gables Haynes, Dana Crashers Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River/Salt Dancers/Intrusions Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms/For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Sun Also Rises Heller, Joseph Catch-22/Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22/Something Happened Herbert, Frank Dune Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha Homer The Odyssey (in its entirety)/The Iliad (in its entirety) Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns Eng9HSummerReadingLists Deb Shumaker Hugo, Victor Les Miserables/Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Hurston, Zora Neal Their Eyes Were Watching God/Mules and Men Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany/The Cider House Rules James, Henry The Ambassadors/The Portrait of a Lady/The Turn of the Screw/The American/ Daisy Miller Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/The Dubliners/Ulysses Kafka, Franz The Trial/ The Metamorphosis Klavan, Andrew The Last Thing I Remember Kantor, MacKinlay Andersonville Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest/Sometimes a Great Notion Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible/The Bean Trees Korman, Gordon The Juvie Three LaFevers, R. L. Grave Mercy Larsson, Stieg The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or any of the books in the triology) Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover/Sons and Lovers Letts, Billie Where the Heart Is/Shoot the Moon/ The Honk and Holler Opening Soon/Made in the U.S.A. Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt/Main Street/Arrowsmith Lockhart, E. We Were Liars London, Jack The Call of the Wild Lu, Marie Legend Lutz, Lisa The Spellman Files McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead Mann, Thomas Death in Venice Martinez, Jessica Virtuosity Maugham, Somerset Of Human Bondage McDonald, Abby Getting Over Garrett Delaney McMurtry, Larry Anything for Billy/The Crossing/Lonesome Dove Melville, Herman Moby Dick/Billy Budd Meyer, Stephenie The Host Miller, Mary Beth Aimee Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind Eng9HSummerReadingLists Deb Shumaker Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye/Song of Solomon/Sula/Tar Baby/Paradise/Beloved Murdock, Catherine Gilbert Dairy Queen Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go Nix, Garth Sabriel O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried/Nuclear Age/Going After Cacciato Orwell, George 1984/Animal Farm O’Connor, Flannery Wise Blood/A Good Man is Hard to Find Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country/Too Late the Phalarope Patterson, James The Angel Experiment/Any of the Maximum Ride Series Pearson, Mary E. The Adoration of Jenna Fox Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Porter, Katherine Ann Pale Horse, Pale Rider/Ship of Fools Potok, Chaim My Name Is Asher Lev/The Chosen/Davita’s Harp Pratchett, Terry Good Omens Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News/Postcards Rand, Ayn Anthem/The Fountainhead/The Romantic Manifesto/We the Living/Atlas Shrugged Remarque, Enrich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth Roth, Veronica Divergent/Insurgent/Allegiant Rowell, Rainbow Eleanor & Park Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Scheres, Julia Jesusland Shusterman Neal Unwind Shaara, Michael Killer Angels/Gods and Generals/Rise to Rebellion Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony Sinclair, Upton The Jungle Soto, Gary Buried Onions Sparks, Beatrice Go Ask Alice Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men/East of Eden/Cannery Row Stephenson, Neal Snow Crash Stockett, Kathryn The Help Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels Eng9HSummerReadingLists Deb Shumaker Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club/The Bonesetter’s Daughter/The Hundred Secret Senses/The Kitchen God’s Wife Thackeray, William Makepeace Vanity Fair Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings series Tolstoy, Leo (Tolstoi) Anna Karenina/War and Peace/The Death of Ivan Ilyich Trumbo, Dalton Johnny Got His Gun Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Updike, John Rabbit, Run Voltaire Candide Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five Yancey, Rick The 5th Wave Walker, Alice The Color Purple Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man/The War of the Worlds Westerfeld, Scott Uglies Trilogy (must read all three) Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence/Ethan Frome/The House of Mirth White, T.H. The Once and Future King Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray Wister, Owen The Virginian Wolf, Jennifer Shaw Breaking Beautiful Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel Woolfe, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway/To the Lighthouse Wright, Richard Native Son Wroblewski, David The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Zarr, Sara Story of a Girl Zusak, Markus The Book Thief +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NONFICTION Abbott, Karen Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul Angelou, Maya All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes/Singing and Swinging and Getting Merry Like Christmas/The Heart of a Woman/A Song Flung Up to Heaven/I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Barry, John M.