| READING LIST, ENGLISH II
You will choose one book each quarter for your independent reading. Titles in bold are books that students have especially liked in previous years. Books cover a range of reading and maturity levels. See me if you have questions about choosing a book that might fit you well.
WORLD CLASSICS
Things Fall Apart by Chinhua Achebe
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegutt
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Hamlet by Shakespeare
MEMOIRS
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Night by Elie Wiesel
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
I Am a Pencil by Sam Swope
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman [graphic format]
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao
NONFICTION
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay
Odysseus in America by Jonathan Shay
Half the Sky by Nikolas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
How the Garcia Girls Got Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Emily’s Ghost: A Novel of the Bronte Sisters by Denise Giardina
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Watchmen by Alan Moore [graphic format]
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Hearts of Atlantis by Stephen King
Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus II
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
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