Accepted Independent Reading List - 2016

Author / Title / Student
Richard Adams / Watership Down
Gail Anderson-Dargatz / The Cure for Death by Lightning
A Recipe for Bees
Margaret Atwood / Alias Grace
Blind Assassin
Cat’s Eye
Edible Women
Handmaid’s Tale
Oryx and Crake
Robber Bride / Marissa H. - Handmaid’s Tale
Jane Austen / Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Saul Bellow / Herzog
John Bemrose / The Island Walkers
Charlotte Bronte / Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte / Wuthering Heights
Joseph Boyden / Three Day Road Through Black Spruce
Pearl S. Buck / The Good Earth
Imperial Woman
Kinfolk
Letter from Peking
Mandala
Anthony Burgess / A Clockwork Orange
Bonnie Burnard / A Good House
Morley Callaghan / More Joy in Heaven
Such is my Beloved
Albert Camus / The Outsider
Arthur C. Clarke / 2001: A Space Odyssey
Leonard Cohen / Beautiful Losers
The Favourite Game
Matt Cohen / Elizabeth and After
Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Douglas Coupland / Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Hey Nostradamus!
Microserfs
Robertson Davies / The Cunning Man
The Manticore
The Rebel Angels
What’s Bred in the Bone
Anita Diamant / The Red Tent
Charles Dickens / Adventures of Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Crime and Punishment
Arthur Conan Doyle / The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Lost World
Alexander Dumas / The Count of Monte Cristo
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Three Musketeers
Daphne Du Maurier / My Cousin Rachel Rebecca
Kim A. Echlin / The Disappeared
William Faulkner / Absalom! Absalom!
Timothy Findlay / Famous Last Words
Headhunter
The Last of the Crazy People
Not Wanted on the Voyage
Piano Man’s Daughter
Pilgrim
The Wars
F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned
Love of the Last Tycoon
Tender is the Night
E. M. Forster / A Passage to India
Charles Frazier / Cold Mountain
Jostein Gaarder / Sophie’s World
Ernest J. Gaines / A Lesson Before Dying
Arthur Golden / Memoirs of a Geisha
Barbara Gowdy / The Romantic
Philippa Gregory / The Other Boleyn Girl
Sara Gruen / Water for Elephants
David Guterson / Snow Falling on Cedars
Mark Haddon / Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Thomas Hardy / Far from the Madding Crowd
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Joseph Heller / Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway / The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Sun also Rises
Hermann Hesse / Siddhartha
Lawrence Hill / The Book of Negroes
Nick Hornby / High Fidelity
A Long Way Down
Janette Turner Hospital / Due Preparations for the Plague
Khaled Hosseini / The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Victor Hugo / Les Miserables
Aldous Huxley / Brave New World
Anosh Irani / Song of Kahunsha
John Irving / The Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The World According to Garp
Ken Kesey / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Yasmina Khadra / The Swallows of Kabul
W. P. Kinsella / Shoeless Joe
Joy Kogawa / Obasan
Wally Lamb / The Hour I First Believed
I Know This Much is True
She’s Come Undone
Joe R. Lansdale / The Bottoms
Lori Lansens / The Girls
Rush Home Road
Margaret Laurence / The Diviners
The Fire-Dwellers
A Jest of God
The Stone Angel
The Tomorrow-Tamer
D. H. Lawrence / Sons and Lovers
Stephen Leacock / Arcadian
Adventures with the Idle Rich
Last Leaves
Winnowed Wisdom
John Le Carré / The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Ann-Marie MacDonald / Fall on your Knees
Hugh MacLennan / Barometer Rising Two Solitudes
Cormac McCarthy / Blood Meridian: Or The Evening
Redness in the West
No Country for Old Men
The Road
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Ian McEwan / Atonement
Ami McKay / The Birth House: A Nove
Herman Melville / Moby Dick
Rohinton Mistry
Family Matters
A Fine Balance
Such a Long Journey
W. O. Mitchell / How I spent my Summer
Holiday
Ladybug, Ladybug
Who has Seen the Wind
Brian Moore / Judith Hearne
Toni Morrison / The Bluest Eye
Farley Mowat / The Black Joke
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Farfarers Grey Seas Under
Never Cry Wolf
Alice Munro / Dance of the Happy Shades
Lives of Girls and Women
The Love of a Good Woman
The Progress of Love
Audrey Niffenegger / The Time Traveler’s Wife
Annie Proulx / The Shipping News
Joyce Carol Oates / Them
Flannery O’Connor / Wise Blood
Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient
Heather O’Neill / Lullabies for Little Criminals
George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty-Four
Mordecai Richler / A Choice of Enemies
The Incomparable
Atuk Joshua
Then and Now
Nino Ricci / Lives of Saints
Testament
Gabrielle Roy
Children of my Heart
Street of Riches
The Tin Flute
Alice Sebold / The Almost Moon
The Lovely Bones
Mary Shelley / Frankenstein
Carol Shields / The Box Garden
Larry’s Party
The Stone Diaries Unless
John Steinbeck / Cannery Row
Grapes of Wrath
Bram Stoker / Dracula
William Styron / Sophie’s Choice
Hunter S. Thompson / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Miriam Toews / A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
Jonathan Swift / Gulliver’s Travels
J. R. R. Tolkien / The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Leo Tolstoy / Anna Karenina
War and Peace