Ms. Pennington’s
English IV
Outside Reading Book List
Title of Book Author
2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C.
90 Minutes in Heaven Piper, Don
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Twain, Mark
A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck, Robert Newton
A Death in the Family Agee, James
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Beah, Ishmael
A Majority of One Spigelgass, Leonard
A Man Called Peter Marshall, Catherine
A Midwife’s Story Armstrong, Penny
A Night to Remember Lord, Walter
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James
A Raisin in the Sun Hansbury, Lorraine
A Reckoning Sarton, May
A Separate Peace Knowles, John
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
A Walk Across America Jenkins, Peter
A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle, Madeleine
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, William
Accidents of Nature Johnson, Harriet McBryde
Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene
Alas, Babylon Frank, Pat
All Creatures Great and Small Herriot, James
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
All the President’s Men Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
Anchorwoman Savich, Jessica
And Then There Were None Christie, Agatha
Angel Street (Gas Light) Hamilton, Patrick
Animal Farm Orwell, George
Anna and the King of Siam Landon, Margaret
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
April Morning Fast, Howard
Arsenic and Old Lace Kesselring, Joseph
Auntie Mame Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee
Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair
Babe Dikrikson: The World’s Greatest Woman Athlete Schoor, Gene
Babe: the Legend Comes to Life Creamer, Robert W.
Battle Cry Uris, Leon
Becket Anouilh, Jean
Beige Castellucci, Cecil
Beverly: An Autobiography Sills, Beverly and Lawrence Linderman
Billy Budd Melville, Herman
Black Like Me Griffin, John Howard
Black Dekker, Ted
Blithe Spirit Coward, Noel
Blood Brothers Harazin, S. A.
Born Free Adamson, Joy
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown, Dee
Cannery Row Steinbeck, John
Captains and the Kings Caldwell, Taylor
Carrie King, Stephen
Cheaper by the Dozen Gilbreth, Frank, Jr. and
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Christy Marshall, Catherine
Cimarron Ferber, Edna
Citizen Tom Paine Fast, Howard
Civil Disobedience Thoreau, Henry David
Cloud of Witness Sayers, Dorothy L.
Cold Sassy Tree Burns, Olive Ann
Coming Into the Country McPhee, John
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Common Sense Beck, Glenn/Paine, Thomas
Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
Twelve Angry Men Rose, Reginald
Cures for Heartbreak Rabb, Margo
Dark Water Rising Hale, Marian
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
Davita’s Harp Potok, Chaim
Dawn Wiesel, Elie
Day of Infamy Lord, Walter
Deadline Crutcher, Chris
Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John
Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur
Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
Dove Graham, Robin Lee
Drums Along the Mohawk Edmonds, Walter D.
East of Eden Steinbeck, John
Echo Morgenroth, Kate
Eleanor and Franklin Lash, Joseph P.
Elizabeth the Queen Anderson, Maxwell
Enter Three Witches Cooney, Caroline B.
Eric Lund, Doris
Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
Exodus Uris, Leon
Farenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
Farewell to Manzanar Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel
Fragments of Isabella Leitner, Isabella
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary
Fundation Asimov, Issac
Generation Me Twenge, Dr. Jean
Giant Steps Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem and
Peter Knobler
Giants in the Earth Rolvaag, O. E.
Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James
Go Up for Glory Russell, Bill
Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
Green Dolphin Street Goudge, Elizabeth
Harvey Chase, Mary
Homecoming Voigt, Cynthia
How Green Was My Valley Llewellyn, Richard
I Always Wanted to Be Somebody Gibson, Althea
I Am the Cheese Cormier, Robert
I Am Third Sayers, Gale with Al Silverman
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greenburg, Joanne
I Will Call It Georgie’s Blues Newton, Suzanne
Ice Castles Fleisher, Leonore
In Search of Mockingbird Ellsworth, Loretta
Incantation Hoffman, Alice
Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E.Lee Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder Shivack, Nadia
Intruder in the Dust Faulkner, William
Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter
Jacob Have I Loved Patterson, Katherine
Jamaica Inn Du Maurier, Daphne
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Johnny Tremain Forbes, Ester
Joseph Landorf, Joyce
Kaffir Boy Mathabane, Mark
Keturah and Lord Death Leavitt, Martine
Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis
Knights of the Hill Country Tharp, Tim
Kon-Tiki Heyerdahl, Thor
Life and Death in a Coral Sea Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
Life with Father Lindsey, Howard and
Russell Crouse
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
Lord of the Flies Golding, William
Lorna Doone Blackmore, R. D.
Lost Horizon Hilton, James
Macho Villasenor, Edmund
Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Sarah Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Maddy’s Song Dickson, Margaret
Main Street Lewis, Sinclair
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Zevin, Gabrielle
Midnight Hour Encores Brooks, Bruce
Mistress of Mellyn Holt, Victoria
Moby Dick Melville, Herman
Mossflower Jacques, Brian
Mrs. Miniver Struther, Jan
My Antonia Cather, Willa
My Life Meir, Golda
My Name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim’
Native Son Wright, Richard
Never Cry Wolf Mowat, Farley
Night Wiesel, Elie
Nine Coaches Waiting Stewart, Mary
Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi
Not Like You Davis, Deborah
Notes From the Midnight Driver Sonnenblick, Jordan
Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles
On Golden Pond Thompson, Ernest
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Only Earth and Sky Last Forever Benchley, Nathaniel
Oprah Waldron, Robert
Ordinary People Guest, Judith
Other People’s Houses Segal, Lore
Our Town Wilder, Thornton
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You Jansen, Hanna
Pentimento Hellman, Lillian
Pere Goriot de Balzac, Honore
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
Profiles in Courage Kennedy, John F.
Pygmalion Shaw, George Bernard
Queen Dolley Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
Quiet Strength Tony Dungy
Rabbit, Run Updike, John
Rabble in Arms Roberts, Kenneth
Rebecca Du Maurier, Daphne
Red Glass Resau, Laura
Requiem for a Heavyweight Serling, Rod
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party Compestine, Ying Chang
Roots Haley, Alex
Rubber Houses Yeomans, Ellen
Rucker Park Setup Volponi, Paul
Run Silent, Run Deep Beach, Edward L.
Saving Grace Ryan, Darlene
Shane Schaefer, Jack
Shark Girl Bingham, Kelly
Show Boat Ferber, Edna
Silas Marner Eliot, George
Sister Carrie Dreiser, Theodore
Skindeep Jones, Toeckey
Song of the Sparrow Sandell, Lisa Ann
Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein
Strong at the Broken Places Cleland, Max
Susan’s Story Hampshire, Susan
Tamar Peet, Mal
Tantalize Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood Barakat, Ibtisam
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy Keller, Helen
Tell McClintock, Norah
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas
Tex Hinton, S. E.
The Paper Lion Plimpton, George
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman, Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
The African Queen Forester, C. S.
The Agony and the Ecstasy Stone, Irving
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines, Ernest J.
The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
The Beloved Invader Price, Eugenia
The Braid Frost, Helen
The Breakup Bible Kantor, Melissa
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilder, Thornton
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Wouk, Herman
The Call of the Wild London, Jack
The Camera Never Blinks Rather, Dan with Mickey
Herskowitz
The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J. D.
The Chalk Garden Bagnold, Enid
The Chocolate War Cormier, Robert
The Chosen Potok, Chaim
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
The Contender Lipsyte, Robert
The Country of the Pointed Firs Jewett, Sarah Orne
The Crucible Miller, Arthur
The Decoding of Lana Morris McNeal, Laura and Tom
McNeal
The Dollmaker Arnow, Harriette
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds Zindel, Paul
The Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac
The Friendly Persuasion West, Jessamyn
The Gates of Zion Thoene, Bodie
The Gift of Music Smith, Jane Stuart and Betty
Carlson
The Glass Menagerie Williams, Tennessee
The Good Earth Buck, Pearl
The Great Divorce Lewis, C. S.
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Greatest Story Ever Told Oursler, Fulton
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson
The Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
The Hiding Place Boom, Corrie Ten
The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Hollow Hills Stewart, Mary
The Honorable Prison de Jenkins, Lyll de Becerra
The Houose of Mirth Wharton, Edith
The House of Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Burgess, Alan
The Innocents Archibald, William
The Jewel in the Crown Scott, Paul
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last Unicorn Beagle, Peter S.
The Learning Tree Parks, Gordon
The Lion in Winter Goldman, James
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis, C. S.
The Little Foxes Hellman, Lillian
The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary
The Member of the Wedding McCullers, Carson
The Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz
The Miracle Worker Gibson, William
The Mousetrap Christie, Agatha
The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie Moriarty, Jaclyn
The Natural Malamud, Bernard
The Odd Couple Simon, Neil
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
The Once and Future King White, T. H.
The Other Side of the Mountain Valens, E. G.
The Other Tryon, Thomas
The Ox-Bow Incident Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
The Peacock Spring Godden, Rumer
The Pearl Steinbeck, John
The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan, John
The Plain James Castellucci, Cecil
The Playboy of the Western World Synge, John M.
The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry
The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie Spark, Muriel
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen
The Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas
The Robe Douglas, Lloyd C.
The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Shack Young, William Paul
The Shoes of the Fisherman West, Morris L.
The Silenced DeVita, James
The Skin of Our Teeth Wilder, Thornton
The Stranger Camus, Albert
The Summer of My German Soldier Greene, Bette
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest
The Teahouse of the August Moon Patrick, John
The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane
The Thornbirds McCullough, Colleen
The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre
The Time Machine Wells, H. G.
The Virginian Wister, Owen
The Winthrop Woman Seton, Anya
Them That Glitter and Them That Don’t Greene, Bette
Things Invisible to See Willard, Nancy
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
To Sir With Love Braithwaite, E. R.
Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis
Twisted Anderson, Laurie Halse
Two Years Before the Mast Dana, Richard Henry
Up the Down Staircase Kaufmann, Bel
Wait For Me Na, An
Walden Thoreau, Henry David
Watership Down Adams, Richard
West With the Night Markham, Beryl
When the Legends Die Hal Borland
Where Are the Children? Clark, Mary Higgins
Wicked Lovely Marr, Melissa
Winesburg, Ohio Anderson, Sherwood
Words by Heart Sebestyen, Quida
Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
Yankee From Olympus Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Z for Zachariah O’Brian, Robert C.