First Semester Independent Reading Choices

English 9D

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First Semester Independent Reading Choices

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

1984, George Orwell

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Ulysses, James Joyce

The Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

Native Son, Richard Wright

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

My Antonia, Willa Cather

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

I, Claudius, Robert Graves

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemmingway

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora N. Hurston

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

The World According to Garp, John Irving

A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser

Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

Exodus, Leon Uris

All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren Rabbit Run, John Updike

The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

The Awakening, Kate Chopin

The Learning Tree, GordonParks

The Chosen, Chaim Potok

The Scarlet Letter, NathanielHawthorne

Seize the Day, Saul Bellow

A Death in the Family, James Agee

The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

The House of Spirits, Isabelle Allende

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabrielle Garcia Marquez

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

Night, Elie Weisel

The Ambassadors, Henry James

From Here to Eternity, James Jones

The Golden Bowl, Henry James

The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver

2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke

Possession, A. S. Byatt

Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria ReMarque

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

Stone Diaries, Carol Shields

Roots, Alex Haley

Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe

Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence

The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer Dune, Frank Herbert

A Room with a View, E. M. Forster

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

A Confederacy of Dunces, John K. Toole

An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maughm

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow Howards End, E. M. Forster

Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow

The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

The Wings of a Dove, Henry James

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

White Noise, Don DeLillo

The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene Deliverance, James Dickey

The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever

A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson

Watership Down, Richard Adams

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

Nostromo, Joseph Conrad

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

The Rainbow, Pearl S. Buck

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy Pale Fire, Vladimir Nobokov

Ironweed, William P. Kennedy

Light in August, William Faulkner

Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons

The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell

Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns

Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo

A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens