Compiled by Ms. Levesque November 15, 2005  

College Suggested Reading List

Jane Austen                           Pride and Prejudice

James Baldwin                       Go Tell It on the Mountain

Charlotte Bronte             Jane Eyre*

Emily Bronte                          Wuthering Heights*

Albert Camus                         The Stranger

Lewis Carroll                          Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Willa Cather                           My Antonia*

Kate Chopin                           The Awakening

Joseph Conrad                        Heart of Darkness

Stephen Crane              The Red Badge of Courage

Daniel Defoe                          Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickinson                   Great Expectations*

George Eliot                           Mill on the Floss

William Golding                       Lord of the Flies*

Thomas Hardy              Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Tbomas Hardy              Far From the Madding Crowd* (my addition)

Zora Neale Hurston                       Their Eyes Were Watching God*

Aldous Huxley                        Brave New World

Toni Morrison                    Sula

Alan Paton                              Cry, the Beloved Country*

J.D. Salinger                          Catcher in the Rye*

Sir Walter Scott                Ivanhoe

Mary Shelley                         Frankenstein

Mark Twain                           The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Kurt Vonnegut                    Slaughterhouse Rive

Alice Walker                          The Color Purple*

Richard Wright             Native Son

Source: http://kf001.k12.sd.us/suggested_reading_list.htm

Ray Bradbury                        Fahrenheit 451*

Robert Cormier                      The Chocolate War*

Michael Dorris             A Yellow Raft in Blue Water*

Ernest Gaines                        The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman*

Joseph Heller                         Catch-22

Ken Kesey                             One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*

Harper Lee                             To Kill a Mockingbird*

Jack London                           Call of the Wild

Gordon Parks                         The Learning Tree*

Sylvia Plath                            The Bell Jar*

Chaim Potok                           The Chosen*

Chinua Achebe                      Things Fall Apart

Isabel Allende                        House of Spirits*

Miguel de Cervantes                 Don Quixote

Laura Esquivel                      Like Water For Chocolate*

Hermann Hesse              Siddhartha*

George Orwell             Animal Farm

Boris Paternak                     Dr. Zhivago

Erich Maria Remarque            All Quiet on the Western Front*

Amy Tan                                 The Joy Luck Club*

Elie Wiesel                             Night*

Maya Angelou                      I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* (NF)

Russell Baker                                    Growing Up (NF)

Dee Brown                             Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (NF)

Mary Crow Dog                 Lakota Woman *(NF)

Anne Frank                            The Diary of Anne Frank (NF)

Alex Haley                             Roots (NF)

John Hersey                           Hiroshima (NF)

Carol Karlsen             The Devil in the Shape of a Woman (NF)

Helen Keller                           The Story of My Life* (NF)

Ron Kovic                              Born on the Fourth of July (NF)

Malcom X with Alex Haley  The Autobiography of Malcom X * (NF)

Mark Mathabane                 Kaffir Boy *(NF)

Donn Rogosin                        Invisible Men: Life in the Baseball’s Negro Leagues (NF)

Henry David Thoreau            Walden (NF)

Rachel Carson                        Silent Spring (NF)

Stephen Hawking                   A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes(NF)

Joseph Campbell                        The Power of Myth (Social Science)

Source: http://als.lib.wi.us/Collegebound.html

James Finnemore Cooper            The Last of the Mohicans

Charles Dickens                        A Tale of Two Cities

Alexandre Dumas                        The Three Musketeers

Maxine Hong Kingston            The Warrior Woman * (NF)

Leslie Marmon Silko                Ceremony *

Robert Louis Stevenson            Treasure Island

Source: www.collegeboard.com/parents/article/0,3708,703-704-0-21176,00.html

Dorothy Allison                        Bastard Out of Carolina*

Julia Alvarez                          In the Time of Butterflies

Rudolfo Anaya                        Bless Me, Ultima

Margaret Atwood                         The Handmaid’s Tale*

Octavia Butler                        Parable of the Sower

Ender’s Game                        Orson Scott Card

Sandra Cisneros                        The House On Mango Street

Buchi Emecheta                        Bride Price

Charles Frazier                        Cold Mountain*

Ernest Gaines                        A Lesson Before Dying

John Gardner             Grendel

Kaye Gibbons                        Ellen Foster

Thomas Keneally                        Schindler’s List

Ursula LeGuin                        The Left Hand of Darkness

Kamala Markandaya            Nectar in a Sieve

Bobbi Ann Mason                        In Country

Kyoko Mori                           Shizuko’s Daughter

Tim O’Brien                           The Things They Carried

Susan Power                           Grass Dancer

Michael Shaara                        Killer Angels

Yoshiko Uchida                        Picture Bride

Source:  http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/outstandingbooks/introduction.htm

Haruki Murakami                  Kafka on the Shore

Sam Keith                               One Man’s Wilderness (NF)

Colin Woodward                        Lobster Coast (NF)

Audrey Niffenegger                Time Traveler’s Wife*

Khaled Hosseini                        The Kite Runner*

Barbara Kingsolver                  The Poisonwood Bible

David McCullough                John Adams (NF)

Dan Brown                             The DaVinci Code*

Jhumpa Lahri             The Namesake

Paulo Coehlo                          The Alchemist*

Michael Haddon                        The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime*

JRR Tolkien                          The Lord of the Rings trilogy*

Sharon Creech                        Walk Two Moons*

Betty Smith                            A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*

Richard Russo                        Nobody’s Fool

                                                Empire Falls

Louise Erdrich                        Master Butcher Singing Club*

Karen Armstrong                        Spiral Staircase (NF)

John Grisham             A Painted House*

Anita Daiment                        The Red Tent*

Monica Wood             Ernie’s Ark*

Arthur Golden                        Memoirs of a Geisha*

Yann Martel                           Life of Pi*

Garth Nix                               Sabriel

Molly Ivans                            You Got to Dance with Them What You Brung (NF)

Source:  www.bates.edu/x66257.xml            Summer Reading