Comp/Lit 9 Honors
Outside Reading List
Book Title Author MC
The Zookeeper’s Wife Ackerman, Diane
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas
Watership Down Adams, Richard
For One More Day Albom, Mitch
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom, Mitch
Tuesdays with Morrie Albom, Mitch
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
The High King Alexander, Lloyd
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel *
Eva Luna Allende, Isabel *
The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel *
Ines of My Soul Allende, Isabel
Portrait in Sepia Allende, Isabel
Zorro Allende, Isabel *
Bless Me, Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo *
Fever Anderson, Laurie
Speak Anderson, Laurie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya *
Gather Together in My Name Angelou, Maya *
Go Ask Alice Anonymous
It’s Not About the Bike Armstrong, Lance
Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac
The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean
The Valley of Horses Auel, Jean
Emma Austen, Jane
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
Go Tell It On the Mountain Baldwin, James *
A Long Way Gone Beah, Ishmael *
Warriors Don’t Cry Bealls, Melba Patillo *
Lupita Manana Beatty, Patricia *
When the Legends Die Borland, Hal *
Bridge on the River Kwai Boulle, Ray
The Tortilla Curtain Boyle, T.C. *
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury, Ray
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People Bradford, Sarah *
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
The Good Earth Buck, Pearl *
The Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John
Cold Sassy Tree Burns, Olive
The Distant Land of My Father Caldwell, Bo *
In Cold Blood Capote, Truman
Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis
Through the Looking Glass Carroll, Lewis
The Education of Little Tree Carter, Forrest *
My Antonia Cather, Willa
O Pioneers! Cather, Willa
Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel De
Burning Bright Chevalier, Tracy
Girl with a Pearl Earring Chevalier, Tracy
The Lady and the Unicorn Chevalier, Tracy
The Awakening Chopin, Kate
The Ox-Bow Incident Clark, Walter Van Tilberg
Shogun Clavell, James *
Finn Clinch, Jon
The Alchemist Coelho, Paulo
Not a Genuine Black Man Copeland, Brian *
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James *
The Pathfinder Cooper, James *
The Boggart Cooper, Susan
I Am the Cheese Cormier, Richard
The Chocolate War Cormier, Richard
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret *
Children of the River Crew, Linda *
Madame Curie Curie, Eve
Catherine, Called Birdy Cushman, Karen
Two Years Before the Mast Dana, Henry R.
The Divine Comedy (or one segment) Dante
Breath, Eyes, Memory Danticat, Edwidge *
Corelli’s Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis
Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel
Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel
The Red Tent Diamente, Anita *
The Brief Wondrous Likfe of Oscar Wao Diaz, Junot *
Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles
Out of Africa Dinesen, Isak *
The Robe Douglas, Lloyd
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave Douglass, Frederick *
The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan
Sister Carrie Dreiser, Theodore
Rebecca Du Maurier, Daphne
House of Sand and Fog Dubus, Andre
The Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois Dubois, W.E.B. *
The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandra
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre
Joni Eareckson, Joni
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Edwards, Kim
Middlemarch Eliot, George
Silas Marner Eliot, George
Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph *
Silence Endo, Shusaku *
Enchantress from the Stars Engdahl, Sylvia
Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Laura *
Medea Euripides
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
Show Boat Ferber, Edna
Guests of the Sheik Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock *
Zlata’s Diary Filipovik, Zlata *
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
A Room with a View Forster, E.M.
The Slave Dancer Fox, Paula *
Diary of a Young Girl Frank, Anne *
The Autobiography Franklin, Benjamin
Mary, Queen of Scots Fraser, Antonia
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles
The Old Gringo Fuentes, Carlos *
A Lesson Before Dying Gaines, Ernest *
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines, Ernest *
Barrio Boy Galarza, Ernesto *
Autobiography Gandhi, Mohatmas *
Shadow of the Dragon Garland, Sherry *
Ellen Foster Gibbons, Kaye
Joshua Girzone, Joseph
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur *
The Princess Bride Goldman, William
July's People Gordimer, Nadine *
I, Claudius Graves, Robert
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greenberg, Joanne
The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory, Philippa
The Constant Princess Gregory, Philippa
The Other Boleyn Girl Gregory, Philippa
The Other Queen Gregory, Philippa
Water for Elephants Gruen, Sara
Ordinary People Guest, Judith
Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David *
A Free Life Ha Jin *
Roots Haley, Alex *
Autobiography of Malcolm X Haley, Alex *
The Book of Ruth Hamilton, Jane
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black Hansberry, Lorraine *
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas
Far From the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas
Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula *
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest
Dune Herbert, Frank
All Creatures Great and Small Herriot, James
Hiroshima Hersey, John *
Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen
The Blessing Way Hillerman, Tony *
The Shape Shifter Hillerman, Tony
The Iliad Homer
Burned Hopkins, Ellen
Crank Hopkins, Ellen
Glass Hopkins, Ellen
Identical Hopkins, Ellen
Impulse Hopkins, Ellen
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled *
Farewell to Manzanar Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki *
Les Miserables Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene
Pay It Forward Hyde, Catherine
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The World According to Garp Irving, John
The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry
Breaking Through Jimenez, Francisco *
Thousand Cranes Kawabata, Yasunari *
Snow Country Kawabata, Yasunari *
The Story of My Life Keller, Helen
On the Road Kerouac, Jack
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara *
Pigs in Heaven Kingsolver, Barbara *
The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara *
Kim Kipling, Rudyard
Darkness at Noon Koestler, Arthur *
Into Thin Air Krakauer, Jon
Ishi: Last of His Tribe Kroeber, Theodora *
I Know This Much Is True Lamb, Wally
She’s Come Undone Lamb, Wally
The Hour I First Believed Lamb, Wally
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larsson, Stieg
The Earthsea Trilogy Leguin, Ursula
To Be a Slave Lester, Julius *
The Best Little Girl in the World Levenkron
A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle, Madeleine
Where the Heart Is Letts, Billie
Till We Have Faces Lewis, C.S.
The Screwtape Letters Lewis, C.S.
Call of the Wild London, Jack
White Fang London, Jack
A Song I Knew By Heart Lott, Bret
Jewel Lott, Bret
The Giver Lowry, Lois
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Maguire, Gregory
Wicked Maguire, Gregory
Not Without My Daughter Mahmoody, Betty *
The Natural Malamud, Bernard
100 Years of Solitude Marquez, Gabriel Garcia *
Christy Marshall, Catherine
Life of Pi Martel, Yann *
Epitaph for a Peach Masumoto, David *
Kaffir Boy Mathabane, Mark *
The Thornbirds McCollough, Maureen
Angela’s Ashes McCourt, Frank
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson
The Member of the Wedding McCullers, Carson
Charming Billy McDermott, Alice
Atonement McEwan, Ian
Moby Dick Melville, Herman
Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
House Made of Dawn Momaday, M. Scott *
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M.
Anne of Avonlea Montgomery, L.M.
The Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni *
Sula Morrison, Toni *
Three Cups of Tea Mortenson, Greg *
Never Cry Wolf Mowat, Farley
Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar *
Suite Francaise Nemirovsky, Irene
The Time Traveler’s Wife Niffenegger, Audrey
Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff and Hall
The Black Pearl O'Dell, Scott *
Sing Down the Moon O'Dell, Scott
Dreams of My Father Obama, Barack
The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy, Baroness
Animal Farm Orwell, George
1984 Orwell, George
Dr. Zhivago Pasternak, Boris *
Cry, the Beloved Country Patan, Alan *
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum Paterson, Katherine *
Nightjohn Paulsen, Gary *
A Child Called It Pelzer, Dave
Freak the Mighty Philbrick, Rodman
My Sister’s Keeper Picoult, Jodi
Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi
The Pact Picoutl, Jodi
The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
The Gift of Asher Lev Potok, Chaim *
The Promise Potok, Chaim *
My Name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim *
Anthem Rand, Ayn
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Eric
The Light in the Forest Richter, Conrad *
Wolf by the Ears Rinaldi, Ann
In My Father's House Rinaldi, Ann
Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond
The God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati *
Esperanza Rising Ryan, Pam *
Persepolis Satrapi, Marjane *
The Reader Schlink, Bernhard
Sybil Schreiber, F.
Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter
The Almost Moon Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan See, Lisa *
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Shaffer and Barrows
A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare, William
Much Ado about Nothing Shakespeare, William
The Tempest Shakespeare, William
Twelfth Night Shakespeare, William
Henry V Shakespeare, William
Richard III Shakespeare, William
The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare, William
Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare, William
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary
The Jungle Sinclair, Upton
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander *
Nisei Daughter Sone, Monica *
Antigone Sophocles
Electra Sophocles
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Spark, Muriel
Haveli Staples, Suzanne *
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Staples, Suzanne *
The Pearl Steinbeck, John
Travels with Charley Steinbeck, John
Cannery Row Steinbeck, John
Tortilla Flat Steinbeck, John
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis
Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dracula Stoker, Bram
The Agony and the Ecstasy Stone, Irving
Lust for Life Stone, Irving
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher *
The Confessions of Nat Turner Styron, William *
The Twentieth Wife Sundaresan, Indu *
Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan
Cane River Tademy, Lalita *
Red River Tademy, Lalita
The Kitchen God's Wife Tan, Amy *
Some Prefer Nettles Tanizaki, Junichiro *
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred *
Let the Circle Be Unbroken Taylor, Mildred *
The Cay Taylor, Theodore *
The Hiding Place Ten Boom, Corrie *
The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.
The Lord of the Rings (any section) Tolkien, J.R.
War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo *
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo *
The Samurai’s Garden Tsukiyama, Gail
The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark
Life on the Mississippi Twain, Mark
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark
Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Verne, Jules
The Aeneid Virgil
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
The Color Purple Walker, Alice *
Jubilee Walker, Margaret *
Ben Hur Wallace, Lew
Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T. *
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
War of the Worlds Wells, H.G.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca
Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith
Dawn Wiesel, Elie *
Night Wiesel, Elie *
The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
Fences Wilson, August *
Fifth Chinese Daughter Wong, Jade Snow *
Biko: Cry Freedom Woods, Donald *
Make Lemonade Wolff, Virgnia Euwer *
To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
Native Son Wright, Richard *
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
Dragonwings Yep, Lawrence *
Bread Givers Yezierska, Anzia *
Briar Rose Yolen, Jane *
The Devil’s Arithmetic Yolen, Jane *
The Shack Young, William
The Pigman Zindel, Paul
The Book Thief Zusak, Markus *
Additional Notes:
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You must read a total of 1500 pages per semester to earn an “A” in Outside Reading. If you do not reach 1500 with the five outside books per semester that you will need to read, you can read additional books for page credits. You must turn in a synopsis and possibly answer additional questions to earn credit for these books. You may earn up to ten extra credit points per semester by reading additional pages (2 points per 100 pages over 1500).
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Outside Reading books will be reported on in a variety of ways, including analytical essays, reading logs, group panels, and personal reflections.
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During the first semester, two of your Outside Reading Books are required: either A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or The Chosen (whichever you did not read over the summer) and The Bean Trees.
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During the Second semester, only one book is required: Black Like Me. However, you will also be required to read at least one Multicultural book (MC) of your choosing during the second semester.
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You may not read books that are not on the reading list unless you receive prior approval from the teacher. You must ask for this approval at least TWO WEEKS before the due date for an outside reading assignment.
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Books written in poetry form (ie. those by Ellen Hopkins) will count for HALF in their page total.
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