You will read one book from this list per quarter. Make your selections carefully. Enjoy! Share favorite titles with your friends, family, and teacher.
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Allende, Isable
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The House of Spirits
Paula
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Atwood, Margaret
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Cat's Eye
Handmaid's Tale
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Baldwin, James
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Berendt, John
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Banks, Russell
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Continental Drift
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Boyle, Coraghessan T.
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The Tortilla Curtain
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Bronte, Charlotte
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Jane Eyre
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Burgess, Anthony
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A Clockwork Orange
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Burns, Olive Ann
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Cold Sassy Tree
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Camus, Albert
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The Stranger
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Capote, Truman
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In Cold Blood
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Chu, Louis
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Eat a Bowl of Tea
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Coelho, Paulo
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The Alchemist
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Conroy, Pat
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The Prince of Tides
The Great Santini
The Lords of Discipline*
Beach Music
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Cooper, James Fenimore
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The Last of the Mohicans
The Deerslayer
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Dickens, Charles
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Dinesen, Isak
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Out of Africa
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Doctorow, E. L.
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Ragtime
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Dorris, Micheal
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Yellow Raft on Blue Water
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Evans, Nicholas
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The Horse Whisperer
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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This Side of Paradise
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Forster, E. M.
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Howard's End
A Passage to India
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Franklin, Miles
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My Brilliant Career
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Frazier, Carles
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Cold Mountain
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Gaines, Ernest J.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman
A Gathering of Old Men
Of Love and Dust
In My Father's House
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Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gibbons, Kaye
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Sights Unseen
A Virtuous Woman
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Golden, Arthur
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Gordimer, Nadine
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July's People
Burger's Daughter
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Guest, Judith
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Ordinary People
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Guterson, David
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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Hammett, Dashiell
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The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
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Hardy, Thomas
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The Return of the Native
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Heinlein, Robert A.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Heller, Joseph
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Catch-22
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Hemingway, Ernest
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
(any novel except Old Man and the Sea*)
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Hickman, Homer
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October Sky
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Hwang, David Henry
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FOB and Other Plays
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Irving, John
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The World According to Garp
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Junger, Sebastian
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The Perfect Storm
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Kerouac, Jack
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On the Road
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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Animal Dreams
Poisonwood Bible
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Krakauer, Jon
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Into Thin Air
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Lamb, Wally
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She's Come Undone
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Lee, Gus
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China Boy
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Letts, Billie
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Where the Heart Is
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Mailer, Norman
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The Executioner's Song
The Naked and the Dead
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Maugham, W. Somerset
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Of Human Bondage
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McCarty, Susan and J. Mousaieff
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
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McCourt, Frank
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Angela's Ashes
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McMurty, Larry
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Lonesome Dove
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Mitchell, Margaret
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Gone with the Wind
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Morrison, Toni
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Song of Solomon
Jazz
Paradise
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Nichols, John
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The Milagro Beanfield War
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O'Brien, Tim
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In the Lake of the Woods
The Things They Carried (stories)
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Rand, Ayn
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The Fountainhead
Anthem
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Rodriguez, Luis
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Always Running: Gang Days in L.A.
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Roy, Arundhati
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The God of Small Things
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Pasternak, Boris
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Doctor Zhivago
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Proulx, E. Annie
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The Shipping News
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Shelley, Mary
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Frankenstein
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Smiley, Jane
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A Thousand Acres
Moo
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Stegner, Wallace
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Crossing to Safety
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Steinbeck, John
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East of Eden
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Styron, William
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Sophie's Choice
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Tan, Amy
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The Hundred Secret Senses
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Thomas, Dylan
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Under Milkwood
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Tolstoy, Leo
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War and Peace
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Thurber, James
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My World and Welcome to It
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Trillin, Calvin
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Messages From My Father
Remembering Denny
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Twain, Mark
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The Prince and the Pauper
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Tyler, Anne
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The Accidental Tourist
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Updike, John
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Rabbit Redux
(any other novel from the Rabbit series)
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Walker, Alice
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The Color Purple
The Temple of My Familiar
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Wharton, Edith
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Ethan Frome
The Age of Innocence
Summer
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Wouk, Herman
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The Caine Mutiny
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