College Bound Reading List PHS - English Department Fall 2007

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Name of Work Author Course Library Library
Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner X
Adam Bede George Eliot X
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mark Twain X
Aeneid, The Virgil
Agnes of God John Pielmeier
Age of Innocence, The Edith Wharton X
Alas, Babylon Pat Frank X X
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren X
All My Sons Arthur Miller
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy X
America is in the Heart Carlos Bulosan
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser X
The American Henry James
Animal Farm George Orwell X X
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy X
Another Country James Baldwin
Anthem Ayn Rand X X
Antigone Sophocles X X
Anthony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Mordecai Richler
Armies of the Night Norman Mailer
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner X X
As You Like It William Shakespeare
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand X
Atticus Ron Hansen X
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson
The Awakening Kate Chopin X X

Bean Trees, The Barbara Kingsolver X

"The Bear" William Faulkner
Bell Jar, The Sylvia Plath X
Beloved Toni Morrison X X
A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
Beowulf Anonymous Engl IV X X
Benito Cereno Herman Melville
Billy Budd Herman Melville X
The Birthday Party Harold Pinter
Black Boy Richard Wright X
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Bless the Beasts and Children Glendon Swarthout X X
The Blind Assasin Margaret Atwood X
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Bone: A Novel Fae M. Ng
The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan X
Brave New World Aldous Huxley X X
Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley X
Brighton Rock Graham Greene
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevski
By the Waters of Babylon Stephen Vincent Benet X

Caine Mutiny, The Herman Wouk X

Candida George Bernard Shaw
Candide Voltaire X X
Cannery Row John Steinbeck X
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer X
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling X
Cask of Amontillado, The Edgar Allan Poe Engl I X
The Caretaker Harold Pinter
Catch-22 Joseph Heller X X
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger X X
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams X
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood X
The Centaur John Updike
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
Chang and Eng: A Novel Darin Strauss X
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
Chosen, The Chaim Potok X X
Citizen Soldiers Stephen E. Ambrose
Christmas Memory, A Truman Capote X
"Civil Disobedience" Henry David Thoreau
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel X
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Burns X
The Color Purple Alice Walker X
Coming Through Slaughter Michael Ondaatje
Count of Monte Cristo, The Alexandre Dumas X
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevski X
Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton X
"The Crisis" Thomas Paine
The Crossing Cormac McCarthy X
The Crucible Arthur Miller X
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand X

Daisy Miller Henry James

Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel
Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury X
David Copperfield Charles Dickens X
A Day in the Country Anton Chekhov X
"The Dead" James Joyce
Death Be Not Proud James Gunther X X
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy X
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller X
Deerslayer, The James Fenimore Cooper X
Delta Wedding Eudora Welty
Desire under the Elms Eugene O'Neill
Devil in the White City, The Erik Larson X
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
The Diviners Margaret Laurence
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen X X
The Dollmaker Harriet Arnot
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes X
Dracula Bram Stoker X X
Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia
Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak X
Dutchman Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones

East of Eden John Steinbeck X

Emma Jane Austen X X
An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen
Episode of Sparrows, An Rumer Godden X
Equus Peter Shaffer X
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton X X
The Eumenides Aeschylus (in The Orestia)
Executioner's Song, The Norman Mailer X
Exodus Leon Uris X

Fable, A William Faulkner X

The Fall Albert Camus
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers X
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy X
Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury X X
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A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway X X

The Father August Strindberg
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
Faust Johann Goethe
The Federalist Alexander Hamilton
Fellowship of the Ring, The J.R.R. Tolkien X X
Fences August Wilson
Ferris Beach Jill McCorkle X
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
Fifth Business Robertson Davis
Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Mitch Albom X
Flood Tide Clive Cussler X
Flowers of Algernon Daniel Keyes X
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Fountainhead, The Ayn Rand X X
Frankenstein Mary Shelley X X
Future Shock Alvin Toffler

Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou X

A Gathering of Old Men Ernest Gaines
A Gesture Life Chang-Rae Lee
Ghosts Henrik Ibsen
Giants in the Earth O.E. Rolvaag X
Gift, The John Steinbeck X
Gilead Marilynne Robinson X
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams X X
Go Ask Alice Anonymous X
Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien X
Good Fight:How World War II was Won, The Stephen E. Ambose X
The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck X
Great Expectations Charles Dickens X
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald X X
Grendel John Gardner X X
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin X
Guest, The Albert Camus X
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift

The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill

Hamlet William Shakespeare X
Hard Times Charles Dickens
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood X X
Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, The Sharyn McCrumb X
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Carson McCullers X X
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad X X
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen
Henry IV, Parts I and II William Shakespeare
Henry V William Shakespeare X
Hiroshima John Hersey X
Hobbit, The J.R.R. Tolkien X
The Homecoming Harold Pinter
Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
House Made of Dawn N Scott Momaday X
House on Mango Street, The Sandra Cisneros X
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne X
How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn X
Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Victor Hugo X
Hundred Secret Senses, The Amy Tan X

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou X

The Iliad Homer X
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
In Cold Blood Truman Capote X
In My Place Charlayne Gault X
In the Lake of the Woods Tim O'Brien X
In the Time of Butterflies Julia Alvarez
Inherit the Wind Jerome & Ro Lawrence X
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison X X
Ishmael Barbara Hambly X
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott X

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte X X

Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee
J.B. Archibald MacLeish
Joe Turner's Come and Gone August Wilson
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan X
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne X
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy X
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare X
The Jungle Upton Sinclair X X

Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane X

King Lear William Shakespeare X

Last of the Mohicans, The James Fenimore Cooper X

Leaving Cold Sassy Olive Ann Burns X
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Washington Irving X
Les Miserables Victor Hugo X
Lesson before Dying, A Ernest Gaines X X
Letters from an American Farmer de Crevecoeur
Life of Pi, The Yann Martel
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain X
Light in August William Faulkner X
Little Foxes, The Lillian Hellman
Little Men Louisa May Alcott X
Little Women Louisa May Alcott X
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry X
Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad X
Lord of the Flies William Golding X X
Lost World, The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
Loved One, The Evelyn Waugh
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot
Lysistrata Aristophanes

Macbeth William Shakespeare X

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Main Street Sinclair Lewis X
Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw
Maltese Falcon, The Dashiell Hammett X
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Master Harold...and the Boys Athol Fugard
Mayor of Casterbridge, The Thomas Hardy X
M. Butterfly David Henry Wang
Mean Justice Edward Humes X
Medea Euripides
Member of the Wedding, The Carson McCullers X
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel Arthur Golden X X
Merchant of Venice, The William Shakespeare X
Mermaid Chair, The Sue Monk Kidd X X
Metamorphosis Franz Kafka X
Middlemarch George Eliot
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Middle Passage V. S. Naipaul

Midsummer Night's Dream , A William Shakespeare X
Mill on the Floss , The George Eliot X
Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West
Moby Dick Herman Melville X
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe X
Monkey Bridge Lan Cao
Mother Courage and Her Children Berthold Brecht
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Warren's Profession George Bernard Shaw
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot X
Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff X
"My Last Duchess" Robert Browning
My Antonia Willa Cather X X
My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok
Mythology Edith Hamilton X X

Native Son Richard Wright X

Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee
Neanderthal John Darnton X
Nectar in a Sieve Kamal Markandaya X X
1984 George Orwell X X
No Exit John Paul Sartre
No-No Boy John Okada
No Promises in the Wind Irene Hunt X
Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevski

Obasan Joy Kogawa X

Odyssey, The Homer X
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Of Human Bondage Somerset Maughan X
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck X
Old Man and the Sea, The Ernest Hemingway X X
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens X
On the Beach Nevill Shute X
Once and Future King, The T.H. White X
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn X X
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey X
One of Ours Willa Cather X
Only Way I Know, The Ripkin/ Bryan X
O Pioneers! Willa Cather X
Optimist's Daughter, The D. H. Lawrence
Ordinary People Judith Guest X
Orestia, The Aeschylus
Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf
Othello William Shakespeare X
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
Our Town Thornton Wilder X
Out of Africa Isaak Dinesen
Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis X

Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov

Pamela Samuel Richardson
Passage to India, A E. M. Forster X
Paradise Lost John Milton
Pearl, The John Steinbeck Engl I X X
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen
Père Goriot Honore de Balzac
Persuasion Jane Austen X
Phaedre Jean Racine
Phantom of the Opera, The Gaston Leroux X
Piano Lesson, The August Wilson X
Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens X
Picture of Dorian Gray , The Oscar Wilde X X
Pilgrim's Progress, The John Bunyan X
Plague, The Albert Camus X
Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
Pocho Jose Antonio Villarreal
Poisonwood Bible, The Barbara Kingsolver X
Portrait of a Lady, The Henry James X
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce X
Power and the Glory, The Graham Greene X
Praisesong for the Widow Paule Marshall
Prayer for Owen Meany, A John Irving X X
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen X X
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Muriel Spark
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver X
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw

QB VII Leon Uris X

Ragtime E. L. Doctorow
Raisin in the Sun, A Lorraine Hansberry X X
Rape of the Lock , The Alexander Pope
Redburn Herman Melville
Remains of the Day, The Kazuo Ishiguro X
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy X
Return of the King, The J.R.R. Tolkien X X
Richard III William Shakespeare
Road, The Cormac McCarthy X
Room of One's Own, A Virginia Woolf X
Room with a View, A E. M. Forster X
Roots Alex Haley X
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Engl I
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard X

Sahara Clive Cussler X

Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw X
Sandbox , The Edward Albee
Scarlet Letter, The Nathaniel Hawthorne X X
Schindler's List Thomas Keneally X
Screwtape Letters, The C.S. Lewis X X
Secret Life of Bees, The Sue Monk Kidd X X
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen X
Sent for You Yesterday John Edgar Wideman
Separate Peace, A John Knowles X X
Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter X
Shipping News , The E. Annie Proulx X
Silas Marner George Eliot X
Silmarillion, The J.R.R. Tolkien X
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser X
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut X
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson X X
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See X
Solitary Blue, A Cynthia Voight X
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison X
Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
Sound and the Fury , The William Faulkner X X
Stone Angel, The Margaret Laurence X
Stranger, The Albert Camus X
Streetcar Named Desire, A Tennessee Williams X
Sula Toni Morrison X
Surfacing Margaret Atwood
Sun Also Rises , The Ernest Hemingway
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Tale of Two Cities, A Charles Dickens X

Tarftuffe Moliere
Temple Of My Familiar, The Alice Walker X
Tempest, The William Shakespeare
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald X
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy X X
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zorah Neale Hurston X X
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe X
Things They Carried, The Tim O'Brien
Thousand Acres, A Jane Smiley X X
Thousand Splendid Suns, A Khaled Hosseini X
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
To Sir, With Love E.R. Braithwaite X
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Tracks Louise Erdrich
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson X
Trial, The Franz Kafka
Trifles Susan Glaspell
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
Turn of the Screw, The Henry James X
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne X
Two Towers, The J.R.R. Tolkien X X
Typical American Gish Jen

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe X X

Undaunted Courage Stephen E. Ambrose X

Vanity Fair William Thackeray X

Vicar of Wakefield, The Oliver Goldsmith
Victory Joseph Conrad
Virginian, The Owen Wister
Volpone Ben Jonson

Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett

Walden Henry David Thoreau X
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy X
Warden, The Anthony Trollope
Washington Square Henry James
Wasteland, The T. S. Eliot
Watership Down Richard Adams X X
Watch on the Rhine Lillian Hellman
Way of the World, The William Congreve
Way We Live Now, The Anthony Trollope
When the Legends Die Hal Borland X X
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Wild Duck, The Henrik Ibsen
Winter in the Blood James Welch
Winter's Tale William Shakespeare X
Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
Woman in the Mists Farley Mowat X
Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte X X
 Book Author
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, William
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Twain, Mark
Agnes of God Pielmeier, John
Age of Innocence, The Wharton, Edith
Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
All the King's Men Warren, Robert Penn
All My Sons Miller, Arthur
All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac
America is in the Heart Bulosan, Carlos
An American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore
American, The James, Henry
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
Another Country Baldwin, James
Antigone Sophocles
Anthony & Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai
Armies of the Night Butler, Richard