Summer Reading List

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Camus, Albert The Plague
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Canada, Geoffrey Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun
Canetti, Elias Auto-da-fe
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Shadow
Carpentier, Alejo The Lost Steps
Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland
Carson, Rachel Louise Silent Spring
Cart, Michael (compiler) Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future
Cary, Lorene Black Ice
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Cather, Willa The Song of the Lark
Chambers, Aidan Postcards from No Man's Land
Chambers, Veronica Mama's Girl
Chandler, Raymond The Big Sleep
Chavez, Denise Last of the Menu Girls
Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street
Cisneros, Sandra Woman Hollering Creek
Clair, Maxine Rattlebone
Cleary, Beverly My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
Coetzee, J. M. Age of Iron
Coetzee, J. M. In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J. M. Life and Times of Michael K.
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians
Coman, Carolyn Many Stones
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Conroy, Frank Body and Soul
Conroy, Pat The Prince of Tides
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Cormier, Robert Frenchtown Summer
Cormier, Robert Heroes: A Novel
Cormier, Robert We All Fall Down
Crichton, Michael Andromeda Strain
Cunningham, Michael The Hours

Dahl, Roald Boy: Tales of Childhood
Dante The Inferno
Danticat, Edwidge Krik? Krak!
Dardess, George Foreign Exchange
Davis, Terry Vision Quest
Dawson, George Life Is So Good
De Luca, Erri Sea of Memory
Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders
Del Giudice, Daniele Takeoff: The Pilot's Lore
Dennis, Carl Practical Gods
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Peter Eva
Dickinson, Peter The Ropemaker
Didion, Joan Democracy
Didion, Joan The Last Thing He Wanted
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Doctorow, E. L. The Waterworks
Doerr, Harriett Stones for Ibarra
Doherty, Berlie Daughter of the Sea
Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Roddy The Woman Who Walked into Doors
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Duong, Thu Huong Novel Without a Name
Duong, Thu Huong Paradise of the Blind

Edgarian, Carol Rise the Euphrates
Eliot, George Adam Bede
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George Silas Marner
Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Emecheta, Buchi The Bride Price
Emecheta, Buchi Second-Class Citizen
Emecheta, Buchi The Slave Girl
Endo, Shusaku The Sea and Poison
Endo, Shusaku Silence
Endo, Shusaku Wonderful Fool
Erdrich, Louise The Antelope Wife
Erdrich, Louise The Bingo Palace
Escandon, Maria Amparo Esperanza's Box of Saints
Esquivel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate

Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence A Coney Island of the Mind
Ferris, Jean Bad
Filipovic, Zlata Zlata's Diary
Finney, Ernest California Time
Finney, Jack Time and Again
Flagg, Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
Flake, Sharon Money Hungry
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Fleischman, Paul Mind's Eye
Fleischman, Paul Whirligig
Fossey, Dian Gorillas in the Mist
Fowles, John The Collector
Fox, Laurie My Sister from the Black Lagoon
Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl
Frank, Anne Tales from the Secret Annex
Frank, Rudolf No Hero for the Kaiser
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Fredriksson, Marianne Simon's Family
Freymann-Weyr, Garrett My Heartbeat
Friedman, Carl Nightfather
Fuentes, Carlos The Old Gringo

Gaines, Ernest A Gathering of Old Men
Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying
Gantos, Jack Hole in My Life
Garcia, Cristina The Aguero Sisters
Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Strange Pilgrims
Garland, Sherry I Never Knew Your Name
Garland, Sherry The Lotus Seed
Gibbons, Kaye A Cure for Dreams
Gibbons, Kaye Ellen Foster
Gibson, Aliona Nappy: Growing Up Black and Female in America
Giff, Patricia Reilly Pictures of Hollis Woods
Gilman, Dorothy Incident at Badamya
Glaubman, Richard Life Is So Good
Glenn, Mel Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems
Glenn, Mel My Friend's Got This Problem, Mr. Candler
Godden, Rumer The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Gogol, Nikolai V. Dead Souls
Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha
Goldman, William The Princess Bride
Gordimer, Nadine Burger's Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine July's People
Gordimer, Nadine Jump and Other Stories
Gordimer, Nadine My Son's Story
Grass, Gunter Dog Years
Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum
Greene, Graham The Quiet American
Greene, Graham Travels with My Aunt
Grimes, Nikki Bronx Masquerade
Guareschi, Giovanni The Little World of Don Camillo
Gunther, John Death Be Not Proud
Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars

Hagedorn, Jessica The Dogeaters
Haley, Alex Roots
Hammett, Dashiell The Maltese Falcon
Hamsun, Knut Hunger
Hamsun, Knut Pan
Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
Hasek, Jaroslav The Good Soldier Schweik
Hautzig, Esther Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Haynes, David Right by My Side
Heat-Moon, William Least Blue Highways - A Journey into America
Heck, Alfons A Child of Hitler
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River
Hegi, Ursula Tearing the Silence: Being German in America
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises
Henley, Beth Crimes of the Heart
Herbert, Frank Dune
Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small
Hersey, John Hiroshima
Hesse, Hermann Narcissus and Goldmund
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha
Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust
Heyerdahl, Thor Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Hiaasen, Carol Hoot
Hickam, Homer October Sky (Rocket Boys)
Hicvilmaz, Gaye The Frozen Waterfall
Hillerman, Tony Dance Hall of the Dead
Hinojosa, Maria Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa
Hinojosa, Rolando Dear Rafe
Hoeg, Peter Borderliners
Hoeg, Peter Smilla's Sense of Snow
Homer The Iliad
Hopkinson, Nalo Brown Girl in the Ring
Houston, J. Farewell to Manzanar
Howe, James The Watcher
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables (The Wretches)
Hunter, Mollie A Sound of Chariots
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World

Ibsen, Henrik Hedda Gabler
Ibuse, Masuji Black Rain
Ionesco, Eugene Rhinoceros
Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day

James, Henry Daisy Miller
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
James, P. D. Death of an Expert Witness
Jen, Gish Who's Irish?
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Heat and Dust
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer The Householder
Jimenez, Francisco Breaking Through
Jin, Ha Ocean of Words
Johnson, Charles R. Middle Passage
Jones, K. Maurice Say It Loud! The Story of Rap Music
Joyce, James Dubliners
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Junger, Sebastian The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Kadohata, Cynthia The Floating World
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz The Trial
Kawabata, Yasunar Thousand Cranes
Kazantzakis, Nikos Zorba the Greek
Kazimiroff, Theodore L. The Last Algonquin
Keller, Helen A. The Story of My Life
Kellogg, Marjorie B. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Keneally, Thomas The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Keneally, Thomas Schindler's Ark (Schindler's List)
Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Kerr, M. E. Deliver Us from Evie
Kesey, Ken One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kesey, Ken Sometimes a Great Notion
Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
Kherdian, David The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
Kim, Nancy Chinhominey's Secret
Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John
Kincaid, Jamaica The Autobiography of My Mother
King, Stephen Christine
King, Stephen Different Seasons
King, Stephen Thinner
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams
Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees
Kingsolver, Barbara Pigs in Heaven
Kingston, Maxine Hong TheWoman Warrior
Kogawa, Joy Obasan
Konigsburg, E. L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
Krakauer, Jon Into the Wild
Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air
Krisher, Trudy Spite Fences
Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan The Joke
Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lamb, Wally She's Come Undone
Lamott, Anne Crooked Little Heart
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Tombs of Atuan
Lee, Chang-Rae A Gesture Life
Lee, Gus China Boy
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Spike Best Seat in the House
Lem, Stanislaw Eden
Lem, Stanislaw Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Lenz, Siegfried The German Lesson
Lester, Julius Othello: A Novel
Lester, Julius To Be a Slave
Letts, Billie Where the Heart Is
Levi, Primo If Not Now, When?
Lewis, Anthony Gideon's Trumpet
Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
Limon, Graciela Memories of Ana Calderon
Limon, Graciela Song of the Hummingbird
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
London, Jack To Build a Fire and Other Stories
Lopez-Medina, Sylvia Cantora
Lorbiecki, Marybeth Just One Flick of a Finger
Lorca, Federico Garcia Blood Wedding
Lord, Walter A Night to Remember
Lynch, Chris Freewill

Maguire, Gregory Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Mah, Adeline Falling Leaves
Malamud, Bernard The Assistant
Malamud, Bernard The Natural
Mann, Thomas Death in Venice
Mann, Thomas TheMagic Mountain
Maristed, Kai Belong to Me
Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve
Marsden, John Letters from the Inside
Marsden, John Tomorrow, When the War Began
Martin, Ann A Corner of the Universe
Martinez, Victor Parrot in the Oven: Mi vida
Mason, Bobbie Ann In Country
Masters, Edgar Lee Spoon River Anthology
Mathabane, Mark African Women: Three Generations
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy
McBride, James Color of Water
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonflight
McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac Cities of the Plain
McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
McCullers, Carson The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
McCullers, Carson The Member of the Wedding
McKillip, Patricia Song for the Basilisk
McPhee, John Coming into the Country
McPhee, John Oranges
Mehta, Gita A River Sutra
Melville, Herman Billy Budd
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Mills, Magnus All Quiet on the Orient Express
Milosz, Czeslaw Unattainable Earth
Milton, John Paradise Lost
Mishima, Yukio The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Mishima, Yukio The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind
Mohr, Nicholasa In Nueva York
Momaday, N. Scott The Way to Rainy Mountain
Monfredo, Miriam North Star Conspiracy
Monfredo, Miriam The Seneca Falls Inheritance
Mori, Kyoko Shizuko's Daughter
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni Jazz
Morrison, Toni The Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni Sula
Mosely, Walter Walkin' the Dog
Mowat, Farley Never Cry Wolf
Mukherjee, Bharati Jasmine
Mukherjee, Bharati Middleman and Other Stories
Murakami, Haruki The Elephant Vanishes
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels
Myers, Walter Dean Monster

Na, An A Step from Heaven
Naipaul, V. S. A House for Mr. Biswas
Nakazawa, Keiji Barefoot Gen
Narayan, R. K. Malgudi Days
Narayan, R. K. Waiting for the Mahatma
Naylor, Gloria Mama Day
Neufeld, John Lisa, Bright and Dark
Newth, Mette The Abduction
Nichols, John The Milagro Beanfield War
Nolan, Han A Face in Every Window

Oates, Joyce Carol Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
O'Brien, Edna The Country Girls Trilogy
O'Brien, Flann At Swim - Two-Birds
O'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah
O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato
O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
O’Brien, Tim In the Lake of the Woods
Oe, Kenzaburo Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Oe, Kenzaburo The Silent Cry: A Novel
Okubo, Mine Citizen 13660
Olsen, Tillie Tell Me a Riddle
Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient
Ortiz Cofer, Judith An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Orwell, George Down and Out in Paris and London
Ozick, Cynthia The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

Paine, Thomas Common Sense
Park, Linda Sue A Single Shard
Parks, Suzan-Lori Topdog Underdog
Pasternack, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Paterson, Katherine The Master Puppeteer
Paulsen, Gary My Life in Dog Years
Pausewang, Gudrun The Final Journey
Peters, Ellis A Morbid Taste for Bones
Petry, Ann The Street
Petry, Ann Tituba of Salem Village
Pinkwater, Daniel The Education of Robert Nifkin
Pirandello, Luigi Six Characters in Search of an Author
Plath, Sylvia Ariel
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Plum-Ucci, Carol The Body of Christopher Creed
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Potok, Chaim The Promise
Pyle, Howard The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49

Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Renault, Mary The King Must Die
Reuter, Bjarne The Boys from St. Petri
Reynolds, Sheri The Rapture of Canaan
Rivera, Tomas This Migrant Earth
Rodriguez, Luis J. Always Running: La vida loca, Gang Days in LA
Rodriguez, Luis J. Concrete River
Rostand, Edmund Cyrano de Bergerac
Rozan, S. J. China Trade
Rushdie, Salman Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman Satanic Verses
Russo, Richard Empire Falls
Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising
Rybakov, Anatoli Children of the Arbat
Rylant, Cynthia The Heavenly Village

Sagan, Francoise Bonjour Tristesse
Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye
Santiago, Esmeralda When I Was Puerto Rican
Saramago, Jose Blindness
Saramago, Jose The Tale of the Unknown Island
Saroyan, William The Human Comedy
Sarris, Greg Grand Avenue
Sayers, Dorothy Gaudy Night
Sayers, Dorothy Murder Must Advertise
Schaefer, Jack Shane
Schami, Rafik Damascus Nights
Schwartz, Delmore In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
Selcadurai, Shyam Funny Boy
Sender, Ruth M. The Cage
Shange, Nzoke For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Shute, Nevil On the Beach
Shute, Nevil A Town Like Alice
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Singer, Isaac Bashevis The Certificate
Singer, Isaac Bashevis Enemies, a Love Story
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Ronn Nothing but the Truth: A Play
Sobel, Dava Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sones, Sonya Stop Pretending
Spiegelman, Art Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose
Steinbeck, John Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Strempek Shea, Suzanne Hoopi Shoopi Donna
Sutcliff, Rosemary Road to Camlann: The Death of King Arthur
Swarthout, Glendon Bless the Beasts and Children
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels

Talbot, Bryan The Tale of One Bad Rat
Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy The Kitchen God's Wife
Taylor, Clark A House That Crack Built
Temple, Frances A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
Thurber, James My World and Welcome to It
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina
Tolstory, Leo The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Trevor, William Felicia's Journey
Trueman, Terry Stuck in Neutral
Trumbo, Dalton Johnny Got His Gun
Tsukiyama, Gail Women of the Silk
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain, Mark The Prince and the Pauper
Tyau, Kathleen A Little Too Much Is Enough
Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Valladares, Armando Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares
van Gulik, Robert The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery
Vargas Llosa, Mario Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Villasenor, Victor Rain of Gold
Viramontes, Helena Maria Under the Feet of Jesus
Vonnegut, Kurt Bluebeard
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
Vonnegut, Kurt Welcome to the Monkey House
Vreeland, Susan Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Walker, Margaret Jubilee
Walters, Joseph Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess
Wartski, Maureen Crane A Boat to Nowhere
Washington, Mary Helen Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories By and About Black Women
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds
Wells, Rebecca Little Altars Everywhere
Werber, Bernard Empire of the Ants
Westall, Robert Gulf
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence
Whelan, Gloria Homeless Bird
Wideman, John Edgar Brothers and Keepers
Wideman, John Edgar Philadelphia Fire
Wiener, Jon Come Together: John Lennon in His Time
Wiesel, Elie The Accident
Wiesel, Elie Dawn
Wiesel, Elie Night
Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wiley, Ralph Best Seat in the House
Wilson, August Fences
Wilson, August The Piano Lesson
Wilson, August Two Trains Running
Winton, Tim The Riders
Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel
Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff
Wolff, Virginia Euwer True Believer
Woodson, Jacqueline If You Come Softly
Woodson, Jacqueline Miracle's Boys
Wu, Cheng En Monkey: A Journey to the West
Wulffson, Don Soldier X

Yolen, Jane Dragon's Blood

Zindel, Paul Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

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