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ENGLISH 10, READING LIST, 2004 – 2005

You are required to read and write a report on a total of 8 books. One of these may be a biography. Only one title per author is permitted. You MUST read at least 5 of the starred (*) books.

 

A             Asimov, Issac                       Any of the Foundation series

                Austen, Jane                         *Persuasion

                                                                *Sense and Sensibility

B             Baines                                    *Malory’s LE MORT D’ARTHUR

                Blackmore                              Lorna Doone

                Bradbury, Ray                      *Fahrenheit 451

                Brönte, Anne                        *Agnes Grey*

                Buck, Pearl                            *The Good Earth

                Bunyan, John                       *The Holy War

                                                                *Pilgrim’s Progress

C             Cervantes, Miguel               *Adventures of Don Quixote

                Chekhov, Aton                     *Selected Stories

                Collins, Larry                        *Or I’ll Dress You in Mourning

                Conrad, Joseph                    *The Secret Sharer

                Cooper, James F.                  *The Deerslayer

                Dickens, Charles                  *David Copperfield

                                                                *Oliver Twist

                Dumas, Alexander                *The Count of Monte Cristo

                                                                The Man in the Iron Mask

E              Eliot, George                         *Silas Marner (In Class Assignment)

G             Golding, William   *Lord of the Flies

H             Harrison, Robert (Tra.)        *Song of Roland

                Hemmingway, Ernest           *For Whom the Bell Tolls

                Homer                                    *The Iliad of Homer

                                                                *The Odyssey of Homer

I               Irving, Washington             *Tales of the Alhambra

L              Langland, William                *Piers Plowman

                Lewis, C. S.                            Out of the Silent Planet

Perelandra

                                                                The Pilgrim’s Regress

                Lee, Harper                            *To Kill a Mockingbird

M            MacDonald, George            Lilith

                Mason, Herbert (Tra.)         *Gilgamesh

                Marshall, Catherine             Christy

                Miura, A’yako                      Shiokari Pass

N             Nordhoff, Charles                *Mutiny on the Bounty

O             Orwell, George                      *Animal Farm

                                                                Homage to Catalonia

P              Plato                                       *Five Great Dialogues

                                                                *The Republic

R             Remarque, Eric                      *All Quiet on the Western Front

                Richter, Conrad                    Light in the Forest

S              Shakespeare, William          *Merchant of Venice

                                                                *Much Ado About Nothing

                                                                *Twelfth Night

                                                                *Hamlet

                                                                *Richard II

                Shelley, Mary                       *Frankenstien

                Sienkiewiez, Henry               Quo Vadis

                Solzhenitsyn, A.                   *The First Circle

                                                                *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

                Steinbeck, John                    *The Moon is Down

                                                                *Cannery Row

T             Tennyson, Alfred Lord    Idylls of the King

Thucydides                           *The History of the Peloponnesian War

                Twain, Mark                          *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

                                                                *Innocents Abroad

V             Vergil                                     Aeneid

W            White, T. H.                          *The Once and Future King            

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Bonar, Andrew                     The Life of Robert M’Cheyne

de Vilallonga, Jose               The King (El Rey)

Ford, Sallie R.                        Mary Bunyan

Garza, Hedda                         Francisco Franco

Hersey, John                         Hiroshima

Kennedy, John F.                 Profiles in Courage

Kuhn, Isabel                         In the Arena

                                                Ascent to the Tribes

Laird, Margaret Nicholl       They Called Me Mama

Luke, Mary M.                      Catherine the Queen

Massie, K. Robert                Nicholas and Alexandra

Mall, E. Jane                          Kitty, My Rib

Pollock,  John                       The Apostles

Pollock, John                        A Foreign Devil in China

Richardson, Don                  Peace Child

Shetler, Joanne                     And the Word Came with Power

Stevens, Paul                        Ferdinand and Isabella

Whitten, Indy                       Jose Borras