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ENGLISH 11, READING LIST, 2004 – 2005

You are required to read and do 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             Aeschylus I                          *Oresteria

                Austen, Jane                         *Persuasion

                                                                *Pride and Prejudice

                                                                *Sense and Sensibility

B             Balsiger, David                     The Lincoln Conspiracy

                Baldwin, James                     Go Tell It on the Mountain

Bronte, Charlotte                  *Jane Eyre

                                                                Charlotte

                Bunyan, John                       The Holy War

C             Camus                                    *The Plague

                Cather, Willa                         *My Antonia    

                                                                *Oh, Pioneers

                                                                *Death Comes for the Archbishop

                Chekhov, Anton                  *The Cherry Orchard

                Crane, Stephen                     *Maggie

                                                                *The Open Boat and Other Stories

                Conrad, Joseph                    *Lord Jim

                Cooper, James F.                  *Last of the Mohicans

                                                                *The Deerslayer

D             Dante Alighieri                     Any of the Divine Comedy

                Dickens, Charles                  *David Copperfield     

                                                                 *Hard Times   

                                                                 *Bleak House

                Dinesen, Isak                        Out of Africa

                                                                Winter’s Tale

                Dostoyevesky, Fyodor       *Brothers Karamazov

                                                                *Crime and Punishment

                                                                *Notes From Underground

E              Eliot, George                         *Mill on the Floss

F              Faulkner, William *As I Lay Dying

                                                                *Intruder in the dust

                                                                *The Sound and the Fury

                Fitzgerald, F. S.                     *The Great Gatsby

                                                                *Tender is the Night

G             Gaines, Ernest                       *The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

                                                                A Gathering of Old Men

                                                                The Sky is Gray

                Green, Gerald                        Holocaust

H             Haley, Alex                            Roots

                Hansberry, Lorraine             *A Raisin in the Sun

                Hawthorne, N.                      *The House of Seven Gables

                                                                *The Scarlet Letter

                Hemingway, Ernest              *For Whom the Bell Tolls

                                                                *A Farewell To Arms

                                                                *The Sun also Rises

                Henry, O.                               *Short Stories

                Hurston, Zora                       *Their Eyes were Watching God

I               Ibsen Henrik                         *Ghosts

                Irving, Washington             *Tales of the Alhambra

J              James, Henry                        *Washington Square

                                                                *Turn of the Screw

                Joyce, James                         *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

K             Kafka, Franz                          *The Metamorphosis

L              Lewis, C.S.                             Surprised by Joy,

                                                                *Screwtape Letter and Introduction

M            McCullers, Carson               Member of the Wedding

                Miller, Arthur                        *Death of a Salesman

                                                                *The Crucible

                Michener, James                  Iberia

                Moliere                                  *The Misanthrope

O             O’Neill, Eugene                    *A Long Days Journey into Night

                Orwell, George                      *1984

                                                                *Homage to Catalonia

P              Paton, Alan                           *Cry, the Beloved Country

S              Shakespeare, W                   *Hamlet

                                                                *Henry IV

                                                                *King Lear

                Singer, Isaac                         Shosha

                Solzhenitsyn, Alexander     *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

                                                                *Cancer Ward

                Steinbeck, John                    *The Grapes of Wrath (In Class Assignment)

                                                                *Of Mice and Men

                Stowe, Harriet B.                  *Uncle Tom’s Cabin

T             Thackeray, William              *Vanity Fair

                Tolstoy, Leo                         *War and Peace

                                                                *Anna Karenina

                Twain, Mark                          Roughing It

                                                                Letters from the Earth

V             Videl, Gore                             Lincoln

                Voltaire                                  *Candide

W            Wangerin, Walter                The Book of the Dun Cow

                Warren, Robert                     *All the King’s Men

                Wharthon, Edith                  *Ethan Frome

                Wells, H. G.                           *War of the Worlds

                Williams, Tennessee           *The Glass Menagerie (In Class Assignment)

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Drown, Frank and Marie     Mission to the Head-hunters         

Elliot, Elizabeth                     Shadow of the Almighty                

Flexner, James T.                  Washington

Foxe, John                             Foxe’s Christian Martyrs

Franklin, Benjamin               The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin                                                    

Griffin, John H.                     Black Like Me

Jenkins, Peter                        A Walk Across America

Kennedy, John                     Profiles in Courage

Murphy, Brendan                The Butcher of Lyon

Specht, Robert                      Tisha

Wallis, Ethel                          The Dayuma Story

Wiesel                                    Night and Introduction     

Wilson, Ken                          Angel at her Shoulder