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ENGLISH 9, READING LIST, 2004 – 2005

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

 

A             Asimov, Isaac                       Fantastic Voyage

                                                                Any of Foundation Series

B             Brooks, Terry                        The Sword of Shannara

                Bunyan, John                       *Pilgrim’s Progress

C             Cervantes, Miguel               *Don Quixote

                Chekhov,  A.                         Selected Stories

                Cooper, James F.                  *The Last of the Mohicans

                Costain, Thomas                  The Silver Chalice

D             Dickens, Charles                  *Great Expectation (In Class Assignment)

                                                                *A Tale of Two Cities

                                                                *Oliver Twist

                Davidson, H. R. Ellis            Gods and Myths of Northern Europe

                Douglas, Lloyd                     The Robe

                Doyle, Arthur Conan           *Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

                Dumas, Alexandre                *The Count of Monte Cristo

                                                                Man in the Iron Mask

                                                                *The Three Musketeers

E              (Anon.)                                  *Gilgamesh

                Eurpides and Seneca           *Medea

G             Golding, William   *Lord of the Flies

H             Hugo, Victor                         *The Hunchback of Notre Dame

                                                                *Les Miserables

                Hurnard, Hannah                 *Hinds' Feet on High Places

                Hurston, Zora                       *Their Eyes were Watching God

K             Kauffman, C. C.                    Search to Belong

L              Lattimore, Richard                *The Iliad of Homer

                (Homer)                                 *The Odyssey of Homer

                Lewis, C. S.                            *Out of the Silent Planet

                                                                *Perelandra

                Lee, Harper                            *To Kill a Mockingbird

                Lessing, Doris                      *Fifth Child

M            Machiavelli, Niccolo            *The Prince

                Marshall, Catherine             Christy

                                                                Julie

                Massie, Robert K.                Nicholas and Alexandra

                Melville, Herman  *Moby Dick

P              Poe, Edgar A.                        *18 Best Stories

                                                                *10 Great Mysteries

                Potok, Chaim                         *Gift of Asher Lev

R             Richter, Conrad                    *Light in the Forest

                Rostand, Emond                   *Cyrano de Bergerac

S              Sheldon, Charles                  In His Steps

                Shakespeare, W.                  *The Merchant of Venice

                                                                *Pericles, Prince of Tyre

T             Taylor, Mildred                    Let the Circle of Unbroken

                Thoene, Bodie                      Any of the Zion Chronicles or Covenant

                Twain, Mark                          *Life on the Mississippi

                                                                 *Roughing It

                                                                 *Innocents Abroad

W            Wilder, Thornton  -              Our Town

                Wister, Owen                        The Virginian

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Anthony, Susan                                   The Ghost In My Life

Balizet, Carol                                         Seven Last Years

Bush, Catherine                                    Elizabeth I

Byrd, Dennis                                         Rise and Walk

Edwards, Brian H.                                Through Many Dangers

Elliot, Elizabeth                                     Through Gates of Splendor

Ford, Sallie R.                                        Mary Bunyan

Gunther, John                                       *Death Be Not Proud

Hersey, John                                         *Hiroshima

Kaye, Tony                                           Lech Walesa

King, Perry Scott                                  Pericles

Kuhn, Isobel                                         In the Arena

Lyall, Leslie T.                                      A Passion for the Impossible

McGuire, Leslie                                    Catherine the Great

Miller, Merle                                         Plain Speaking

Olson, Bruce                                         Bruchko

                                                                For this Cross I’ll Kill You

Pollock, John                                        The Apostles

Richardson, Don                                  Peace Child

Rodger, Judith                                      Winston Churchill

ten Boom, Corrie                                  The Hiding Place

Walworth, Nancy                                 Constantine

Weatheby, W. J.                                  Chariots of Fire

Wilson, Kenneth L.                             Angel at Her Shoulder

Wurmbrand, Michael                          Between Hammer and Sickle

                                                                Tortured for Christ