| English 9 | Foer | Loud and Incredibly Close |
| American Literature | O’Brien | The Things They Carried |
| Pinsky, Robert | Americans’ Favorite Poems |
| British Literature Honors | Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Contemporary Fiction (Miley) | Erickson | Zeroville |
| Contemporary Fiction (Hamlyn) | Erickson | Zeroville |
| The City in Literature | Chandler, Raymond | The Long Goodbye |
| Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | Titus Andronicus |
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Recommended texts |
| Classics | |
| Austen, Jane | Emma, Sense and Sensibility, or Persuasion |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Camus, Albert | The Fall |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders, Journal of the Plague Year, or Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, or Hard Times |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch or Silas Marner |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying or Light in August |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India or A Room with a View |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the d’Urbervilles or The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls or A Farewell to Arms |
| James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady or The Turn of the Screw |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Sons and Lovers |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street , Arrowsmith, or Babbit |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved, Song of Solomon, or Paradise |
| Remarque, Erich | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Salinger, J.D. | Nine Stories (short stories) |
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden, Cannery Row, The Moon Is Down, Tortilla Flat, or Sweet Thursday |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Twain, Mark | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court or Puddinhead Wilson |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King’s Men |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, or The Loved One |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy |
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| General Fiction | |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Adams, Richard | Shardik |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| Allende, Isabel | The House of the Spirits |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation, I,Robot |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Auster, Paul | Mr. Vertigo, The Music of Chance, or City of Glass |
| Barnes, Julian | Flaubert’s Parrot |
| Brown, Dan | Angels and Demons |
| Byatt, A.S. | Possession |
| Chandler, Raymond | The Long Goodbye |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street |
| Clarke, Arthur | Childhood’s End |
| Clavell, James | King Rat |
| Courtenay, Bryce | The Power of One |
| Dahl, Roald | Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected (short stories) |
| Danielewski, Mark | House of Leaves |
| Davies, Robertson | Fifth Business |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Complete Sherlock Holmes (short stories) |
| Doyle, Roddy | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha or The Commitments |
| Fforde, Jasper | The Eyre Affair |
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant’s Woman or The Magus |
| Franzen, Jonathan | The Corrections |
| Frazier, Charles | Cold Mountain |
| Gaarder, Josten | Sophie’s World |
| Gardner, John | Grendel |
| Garcia Marquez, G. | Love in the Time of Cholera or One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Gibbons, Kaye | Ellen Foster |
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, or Travels with My Aunt |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | To Be Young, Gifted, and Black |
| Hasek, Jaroslav | The Good Soldier Schweik |
| Hearn, Liam | Across the Nightingale Floor (volume one of trilogy) |
| Hegi, Ursula | Stones from the River |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day |
| Jen, Gish | Typical American |
| Jackson, Mick | The Underground Man |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams, The Bean Trees or Pigs in Heaven |
| Kingston, Maxine H. | The Woman Warrior |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Kundera, Milan | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Lamb, Wally | She’s Come Undone |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Screwtape Letters or Till We Have Faces |
| London, Jack | The Sea Wolf |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Natural |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Blood Meridian |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind |
| Murdoch, Iris | A Severed Head |
| O’Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Ondaatje, Michael | The English Patient |
| Proulx, Annie | The Shipping News |
| Reynolds, Sheri | Rapture of Canaan |
| Sillitoe, Alan | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (short stories) |
| Strieber, Whitley | Communion |
| Styron, William | Confessions of Nat Turner or Sophie’s Choice |
| Tan, Amy | The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Joy Luck Club, or The Bonesetter’s Daughter |
| Tremain, Rose | Sacred Country or Music and Silence |
| Trumbo, Dalton | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat’s Cradle or Slaughterhouse Five |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Welsh, Irvine | Trainspotting |
| White, T.H. | The Once and Future King |
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| Nonfiction | |
| Bettelheim, Bruno | The Uses of Enchantment |
| Brooks, Geraldine | Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women |
| Campbell, Joseph | The Hero with a Thousand Faces |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Carson, Rachel | Silent Spring |
| Davis, Mike | City of Quartz |
| Didion, Joan | Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
| Eggers, Dave | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed |
| Ellis, Joseph | American Sphinx |
| Friedman, Thomas | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| Galbraith, J.K. | The Affluent Society |
| McCullough, David | John Adams or Truman |
| Orwell, George | Collected Essays or Down and Out in London and Paris |
| Reisner, Marc | Cadillac Desert |
| Said, Edward | Culture and Imperialism |
| Schlosser, Eric | Fast Food Nation |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One’s Own |
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