Ms. Pennington’s
English IV
Outside Reading Book List
Title of Book
Author
2001: A Space Odyssey
90 Minutes in Heaven
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
A Day No Pigs Would Die
A Death in the Family
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Majority of One
A Man Called Peter
A Midwife’s Story
A Night to Remember
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Raisin in the Sun
A Reckoning
A Separate Peace
A Tale of Two Cities
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Walk Across America
A Wrinkle in Time
Absalom, Absalom!
Accidents of Nature
Across Five Aprils
Alas, Babylon
All Creatures Great and Small
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the President’s Men
Anchorwoman
And Then There Were None
Angel Street (Gas Light)
Animal Farm
Anna and the King of Siam
Anna Karenina
April Morning
Arsenic and Old Lace
Auntie Mame
Babbitt
Babe Dikrikson: The World’s Greatest Woman Athlete
Babe: the Legend Comes to Life
Battle Cry
Becket
Beige
Beverly: An Autobiography
Billy Budd
Black Like Me
Black
Clarke, Arthur C.
Piper, Don
Miller, Walter
Twain, Mark
Peck, Robert Newton
Agee, James
Beah, Ishmael
Spigelgass, Leonard
Marshall, Catherine
Armstrong, Penny
Lord, Walter
Joyce, James
Hansbury, Lorraine
Sarton, May
Knowles, John
Dickens, Charles
Hosseini, Khaled
Jenkins, Peter
L’Engle, Madeleine
Faulkner, William
Johnson, Harriet McBryde
Hunt, Irene
Frank, Pat
Herriot, James
Remarque, Erich Maria
Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
Savich, Jessica
Christie, Agatha
Hamilton, Patrick
Orwell, George
Landon, Margaret
Tolstoy, Leo
Fast, Howard
Kesselring, Joseph
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee
Lewis, Sinclair
Schoor, Gene
Creamer, Robert W.
Uris, Leon
Anouilh, Jean
Castellucci, Cecil
Sills, Beverly and Lawrence Linderman
Melville, Herman
Griffin, John Howard
Dekker, Ted
Blithe Spirit
Blood Brothers
Born Free
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Cannery Row
Captains and the Kings
Carrie
Cheaper by the Dozen
Christy
Cimarron
Citizen Tom Paine
Civil Disobedience
Cloud of Witness
Cold Sassy Tree
Coming Into the Country
Crime and Punishment
Common Sense
Cry, the Beloved Country
Twelve Angry Men
Cures for Heartbreak
Dark Water Rising
David Copperfield
Davita’s Harp
Dawn
Day of Infamy
Deadline
Death Be Not Proud
Death of a Salesman
Doctor Zhivago
Dove
Drums Along the Mohawk
East of Eden
Echo
Eleanor and Franklin
Elizabeth the Queen
Enter Three Witches
Eric
Ethan Frome
Exodus
Farenheit 451
Farewell to Manzanar
Flowers for Algernon
Fragments of Isabella
Frankenstein
Fundation
Generation Me
Giant Steps
Giants in the Earth
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Up for Glory
Gone With the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
Coward, Noel
Harazin, S. A.
Adamson, Joy
Brown, Dee
Steinbeck, John
Caldwell, Taylor
King, Stephen
Gilbreth, Frank, Jr. and
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Marshall, Catherine
Ferber, Edna
Fast, Howard
Thoreau, Henry David
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Burns, Olive Ann
McPhee, John
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Beck, Glenn/Paine, Thomas
Paton, Alan
Rose, Reginald
Rabb, Margo
Hale, Marian
Dickens, Charles
Potok, Chaim
Wiesel, Elie
Lord, Walter
Crutcher, Chris
Gunther, John
Miller, Arthur
Pasternak, Boris
Graham, Robin Lee
Edmonds, Walter D.
Steinbeck, John
Morgenroth, Kate
Lash, Joseph P.
Anderson, Maxwell
Cooney, Caroline B.
Lund, Doris
Wharton, Edith
Uris, Leon
Bradbury, Ray
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
Keyes, Daniel
Leitner, Isabella
Shelley, Mary
Asimov, Issac
Twenge, Dr. Jean
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem and
Peter Knobler
Rolvaag, O. E.
Baldwin, James
Russell, Bill
Mitchell, Margaret
Steinbeck, John
Dickens, Charles
Green Dolphin Street
Harvey
Homecoming
How Green Was My Valley
I Always Wanted to Be Somebody
I Am the Cheese
I Am Third
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Will Call It Georgie’s Blues
Ice Castles
In Search of Mockingbird
Incantation
Inherit the Wind
Portrait of an Eating Disorder
Intruder in the Dust
Ivanhoe
Jacob Have I Loved
Jamaica Inn
Jane Eyre
Johnny Tremain
Joseph
Kaffir Boy
Keturah and Lord Death
Kidnapped
Knights of the Hill Country
Kon-Tiki
Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Life with Father
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Lorna Doone
Lost Horizon
Macho
Madame Bovary
Madame Sarah
Maddy’s Song
Main Street
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Midnight Hour Encores
Mistress of Mellyn
Moby Dick
Mossflower
Mrs. Miniver
My Antonia
My Life
My Name is Asher Lev
Native Son
Never Cry Wolf
Night
Nine Coaches Waiting
Nineteen Minutes
Not Like You
Goudge, Elizabeth
Chase, Mary
Voigt, Cynthia
Llewellyn, Richard
Gibson, Althea
Cormier, Robert
Sayers, Gale with Al Silverman
Craven, Margaret
Angelou, Maya
Greenburg, Joanne
Newton, Suzanne
Fleisher, Leonore
Ellsworth, Loretta
Hoffman, Alice
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E.Lee Inside Out:
Shivack, Nadia
Faulkner, William
Scott, Sir Walter
Patterson, Katherine
Du Maurier, Daphne
Bronte, Charlotte
Forbes, Ester
Landorf, Joyce
Mathabane, Mark
Leavitt, Martine
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tharp, Tim
Heyerdahl, Thor
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
Lindsey, Howard and
Russell Crouse
Alcott, Louisa May
Golding, William
Blackmore, R. D.
Hilton, James
Villasenor, Edmund
Flaubert, Gustave
Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Dickson, Margaret
Lewis, Sinclair
Zevin, Gabrielle
Brooks, Bruce
Holt, Victoria
Melville, Herman
Jacques, Brian
Struther, Jan
Cather, Willa
Meir, Golda
Potok, Chaim’
Wright, Richard
Mowat, Farley
Wiesel, Elie
Stewart, Mary
Picoult, Jodi
Davis, Deborah
Notes From the Midnight Driver
Oliver Twist
On Golden Pond
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Only Earth and Sky Last Forever
Oprah
Ordinary People
Other People’s Houses
Our Town
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Pentimento
Pere Goriot
Pride and Prejudice
Profiles in Courage
Pygmalion
Queen Dolley
Quiet Strength
Rabbit, Run
Rabble in Arms
Rebecca
Red Glass
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
Roots
Rubber Houses
Rucker Park Setup
Run Silent, Run Deep
Saving Grace
Shane
Shark Girl
Show Boat
Silas Marner
Sister Carrie
Skindeep
Song of the Sparrow
Stranger in a Strange Land
Strong at the Broken Places
Susan’s Story
Tamar
Tantalize
Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Tell
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tex
The Paper Lion
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The African Queen
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Bell Jar
The Beloved Invader
The Braid
The Breakup Bible
Sonnenblick, Jordan
Dickens, Charles
Thompson, Ernest
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Benchley, Nathaniel
Waldron, Robert
Guest, Judith
Segal, Lore
Wilder, Thornton
Jansen, Hanna
Hellman, Lillian
de Balzac, Honore
Austen, Jane
Kennedy, John F.
Shaw, George Bernard
Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
Tony Dungy
Updike, John
Roberts, Kenneth
Du Maurier, Daphne
Resau, Laura
Serling, Rod
Compestine, Ying Chang
Haley, Alex
Yeomans, Ellen
Volponi, Paul
Beach, Edward L.
Ryan, Darlene
Schaefer, Jack
Bingham, Kelly
Ferber, Edna
Eliot, George
Dreiser, Theodore
Jones, Toeckey
Sandell, Lisa Ann
Heinlein
Cleland, Max
Hampshire, Susan
Peet, Mal
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Barakat, Ibtisam
Keller, Helen
McClintock, Norah
Hardy, Thomas
Hinton, S. E.
Plimpton, George
Sherman, Alexie
Twain, Mark
Forester, C. S.
Stone, Irving
Gaines, Ernest J.
Plath, Sylvia
Price, Eugenia
Frost, Helen
Kantor, Melissa
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The Call of the Wild
The Camera Never Blinks
Wilder, Thornton
Wouk, Herman
London, Jack
Rather, Dan with Mickey
Herskowitz
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J. D.
The Chalk Garden
Bagnold, Enid
The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert
The Chosen
Potok, Chaim
The Color Purple
Walker, Alice
The Contender
Lipsyte, Robert
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Jewett, Sarah Orne
The Crucible
Miller, Arthur
The Decoding of Lana Morris
McNeal, Laura and Tom
McNeal
The Dollmaker
Arnow, Harriette
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds Zindel, Paul
The Fantastic Voyage
Asimov, Isaac
The Friendly Persuasion
West, Jessamyn
The Gates of Zion
Thoene, Bodie
The Gift of Music
Smith, Jane Stuart and Betty
Carlson
The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee
The Good Earth
Buck, Pearl
The Great Divorce
Lewis, C. S.
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Oursler, Fulton
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McCullers, Carson
The Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
The Hiding Place
Boom, Corrie Ten
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Hollow Hills
Stewart, Mary
The Honorable Prison
de Jenkins, Lyll de Becerra
The Houose of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
The House of Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Burgess, Alan
The Innocents
Archibald, William
The Jewel in the Crown
Scott, Paul
The Last of the Mohicans
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last Unicorn
Beagle, Peter S.
The Learning Tree
Parks, Gordon
The Lion in Winter
Goldman, James
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
The Little Foxes
Hellman, Lillian
The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury, Ray
The Mask of Apollo
Renault, Mary
The Member of the Wedding
McCullers, Carson
The Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz
The Miracle Worker
Gibson, William
The Mousetrap
Christie, Agatha
The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
Moriarty, Jaclyn
The Natural
Malamud, Bernard
The Odd Couple
Simon, Neil
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
The Once and Future King
White, T. H.
The Other Side of the Mountain
The Other
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Peacock Spring
The Pearl
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pilgrim’s Progress
The Plain James
The Playboy of the Western World
The Portrait of a Lady
The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie
The Red Badge of Courage
The Return of the Native
The Robe
The Scarlet Letter
The Shack
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Silenced
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Stranger
The Summer of My German Soldier
The Sun Also Rises
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Thirteenth Tale
The Thornbirds
The Three Musketeers
The Time Machine
The Virginian
The Winthrop Woman
Them That Glitter and Them That Don’t
Things Invisible to See
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Sir With Love
Treasure Island
Twisted
Two Years Before the Mast
Up the Down Staircase
Wait For Me
Walden
Watership Down
West With the Night
When the Legends Die
Where Are the Children?
Wicked Lovely
Winesburg, Ohio
Words by Heart
Wuthering Heights
Yankee From Olympus
Z for Zachariah
Valens, E. G.
Tryon, Thomas
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
Godden, Rumer
Steinbeck, John
Wilde, Oscar
Bunyan, John
Castellucci, Cecil
Synge, John M.
James, Henry
Spark, Muriel
Crane, Stephen
Hardy, Thomas
Douglas, Lloyd C.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Young, William Paul
West, Morris L.
DeVita, James
Wilder, Thornton
Camus, Albert
Greene, Bette
Hemingway, Ernest
Patrick, John
Setterfield, Diane
McCullough, Colleen
Dumas, Alexandre
Wells, H. G.
Wister, Owen
Seton, Anya
Greene, Bette
Willard, Nancy
Lee, Harper
Braithwaite, E. R.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Dana, Richard Henry
Kaufmann, Bel
Na, An
Thoreau, Henry David
Adams, Richard
Markham, Beryl
Hal Borland
Clark, Mary Higgins
Marr, Melissa
Anderson, Sherwood
Sebestyen, Quida
Bronte, Emily
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
O’Brian, Robert C.