ENG 095-College Reading & Study Skills
Comprehensive Book List
Revised 9/08
Your novel must be chosen from this list unless you have received approval for a different book
from your instructor before the due date.
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A Child Called Noah by Josh Greenfield
Brian's Song by William Blinn
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Don't Block the Blessings: Revelations of a Lifetime by Patti LaBelle
Eric by Doris Lund
It's Always Something by Gilda Radnor
Karen by Marie Killilea
Lauren Becall by Myself by Lauren Becall
Midnight Express by Billy Hayes
Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Personal History by Katherine Graham
Still Me by Christopher Reeve
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Tis by Frank McCourt
ETHNIC
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Having Our Say by Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany
Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Nigger by Dick Gregory
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color of Water by James McBride
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
FANTASY
The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerine
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
The God Game by Andrew Greeley
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart
Watership Dragon by Richard Adams
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HISTORICAL
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Custer's Last Stand by Will Henry
Freedom by Howard Fast
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Immigrants by Howard Fast
The Jews by Howard Fast
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Days of Patton by Ladislas Farago
The Last Frontier by Howard Fast
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
HORROR
All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Legion by William Peter Blatty
Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
You Belong to Me by Mary Higgins Clark
HUMOR
Chasing Cézanne by Peter Magee
Do Black Patent Shoes Really Reflect Up by John R. Powers
Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
Fatso by Anne Bancroft
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Me Talk Pretty Someday by David Sedaris
Motherhood the Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck
P.S. Your Cat is Dead by James Kirkwood
Some Kind of Hero by James Kirkwood
Time Flies by Bill Cosby
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
MYSTERY
After All These Years by Susan Issacs
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Bear Island by Alistair McLean
Black Friday by James Patterson
Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts
Contagion by Robin Cook
Hugger Mugger by Robert Parker
Magic Hour by Susan Issacs
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman
Murder at the National Gallery by Margaret Truman
Murder in the Blue Room by Elliott Roosevelt
Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman
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MYSTERY (continued)
10 lb. Penalty by Dick Francis
The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman
The Painted House by John Grisham
The Partner by John Grisham
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
The Testament by John Grisham
To the Hilt by Dick Francis
When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
Worst Fear Realized by Stuart Woods
NEWS/DOCUMENTARY
Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson
Children's Hospital by Peggy Anderson
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss
Serpentine by Thomas Thompson
The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe
ROMANCE
A Dangerous Man by Rosemary Rogers
Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodwiss
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Bittersweet by Danielle Steel
Change of Heart by Sally Mandel
Crossings by Danielle Steel
Irresistible Forces by Danielle Steel
It's OK If You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
Man, Woman, and Child by Erich Segal
Mirror Image by Danielle Steel
Mr. and Mrs. BoJo Jones by Ann Head
Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
Second Heaven by Judith Guest
Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodwiss
Special Delivery by Danielle Steel
The Loop by Nicholas Evans
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Promise by Danielle Steel
The Ring by Danielle Steel
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Wedding by Danielle Steel
SCIENCE FICTION
Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
20I0: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clark
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SPORTS
A Season on the Brink by Bobby Knight
Distant Replay by Jerry Kramer
Heir to a Dream by Pete Maravich
I Am Third by Gale Sayers
Meat on the Hoof by Gary Shaw
Off the Court by Arthur Ashe
Reggie by Reggie Jackson
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
The Franchise by Peter Gent
The Only Way I Know by Cal Ripken and Mike Bryan
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
SPY/INTRIGUE
Cathedral by Nelson DeMille
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
Day of Drums by Phillip Shelby
Double Image by Helen McInnes
Last Rights by Phillip Shelby
Saving Faith by David Baldacci
The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
The Simple Truth by David Baldacci
The Venetian Affair by Helen McInnes
The Winner by David Baldacci
Where Eagles Dare by Alistair McLean
WAR
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
American Boys by Steven Phillip Smith
April Morning by Howard Fast
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Bat-21 by William C. Anderson
Better Times than These by Winston Groom
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
Flower of the Dragon by Richard Boyle
Gardens of Stone by Nicholas Proffitt
If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Soldiers of '44 by William P. McGivern
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
WESTERN
Alias Butch Cassidy by Will Henry
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Rebellion at Cripple Creek by Jack Ehrlich
Sackett by Louis L'Amour
Son of a Wanted Man by Louis L'Amour
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WESTERN (continued)
The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Sooners by Lee Davis Willoughby
MISCELLANEOUS
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Girl with a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
House of Fog and Sand by Andre Dubres III
Jewel by Bret Lott
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
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