BOOK REPORT MASTER LIST OF RECOMMENDED BOOKS
English 12
Mr. Reiff
If you are interested in reading a different book for your Book Report than one of those
listed below, speak with me privately. Works in bold lettering are available from my
classroom library, and you may sign them out from me for the semester. If you do not
return a book to me or if it is returned damaged, you will be responsible for paying the
appropriate cost. The books are listed alphabetically by author’s last name.
1. Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe by Douglas Adams
4. Life, the Universe, and Everything
by Douglas Adams
5. So Long, and Thanks for All the
Fish by Douglas Adams
6. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
7. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
8. Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
9. Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
10. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
11. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse
Anderson
12. feed by M.T. Anderson
13. Burger Wuss by M.T. Anderson
14. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
15. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
16. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
17. Emma by Jane Austen
18. Kissing the Rain by Kevin Brooks
19. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony
Burgess
20. Running with Scissors by Augusten
Burroughs
21. The Plague by Albert Camus
22. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott
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23. Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott
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24. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
& Clay by Michael Chabon
25. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
26. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
Stephen Chbosky
27. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by
Tracy Chevalier
28. Disgrace: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee
29. The Face on the Milk Carton by
Caroline B. Cooney
30. The Last of the Mohicans by James
Fenimore Cooper
31. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by
Chris Crutcher
32. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
33. Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
34. After by Amy Efaw
35. One for the Money by Janet
Evanovich
36. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
37. Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the
Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
38. House of the Scorpion by Nancy
Farmer
39. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
40. The Beautiful and the Damned by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
42. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
43. A Million Little Pieces by James
Frey
44. The Reappearance of Sam Weber
by Jonathan Scott Fuqua
45. As Simple As Snow by Gregory
Galloway
46. Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood
47. Neuromancer by William Gibson
48. Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L.
Going
49. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
50. The Summons by John Grisham
51. The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-time by Mark Haddon
52. October Sky by Homer Hickam
53. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillebrand
54. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
55. Glass by Ellen Hopkins
56. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
57. Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
58. Slam by Nick Hornby
59. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
60. A Thousand Splendid Suns by
Khaled Hosseini
61. Gotcha! By Shelley Hrdlitschka
62. Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving
63. The World According to Garp by
John Irving
64. Lipstick Apology by Jennifer Jabaley
65. The Crimes and Punishments of Miss
Payne by Barry Jonsberg
66. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk
Kidd
67. The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu
Kamara and Susan McClelland
68. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk
Kidd
69. Dead Poets’ Society by N.H.
Kleinbaum
70. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
71. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by
Stephanie Kuehnert
72. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
73. The Hour I First Believed by Wally
Lamb
74. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
75. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
by Billie Letts
76. Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
77. The Natural by Bernard Malamud
78. One Hundred Years of Solitude by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
79. Khaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
80. Snowbound by Henry Mazur
81. All the Pretty Horses (Border
Trilogy Book #1) by Cormac
McCarthy
82. The Crossing (Border Trilogy Book
#2) by Cormac McCarthy
83. Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy
Book #3) by Cormac McCarthy
84. cut by Patricia McCormick
85. Shades of Simon Gray by Joyce
McDonald
86. Acceleration by Graham McNamee
87. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean
Meyers
88. Beloved by Toni Morrison
89. Paradise by Toni Morrison
90. Sabriel by Garth Nix
91. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce
Carol Oates
92. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
93. The Violent Bear It Away by
Flannery O’Connor
94. Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of
Survival by Norman Ollestad
95. When the Emperor Was Divine by
Julie Otsuka
96. The Angel Experiment (Maximum
Ride Book #1) by James Patterson
97. School’s Out – Forever (Maximum
Ride Book #2) by James Patterson
98. A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
99. The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
100. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi
Picoult
101. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
102. The Tenth Circle by Jodi
Picoult
103. The Body of Christopher Creed
by Carol Plum-Ucci
104. Big Jack by J.D. Robb
105. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
106. Fast Food Nation by Eric
Schossler
107. The Lovely Bones by Alice
Sebold
108. Tweak by Nick Sheff
109. Hell Phone by William Sleator
110. The Sunday Philosophy Club (an
Isabel
Dalhouise
novel)
by
Alexander McCall Smith
111. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
112. The Notebook by Nicholas
Sparks
113. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
114. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
115. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
116. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
117. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth
Strout
118. The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here
by Felicia Sullivan
119. The World According to Larry by
Janet Tashjian
120. Vote for Larry by Janet
Tashjian
121. A Confederacy of Dunces by
John Kennedy Toole
122. The Glass Castle by Jeannette
Wall
123. 10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg
124. Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
125. The Chosen One by Carol Lynch
Williams
126. Native Son by Richard Wright
127. The Shack by William P. Young
128. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
by Gabrielle Zevin