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Revised 04/05
English 12 Reading List
Any book on the New York Times Bestseller List
Authors/Titles listed in bold type may be found on the “New Books” shelves.
*Denotes non-fiction
Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland.
Abe, Kobe. The Box Man.
Abouet, Margarita Aya
Achebe, Chinua. No Longer at Ease. Anthills of the Savannah. Arrow of God. A Man of the
People.
Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Prometheus Bound.
Alder, Elizabeth. King’s Shadow.
Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. Portrait in Sepia. House of Spirits. Eva Luna. Infinite
Plan.. Paula.
Almagor, Gila. Under the Domim Tree.
Andric, Ivo. Bosnian Chronicle.
Anonymous. Everyman.
Appelfeld, Aharon. Tzili: The Story of a Life.
Aristophanes. The Clouds. The Birds. The Frogs.
Arnold, Matthew. Scrab and Rustum.
Atwood, Margaret. All titles.
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Emma. Northhanger Abbey. Lady Susan. Love and Friendship.
Badanes, Jerome. The Final Opus of Leon Solomon.
Baker, Alan. Gladiator.*
Balzac, Honore. Pere Goriot. The Village Parson. The Wild Ass’s Skin.
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. The Eye in the Door. The Ghost Road.
Barrie, J. M. Little Minister. The Admirable Crichton. The Little White Bird. A Window in
Thrums.
Bassani, Giorgio. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.
Beauvoir, Simone. The Mandarins
Bedford, K.A.
Hydrogen Steel.
Beckett, Samuel. Endgame. Waiting for Godot. Mercier and Camier. Nohow On.
Ben Jelloun, Tahar. Corruption. The Sacred Night.
Binchy, Maeve. Tara Road, Echoes, Firefly Road.
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Boll, Heinrich. Group Portrait with Lady. The Safety Net. Lost Honour of Katherine. The
Clown.
Bolt, Robert. A Man For All Seasons.
Borges, Jose Luis. Ficciones.
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. Friends and Relatives.
Braithwaite, E. R. To Sir With Love.*
Brecht, Bertoldt. Three Penny Opera. Mother Courage and Her Children.
Brink, Andre. A Dry White Season.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress.
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. Any Old Iron. The Long Day Wanes. Enderby’s Dark
Lady. No End to Enderby.
Burgess, Melvin. Smack.
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh.
Byatt, A. S. Possession. Angels & Insects.
Calvino, Italo. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Invisible Cities. The Baron in the Trees. The
Seasons in the City.
Camus, Albert. The Rebel. The Fall. The Possessed. The Plague. Resistance, Rebellion and
Death.* Notebooks 1942-1951.* Youthful Writings. A Happy Death.
Cassidy, Anne. Looking for JJ
Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote.
Chekov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard. The Seagull. Three Sisters.
Chin, Oliver. The Tao of Yao.*
Christie, Agatha. All titles.
Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust. Cradle. Dolphin Island. Fountain of Paradise. Garden of
Rama. Hammer of God.
Coelho, Paulo The alchemist
Coetzee, J. M. Life and Times of Michael K.. In the Heart of the Country.
Coleridge, Samuel T. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Collignon, Rick. The Journal of Antonio Montoya.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Lord Jim. The Secret Sharer. Nigger of the Narcissus.
Nostromo. Typhoon. Victory.
Conway, Jill Ker. Road from Coorain.* True North.*.
Corbin, Alain. The Life of an Unknown.
Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One.
D’Aguilar. Dear Future.
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Dante. The Divine Comedy. The Inferno. Purgatorio. Paradiso.
Davies, Robertson. The Rebel Angels. What’s Bred in the Bone. The Lyre of Orpheus.
Davis, Lindsay. The Course of Honor. Ode to a Banker. Two for the Lions.
DeBernieres, Louis. Corelli’s Mandolin.
Defoe, Daniel. Captain Singleton. A Journal of the Plague Year. Moll Flanders.
De Hartog, Jan .Star of Peace. The Commodore. The Peaceable Kingdom.
Desai, Anita. Journey to Ithaca.
Dickens, Charles. All titles.
Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa.
Divaakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Sister of My Heart.
Dostoyevsky, Feodor. The Idiot. Possessed. Crime and Punishment. The Brothers Karamazov.
Notes From the Underground.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. All titles.
Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clarke: Ha Ha Ha.
Duong Thu Huong. Novel Without A Name.
Eco, Umberto. Name of the Rose.
Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Middlemarch. Silas Marner.
Emecheta, Buchi. The Bride Price.
Endo, Shusaku. Silence. The Sea and Poison. The Wonderful Fool.
Esquival, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. The Law of Love. Swift As Desire.
Euripedes. Hippolytus. Electra. Bacchae.
Fernandez Barrios, Flor. Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood.*
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. Joseph Andrews.
Fitch, Janet. White Oleander.
Flaubert, Gustav. Madame Bovary.
Forester, C. S. The African Queen.
Forester, E.M. The Longest Journey, Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Room With
a View. Howard’s End.
Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Collector.
Fuentes, Carlos. The Old Gringo. The Death of Artemio Cruz. The Crystal Frontier. The Years
with Laura Diaz.
Fugard, Athol. Master Harold and the Boys. Valley Song. The Road to Mecca. A Lesson from
Aloes.
Galsworthy, John. Forsythe Saga.
Garcia, Cristina. The Aguero Sisters.
Garcia –Aguilera, Carolina. Bloody Waters.
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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. All titles.
Gardner, John. Grendel.
Geras, Adele. Troy.
Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters. The Immoralist.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von. All titles.
Gogol, Nikolai. The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories.
Golding, William. All titles except Lord of the Flies
Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. The Vicar of Wakefield.
Gordimer, Nadine. All titles.
Grass, Gunter. The Tin Drum.
Green, Roger L. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Greene, Graham. all titles.
Gulik, Robert Van. Judge Dee at Work.
Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters.
Hamsun, Knut. Hunger. Pan.
Harding, Georgina The Solitude of Thomas Cave
Hardy, Thomas. All titles
Harris, Robert. Pompeii.
Haugaard, Erik Christian. The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai. The Samurai’s Tale.
Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf. Demian. Narcissus and Goldmund. Beneath the Wheel. Gertrude.
The Journey to the East.
Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki.
Hicyilmaz, Gaye. The Frozen Waterfall.
Hilton, James. Good-bye Mr. Chips. Lost Horizon.
Hoffman, E.T.A. Tales of Hoffman.
Hudson, W.H. Green Mansions. Far Away and Long Ago. Purple Land. A Shepherd’s Life.
Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown’s School Days. Tom Brown at Oxford.
Huxley, Aldous. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Ape and Essence.
Ibsen, Henrik. Ghosts. An Enemy of the People. Hedda Gabler. A Doll’s House. The Wild Duck.
Iidia, Deborah. Middle Son.
Ionesco, Eugene. The Bald Soprano. The Lesson. Rhinoceros.
Ishizaki, Hiroshi
Chain Mail: Addicted To You
Jacques, Brian. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. Redwall. Mossflower. Mattimeo.
James, P. D. All titles.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust. The Householder.
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon. Platero and I.
Jinks, Catherine Evil Genius
Jones, Diana Wynne. Castle in the Air. Crown of Dalemark Dark Lord of Derkholm..
Joyce, James. The Dubliners. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. The Castle. The Penal Colony. The Sons. Metamorphosis.
Kawabata, Yasunari. Master of Go. The Sound of the Mountain. Thousand Cranes.
Kaye, M.M. Death in Kenya. Death in Kashmir. Death in the Andamans. Death in Cyprus.
Death in Berlin. Death in Zanzibar.
Kazantakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek. The Last Temptation of Christ.
Kazuo, Ishiguro. Remains of the Day. A Pale View of Hills.
Keneally, Thomas. Flying Hero Class. Schindler’s List. Outback. A River Town. To Asamara.
The Playmaker.
Khasoggi, Soheir. Mirage.
Kim, Helen. The Long Season of Rain.
Kogawa, Joy. Obasan.
Kundera, Milan. Life is Elsewhere. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. The Unbearable
Lightness of Being.
Lagerkvist, Par. Barabbas. The Dwarf. Sibyl. The Marriage Feast.
Lagerlof, Selma. All titles
Lao-She. Rickshaw.
Lapierre, Dominique. The City of Joy.*
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. The Rainbow. Women in Love.
Lenz, Siegried. The German Lesson.
Lessing, Doris. The good terrorist. African laughter : four visits to Zimbabwe*.
Levi, Primo. If Not Now, When?
Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet. Perelandra. That Hideous Strength. Mere Christianity. The
Screwtape Letters.
Livaneli, O.Z. Bliss
Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley.
Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano.
Mahfuz, Najib. Palace Walk.
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice. The Magic Mountain. Buddenbrooks.
Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar in a Sieve.
Markham, Beryl. West With the Night.*
Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus.
Marillier, Juliet. Daughter of the Forest. Son of the Shadows.
Marsden, John. A Killing Frost. Tomorrow, When the War Began.
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Mason, Daniel A Far Country
Matar, Hisham In the Country of Men
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. The Razor’s Edge. Cakes and Ale. Mr. Craddock.
Mauriac, Francois. The Viper’s Tangle. Woman of the Pharisees.
Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan Sun.
McCullough, Colleen. The Ladies of Missalonghi. An Indecent Obsession. Morgan’s Run. The
Thorn Birds. Caesar: A Novel. The First Man in Rome. Caesar’s Women. The Grass Crown.
Fortune’s Favorites. A Creed for the Third Millenium The Touch..
McEwan, Ian. Amsterdam.
Mehta, Gita, A River Sutra.
Mills, Magnus. All Quiet on the Orient Express.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost.
Min, Anchee. Red Azalea.
Mishima, Yukio. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.
Moliere. all titles except Tartuffe
Monsarrat, Nicholas. all titles
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy
Poplars, Chronicles of Avonlea, Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Further Chronicles
of Avonlea.
More, Thomas. Utopia.
Mosher, Richard. Zazoo.
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that Bind, Ties that Break.
Narayan, R. K. Malgudi Days. Waiting for the Mahatma.
Newth, Mette. The Abduction.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Petals of Blood
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil.
Ninh, Bao. The Sorrow of War*.
Nix, Garth. Sabriel.
Nordhoff, Charles. The Pearl Lagoon. Botany Bay. Mutiny on the Bounty.
O’Brian, Patrick. The Golden Ocean. The Unknown Shore.
Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient. In the Skin of a Lion: A Novel, Anil’s Ghost.
Orwell, George. A Clergyman’s Daughter. 1984. Down and Out in Paris and London.
Oufkir, Malika. Stolen Lives.*
Pasternak, Boris. Dr. Zhivago.
Paton, Alan. all titles except Cry Beloved Country
Paz, Octavio. All novels.
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Perry, Anne. Cardington Crescent, Callander Square
Peters, Ellis. A Morbid Taste for Bones, An Excellent Mystery
Pilcher, Rosamund. Another View, Sleeping Tiger, The Empty House
Pirandello, Luigi. All titles.
Pyle, Howard. The Story of King Arthur.
Read, Piers Paul. Alive!*
Remarque, Erich Maria. The Night in Lisbon. A Time to Love and A Time to Die. The Black
Obelisk. Heaven Has No Favorites. Three Comrades.
Rendell, Ruth, Heartstones, Live Flesh, Going Wrong
Rennison, Louise. All titles.
Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell.
Rostand, Edmund. Cyrano de Bergerac.
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things.
Ruiz, Vicki L From Out of the Shadows*
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Night Flight.
Saramago, Jose. The Tale of the Unknown Island.
Sartre, Jean Paul. all titles.
Schami, Rafik. Damascus Nights.
Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. Henry IV. King John. King Lear. Love’s Labour’s Lost.
The Merchant of Venice. Much Ado About Nothing. Othello. The Taming of The Shrew. Titus
Adronicus. Twelfth Night. The Tempest. Anthony and Cleopatra.
Shaw, George Bernard. Saint Joan. Arms and the Man. Candida. The Devil’s Disciple. Man and
Superman. Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Major Barbara. Heartbreak House.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Sheridan, Richard. School for Scandal. The Rivals.
Shields, Carol. Larry’s Party.
Sholokhov, Mikhail. And Quiet Flows the Don.
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.
Sillitoe, Alan. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.*
Silone, Ignazio. Fontamara. Bread and Wine.
Simenon, Georges. Maigret and the Apparition.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Enemies, A Love Story.
Smith, Alexander McCall. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. Tears of the Giraffe. Morality for
Beautiful Girls. The Kalahari Typing School for Men. The Full Cupboard of Life.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. all titles
Soyinka, Wole. Aki:the Years of Childhood.* Collected Plays I. Collected Plays II.
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Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene.
Stern, Lawrence. Tristam Shandy.
Stevenson, Robert Lewis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. David Balfour.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula.
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. The Real Thing. Enter A Free Man.
Jumpers. Travesties. The Real Inspector Hound. After Magritte.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Idylls of the King.
Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair.
Thompson, Kate The New Policeman
Toer, Pramoedya. All That Is Gone
Tolkien, J.R.R. Farmer Giles of Ham. The Silmarillion.
Tolstoy, Leon. Anna Karenina.Death of Ivan Illyich. War and Peace.
Toolis, Kevin.. Rebel Hearts:Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul.*
Tsukiyama, Gail. Women of the Silk The Language of Threads. The Samuai’s Garden. Night of
Many Dreams.
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father; a daughter of Cambodia remembers.*
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Feast of the Goat. Who Killed Palomino Molero? Aunt Julia and the
Scriptwriter.
Voltaire. Candide.
Walters, Joseph J. Guanya Pau.
Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man.. Island of Dr. Moreau.
Werber, Bernard. Empire of the Ants.
Whitfield, Susan. Life Along the Silk Road.
Wilde, Oscar. all titles
Wong, Jan. Red China Blues*.
Woods, Donald. Biko.*
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Mrs. Dalloway. A Room of One’s Own.
Wu, Ch’eng-en. Monkey
Ying, Hong. Daughter of the River.*
Zola, Emile. Germinal.