English 11 - American Dream
Suggested outside reading titles
Fiction
The Astonishing Life of Octavian
Nothing
The Awakening
MT Anderson
Kate Chopin
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Half Broke Horses
Jeanette Walls
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Julia Alvarez
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Native Son
Richard Wright
Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie**
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
A Virtuous Woman or Ellen Foster
Kay Gibbons
When Legends Die
Hal Borland
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water
Michael Dorris
English 11 – American Dream
Suggested outside reading titles
Non-fiction
All Over but the Shoutin’
Rick Bragg
An American Chica
Marie Arana
American Childhood
Annie Dillard
Angela’s Ashes or ‘Tis
Frank McCourt
The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama
Black Boy
Richard Wright
The Boys in the Boat
Dan Brown
The Color of Water
James McBride
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Anne Moody
Friday Night Lights
H G Bissinger
The Glass Castle
Jeanette Walls
In These Girls Hope is a Muscle
Madeleine Blais
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Life is So Good
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Eis
Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand
Travels with Charly
John Steinbeck