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TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Author Title Genre Description Aeschylus Agamemnon Drama A modern translation of the first in an ancient Greek trilogy which traces the chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos Allende, Isabel House of Spirits Fiction The epic story of the passionate Trueba family which begins at the turn of the century in South America Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio Fiction Small town life in the twenties provides the people and the action for this profile of the American character Anonymous Song of Roland Fiction Epic poem about France's medieval national hero Aristophanes Any Play Drama Ancient Greek comic plays Atwood, Margaret Handmaiden's Tale Fiction In the futuristic Republic of Gilead, which is ruled and policed by men, women are divided into classes based on their household functions Austen, Jane Emma Fiction Fiction of manners, this novel of Regency England centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Fiction In early 19th century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Fiction Fourteen year-old John struggles against the environmental influences of Harlem Beerbohm, Max Zuleika Dobson Fiction Sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford Bellow, Saul Henderson and the Rain King Fiction Henderson, a middle-aged American millionaire, travels to Africa in search of a more rewarding life, and finds himself regarded as a messiah when he manages to bring rain to a drought-stricken tribe Bellow, Saul Adventures of Augie March Fiction Describes the life of Augie March, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression, and his search for a career Bolt, Robert A Man for All Seasons Drama Historical play about Sir Thomas More, who was executed for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the English Church Bowen, Elizabeth The Death of the Fiction Heart Portia, an orphan comes to live in London with her half-brother, Thomas, and his wife, Anna. A child of sin raised in a series of shabby French hotels, Portia is possessed of a kind of terrible innocence - she literally can't comprehend evil or unkind motives. Unfortunately for her, she falls in with Anna's friend, Eddie, who seems to be made entirely of bad motives. Bowles, Paul The Sheltering Sky Fiction Examines the ways in which Americans respond to foreign cultures through the story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa in the aftermath of World War II Fiction In a small town in 1928, a twelve year-old boy savors the magic of childhood and the wonders of summer Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles Science The first Earth people to Fiction attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind Bradford, Richard Fiction Story of a 17 year-old boy in New Mexico at the beginning of World War II Brecht, Bertolt Mother Courage Drama Chronicles Mother Courage as she trails the armies back and forth across Europe selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon during the Thirty Years War Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth Fiction Describes the cycle of birth, marriage, and death of a Chinese peasant family in the early 1900's. Bunyan, John Fiction Describes the life of John Bunyan, itinerant English Puritan preacher and author of many religious books and sermons, including "Pilgrim's Progress" Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice Fiction This novel is about a drifter who embarks on a course of destruction when he falls for the wife of Nick, the genial owner of a roadside cafe Caldwell, Erskine Fiction The story of Georgia sharecropper, Jeeter Lester, and his family who are trapped by the bleak economic conditions of the Depression as well as by their own limited intelligence and destructive behavior Camus, Albert The Stranger Fiction The story of a man who commits a pointless murder Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland Fiction Fanciful tale of Alice, who falls down the rabbit hole into a land of adventure Cather, Willa Death Comes for Fiction The literal and spiritual journey Red Sky in the Morning Pilgrim's Progress Tobacco Road http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST the Archbishop of two French priests who come to the American Southwest as missionaries in the mid-1800's Cather, Willa My Antonia Fiction A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a simple Bohemian girl Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote Fiction Tales of the misadventures of a mixed-up knight Fiction Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England. This comic novel takes place in a small Massachusetts fishing villages and relates the breakdown of both the Wapshot family and the town. Part One focuses on Leander, a gentle ferryboat operator harried by his tyrannical wife and his eccentric sister. Part Two chronicles the disastrous lives of Leander's sons, Coverly and Moses. Cheever, John The Wapshot Chronicle Clarke, Arthur C Childhood's End Science World peace is reached when Fiction aliens threaten the world Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Fiction Set in Africa in 1890, this novel tells the story of a steamship captain on the Congo River who meets and observes Kurz, a powerful European and fabled chief of the Inner Station, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim Fiction a man who has been branded a coward earns the respect of the Malay people Conrad, Joseph Nostromo Fiction In a small South American state, a silver mine owner puts a consignment of silver in the charge of a foreman. The http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST foreman buries the silver and pretends that the boat in which he shipped it sank. Conrad, Joseph The Secret Agent Fiction In turn-of-the-century London, an undercover counterrevolutionary mole provokes a radical group he has penetrated into an act of violence that will bring about its own destruction Cooper, James F. Pathfinder Fiction Natty Bumppo helps defend a small outpost on Lake Ontario from the Iroquois Cooper, James The Pioneers F. Fiction Natty Bumppo finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property, and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature Defoe, Daniel Fiction During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island Dickey, James Deliverance Fiction Four men set out for a remote river on a white-water canoeing adventure that turns into a nightmare when they are forced to struggle against man and nature for survival Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime Fiction The lives of three remarkable families become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century Donleavy, J. P. The Ginger Man Fiction Set just after World War II, the Ginger Man is a wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American Robinson Crusoe http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. His appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable --and he satisfies it with endless charm Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Fiction Story of three generations of Indian women torn by hardship and secrets Dos Passos, John Fiction A novelistic view of America, from the robber barons to the labor radical to the great American artists of the early 20th century, is captured by an author who lived through it. Dostoevsky, Feodor U.S.A. (Trilogy) The 42nd Parallel - Vol. 1 The stories of five New Yorkbound characters blend in this novel about America at the turn of the century - just after the Spanish-American War 1919 - Vol. 2 The obscenity of war, Mr. Wilson's War, is Dos Passos theme, an since the war is the most important political event of the century, he rises to his theme with a brilliance that does not conceal the fury behind it The Big Money Vol. 3 This volume returns from the war to a nation on the upswing. The stock market surges, Lindberg takes his solo flight, Henry Ford makes automobiles. It is an America speeding toward the crash of 1929 The Brothers Karamazov Fiction When Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, is murdered one night, his four sons must contend with the criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Dostoevsky, Feodor Crime and Punishment Fiction A law student attempts to get away with the perfect murder Dostoevsky, Feodor The Idiot Fiction Portrayal of a really good man and his relationship with a world filled with sin Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy Fiction The corruption of a young man becomes a portrait of the society that shaped his ambitions and destroyed him Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Fiction The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago , becomes an actress, marries and goes to New York, and when her husband loses his job, goes on stage again. Durrell, Lawrence The Alexandria Quartet Fiction Series of four novels. The lush and sensuous tetralogy, which consists of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea is set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940's. Thee first three volumes describe, from different viewpoints, a series of events in Alexandria before World War II; the fourth carries, the story forward to the war years Eliot, George Adam Bede Fiction Set in the early 19th century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl. Crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences. Eliot, George Middlemarch Fiction A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family Eliot, George Silas Marner Fiction Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver, Silas Marner, retreats http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling. Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Fiction In the story, told from multiple points of view and inner psychological voices, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where she wanted to be buried. Along the way we listen to each of the members of the macabre pilgrimage while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster Faulkner, William Intruder in the Dust Fiction Charles, a sixteen-year-old white boy, repays a debt he owes to an elderly black man, Lucas. After Lucas is accused of murdering a white man, Charles proves his innocence and saves him from a lynching in a southern town Faulkner, William The Light in August Fiction A young black man finds himself a victim of the indulgence of a rich white family Faulkner, William Sanctuary Fiction The Memphis underworld kidnaps Temple Drake, a Mississippi debutante who is not as innocent as might be expected Fiction Describes the foundling, Tom Jones, who grows up to be charismatic and generous, but with a tendency toward dissipation Fielding, Henry Tom Jones Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Beautiful Fiction and the Damned Traces Anthony and Gloria Patch, a spoiled couple, through various romantic pursuits which leave them. after six years of marriage, with Anthony a mental and physical http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST wreck and Gloria's beauty waning Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Last Tycoon Fiction Depicts the inner-workings of the Hollywood movie industry and its impact on the fabric of American life Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Fiction 19th Century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier Fiction This work begins by saying "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to refute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic, and more full of hypocrisy and deceit than its incredulous narrator, John Dowell, cares to imagine Ford, Ford Madox Parade's End Fiction This World War I epic tells the story of Christopher Tiejens who was raised in disciplined Edwardian England with the mindset of "all for King and country." It sounds patriotic and romantic until he gets a dose of reality in the trenches of Europe under a hail of machine gun fire and a cloud of mustard gas. His youthful ideals are further shattered by a faithless wife Forster, E. M. Howards End Fiction The inheritance of the English property, Howards End, causes conflict among the wealthy Wilcox family, the cultured Schlegel sisters, and the poorer Leonard Bast at the end of the Edwardian era Forster, E. M. A Passage to India Fiction A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST the turn of the century, revealing the menace lurking just under the surface of ordinary misunderstanding Forster, E. M. A Room With a View Fiction A charming, young English woman is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable Forster, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread Fiction frivolous widow, Lilia Herriton, sets off a tragic chain of events when she travels to Italy with the blessing of her mother-inlaw, only to meet and marry a totally unsuitable Italian youth Fowles, John French Lieutenant's Woman Fiction The story set at Lyme Regis, England in the 19th century. Charles Smithson, a young gentleman of traditional values, is engaged to a wealthy girl. His destiny is haunted by the independent and poor Sarah Woodruff Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Fiction Dying This is the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution Galsworthy, John The Forsythe Saga Fiction Chronicles the struggles and relationships of the wealthy Forsythe family in 19th and 20th century England Goethe Faust Drama An examination of what happens when a man sells his soul to the devil Ggol Dead Souls Fiction Chechikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST profit Goldsmith, Oliver She Stoops to Conquer Drama Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth My Lady Ludlow Fiction A farce telling the story of the Hardcastle family's mishaps and adventures in their undertaking to marry off a single daughter Through the events in a small English Victorian village, the author presents a span of social, religious, and economic history in which the old, repressive social order slowly allows the new Graves, Robert I Claudius Fiction The first of a two-part account of the life of Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, it covers the years from his early childhood through his election as Emperor in 41 A.D. Green, Henry Loving Fiction Written at the end of World War II, Loving is a fairy tale of the rarest enchantment which describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. Their employers absent, the tenants and servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love. Greene, Graham The Heart of the Matter Fiction Set in West Africa, this is the story of Scobie, an assistant police commissioner, and his personal and professional corruption Greene, Graham The Power and the Glory Fiction In one of the southern states of Mexico, the last priest is hunted down during an anti-clerical http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST purge Hammett, Dashiell The Maltese Falcon Detective In San francisco in 1928, Sam Fiction Spade searches for a priceless statuette. He finds himself torn between loyalty to his murdered partner and an opportunity for personal gain. Considered one the the best detective stories of all time Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure Fiction The story of Victorian society and Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason, who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge Fiction Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter. Years later, when he is the sober Mayor of Castebridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, and he reverts to drinking Hardy, Thomas Return of the Native Fiction Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, etuns to Egdon Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows Hawthorne, Nathaniel The House of Seven Gables Fiction This novel follows the Pyncheon family living for years in a home under a man's curse until his death restores the peace of their house Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Marble Faun Fiction Heinlein, Stranger in a In this innovative foray into the influence of European through on American culture, three young Americans discover artistic and moral freedom, in Rome, flouishing among Europeans and devastating one another with love Science After his arrival on Earth, from http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Robert Strange Land Fiction his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect Fiction A satire of military bureaucracy, focusing on the story of John Yossarian a bombardier in World War II who is trying to avoid getting killed while dealing with a colonel who keeps upping the number of missions he must fly Hemingway, Ernest Across the River Fiction and Into the Trees The story of an American colonel stationed in Italy at the end of World War II, whose fifty years and heart condition weight heavily upon him as he spends a weekend in Venice Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Fiction An anti-war love story in which an American ambulance officer serving on the Austro-Italian front deserts to join an English nurse after the retreat of Caporetto Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls Fiction The story of an American, Robert Jordan, who fought, during the Spanish Civil War, with the antifascist guerrillas in the mountains of Spain Hersey, John Hiroshima Fiction Compassionate account of the catastrophic event that heralded the coming of the nuclear age Hesse, Herman Demian Fiction A young man rebels against convention, gets involved in the world of petty crime, and discovers his new powers for good and evil Hesse, Herman Steppenwolf Fiction A story about man's conflict with materialism. In postwar Germany, a fifty-year-old man regards himself as a dual personality, half man, half wolf Heller, Joseph Catch 22 http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Hughes, Richard A High Wind in Jamaica Fiction The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, they board a ship that is almost immediately set upon by pirates. The children take to the corsair life coolly and matter-of-factly; just as coolly do they commit horrible deeds Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Fiction The tale of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, from being unjustly executed in medieval Paris Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Science Story about a world in which Fiction mediocri ty and conformity are prized Huxley, Aldous Point Counter Point Fiction A satiric view of intellectual life in the 1920's, populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, John Middleton Murray, and Huxley himself Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House Drama A searing view of a maledominated and authoritarian society in which a woman struggles and sacrifices to save her ungrateful husband James, Henry The Ambassadors Fiction A middle-aged American is sent to Paris by his patron to find her son, Chad, and bring him home. He finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman and soon follows suit, letting himself be swept away by the charms of http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST the city and the mysterious Madame de Vionnet James, Henry The Golden Bowl Fiction A father and his daughter marry at the same time after which her husband and his wife, known to one another before the weddings, begin an affair James, Henry A Portrait of a Lady Fiction Young American, Isabel Archer charms European society but falls victim to the manipulation of a calculating older woman James, Henry Turn of the Screw Fiction Psychological mystery story involving a governess in a strange mansion full of secrets James, Henry The Wings of the Fiction Dove A classic example of Henry James' morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early 20th century, Milly Theale travels to London in an attempt to forget about her deadly illness, but she soon realizes no matter what happens, she cannot escape the circumstances fate has thrown at her. Kafka, Franz The Trial Fiction Joseph K. is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information Kazantzakis, Nikos Zorba the Greek Fiction The story of Zorba, a philosophizing, larger-than-life mine owner who confronts life with exuberance and wit Kennedy, William Ironweed Fiction Francis Phelan, ex-ball-layer, part-time gravedigger, fulltime drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab (strike breaker) during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST again after accidentally and fatally dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town , roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present Kerouac, Jack On the Road Fiction The novel that defined the beat generation of the 1950's, in which Sal Paradise tells about his travels throughout the North American continent in search of belief and meaning Kipling, Rudyard Fiction Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, grows up in British India and becomes involved in the British Secret Service Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon Fiction An aging revolutionary is imprisoned and tortured by the party to which he has dedicated his life Lagerkvist, Par The Dwarf Fiction An exploration of individual and social identity. Set in Italy during the time of the Plague and City-State feuds, it centers on a social outcast the court dwarf , Piccoline. From his special vantage point, the dwarf comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. He inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow Fiction The story of three generations of a Nottingham family whose love affairs move backward and forward across the years Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers Fiction Kim A portrait of an artist torn between his devotion to his mother and his desire for two http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST beautiful women Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love Fiction The story of the lives and emotional conflicts of two sisters. Ursula falls in love with Birkin, and Gudrun has a tragic affair with Gerald, the son of the local colliery owner Lewis, Sinclair Babbit Fiction This tale of a conniving, prosperous real estate man who becomes one of the ugliest and most convincing characters in American fiction, is a satire of middle class life Lewis, Sinclair Main Street Fiction The story of a highly educated ambitious woman who plans to join a newly enlightened society. But, after marrying a small town doctor, she finds herself trapped in the role of the dutiful wife. Her desire for social change conflicts with the security of her comfortable married life as she struggles to understand the cost of conformity--- and rebellion London, Jack Call of the Wild Fiction The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike goldfields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack MacLeish, Archibald J. B. Drama Uses the biblical figure of Job as an illustration of the suffering and injustice of the twentieth century Mailer, Norman The Naked the Dead Malmaud, Bernard and Fiction The Assistant Fiction A 1948 novel about a platoon of thirteen American foot soldiers attempting to take the Japanese-held Pacific island of Anopopei The story of a young Gentile hoodlum who works at a family- http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST owned Jewish grocery store in exchange for a place to stay. What the family doesn't know is that he was one of the boys responsible for a previous robbery of their store Malraux, Andre Man's Fate Fiction A fictional account of the early days of the Chinese Revolution. This novel is an expression of psychological insight into the spirit of political revolution Mann, Thomas Buddenbrooks Fiction Subtitled the Decline of a Family, this is the story of four generations of the Buddenbrooks, a wealthy family in northern Germany Marquez, Autumn of the Gabriel Garcia Patriarch Fiction Depicts one of the darkest veins of Latin American political history. It is the story of a genius at the barren politics of survival, a lonely monster, capable and guilty of the most savage brutality, who shuffles through his palace every night, checking the locks, looking for assassins, and lighting a lantern for a quick exit Marquez, One Hundred Fiction Gabriel Garcia Years of Solitude This novel traces the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo, through the history of the Buendia family Martin, Valerie Mary Reilly Fiction A retelling of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story from the viewpoint of the young housekeeper Maughm, Somerset Fiction Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a selfindulgent Victorian clergyman. Shedding his religious faith as a young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to Of Human Bondage http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST qualify as a doctor McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Fiction A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents Melville, Herman Moby Dick Fiction The story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him Michener, James The Source Fiction Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of presentday Israel and the Middle East conflict Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind Fiction Set in Atlanta, this sweeping story of tangled passions and rare courage tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, who sets about to salvage her plantation home after the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed. It is also the story of the man she loved and the man who loved her Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Fiction Dawn A Native American man searches for his identity through the traditions of his grandfather Murdoch, Iris Under the Net Penniless hack writer Jake Donaghue, is a likable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging off his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him Fiction http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST into a series of fantastic adventures and a meeting with philosopher Hugo Belfounder who inspires Jake to seriously pursue the art of writing Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire Fiction This work consists of a long poem and a commentary on it by an insane pedant. Outrageously hilarious, with narrative convolutions Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River Fiction A young Indian flees his country to escape the war, that has claimed his family, and settles in a small town in a newly independent African nation Naipaul, V. S. A House for Mr. Biswas Fiction An autobiography of the fictional Trinidadian title character, who struggles to rid himself of the influence of his wife's relatives. He finally does so by buying a house and his freedom in one stroke Nichols, John Milagro Beanfield War Fiction Thirty-six-year-old Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, sets off what comes to be known as the Milagro Beanfield War when he illegally taps into the small town's main irrigation channel O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato Fiction An American soldier in Vietnam decides to leave the war; he simply walks out of the jungle, with the intention of going to Paris O'Connor, Flannery Wise Blood Fiction After his release from the army at age twenty-two, Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee comes to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a blind street preacher who is led around by his daughter, Sabbbath Lily http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST O'Hara, John Appointment in Samarra Fiction A story of social grace and disgrace. It is the story of three days in the lives of Julian and Caroline English, the leading couple in the smart set of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania O'Neill, Eugene The Iceman Cometh Drama Play about a group of pipedreaming drunks, in 1912, who hang out at a skid row bar awaiting the annual appearance of the fast-talking, big-spending salesman, Hickey, only to be disappointed by the changes that have occurred in his life Orczy, Baroness Fiction Adventure story of the French revolution in which a young English noble rescues distressed aristocrats Orwell, George Keep the Fiction Aspidistra Flying A darkly compassionate satire of the "ugly insanity" of the money world and of the main character who "opts out" in a rather silly way Pasternak, Boris Dr. Zhivago Fiction Classic love story of Dr. Zhivago and Lara during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution Paton, Alan Cry the Beloved Country Fiction In this classic tale of apartheid in South Africa, a young black South African, who is accused of murdering a white man, turns to his minister father and a white attorney for help, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice from being served. Percy, Walker The Moviegoer Fiction In this funny, elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe, Binx Bolling is a moviegoer who lives for the bright, fleeting moments of celluloid fantasy he The Scarlet Pimpernal http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST experiences at the movies. But real life butts in and soon he is more involved than he would like to be with a beauty who is drifting toward disaster. Potok, Chaim My Name is Asher Lev Fiction A Hassidic Jewish painter defies family and religion to practice his art Potok, Chaim The Promise Fiction Sequel to The Chosen. Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, now separated by occupation and personal involvements, are brought together by Michael Gordon, and adolescent heading for a breakdown Powell, Anthony Dance to the Music of Time (Any Volume) Fiction A 12 volume series of novels which traces events in the lives of a number of characters from Britain's upper classes and Bohemia, following them from adolescence in the 1920's to senescence in the 1970's. Novels include: A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World, At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly Ones, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, The Military Philosophers, Books Do Furnish a Room, Temporary Kings, and Hearing Harmonies Proulx, Annie The Shipping News Fiction Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters return to the family ancestral home in Newfoundland to start new lives Rabelais, Francois Gargantua Fiction The classic satirical and ribald tale about the travels of the giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel, throught the French countryside Rand, Ayn Anthem Fiction A provocative novel depicting http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST the struggles of an individual in a repressive police state Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged Fiction A provocative novel depicting the follies and dangers of collectivism in which the united States is faced with the prospect of economic collapse when the country's leading innovators and industrialists go into hiding Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead Fiction The story of a gifted young architect who uses his craft in a violent battle to defy a society whose conventional standards try to stifle creativity. It also depicts his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea Fiction Prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. It is the story of a young woman in the Caribbean whose family's past will be used against her by her coldhearted and prideful husband, Rochester Richter, Conrad The Light in the Forest Fiction After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents, but he continues to long fro the freedom of Indian life Rolvaag, Ole Giants in the Earth Fiction Norwegian immigrants struggle with the hardships of pioneer life Rostand, Edmund Cyrano de Bergerac Drama 17th century French work about the swashbuckling and eloquent Cyrano de Bergerac who secretly loves his cousin Roxane, but thinks he is too ugly to ever win her affections Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children Fiction The story of two children. born at midnight on August 15, 1947 http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST -- the moment at which India became an independent nation -- who are switched in the hospital. The infant of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement; the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' right to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet Scott, Sir Walter The Heart of Midlothian Fiction Set in 18th century Scotland, between the two Jacobean insurrections in 1736 and during the Porteous Riots, this novel tells the story of young Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid who travels to London seeking mercy for her sister who stands accused of infanticide Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe Fiction Relates the adventures of Saxon knight, Ivanhoe, in 1194, the year of Richard the LionHearted's return from the Third Crusade Scott, Sir Walter Rob Roy Fiction Francis Osbaldistone is banished to Scotland, where he meets Robert Roy MacGregor. When he joins Rob Roy in his attempt to overthrow the English, he learns how to fight for what he believes in. Drama A satire on the British belief in civilization, the empire, and the glory of war. Raina shelters an enemy office in her bedroom during a battle. Despite the fact that she is already engaged, she falls in love with him. When the war is over, her father, her fiancé, and the enemy officer all meet at her home, creating comic confusion Shaw, George Arms and the Bernard Man http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Shaw, George Major Barbara Bernard Drama A sparkling comedy about Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, who loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, a devout major in the Salvation Army, sees her father as just another sinner to be saved. Shelley, Mary Frankenstein Fiction Obsessed university student, Victor Frankenstein, creates a being by reanimating the dead. However, when it does open its eyes he flees, leaving behind a being that craves affection and acceptance, but is reviled instead. The creature vowing revenge, pursues Victor tot he ends of the earth Sholokov, Mikhail And Quiet Flows Fiction the Don A portrait of Cossack life during the Russian Revolution. Set in the Don River basin of southwestern Russia at the end of the czarist period, the novel traces the progress of the Cossack Gregor Melekhov from youthful lover to Red Army soldier and finally to Cossack nationalist Silko, Leslie Ceremony Fiction A Native American's struggle to return to his tribal world after returning from the war-torn South Pacific Sinclair, Upton The Jungle Fiction Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America Smollet, Tobias Humphrey Clinker Fiction Considered a masterpiece of English humor, this epistolary novel is full of life and continually amusing. It offers a picture of a somewhat eccentric 18th century family and of the society in which it moved http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Smollet, Tobias Peregrine Pickle Fiction This picaresque novel satirizes the manners and morals of early 18th century English life. As it follows the misadventures of Peregrine, a rascally hero whose follies, extravagances, and practical jokes sometimes approach villainy, it reveals the chicaneries of that time. Smollet, Tobias Roderick Random A Picaresque novel in which the intrepid hero, Roderick Random, has a series of adventures which include such disparate settings as London high society and the naval battle of Cartagen Fiction Stegner, Walllace Angle of Repose Story of four generations in the life of the Ward family, from America's western frontier to today Stendhal The Red and the Fiction Black A brilliant portrait of French society, this novel is set in a provincial French town and in Paris. It is the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome young tutor who is both hero and villain. Coldly opportunistic, he seeks to fulfill his lust for power and wealth but is victimized by his own romantic soul and by military and religious forces Steinbeck, John Cannery Row Fiction Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-own waterfront section of Monterey, California Steinbeck, John East of Eden Fiction The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath Fiction The saga of a family in 1939 that struggles through the Great Depression by Laboring http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST as Dust Bowl migrants Steinbeck, John The Winter of Our Discontent Fiction In a moment of moral crisis, Ethan Hawley, a clerk in a New England grocery store, departs from his high standards to provide for the material comforts he cannot afford for his restless wife and discontented children Stern, Laurence Tristram Shandy Fiction Told in a Picaresque manner, this novel blends Rabelaisian prankishness, sound psychological insight, sensibility, neoclassic common sense, and much irreverent nonsense into a comic masterpiece. For example, Tristram Shandy, in telling the story of his earliest years always believed that most of the problems of his life were brought about by the fact that his conception was interrupted when his mother asked his father if he had remembered to wind the clock. Sroker, Bram Dracula Fiction A classic of the gothic novel genre. The mysterious Tansylvanian Count Dracula wreaks havoc on young businessman Jonathan Harker, his fiancée, Mina, and several others. When he is revealed to be a vampire, he must be destroyed at all costs Stone, Irving Lust for Life Fiction Fictional account of the life of Vincent Van Gogh Styron, William Sophie's Choice Fiction Three friends, Stingo, a 22 year-old write; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover, share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST darkest secrets are revealed Swift, Jonathan Gullliver's Travels Fiction A satirical commentary about society, class, and thought in 18th century Britain presented as Gulliver takes an allegorical journey through fantastic lands Tarkington, Booth The Magnificent Ambersons Fiction Follows the fortunes of a middle-western family risen to sudden wealth and local importance in the early 1870's Thackeray, William Makepeace Vanity Fair Fiction A satirical look at English society and Victorian manners during the Napoleonic Wars and the early 19th century as told through the experiences of two finishing school graduates, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers Fiction A story of clerical intrigue centering on the power struggle between an obnoxious and imperious bishop's wife and her scheming, sneaking chaplain. Fine irony of tone and delightful characterizations create a light and entertaining novel unburdened by social comment or philosophical questioning Trollope, Anthony Doctor Thorne Fiction This novel, which is a chronicle of clerical and country life in middle-class 19th century England, contains a mixture of sentiment, humor, romance, and fidelity to human nature. It contains Trollope's usual theme of making money and a successful marriage is portrayed against the background of an English country estate and the life connected with it Fiction Novel portraying a new type of hero, a "nihilist," who would Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST represent the values of the younger generation, revealing the full breadth of 19th century Russia Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Fiction 19th century mechanic, Hank Morgan, suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas to the inhabitants Twain, Mark Pudd'nhead Wispm Fiction Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her lightskinned baby for the master's, born on the same day. The slave woman's child becomes the heir, the other his slave -until the tables are turned Unsett, Sigrid Kristin Lavransdatter Fiction This trilogy deals with the life of a Scandinavian strong-willed, passionate woman in the 14th century whose love and devotion to the man she loves causes conflict with her church and the honor of her father. Winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for literature Uris, Leon Exodus Fiction Story of the Jews coming to their promised land after years of oppression Uris, Leon QBVII Fiction Story of the trial of a doctor who performed experiments in German concentration camps Virgil Aeneid Fiction The epic poem describing the fall of Troy and the legendary founding of Rome Voltaire Candide Fiction A philosophical novel satirizing the optimistic creed "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." through the misadventures of Candide Fiction Dwayne Hoover, a successful Vonnegut, Kurt Breakfast of http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Champions automobile dealer in Midland City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to act accordingly. Science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, is on his way to the Midland City Festival of Arts when he and Dwayne Hoover meet -- the result is catastrophe Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five Fiction The satirical story of Billy Pilgrim, a fourth-generation German-American tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944, which he witnessed while a prisoner of war. It also tells of his journey from the battlefields of World War Ii to the distant planet , Talmadore Warren, Robert All the King's Penn Men Fiction Exposé of power and corruption in American politics as Willie Stark, a wellintentioned, idealistic, backcountry lawyer is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited Fiction Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains Waugh, Evelyn A Handful of Dust Fiction A sublimely satirical, mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars. Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife's http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. While he ernestly plays the lord of the manor, she pursues an affair with a social-climbing idler Waugh, Evelyn Scoop Fiction William Boot, a quiet writer of a nature column for London's "Daily Beast" becomes the inadvertent star of British super-journalism when he is mistakenly sent to cover the war in Ishmaelia Welty, Eudora Losing Battles Fiction Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales West, Nathaniel Day of the Locust Fiction Describes the seedy world of Hollywood and its people -some hopeful, some despairing, from a romantic artist narrator to a macho movie cowboy, and the hardas-nails call girl/would-bemovie star for whom they all lust West, Nathaniel Miss Lonelyhearts Fiction Miss Lonelyhearts is a newspaper reporter assigned to write the advise column who becomes caught up in the suffering Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence Fiction A portrayal of New York society in the 1870's where money counted for less than manners and morals Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome Fiction The tragic story of a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Wharton, Edith House of Mirth Fictionl Lily Bart, an orphaned child of a New York merchant, calmly prepares a campaign to marry for the power and luxury that money brings White, T. H. The Once and Future King Fiction The story of the youth and reign of King Arthur, the establishment of the Round Table, and the search for the Holy Grail Wiesel, Elie Dawn Fiction The story of a young Israeli freedom fighter and a captured English officer waiting for his execution Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Ernest Drama This comedy of mixed identity about a man who, as a child, was absentmindedly placed in a handbag and left at a railroad station, is a hilarious attack on Victorian manners Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey Fiction A bridge collapses in 18th century Peru; five die. Who were they? In the answer to that question lie numerous cosmic ironies, which are related in a melancholy narrative of great power, simplicity and beauty Williams, Tennessee Night of the Iguana Drama Set at a Mexican hotel in the early 1940's, the drama presents several character portraits of searing intensity. They include the minister, Shannon, who is tortured with self-loathing, and Hannah Jelkes, a person living free from societal mores, who is entirely without shame Drama Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950's, finds the changing spirit of the 1960's hard to deal with. The story tells f his Wilson, August Fences http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST alienation and its effect on his family Wilson, August The Piano Lesson Drama Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward Fiction Angel This novel describes the coming of age of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina, and his passion to experience life Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway Fiction A stream of consciousness novel which encompasses, within a single day, the activities of Clarissa Dalloway's life as well as those of some of her friends and family members Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse Fiction In the stream of consciousness style, this story revolves around various members of the Ramsay family during visits to their summer residence on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, between 1910 and 1920. A central motif of the novel is the conflict between the feminine and masculine principles at work in the universe Wright, Richard Native Son Fiction This is the story of a young African-American man, tapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, who finds release only in acts of violence Wyndham, John Fiction A terrifying story of conformity and nonconformity in a world paralyzed by genetic mutation The Crysalids Note 1: These titles were selected from a "Recommended Books for Honors Students" list, from the "100 Most Important Books of the 20th Century" list, and from the "AP English Supplementary Reading: Classic Novels" list. http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY TENTH GRADE OUTSIDE READING LIST Note 2: Some important titles have been left off this list either because they are taught in class or because they are on the summer reading lists http://www.easthampton.k12.ny.us/dept_library/hs_lib/10th_grade_honors_outside_readi ng_x.htm EAST HAMPTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY
