Research-Based Literary Criticism Paper: Book Options
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are also available for free to BLHS students online as e-books through World
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Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (7)
Richard Adams
Watership Down (11)
Louisa May Alcott
*Little Women (12)
Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune (18)
The House of Spirits (6)
Dorothy Allison
Dastard Out of Carolina (11)
Julia Alvarez
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (5)
In the Time of the Butterflies (9)
Sherwood Anderson
*Winesburg, Ohio (4)
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace (9)
Cat’s Eye (14)
The Handmaid’s Tale (4)
Surfacing (13)
Jean Auel
The Clan of the Cave Bear (11)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (5)
J. G. Ballard
Empire of the Sun (8)
Frank L. Baum
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (13)
Edward Bellamy
*Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (15)
Saul Bellow
Herzog (14)
Seize the Day (4)
Eric Arthur Blair
Animal Farm (3)
Hal Borland
When the Legends Die (18)
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
The Death of the Heart (13)
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1)
Tessa Bridal
The Tree of Red Stars (17)
Charlotte Brontë
*Jane Eyre (4)
Jane Austen
*Emma (21)
*Persuasion (14)
*Sense and Sensibility (18)
Emily Brontë
*Wuthering Heights (2)
B
Rita Mae Brown
Rubyfruit Jungle (9)
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Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita (8)
J. M. Coetzee
Dusklands (21)
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange (15)
Joseph Conrad
*Lord Jim (16)
Fanny Burney
*Evelina (16)
Frank Conroy
Body and Soul (11)
Octavia Butler
Kindred (8)
Parable of the Sower (21)
James Fenimore Cooper
*The Last of the Mohicans (9)
C
Albert Camus
The Plague (16)
The Stranger (6)
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game (5)
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (7)
Robert Cormier
The Chocolate War (2)
I Am the Cheese (18)
Stephen Crane
*The Red Badge of Courage (4)
*Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (20)
Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game (11)
D
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop (19)
Rebecca Harding Davis
*Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day (14)
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep (17)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
*Don Quixote (8)
Kate Chopin
*The Awakening (3)
Daniel Defoe
*Moll Flanders (13)
*Robinson Crusoe (9)
Agatha Christie
Ten Little Indians (8)
James du Maresq Clavell
Shogun: A Novel of Japan (10)
Pearl Cleage
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
(17)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (6)
Philip Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (5)
Charles Dickens
*A Christmas Carol (10)
*Great Expectations (4)
*Hard Times (20)
*Oliver Twist (14)
*A Tale of Two Cities (5)
James Dickey
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Deliverance (9)
Love Medicine (5)
Joan Didion
Democracy (3)
Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate (5)
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa (9)
F
E. L. Doctorow
Ragtime (6)
William Faulker
Absalom, Absalom! (13)
As I Lay Dying (8)
The Sound and the Fury (4)
Michael Dorris
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (3)
Henry Fielding
*Tom Jones (18)
John Dos Passos
U.S.A. (14)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
*This Side of Paradise (20)
Tender is the Night (19)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The Brothers Karamazov (8)
*Crime and Punishment (3)
Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy (17)
*Sister Carrie (8)
Alexandre Dumas
*The Count of Monte Cristo (19)
*The Three Musketeers (14)
E
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (17)
*Silas Marner (20)
Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero (11)
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (2)
Juneteenth (21)
Buchi Emecheta
The Bride Price (12)
The Wrestling Match (14)
Louise Erdrich
Gannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
Café (7)
Gustave Flaubert
*Madame Bovary (14)
Giles Foden
The Last King of Scotland (15)
E. M. Forster
*Howards End (10)
A Passage to India (3)
A Room with a View (11)
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (21)
Paula Fox
The Slave Dancer (12)
Carlos Fuentes
The Old Gringo (8)
G
Ernest J. Gaines
A Gathering of Old Men (16)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (5)
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Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (10)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (5)
The Maltese Falcon (21)
John Gardner
Grendel (3)
Thomas Hardy
*Far from the Madding Crowd (19)
*The Mayor of Casterbridge (15)
*The Return of the Native (11)
*Tess of the d’Urbervilles (3)
Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster (3)
Marilyn Harris
Hatter Fox (14)
André Gide
The Immoralist (21)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (20)
Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha (19)
Joseph Heller
Catch-22 (1)
Nadine Gordimer
July’s People (4)
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls (14)
The Old Man and the Sea (6)
The Sun Also Rises (5)
Kenneth Grahame
*The Wind in the Willows (20)
Robert Graves
I, Claudius (21)
Hannah Green
The Dead of the House (10)
Bette Greene
Summer of My German Soldier (10)
Graham Greene
The End of the Affair (16)
Judith Guest
Ordinary People (1)
David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars (13)
H
Alex Haley
Roots: The Story of an American Family (9)
Dashiell Hammett
Frank Herbert
Soul Catcher (17)
Hermann Hesse
Demian (15)
Oscar Hijuelos
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (17)
S. E. Hinton
The Outsiders (5)
Rumble Fish (15)
Tex (9)
That Was Then, This Is Now (16)
Peter Høeg
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (17)
Langston Hughes
Tambourines to Glory (21)
Victor Hugo
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame (20)
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*Les Misérables (5)
I
John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany (14)
The World According to Garp (12)
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day (13)
J
Henry James
*The Ambassadors (12)
*The Portrait of a Lady (19)
*The Turn of the Screw (16)
Sébastien Japrisot
A Very Long Engagement (18)
Sarah Orne Jewett
*The Country of the Pointed Firs (15)
K
Franz Kafka
The Trial (7)
Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s List (17)
Jack Kerouac
On the Road (8)
Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2)
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior (6)
W. P. Kinsella
Shoeless Joe (15)
Rudyard Kipling
*Kim (21)
John Knowles
A Separate Peace (2)
Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon (19)
Jerzy Kosinski
The Painted Bird (12)
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (18)
L
George Lamming
In the Castle of My Skin (15)
Margaret Laurence
The Stone Angel (11)
D. H. Lawrence
*Sons and Lovers (18)
Lilian Lee
Farewell My Concubine (19)
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon (2)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Always Coming Home (9)
The Left Hand of Darkness (6)
Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John (3)
Gaston Leroux
*The Phantom of the Opera (20)
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams (12)
Pigs in Heaven (10)
Sinclair Lewis
*Babbitt (19)
*Main Street (15)
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Jack London
*The Call of the Wild (8)
*White Fang (19)
Beloved (6)
The Bluest Eye (1)
Sula (14)
Lois Lowry
The Giver (3)
N
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Niccolo Machiavelli
*The Prince (9)
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer (9)
The Natural (4)
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice (17)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony (4)
Bobbie Ann Mason
In Country (4)
Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (6)
The Member of the Wedding (13)
Herman Melville
*Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative(9)
*Moby-Dick (7)
Miguel Méndez
Pilgrims in Aztlán (12)
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind (9)
N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn (10)
Kyoko Mori
Shizuko’s Daughter (15)
Toni Morrison
Gloria Naylor
Mama Day (7)
The Women of Brewster Place (4)
Vladimir Nobokov
Lolita (10)
Frank Norris
*The Octopus (12)
O
Joyce Carol Oates
them (8)
Flannery O’Connor
The Violent Bear It Away (21)
John O’Hara
Appointment in Samarra (11)
George Orwell
Animal Farm (3)
P
Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country (3)
Too Late the Phalarope (12)
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar (1)
Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools (14)
Chaim Potok
The Chosen (4)
Susan Power
The Grass Dancer (11)
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Reynolds Price
A Long and Happy Life (18)
Mario Puzo
The Godfather (16)
R
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged (10)
The Fountainhead (16)
Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front (4)
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea (19)
O. E. Rölvaag
Giants in the Earth (5)
S
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea (21)
Ntozake Shange
Betsey Brown (11)
Nevil Shute
On the Beach (9)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (6)
John Steinbeck
East of Eden (19)
The Pearl (5)
The Red Pony (17)
Robert Louis Stevenson
*Treasure Island (20)
Bram Stoker
*Dracula (18)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Uncle Tom’s Cabin (6)
Graham Swift
Waterland (18)
Jonathan Swift
*Gulliver’s Travels (6)
T
Amy Tan
The Kitchen God’s Wife (13)
William Makepeace Thackeray
*Vanity Fair (13)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
The Hobbit (8)
Leo Tolstoy
*War and Peace (10)
Jean Toomer
Cane (11)
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons (16)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (6)
*A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court (20)
Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist (7)
Breathing Lessons (10)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (2)
U
John Updike
Rabbit, Run (12)
V
Voltaire
*Candide (7)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Slaughterhouse-Five (3)
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Alice Walker
The Color Purple (5)
Robert Penn Warren
All the King’s Men (13)
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Brideshead Revisited (13)
Scoop (17)
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (17)
*The War of the Worlds (20)
Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen (7)
Z
Paul Zindel
The Pigman (14)
Other Book Possibilities/Sometimes
Taught in BLHS Eng Classes
A
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart (2)
Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in
Heaven (17)
Eudora Welty
Losing Battles (15)
The Optimist’s Daughter (13)
Rudolfo Anaya
Bless Me, Ultima (12)
Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust (16)
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2)
Edith Wharton
*The Age of Innocence (11)
*Ethan Frome (5)
*The House of Mirth (15)
*Summer (20)
Jane Austen
*Pride and Prejudice (1)
Oscar Wilde
*The Picture of Dorian Gray (20)
Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel (18)
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway (12)
To the Lighthouse (8)
Herman Wouk
The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II
(7)
C
Willa Cather
*My Àntonia (2)
Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street (2)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1)
Joseph Conrad
*Heart of Darkness (2)
F
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (2)
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G
Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying (7)
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon (8)
William Golding
Lord of the Flies (2)
O
H
Nathaniel Hawthorne
*The Scarlet Letter (1)
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (1)
Hermann Hesse
*Siddhartha (6)
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God (3)
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World (6)
J
James Joyce
*A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(7)
K
George Orwell
1984 (7)
S
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye (1)
Mary Shelley
*Frankenstein (1)
Upton Sinclair
*The Jungle (6)
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (7)
Of Mice and Men (1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (11)
T
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club (1)
Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees (5)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1)
Joy Kogawa
Obasan (3)
W
L
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (2)
M
Eliezer Wiesel
Night (4)
Richard Wright
Black Boy (1)
Native Son (7)
Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead (10)
Kamala Markandaya
Nectar in a Sieve (13)
Research-Based Literary Criticism Paper: Book Options