College Recommended Books: 5 POINT MINIMUM
 Bolded titles are books that are part of the reading challenge.
 Books with a * are ones that Mrs. Ketchum has really enjoyed reading.
 A @ after an author’s name indicates all by the author are accepted; make sure that each book is
worth at least 5 points, however.
 BRITISH LIT:
 COLLEGE COMP STUDENTS:
o First Novel: Classical and World
o First Novel: Classic Children’s and
o Second Novel: British prior to @
Popular
1900
o Second Novel: Classical and World
o Third Novel: Modern British
o Third Novel: American
o Fourth Novel: Any of Your Choice
o Fourth Novel: Any of Your Choice
o Fifth Novel: Classic Children’s and
o Fifth Novel: American
Popular
o Sixth Novel: Classical Children’s
o Sixth Novel: American
and Popular
o Seventh and Eighth Novel:
o Seventh Novel: Anything from
Anything worth at least 5 points:
either British
HAPPY GRADUATION!
o Eighth Novel: Any of Your Choice
CLASSIC CHILDREN’S and POPULAR
Alexander Lloyd: The Black Cauldron @
* Anonymous: Go Ask Alice
* Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
* Frank L. Baum: The Wizard of Oz @
Hal Borland: When the Legends Die
Terry Brooks: The Talismans of Shannara @
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, Angels and
Demons
Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden @
* Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland @
Susan Cooper: The Grey King @
Dennis Covington: Lizard
*Chris Crutcher: Chinese Handcuffs and Staying
Fat for Sarah Byrnes are particular favorites but all
are acceptable
*Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory @
*Lois Duncan: Killing Mr. Griffin; Daughters of
Eve
*Fred Gipson: Old Yeller
* Paula Fox: The Slave Dancer @
* Ernesto Galarza: Barrio Boy
Joanne Greenberg: I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden
*Bette Greene: Summer of my German Soldier @
*Virginia Hamilton: M. C. Higgins, the Great @
*M. E. Kerr: Gentlehands @
*Stephen King: The Stand
*C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe @
*Lois Lowry: The Giver @
*Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Monster
*O’Dell Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
*Robert Newton Peck: A Day No Pigs Would Die
Gary Paulsen: Hatchet
*Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows @
*Louis Sachar: Holes
*Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird
Pond
*Suzanne Fisher Staples: Shabanu; Haveli @
*Paul Zindel: The Pigman; The Pigman’s Legacy
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book @
*Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time @
*Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry @
*Jean Ure: Plague
CLASSICAL AND WORLD
*The Bible (Very useful in most humanities
classes---you will have to read books andcombine
points to equal 5 points total)
Isabel Allende: The House of Spirits @
Pearl Buck: The Good Earth @
E. R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
David Day: The Search for King Author
Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask,
The Count of Monte Cristo @
*Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
*Edith Hamilton: Mythology
Roger Green: King Arthur and His Knights of the
Round Table
*John Hersey: Hiroshima @
*Homer: The Odyssey @
* Victor Hugo: Les Miserables @
* Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House @
*Beryl Markham: West with the Night
Alan Paton: Cry the Beloved Country
*Martel Yann: Life of Pi
Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
Solphocles: Oedipus
*Corrie TenBoom: The Hiding Place
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina @
*Elie Wiesel: Dawn and Night. Must read both
to count as one.
BRITISH PRIOR TO @ 1900
Unknown: Beowulf
* Jane Austin: Sense and Sensibility @
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
*Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress @
*Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities @
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the
Baskervilles @
George Eliot: Silas Marner
H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
*William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew,
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet,
Othello, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,
The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar @
*Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
*Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde @
*Bram Stoker: Dracula
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
MODERN BRITISH
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Agatha Cristie: And Then There Were None
James Clavell: Shogun
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim @
* Daphne DuMaurier: Rebecca
*E. M. Forster: Passage to India
*William Golding: The Lord of the Flies
*Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D”Urbervilles @
James Hilton: Goodbye Mr. Chips
* Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Emma B. Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
*George Orwell: Animal Farm; 1984
*Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion @
*J. R. R. Tolkein: The Hobbit, The Lord of the
Rings @
*Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth @
*H. G. Wells: The Time Machine @ (all but War
of the Worlds)
*T. H. White: The Once and Future King @
*Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
AMERICAN
Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women @
*Julia Alvarez: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their
Accent @
* Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings @
* Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale @
* James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
T. A. Barron: The Ancient One @
*John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil
*Bernstein/Woodward: All the President’s Men
*Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 @
*Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Willa Cather: My Antonia
*Tracy Chevalier: Girl with a Pearl Earring
*Kate Chopin: The Awakening
*Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
James Cooper: The Deerslayer @
*Robert Cormier: After the First Death, The
Chocolate War, Heroes, and Fade are particular
favorites of mine but all are acceptable
*Stephen Crane: Maggie Girl of the Streets, The
Red Badge of Courage@
*Michael Cunningham: The Hours
*Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
*William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay
Dying @
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby @
*Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes
*Ernest Gaines: The Autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman; A Gathering of Old Men; A Lesson Before
Dying
*Alex Haley: Roots
Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain
Ernest Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying
John Gardner: Grendel
William Gibson: The Miracle Worker
*John Griffin: Black Like Me
John Gunther: Death Be Not Proud
Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon
*Lorraine Hansbury: A Raisin in the Sun
*Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter @
* Tory Hayden: Ghost Girl @
* Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, The Old
Man in the Sea, The Sun Also Rises@
*Frank Herbert: Dune
*James Heriot: All Creatures Great and Small @
*Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust @
* S. E. Hinton: The Outsiders @
*Bill Hoffman: Tidewater Blood @
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston:
Farewell to Manzanar
*Zora Neal Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching
God @
*John Irving: Cider House Rules @
*Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the
Castle @
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw @
*Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
*Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
*Ursula LeGuin: The Other Wind @
*Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Sinclair Lewis: Main Street @
Jack London: The Call of the Wild @
*Norman Mailer: The Executioner’s Song
Malcolm/Haley: The Autobiography of Malcolm
X
Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter @
Herman Melville: Moby Dick @
*Arthur Miller: The Crucible, The Death of a
Salesman
*Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, Beloved @
Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried
*Ann Petry: Tituba of Salem Village
*Edgar Allen Poe: MUST READ 10 SHORT
STORIES TO COUNT FOR ONE
*Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead, Anthem @
Jack Schaefer: Shane
*Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
*Michale Shaara: The Killer Angels
*Neil Simon: The Odd Couple; Barefoot in the
Park @
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
*Lee Smith: Any @
*John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men, The Pearl,
The Grapes of Wrath @
Hariet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
*Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club @
*Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn@
*John Updike: Rabbitt series @
*Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five @
*Alice Walker: The Color Purple @
Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery
Eudora Welty: The Optimist’s Daughter
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome @
Thorton Wilder: Our Town
*Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar named Desire.
August Wilson: Fences
*Herman Wouk: War and Remembrance @
*Richard Wright: Black Boy@
READING CHALLENGE books but may not have AR test yet.
J. D. Slainger: The Catcher in the Rye
John Knowles: A Separate Peace
James McBride: The Color of Water
Laurie Anderson: Speak
Reginald Rose: Twelve Angry Men
Erich Remarque: All Quet on the Western Front
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
Ernest Quinonez: Bodega Dreams
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: Inherit the Wind
Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima
Larry Watson: Montana 1948
Albert Camus: The Stranger
August Wilson: The Piano Lesson
Art Spiegelman: Maus
Frank McCourt: Angela’s Ashes
Pam Munos Ryan: Esperanza Rising
Amond Rastand: Cyrano de Bergerac
Piri Thomas; Down These Mean Streets
Alan Paton: Cry the Beloved Country
Laura ?: Like Water for Chocolate
Barbara Kingsolver; The Bean Trees
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
The Delany Sisters: Having Our Say
Edwidge Danticat: Krik? Krak?
Octavia Butler: Kindred
Chaim Potok: The Chosen
??: Nectar in a Sieve
Bernard Malamud: The Natural