Supplemental Reading List
Alice In Wonderland – Lewis
Carroll
Always Running – Luis Rodriguez
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
- Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Bee Season – Myla Goldberg
Blackstone Book of Magic &
Illusion, The - Harry
Blackstone Jr.
Brave New World – Aldous
Huxley
Brunelleschi’Dome: How a
Renaissance Genius Reinvented
Architecture - Ross King
Chinese Cinderella: the True Story
of an Unwanted Daughter Adeline Mah
Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Burns
Connecticut Yankee In King
Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Counting Coup: A True Story of
Basketball and Honor on
the Little Big Horn - Larry
Coulton
Count of Monte Cristo, The Alexandre Dumas
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family
on the Migrant Trail - Ruben
Martinez
Demon in the Freezer, The Richard Preston
Distant Land of My Father- Bo
Caldwell
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert
Lewis Stevenson
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Emma - Jane Austen
Eye of the World, The – Robert
Jordan
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of
the All-American Meal - Eric
Schlosser
First They Killed My Father: A
Daughter of Cambodia
Remembers - Loung Ung
Founding Brothers: The
Revolutionary Generation Joseph E. Ellis
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a
Team, and A Dream - H.G.
Bissinger
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Tracy Cevalier
Growing Up - Russell Baker
Handmaid’s Tale, The – Margaret
Atwood
Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the
Underground Railroad - Ann
Petry
Henry IV, Part 1 - William
Shakespeare
Hiroshima - John Hersey
Hunger of Memory - Richard
Rodriguez
In Code: A Mathematical Journey Sarah Flannery
John Adams - David McCullough
Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Lesson Before Dying, A – Ernest
Gaines
Liar’s Club, The - Mary Karr
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy
Soldier - Ishmael Beah
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer
Bradley
My Brother - Jamaica Kincaid
My Hearbeat - Garret FreymannWeyr
My Sister’s Keeper – Jody Picoult
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass –
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Nisei Daughter – Monica Sone
Octopus - Frank Norris
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea, The - Ernest
Hemingway
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Ox Bow Incident, The - Walter Van
Tilberg Clark
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Perks of Being a Wallflower, The –
Stephen Chbosky
Rainbow Boys - Alex Sanchez
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar
Narisi
Red Badge of Courage, The Stephen Crane
Red Pony, The - John Steinbeck
Rose that Grew from Concrete, A Tupac Shakur
Push - Sapphire
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt
Vonnegut
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan –
Lisa See
Sold - Patricia McCormick
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human
Cadavers - Mary Roach
Stuck in Neutral – Terry Trueman
Tempest, The - William
Shakespeare
They Poured Fire on Us From the
Sky- Benson Deng,
Alephonsion Deng, Benjamiin
Ajak
Three Musketeers, The - Alexandre
Dumas
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis
Carroll
Time and Again – Jack Finney
Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley - John
Steinbeck
Treasure Island - Robert Lewis
Stevenson
Tree Grows In Brooklyn, A - Betty
Smith
Troy - Adele Geras
True Believer – Virginia Euwer
Wolff
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea - Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Understanding September 11,
Answering Questiions about the
Attacks on America - Mitch
Frank
Universe in a Nutshell, A - Steven
Hawking
White Oleander - Janet Finch
Vanity Fair - William M. Thackeray Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte