Richton High School
ENG II Reading List
Revised 8/15 – Total: 78
Author
Chinua Achebe
Douglas Adams
Richard Adams
Julia Alvarez
Laurie Halse Anderson
Maya Angelou
Enid Bagnold
S.A. Bodeen
Ray Bradbury
Dee Brown
Pearl Buck
Sheila Burnford
Truman Capote
Willa Cather
Walter Van Tillberg Clark
Michael Crichton
Agatha Christie
Sandra Cisneros
Eoin Colfer
Robert Cormier
Clinton Cox
Christopher Paul Curtis
Charles Dickens
Michael Dorris
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ralph Ellison
William Faulkner
Charles Frazier
Ernest J. Gaines
John Grisham
John Gunther
David Guterson
Title
Things Fall Apart
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Watership Down
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
In the Time of the Butterflies
Speak
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
National Velvet
The Raft
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Good Earth
The Incredible Journey
In Cold Blood
O, Pioneers
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Andromeda Strain
**Any title
House on Mango Street
Artemis Fowl series
After the First Death
The Chocolate War
Beyond the Chocolate War
Houdini
Bud, Not Buddy
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Invisible Man
As I Lay Dying
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
Cold Mountain
A Lesson Before Dying
**Any title
Death be Not Proud: A Memoir
Snow Falling on Cedars
Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Jeanne Houston
Daniel Keyes
Sue Monk-Kidd
Barbara Kingsolver
John Knowles
Louis L’Amour
Erik Larson
Jack London
D.J. MacHale
Cormac McCarthy
Marissa Meyer
Michael Morpurgo
Tim O’Brien
Shane Osborn
Gary Paulsen
Marjorie Kinnam Rawlings
Betty Smith
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mildred Taylor
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
Cynthia Voight
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
H.G. Wells
Edith Wharton
Marcus Zusak
Title
The Scarlet Letter
House of the Seven Gables
Catch-22
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
Farewell to Manzanar
Flowers for Algernon
Secret Life of Bees
The Bean Trees
A Separate Peace
**Any title
Isaac’s Storm
The Call of the Wild
Pendragon series
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain
The Road
Cinder
War Horse
The Things They Carried
Born to Fly: The Heroic Story of Downed
U.S. Navy Pilot Shane Osborn
Winter Dance
The Yearling
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Cannery Row
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
Treasure Island
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Solitary Blue
Slaughterhouse Five
The Color Purple
The Time Machine
Ethan Frome
The Book Thief