Honors 2012-2013 Book List- Independent Reading:
The following is a list of acceptable titles for book reports. Any title on this list is acceptable. Many
of these titles are available from our library. Some titles are also available from the Mount Vernon
public library. Some titles must be purchased from new or used book stores. Remember, your 4 th
book each semester can be a free choice, and does not have to come from this list.
Feminist Literature:
Classics:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Angelou
In the time of Butterflies, by Alvarez
Yo, by Alvarez
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
Little Women, by Alcott
Pride and Prejudice, by Austen
Sense and Sensibility, by Austen
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
Oliver Twist, by Dickens
As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner
Light in August, by Faulkner
Les Miserable, by Hugo
Hunchback of Notre dame, by Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Moby Dick, by Melville
The Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Huckleberry Finn, by Twain
Tom Sawyer, by Twain
A Picture of Dorian Gray, by Wilde
Native Son, by Wright
Mystery:
The Thirteenth Tale, by Setterfield
The Forgotten Garden, by Morton
Science Fiction:
Fahrenheit 451, by Bradbury
The Cobra Event, by Richard Preston
Historical Fiction:
In the time of Butterflies, by Alvarez
Yo, by Alvarez
Chains, by Anderson
All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
Sarah’s Key, by Rosnay
Killer Angels, by Shaara
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fool’s Crow, by Jack Welch
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Germinal, by Zola
Catch 22, by Heller
Magical Realism:
Like Water for Chocolate by Esquivel
100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez
Bless me Ultima, by Anaya
Contemporary Literature:
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Alexie
Reservation Blues, by Alexi
Bastard out of Carolina, by Alison
Handmaid’s Tale, by Atwood
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, by
Carroll (Must be done together)
Basketball Diaries, by Jim Carroll
The Power One, by Courtney
The River Why, by Duncan
The Brother’s K, by Duncan
The Three Musketeers, by Dumas
The Invisible Man, by Ellson
A Passage to India, by EM Forster
Cold Mountain, by Frazier
A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
The Kite Runner, by Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Sons, by Hosseini
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Hurston
Brave New World, by Huxley
Big Sur, by Kerouac
Dharma Bums, by Kerouac
On the Road, by Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey
Poisonwood Bible, by Kingsolver
The Lacuna, by Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer, by Kingsolver
A River Sutra, by Mehta
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Sula, by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Ishmael, by Quinn
Still Life with a Woodpecker, by Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction, by Robbins
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Smith
I Captured the Castle, by Smith
The Joy Luck Club, by Tan
Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Urrea
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by Wroblewski
Cutting for Stone, by Verghese
Oral Book Report Options ONLY: Any of the
books above may be used for oral book
reports; however, the titles below are
restricted for use only as oral reports.
They are not suitable for written reports
as they do not work well with the analysis
essay.
Anything by Bill Bryson
Anything by Howard Zinn
Lost at Sea, by Patrick Dillon
1776, by David Mccollaugh
The Demon in the Freezer, by Preston
The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by Sedaris
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Stein
The Devil’s Highway, by Urrea
Slaughterhouse Five, by Vonnegut