Reading for Knowledge and

Pleasure

Brick Township Public Schools English Department Suggested Reading

for High School Students

FRESHMEN

Fiction

Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart

Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima

Anderson, Laurie Halse Fever1793

Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles

Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring

Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl Series

Collier, Kristi Jericho Walls

Geras, Adèle Troy

Greene, Bette Summer of My German Soldier

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Kass, Pnina Moed Real Time

Kingsolver, Barbara Prodigal Summer

Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible

London, Jack Call of the Wild

McNamee, Graham Acceleration

Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels

Myers, Walter Dean Monster

Orlev, Uri Run, Boy, Run

Paton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country

Picoult, Jodi My Sister’s Keeper

Plum-Ucci, Carol The Body of Christopher Creed

Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows

Rockwood, Joyce To Spoil the Sun

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter Series

Steinbeck, John The Moon Is Down

Verne, Jules 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Wallace, Rich Restless

Werlin, Nancy Double Helix

Woodson, Jacqueline If You Come Softly

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Nonfiction

Capuzzo, Mike Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

Covey, Sean The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Crowe, Chris Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

Freedman, Russell In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America’s Bill of Rights

Hamilton, Bethany Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

McBride, James The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother

Opdyke, Irene Gut In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Roach, Mary Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Wiesenthal, Simon The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Wright, Richard Black Boy

Drama

Fugard, Athol My Children! My Africa!

Guare, John Six Degrees of Separation

O’Neill, Eugene Beyond the Horizon

Rogers, Richard The King and I

Shakespeare, William Much Ado About Nothing

Poetry

Angelou, Maya And Still I Rise

Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

Heaney, Seamus Opened Ground: Selected: Poems 1966-1996

Hughes, Langston The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Walcott, Derek Selected Poems

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SOPHOMORES

Fiction

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice

Boulle, Pierre Bridge over the River Kwai

Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine

Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights

Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War

Doyle, Arthur Conan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Hesse, Hermann Demian

Hilton, James Lost Horizon

Kidd, Sue Monk The Mermaid Chair

Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve

Márquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude

Marsh, Ngaio Dead Water

Maugham, William Somerset The Moon and Sixpence

McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Mishima, Yukio The Sound of Waves

O’Connor, Edwin The Last Hurrah

Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar

Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front

Shute, Nevil On the Beach

Smith, Alexander McCall The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Sparks, Nicholas At First Sight

Steinbeck, John The Winter of Our Discontent

Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men

Wilder, Thorton The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Sophomores, Page 1

Nonfiction

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Aronson, Marc Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials

Eagan, Eileen Such a Vision on the Street: Mother Teresa: The Spirit and the Work

Grogan, John Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small

Hersey, John Hiroshima

McCourt, Frank Teacher Man

Murphy, Jim An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Obama, Barrack Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Drama

Hellman, Lillian Watch on the Rhine

Miller, Arthur A View from the Bridge

Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Simon, Neil Brighton Beach Memoirs

Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest

Poetry

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

Keillor, Garrison Good Poems for Hard Times

Masters, Edgar Lee Spoon River Anthology

Sullivan, Charles Ireland in Poetry: With Paintings, Drawings, Photographs and Other Works of Art

Tennyson, Alfred Lord Idylls of the King

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JUNIORS

Fiction

Agee, James A Death in the Family

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women

Asimov, Issac I, Robot

Brown, Dan Angels and Demons

Callenbach, Ernest Ecotopia

Cather, Willa My Antonia

Clancy, Tom Red Storm Rising

Crane, Stephen Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Cisneros, Sandra The House On Mango Street

Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying

Haley, Alex Roots

Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God

Kerouac, Jack On the Road

Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees

Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July

Malamud, Bernard The Natural

Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind

Morrison, Toni Beloved

Paolini, Christopher Eragon / Eldest

Patterson, James Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas

Sinclair, Upton The Moneychangers

Steinbeck, John Tortilla Flat

Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin

Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife

Vonnegut, Kurt Breakfast of Champions

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

Wright, Richard Native Son

Wolfe, Tom Right Stuff

Juniors, Page 1

Nonfiction

Armstrong, Lance It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Dumas, Tim A Wealth of Evil: The True Story of the Murder of Martha Moxley in America’s Richest

Community

Edelman, Bernard, ed. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Hunt, Rameck, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and

Fulfill a Dream

Jacob, Iris, ed. My Sisters’ Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out

Kennedy, J. F. Profiles in Courage

Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Torre, Joe Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series: An Autobiography

Drama

Chase, Mary Harvey

Gibson, William The Miracle Worker

Hart, Moss and George S. Kaufman You Can’t Take it With You: A Comedy in Three Acts

Simon, Neil Barefoot in the Park

Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie

Poetry

Collins, Billy Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Housden, Roger Ten Poems to Change Your Life

Lennon, John In His Own Write

Oliver, Mary Why I Wake Early: New Poems

Plath, Sylvia The Colossus: And Other Poems

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SENIORS

Fiction

Christie, Agatha Death on the Nile

Clark, Walter The Ox-Bow Incident

Cobb, Humphrey Paths of Glory

Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White

Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim

Dickens, Charles David Copperfield

Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov

Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie

Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss

Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury

Greene, Graham The Quiet American

Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hesse, Hermann Steppenwolf

Kim, Richard The Martyred

Koestler, Arthur Darkness at Noon

Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers

Lewis, Sinclair Arrowsmith

Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain

Melville, Herman Moby Dick

Porter, Katherine Anne Ship of Fools

Sinclair, Upton The Jungle

Steinbeck, John East of Eden

Styron, William Sophie’s Choice

Thackeray, William M. Vanity Fair

Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina

Truman, Margaret Murder in the Smithsonian

West, Morris The Devil’s Advocate

Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence

Wolfe, Tom The Bonfire of the Vanities

Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway

Seniors, Page 1

Nonfiction

Alexander, Caroline The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Barry, John The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Camus, Albert The Myth of Sisyphus

Conroy, Pat My Losing Season

Gibran, Kahlil The Prophet

Greenberg, Judith, et al Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman

Goodwin, Doris Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Plato Republic

Tuchman, Barbara A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Drama

Brecht, Bertolt Mother Courage and Her Children

Lorca, Federico Garcia The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama About Women in the Villages of Spain

O’Neill, Eugene Mourning Becomes Electra

Shaw, George Bernard John Bull’s Other Island

Shakespeare, William The Tempest

Poetry

Browning, Robert Selected Poems

Cummings, E. E. The Enormous Room

Eliot, T.S. The Wasteland and Other Poems

Thomas, Dylan Collected Poems

Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass

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