Honors American Literature
Reading List (2007-2008)
Required Reading:
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Washington Square Henry James
Suggested Readings:
James Fenimore Cooper Last of the Mohicans
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
Henry James Portrait of a Lady
William Faulkner Light in August
Go Down, Moses
The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms
Sinclair Lewis Babbitt
Main Street
Willa Cather My Antonia
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Edith Wharton House of Mirth
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Harriette Arnow The Dollmaker
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Jack London White Fang
Conrad Richter The Trees
The Fields
The Town
Frank Herbert Dune
Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men
McKinlay Kantor Andersonville
James Agee A Death in the Family
F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
John Hersey A Bell for Adano
James Michener Hawaii
Jessamyn West The Massacre at Fall Creek
Honors British Literature
Reading List (2007-2008)
Required Summer Reading:
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Silas Marner George Eliot
Suggested Readings:
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Fixer Bernard Malamud
The Mayor or Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
A Passage to India E. M. Forster
Mill on the Floss George Eliot
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Power and the Glory Grahame Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Stranger Albert Camus
Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Guest of Honor Nadine Gordimer
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Lord of the Flies William Golding
The House of Spirits Isabel Allende
The African Queen or
Captain Horatio Hornblower C. S. Forester
The Hobbitt J. R. R. Tolkien
Candide Voltaire
The Once and Future King T. H. White
For Class Discusion and Analysis:
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (to be read during the summer and tested on during the first six weeks grading period)
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabler, Ibsen
Honors World Literature 10
Reading List 2007-2008
Required Reading:
Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist
Wilder, Thornton Our Town
Suggested Readings:
Buck, Pearl The Good Earth
Jewett, Sarah Orne The Country of the Pointed Firs
Wouk, H. The Caine Mutiny
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
Hilton, James The Lost Horizon
Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum
Gordimer, Nadine July’s People
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Conroy, P. The Lords of Discipline
Camus, A. The Plague
Malamud, Bernard The Fixer
Wiesel, Elie Dawn
White, T. H. The Once and Future King
Hesse, Herman Siddhartha
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John
Allende, Isabel Paula
Drama
Sophocles Antigone
Euripides Medea
Rostand, E. Cyrano de Bergerac
Chekov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Ibsen, Henrik An Enemy of the People
Maeterlinck, Maurice The Blue Bird
The following works are to be purchased for the class:
Class Discussion and Analysis:
Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Wiesel, Elie Night
Survey of American Literature
2007-2008
Mr. Warf
The summer reading selection is Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Additionally, students in Survey of American Literature will be required to read and report on one book each six weeks as assigned. The novel for the first six weeks’ report (which will be due no sooner than the third week of school) should be a biography of any early American of interest.
During each six weeks, student may read ONE novel from the list below and complete the report form below for extra credit. The report grade will count as a test grade in the grading matrix.
List of Novels for Free Reads:
Title Author
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream H.G. Bissinger
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
My Antonia Willa Cather
The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper
White Noise Don DeLillo
An American Childhood Annie Dillard
Ordinary People Judith Guest
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Jack A.M. Homes
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Cider House Rules John Irving
Last of the Breed Louise L’Amour
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
Ishmael Daniel Quinn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Cape Ann Faith Sullivan
Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War Tobias Wolff
Ms. Callis
Survey of British Literature
Summer 2007
Required Reading:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Selections for Second Book:
Watership Down Richard Adams
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier
Silas Marner George Eliot
The African Queen C. S. Forester
A Room with a View E. M. Forester
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Random Harvest James Hilton
Green Mansions W. H. Hudson
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Kim Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling
1984 George Orwell
On the Beach Nevil Shute
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
The Crystal Cave Mary Steward
Dracula Bram Stroker
The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
The Loved Ones Evelyn Waugh
The Time Machine H. G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Survey of Grammar and Introduction to Literature
Summer 2007
Ms. Callis
Required Reading:
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Selections for Second Book:
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Bridge over the River Kwai Pierre Boulle
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
Sweet Summer Bebe Moore Campbell
Where the Lilies Bloom Vera and Bill Cleaver
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Hannah Green
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey
The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man Without a Face Isabel Holland
Beyond the Burning Time Kathryn Lasky
Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis
The Natural Bernard Malamud
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
Haroun and the Sea Stories Salman Rushdie
Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Survey of Literature
Summer 2007
Ms. Callis
Required Reading:
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Selections for Second Book:
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dream H. G. Bissinger
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
Where are the Children? Mary Higgins Clark
Where the Lilies Bloom Vera and Bill Cleaver
The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy
Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy
Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
The Outsiders S. E. Hinton
Jack A. M. Homes
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Jubal Sackett Louis L’Amour
Spoon River Anthology (poetry) Edgar Lee Masters
Lisa, Bright and Dark John Neufeld
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
Ishmael Daniel Quinn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Cape Ann Faith Sullivan
In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War Tobias Wolff