EHS Honors Reading List
Author
Faulkner, William
Title
Absalom, Absalom
Summary
Multi-perspective account of the rise and fall of an
aristocratic Southern family.
Coehlo, Paulo
Alchemist, The
A fable about following your dream. Allegory about a man
in search of his destiny.
Herriott, James
All Creatures Great and
Small
Heartwarming tale of the adventures of a veterinarian in a
small town in England.
Warren, Robert Penn
All the King's Men
Reporter becomes involved in the life of a charismatic,
corrupt politician in Louisiana.
Bernstein, Carl
Chabon, Michael
All the President's Men
Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier and Clay, The
Events leading up to and including the Watergate affair.
A Jewish immigrant and his cousin write a comic book
series, resulting in a wide-range of life changing
experiences.
Kantor, MacKinlay
Andersonville
Historical -fiction account of a prison during the civil war.
McCourt, Frank
Angela's Ashes
Memoir of poverty stricken, Irish family and their struggle
for survival.
Stegner, Wallace Earle
Angle of Repose
Man writing a biography of his pioneer grandparents
discovers more about himself.
Kingsolver, Barbara
Animal Dreams
Powerful story of courage, family, and Native American
culture.
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Story of a woman's adultery and the tragedy that follows
her choices.
Herzog, Maurice
Annapurna
Rand, Ayn
Anthem
Grueling, wrenching account of the first ascent of an 8000
meter peak.
Provocative novel depicting the struggles of individuality in
a society known as "we."
Faulkner, William
As I Lay Dying
While traveling through Mississippi, family finds more than
a burial place for their mother.
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Shakespeare, William
Title
As You Like It
Summary
Romantic look at the battle of the sexes.
Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt? This question and many others are
answerd in what many consider to be Rand's masterpiece.
Hansen, Ron
Atticus
A Colorado rancher, Atticus Cody, receives word that his
son has committed suicide in Mexico, but Atticus suspects
murder.
Fuentes, Carlos
Aura
Dividing line between the past and the present? What is
reality? Aztec concept of circular/simultaneous time in a
novel way.
X, Malcom with Haley,
Alex
Chopin, Kate
Autobiography of Malcolm Story of Malcolm X and his rise to power.
X, The
First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its
Awakening
open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital
infidelity. Poignant and lyrical, it tells the story of a New
Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling
marriage.
Armstrong, Karen
Battle for God, The
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged
as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world,
contesting the dominance of modern secular values and
threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Karen
Armstrong shows us how and why fundamentalist groups
came in to existence and what they yearn to accomplish.
Dai, Sijie
Balzac and the Little
Chinese Seamstress
Set in the cultural revolution, two young men make use of
movie scripts and novels from the western tradition to
thwart communist officials in their efforts to indoctrinate the
people. Along the way there is a love story to match all
this.
Allison, Dorothy
Bastard Out of Carolina
Sexually abused girl struggles with her identity in a
Southern mountain town.
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Kingsolver, Barbara
Title
Bean Trees, The
Summary
Eighteen year old girl moves west from Kentucky and
adopts 3 year old Native American.
Min, Anchee
Becoming Madame Mao
A stunning, powerful portrait of the woman who was one of
the chief architects of the infamous cultural revolution in
China.
Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
An eccentric family falls apart at the seams in an absorbing
debut that finds congruencies between the elementary
school spelling-bee circuit, Jewish mysticism, Eastern
religious cults and compulsive behavior.
Patchett, Ann
Bel Canto
In a house full of dignitaries held hostage by terrorists in a
South American country, relationships grow during the
months that follow, providing drama and tragedy.
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Guthrie Jr., A.B.
Doctorow, E. L.
Big Sky
Billy Bathgate
Spiritual story of a slave’s escape and how she survives
her ordeal.
Portrayal of the West from Kentucky to Oregon.
Melville, Herman
Billy Budd
Classic struggle between depravity and evil, innocence
and good.
Nagami, Pamela
Wright, Richard
Bitten
Black Boy
True medical stories of bites and stings.
Griffin, John Howard
Black Like Me
White man poses as a black man to explore racial
prejudice.
In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous
gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of
racketeering.
An autobiographical account of Wright’s childhood in the
south and his adult search for what it means to be a black
man in America.
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Author
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Title
Bless Me, Ultima
Summary
This is the involving story of Antonio, a boy facing the
conflicts in his life with the help of Ultima, a curandera who
cures with herbs and magic.
Tan, Amy
Bonesetter’s Daughter,
The
A story about first generation Americans and immigrant
elders. Set in China’s remote mountain regions where
Ruth Young searches for the truth of her family’s history
and a way to escape China.
Hamilton, Jane
Book of Ruth, The
Story of an abused woman's self-discovery and recovery.
Chang, Pang-Mei
Natasha
Bound Feet and Western
Dress
This gripping memoir relates the story of two women's
struggle to emerge from centuries of customs and duty in
China.
Abbey, Edward
Brave Cowboy, The
Basis for film "Lonely are the Brave" The Brave Cowboy
Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A
man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the
New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneanth
airstrips and superhighways.
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Satire on the dehumanization created by technology.
Danticat, Edwidge
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Young girl is sent from an impoverished village to NY, to be
reunited with a mother she barely remembers.
Wilder, Thornton
Bridge of San Luis Rey,
The
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge
in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf
below."
Hawking, Stephen W.
Brief History of Time, A
Prominent physicist summarizes, in laymen's terms, the
major ideas of cosmology and particle physics.
Duncan, David J.
Brothers K, The
The story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had
a motive for murder
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Brothers Karamazov, The
Discussion of the presence of God arises from a tale of
patricide.
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Author
King, Ross
Title
Brunelleschi’s Dome
Summary
Tells the story of how fifteenth-century goldsmith and clock
maker Filippo Brunelleschi devised the plan to build the
dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence,
an engineering feat that had puzzled architects for over a
century.
Steinbeck, John
Cannery Row
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more
fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards
unknown in more traditional society.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Atwood, Margaret E.
Cat's Eye
Senna, Danzy
Caucasia
Modern world's madness exemplified by the military during
WWII.
Woman grapples with tangled knot of her own life when
she returns to the city of her youth.
Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a
white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights
Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that
they have created a private language, yet to the outside
world they can't be sisters: Birdie appears to be white,
while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at the
Afro centric school they attend.
Michener, James A.
Centennial
The founding and development of Colorado in fiction.
Silko, Leslie
Ceremony
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the
Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity
have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the
Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of
estrangement and alienation.
Potok, Chaim
Chosen, The
Two Jewish boys discover that differences can strengthen
friendship and understanding.
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Author
García Márquez, Gabriel
Title
Chronicle of a Death
Foretold
Summary
Based on a true event, Marquez tells of a strange, almost
metaphysical murder mystery. Marquez's Caribbean
comes alive.
Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Burns, Olive Ann
Cold Sassy Tree
Parallel journeys of a Confederate soldier and the woman
he loves.
With folksy exuberance a young boy recalls how his
grandfather shocked a small Georgia town.
McBride, James
Color of Water, The
Moving memoir that is a black man's tribute to his white
mother.
Walker, Alice
Color Purple, The
Woman discovers her strength as she moves from abused
childhood, through abusive marriage, to self-definition.
Sagan, Carl
Contact
First contact with aliens and the journey to meet them
through scientific, religious and political perspectives.
De Bernières, Louis
Corelli's Mandolin
Set in World War II, the novel shows the effect of
occupation on a small Greek Village. Moving and
beautifully written.
Dumas, Alexandre
Count of Monte Cristo, The Melodrama, romance, and adventure of French history.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov learns that if one defies moral law, that
person will pay the price.
Paton, Alan
Cry, The Beloved Country
Classic tale of apartheid in South Africa.
Rostand, Edmond
Cyrano De Bergerac
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Touching romance of man with large nose who loves
Roxanne but helps Christian court her.
A magical, timeless summer in the life of a young man.
Laye, Camara
Dark Child (Enfant Noir)
Classic western African literature dealing with coming of
age of Senegalese boy and his attempt to deal with
Western ideals.
Allende, Isabel
Daughter of Fortune (Hija
de Fortuna)
A Chilean woman searches for her lost love in the
California gold camps.
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Author
Wiesel, Elie
Title
Dawn
Summary
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled
Palestine for dawn--and for death.
Bishop, Jim
Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Twenty-four dramatic hours in American history told with
realism and suspense.
Cather, Willa
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Death Comes for the
Archbishop
Death in the Andes
Poetic picture of religion and culture in the Catholic
Southwest during the 19th century.
A corporal and his deputy are sent to guard a remote
Andean village from guerrillas, and encounter violence,
resentment, and mistrust from the villagers.
Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman
Suri, Manil
Death of Vishnu
Bitter and moving drama of a man groping for values and
success.
As Vishnu dies, his neighbors argue over who will pay for
his ambulance. Each of the floors of the apartment
building reveals another level of society and meaning.
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Decameron, The
Ten amusing and satirical stories told by men and women
as they leave Florence to escape the plague.
Hesse, Hermann
Demian
Dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent.
Led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian, into a secret
and dangerous and eventual awakening to selfhood.
Larson, Erik
Devil in White City, The
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago
World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. Draws
the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the
more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters,
including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony,
Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others.
Dallas, Sandra
Diary of Mattie Spenser,
The
Diary of the first three years of Colorado homesteader.
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Author
Tyler, Anne
Title
Dinner at the Homesick
Restaurant
Summary
Siblings raised by an angry mother who was deserted by
her husband.
Coetzee, J. M.
Disgrace
This Booker Prize winning novel parallels the crises
confronting South Africa today. Terror and violence follow
a professor’s move to the country. Mature readers.
Pasternak, Boris
Leonidovich
Doctor Zhivago
The classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician
during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.
Fuller, Alexandra
Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Author remembers her African childhood with candor and
sensitivity. A diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable
Tonight
place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find
laughter, even when there is little to celebrate.
Stoker, Bram
Dracula
A Victorian saga, an awsome tale of a thrillingly
bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the
dark underside of a supremely moralistic age. This is a
quintessential story of suspense and horror, with one of the
most terrifying characters in literature.
Garcia, Cristina
Dreaming in Cuban
A beautifully written story of a family divided politically and
geographically by the Cuban Revolution.
Steinbeck, John
East of Eden
Three generations struggle with internal and external
forces of good and evil.
Crichton, Michael
Eaters of the Dead
The manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with
the Northmen in A.D. 922
Carter, Forrest
Education of Little Tree
Little Tree, an orphaned Cherokee Indian, remembers his
boyhood during the 1930’s with his loving and wise
grandparents.
Green, Brian
Elegant Universe, The
Ideas of string theory explained with clarity and charm
using everyday terms.
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Title
Summary
Emma tries to make sure everyone is properly married,
and manages to make a mess of it before its over.
Author
Austen, Jane
Emma
Russo, Richard
Empire Falls
Russo has constructed a sensitive, endearingly oddball
portrait of small-town life, a wonderful story that should
appeal to a wide audience.
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
Ender is a gifted young boy who is recruited into the
military of the future. He is seen as one of the last hopes
to defeat an alien force that is once again approaching
earth’s solar system. He is trained through a series of
games.
Craig, William
Enemy at the Gate
This true WWII story focuses on the battle for Stalingrad
and the duel between two snipers: one Russian and one
German.
Allende, Isabel
Eva Luna
Girls from Dominican Republic come of age in U.S. after
emigrating because of political troubles in their homeland.
Hornbein, Thomas F
Everest: The West Ridge
Discord and conflict generally are a trademark of
expeditions; notable absence makes this book a pleasure
to read.
O'Connor, Flannery
Series of short stories by Flannery O'Connor.
Uris, Leon
Everything That Rises
Must Converge
Exodus
Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
In the not-too-distant future books are burned as
subversive material.
Mah, Adeline Yen
Falling Leaves
This memoir is both terrible and riveting. A young Chinese
woman shows courage in her search for love and
understanding.
Hemingway, Ernest
Farewell to Arms
Poetic language and realism combine to tell a love story
and present an argument against war.
Story of Jews coming to their promised land after years of
abuse and indignities.
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Hamilton, Alexander
Title
Federalist Papers, The
Summary
Arguments by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay for ratification of
the Constitution and establishment of the federation.
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
American sympathizer finds love and death during the
Spanish Civil War.
Rand, Ayn
Fountainhead, The
The story of an intransigent young architect, Howard
Roark, his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and
of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who
worships him yet struggles to defeat him.
Irving, John
Fourth Hand, The
This novel deals with a variety of obsessive relationships.
Bissinger, H.G.
Friday Night Lights
A Town, A Team, And a Dream. High School football in
Texas.
Coupland, Douglas
Generation X
The book that defined an un-definable generation, full of
now cliche phrases and ironic, cynical characters.
Rolvaag,Ole Edvart
Giants in the Earth
Norwegian immigrants struggle with disasters of pioneer
life in Dakota.
Lindberg, Anne Morrow
Gift From the Sea
Importance of self-renewal, self-assessment, and "time
out" are examined from woman's perspective.
Chevalier, Tracy
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Roy, Arundhati
God of Small Things
Set in the17th century this novel proposes a story to
explain what led up to Vermeer’s famous painting.
Twins Rahel and Estha, born to a wealthy family living in
the province of Kerala, India, find their lives changed on a
December day in 1969 after the death of their English
cousin who was visiting for the holidays.
O’ Brien, Tim
Going After Cacciato
Explores the dream/nightmare experience of the Vietnam
War.
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Buck, Pearl S.
Title
Good Earth, The
Summary
Describes the cycle of birth, marriage, and death of
Chinese peasant family in early 1900's.
Fossey, Dian
Gorillas in the Mist
Fossey documents her study of gorillas in Africa.
Steinbeck, John
Grapes of Wrath, The
Plight of the farmers displaced by the Depression.
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
Dickens focused on the happiness one can achieve
without wealth and the fulfillment that comes with staying
true to oneself. The story of Pip, a poor, good-hearted
orphan, and about life's greatest lessons.
Brokaw, Tom
Greatest Generation, The
Using oral histories Brokow tells the stories of ordinary
people who built a modern America with dedicated service.
Tuchman, Barbara
Wertheim
Diamond, Jared M.
Guns of August, The
Analysis of the opening days of WWI.
Shakespeare, William
Guns, Germs, and Steel:
The Fates of Human
Societies
Hamlet
Chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and
stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human
history.
Danish prince seeks revenge for the murder of his father
the king.
Atwood, Margaret E.
Handmaid's Tale, The
Chilling view of life under a repressive right-wing religious
government.
McCullers, Carson
Conrad, Joseph
Heart is a Lonely Hunter,
The
Heart of Darkness
Four stories, drawn together by relation to a mute, express
the loneliness and longing of society.
Makes a devastating comment on humankind's
corruptibility and moral depravity.
Shakespeare, William
Henry V
Combined poetry, pageantry, and history glorify England
and King Henry V.
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Author
Armstrong, Karen
Title
History of God, A
Summary
Armsrtong a British journalist and former nun, guides us
along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all
time. The search for God -Enlightenment, does God have
a future?
Adams, Douglas
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy, The
Arthur Dent, a mild mannered, out-to-lunch earthling, is
plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Perfect, just
seconds before earth is demolished to make way for a
hyperspace by-pass.
Cunningham, Michael
Hours, The
The 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner uses Virginia Wolff's Mrs.
Dalloway as the core for stories of three different women.
Dubus, Andre
House of Sand and Fog
A former Iranian officer working menial U.S. jobs is finally
able to buy a small house, but its contested ownership
leads to complications. For mature readers .
Farmer, Nancy
House of the Scorpion, The In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys
special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between
Mexico and the United States.
Allende, Isabel
House of the Spirits, The
A magnificent saga of proud and passionate people and
the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph.
They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not
want to leave, and you will not forget.
Cisneros, Sandra
House on Mango Street,
The
Novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of
Chicago. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong-not to her
rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations
the world has for her.
Llewellyn, Richard
How Green Was My Valley Story of a Welsh boy seen through the eyes of an old
miner lamenting a time gone by.
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Alvarez, Julia
Title
How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents
Summary
Girls from Dominican Republic come of age in U.S. after
emigrating because of political troubles in their homeland.
Asimov, Isaac
I, Robot; Caves of Steel;
Robotdreams
A premier sci-fi writer's series on how the world might be
when artificial intelligence is developed.
Homer
Iliad
Trojan War reflects the standards and values of the ancient
Greeks.
Wilde, Oscar
Romantic and societal problems in Victorian England.
Rice, Anne
Importance of Being
Ernest, The
Interview with a vampire
Limón, Graciela
In Search of Bernabé
Againt incredible odds, Luz Delcano is determined to find
her son, Berabe, from whom she gets seperated from in
the chaos that follows the assassination of Archbishop
Romero.
O' Brien, Tim
In the Lake of the Woods
Politician is forced from a race because of his involvement
in the Vietnam War; then his wife disappears.
Alvarez, Julia
In the Time of the
Butterflies
Set in 1960, during the waning days of the Trujillo
dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. This extraordinary
novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young
wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their
jailed husbands.
Lawrence, Jerome
Inherit the Wind
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had
deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus.
The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the
century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat,
they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse.
The first of Rice's Vampire chronicles. This is the story of
Lastat, a vampire, who recounts his remarkable and
chilling first two hundred years of life to a reporter.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa
Title
Interpreter of Maladies:
Stories
Summary
The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly
chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love
beyond the barriers of nations and generations. Imbued
with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories
speak with passion an wisdom to everyone who has ever
felt like a foreigner.
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Alienation of modern man symbolized by the protagonist.
Collins, Larry
Is Paris Burning?
True story of the Nazi mining of all famous monuments in
Paris during occupation and how one man's courage
saved them.
Quinn, Daniel
Ishmael
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search
of truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a
teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself
alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who
is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the
teacher?" he asks incredulously.
Scott, Walter, Sir
Ivanhoe
Romance of chivalry, counting among its characters
Richard the Lionhearted and Robin Hood.
Brönte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Young governess discovers secrets about the household
and falls in love with the master.
Morrison, Toni
Jazz
A murder is viewed through various eyes and variations.
Earley, Tony
Jim the Boy
A boy living in the rural South is raised by his mother and
three uncles after his father’s death just weeks before his
birth.
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Tan, Amy
Title
Joy Luck Club, The
Summary
Stories of Chinese-American women and their daughters.
Sinclair, Upton
Jungle, The
Corruption and cruelty in the meat packing industry.
Mathabane, Mark
Kaffir Boy
Chronicles the life of a black youth during the struggles of
fighting apartheid.
Shakespeare, William
King Lear
Great tragic drama of man brought down by his vanity and
the ingratitude of his daughters.
Hosseini, Khaled
Kite Runner, The
Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the
last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then
must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long
struggle to triumph over violent forces.
Jones, Edward P.
Known World, The
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, boot maker, and former
slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual
mentor - William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man
in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under
Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own
plantation - as well as of his own slaves.
Heyerdahl, Thor
Kon-Tiki
Anthropologist sails across 4300 nautical miles of the
Pacific in a primitive boat.
Tyler, Anne
Ladder of Years
To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has
vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels
like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking
away from it all" is not a premeditated act, but an impulse
that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life
Ridgway, Rick
Last Step, The
First American ascent of K2 by difficult new route;
numerous high-achieving world class, driven personalities
clash.
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Michener, James A.
Hugo, Victor
Title
Legacy, The
Les Miserables
Summary
Biographical portraits trace American history.
Gaines, Ernest J.
Lesson Before Dying, A
Martel, Yann
Life of Pi
Story of death and identity in small Cajun community in the
late 1940's.
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic
knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories.
When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North
America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their
zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds
himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena,
an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a
450-pound Bengal tiger.
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Romantic tale filled with magic and food, explores the
tradition of a well-to-do Mexican family.
Vidal, Gore
Lincoln
Lincoln, the impersonal historical character, comes alive as
a brilliant and gifted leader in this fascinating novel.
Goldman, James
Lion in Winter, The
Christmas of 1183 finds Henry II of England and Eleanor of
Aquitaine finally together in this historical drama.
McMurtry, Larry
Lonesome Dove
Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim
Classic of Western "quest" literature- good and evil,
bravery and cowardice, on a cattle drive from Texas to
Montana.
Psychological romance of the mystery of human character
and conduct.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Lord of the Rings, The
Middle Earth is the battleground between good and evil in
struggle to destroy the ring of power and greed.
García Márquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of
Cholera
Set in Latin America, the title speaks for itself.
Poverty drives a man to crime, and he spends his life trying
to find atonement.
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Stone, Irving
Title
Lust for Life
Summary
Fictional account of the life of Vincent Van Gogh.
Aristophanes
Lysistrata
Humorous look at keeping peace in the world; if men have
done such a poor job perhaps women will do better.
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Considered shocking in the 19th century, the story
explores Emma Bovary's search to escape the monotony
of her life.
Lewis, Sinclair
Bolt, Robert
Main Street
Man for All Seasons
Doctor's wife tries to bring culture to Midwestern town.
Drama of Sir Thomas More's struggle to act according to
his conscience to preserve his integrity.
Frankl, Viktor Emil
Man's Search for Meaning Philosophical musings of former concentration camp
prisoner, exploring the value of a personal mission.
Hamilton, Jane
Map of the World, A
Bradbury, Ray
Martian Chronicles, The
Gann, Ernest Kellogg
Masada
Solid history on a Roman siege of a place where Jews took
refuge.
Shakespeare, William
Merchant of Venice, The
Play about right, honor, mercy, love, and the business
world.
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin
Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down
through three generations of a Greek-American family and
flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
Nichols, John Treadwell
Milagro Beanfield War, The Simple farmer defies the wealthy landowner, changing his
whole village.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Mists of Avalon, The
Story about a school nurse unjustly accused of child abuse
by a confused child.
Mankind colonizes Mars, conquering as well as being
conquered.
Uses Morgana to tell the King Arthur story from a female
perspective.
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Summary
Famous
story
of
the
sea
and the hunt for a great white
Moby Dick
whale.
Monkey Wrench Gang, The The inspiration for many environmental activists.
Guevara, Ernesto
Motorcycle Diaries, The
Nordhoff, Charles
Mutiny on the Bounty/Men Trilogy of life in the British navy, survival at sea, and
Against the Sea/Pitcairn's downfall of the mutineers.
Island
Compelling story of a young immigrant on the prairie of
My Ántonia
Nebraska.
Author
Melville, Herman
Cather, Willa
Title
Marks the starting point of Ernesto Che Guevara's
transformation into one of the 20th century's most enduring
icons.
Potok, Chaim
My Name is Asher Lev
Hasidic Jewish painter defies family and religion to practice
his art.
Douglas, Fredrick
Naritive of the Life of
FredrickDouglas, an
American Slave
Published seven years after his escape, was written in part
as a response to skeptics who refused to belive that so
articulate an orator could ever have been a slave. An
inspiring story of self realization in the face of monumental
odds.
Wright, Richard
Native Son
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for
jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by
chance, it was for murder and rape.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Nickel and Dimed : On
(Not) Getting By In
America
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes
"undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side
of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full
time, year round, for poverty-level wages.
Cather, Willa
O Pioneers!
A landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young
Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in
charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have
struggled to farm
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Author
Fuentes, Carlos
Title
Old Gringo,The
Summary
Book is filled with politics, history, portrayal of American
and Mexican cultures and romance.
Theroux, Paul
Old Patagonian Express,
The
A true account of one man's travels from his home in
Massachusetts to the Pampas of Argentina--by train.
Dickens, Charles
Oliver Twist
Young orphan boy joins a band of child thieves in London.
Shute, Nevil
On the Beach
They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an
accidental war, living out their last days, making do with
what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain
moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward
an inevitable end.
White, T. H.
Once and Future King, The Romance of Arthurian England.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Isaevich
Kesey, Ken
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest
Experiences of a Russian held in a slave camp during the
Stalin era.
García Márquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of
Solitude
Addresses complexities of growth, independence, societal
conflict, and solitude, tough issues creating an ultracomplex read.
Smiley, Jane
Ordinary Love and Good
Will
Two stories of contemporary life, focusing on family.
Guest, Judith
Ordinary People
How tragedy affects members of a family in different ways.
Leakey, Richard E.
Origin of Humankind, The
Story of the discovery of human ancestry.
Austen
Clarke, Arthur C.
Shakespeare
Other novels by Austen
Other Novels by Clarke
Other plays
Uris
Other Uris novels
Irrepressible rebel leads fellow inmates in a mental hospital
in struggle against cruelty.
Any play you have not studied in a class or is not part of
the Eaglecrest curriculum.
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Mahfouz, Naguib
Title
Palace Walk
Summary
This Egyptian novel provides insight into the cultural
conflicts of a Cairo family. Mahfouz is a Nobel Prize
winner .
Vreeland, Susan
Passion of Artemisia, The
Vreeland follows up the success of Girl in Hyacinth Blue
with another novel delving into the themes of art, history
and the lives of women. Narrated in the wise, candid firstperson voice of Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (15931653), the novel tells the story of Gentileschi's life and
career in Renaissance Italy.
Balzac, Honoré de
Pere Goriot
Daneshvar, Simin
Persian Requiem, A
Father of two ungrateful daughters is one of the characters
at Mme. Vanquet's boarding house.
During the British occupation of WWII and chronicles the
life of an Iranian family headed by a benevolent feudal
landlord Yusef; his wife, Zari, who does her best to keep
her family values intact through this difficult time.
Kingsolver, Barbara
Pigs in Heaven
Sequel to The Bean Trees. Six-year-old Turtle Greer
witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, leading to a
man's dramatic rescue.
Follett, Ken
Pillars of the Earth, The
The epic story of the building of a cathedral in 12th
century England and the lives of the people entwined with
it and each other is a sensuous enduring narrative, and
gripping tale of faith ambition, bloodshed and betrayal.
Camus, Albert
Plague, The
Characters explore philosophy and religion when bubonic
plague hits small town in post WWII Europe.
Kingsolver, Barbara
Poisonwood Bible, The
A fierce, evangelical Baptist takes his family to the Belgian
Congo in 1959, a time of unrest and revolution.
Joyce, James
Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
Young man strives to find himself separate from his
religion, country, and family.
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Walker, Alice
Title
Possessing the Secret of
Joy
Summary
Woman's fight to accept traditional values, as well as her
own identity. Mature subject for mature readers.
Irving, John
Prayer for Owen Meany, A
This story speaks to the connections among the details of
life. It is a story of true friendship and the indescribably
odd ways life can lead us.
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Story of the manners and morels of a Victorian family.
Conroy, Pat
Prince of Tides, The
Story of a Southern family straining between intimacy and
dissolution.
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Prince, The
Famous analysis of statesmanship and power, reveals
techniques and strategy of gaining and keeping political
control.
Kingsolver, Barbara
Prodigal Summer
Three separate but inter connected stories of one summer;
assertive women finding their place in nature.
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
How we came to have fire.
Potok, Chaim
Promise, The
Reuven Malter from The Chosen continues his personal
struggle for answers to faith and becomes a guardian of
sacred promise .
Uris, Leon
QB VII
Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven. A riveting
courtroom drama--one of the great fictional trials of the
century. A famous author names an eminent surgeon as
one of Jadwiga's (Concentration camp) most sadistic
doctors.
Schlink, Bernhard
Reader, The
A young man comes of age in postwar Germany and
struggles with the guilt of the Holocaust.
Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca
Classic story of woman who marries man she hardly
knows and is forced to face mystery of death of former
wife.
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Crane, Stephen
Title
Red Badge of Courage,
The
Summary
A vivid psychological account of a young man's experience
fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's
reading of popular descriptions of battle.
Bradford, Richard
Red Sky at Morning
Josh irreverently recounts his 17th summer at the
beginning of WWII in Sagrado, NM.
Diamante, Anita
Red Tent, The
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in
a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters
of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob,
and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel
reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood
Barker, Pat
Regeneration
Fictional account of WWII mental hospital for soldiers.
Hardy, Thomas
Return of the Native, The
Characters meet with tragedy because they attempt to
impose their wills upon an unresponsive environment.
Theroux, Paul
Riding the Iron Rooster
A nonfiction account of the author’s travels--by rail-throughout China.
Smith, Wilbur
River God
From Thebes to the mountains of Abyssinia, from the
legend of the Blue Sword to the epic battle against the
mighty Hyksos army, comes the magnificent, richly detailed
saga of their triumphs and their destinies.
Maclean, Norman
River Runs Through It, A
One of a series of recollections of the author and his
brother growing up in Montana.
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Summary
Conway, former president of Smith College, describes
growing up as the only girl in ranching family in the outback
of Australia. This is a portrait of a harsh and beautiful
country, and the story of a remarkable woman.
Author
Conway, Jill K.
Title
Road from Coorain, The
Hickam, Homer H.
Rocket Boys / October Sky Hickam tells of his childhood experience of trying to build a
rocket and in the telling he reveals much about his town
and family.
Caputo, Philip
Rumor of War, A
Vietnam War, 1961-1975—Personal narratives of American
Soldiers
Haugaard, Erik Christian
Samurai's Tale, The
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is
taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda
Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the
enemies of his dead family.
Hillerman, Tony
Sacred Clowns
Mystery involving tribal secrets and sacred antiquities.
Leopold, Aldo
Sand County Almanac
Twelve narratives chronicling annual changes in
countryside and the comings and goings of its wild
inhabitants.
Orczy, Emmuska
Scarlet Pimpernel
Adventure story of French Revolution in which a young
English noble rescues distressed aristocrats.
Kidd, Sue Monk
Secret Life of Bees, The
In this adept debut, a sassy 14-year-old heroine tells her
remarkable tale of longing in love during the summer of
1964 in rural South Carolina.
Bellow, Saul
Seize the Day
Middle-aged man reviews his past mistakes and present
confusions until an encounter grants a moment of truth.
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Knowles, John
Title
Separate Peace, A
Summary
One of the most moving and accurate novels about the
trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an
elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A
Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery,
and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever
tarnishes their innocence.
Proulx, Annie
Shipping News, The
Lonely misfit retreats to family home in Newfoundland and
discovers life, love, and friendship.
Clavell, James
Shōgun
Historical fiction during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868)
in Japan.
Hesse, Hermann
Siddhartha
Lonely and discontented, Siddhartha seeks peace and
holiness, taking him from riches to rags.
Hillerman, Tony
Skinwalkers
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Slaughterhouse-Five
Current day mystery novel set in the Navajo Indian lands of
the Southwest.
The Dresden bombing in World War II provides the setting
for this tale of the costs of war.
Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars
Japanese-American man is tried for murder and an Oregon
island town is affected.
Hamill, Pete
Snow in August
Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this
poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing
characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic
boy named Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a
refugee from Prague.
Matthiessen, Peter
Snow Leopard, The
An American learns more about himself than the rare
animals he studies in Nepal's Himalayas.
Galeano, Eduardo H.
Soccer in Sun and Shadow A writer’s look at existence through his passion for soccer.
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Summary
A collection of essays detailing the author’s experience as
a foreign correspondent for the Polish press.
Author
Kapuscinki, Ryszard
Title
Soccer War, The
Kesey, Ken
Michener, James A.
Sometimes a Great Notion Ultimate questions of life face a Northwestern logging
family and community.
Intense portrayal of a search for identity.
Song of Solomon
Story of a dysfunctional family that pulls together to protect
Songs in Ordinary Time
each other.
Chronicles Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hebrew civilization.
Source, The
Fast, Howard
Spartacus
Oufkir, Malika
Stolen Lives
Shields, Carol
Stone Diaries, The
Daisy searches to find her place in the world, but all her life
has been a struggle. This beautifully told story leads the
reader to reflect on our society.
Doerr, Harriet
Stones for Ibarra
Novel about couple who travel to Mexican village to reopen
a silver mine abandoned by the husband's father.
Hegi, Ursula
Stones from the River
In a small German town between the two world wars, a
local historian explores the secrets, decisions, and actions
that shaped the residents' fates.
Cheever, John
Collected stories by one of America's greatest writers.
Stories of John Cheever,
The
Stranger in a Strange Land Valentine, an earthling born on Mars, returns to Earth and
transforms all he meets.
Morrison, Toni
Morris, Mary McGarry
Heinlein, Robert A.
Camus, Albert
Stranger, The
Roman slavery documented through the largest slave
rebellion.
This is a heart-rending, true story of resilience in the face
of extreme deprivation, of courage and even humor with
which one family faced their tormented fate. It is hard to
comprehend that it could have happened in our own times.
Ordinary clerk becomes ensnared by society's moral
pretensions.
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Williams, Tennessee
Summary
Title
Confrontation
between
man
and woman dramatized
Streetcar Named Desire, A
through poetic language.
Soto, Gary
Summer Life, A
In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his
reader to a ground-level perspective, recreating in vivid
detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew
growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood.
Hemingway, Ernest
Sun Also Rises, The
Schreiber, Flora Rheta
Sybil
Life among American expatriates after WWI in Paris and
Spain.
Young woman is afflicted by multiple personalities due to
parental abuse.
Dickens, Charles
Tale of Two Cities, A
A historical novel that, generation after generation, has
given readers access to the profound human dramas that
lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous
for the character of Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself
upon the guillotine. Also a powerful study of crowd
psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the
Revolution.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tarzan of the Apes
The first in the Tarzan series where orphaned Graystoke
survives among the great apes.
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Young British woman grows into womanhood tortured by
unhappiness and misfortune.
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
The most renowned and widely-read African novel in the
global literary canon. Combines a richly African story with
the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all
humanity.
O' Brien, Tim
Things They Carried, The
Episodes featuring soldiers from the Vietnam War create
this powerful book's core: emotion, experience, decisions,
friendships.
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Smiley, Jane
Title
Thousand Acres, A
Summary
An intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters;
of sisters, of wives and husbands; and of the human cost
of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the
passions it stirs.
McCourt, Frank
Tis : A Memoir
This sequel to Angela's Ashes discusses McCourt’s return
to the United States.
Delderfield, R.F.
To Serve Them All My Days Story of how a beloved teacher/headmaster in British prep
school affects lives of boys who pass through school.
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Tortuga
Set in a hospital for crippled children, this book is based on
Anaya's swimming accident . He explores the significance
of pain and suffering in a young boy's life and the
importance of spiritual recovery as well as medical.
Simpson, Joe
Touching the Void
True story of two mountaineers in over their heads in
South America- successful ascent, disastrous descent.
Singh, Khushwant
Train to Pakistan
A place where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in
peace for a hundred years. One day the “Ghost Train”
arrives, a funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands
of refuges, bringing the village it’s first taste of the horrors
of the civil war.
Steiner, Jean-François
Treblinka
Uris, Leon
Trinity
Lesser known death camp and the story of its victims and
survivors.
A sprawling tale of the troubles of Ireland.
Euripides
Trojan Women of
Euripides, The
Turn of the Screw, The
James, Henry
End of the Trojan War from the Trojan women's point of
view.
Psychological ghost story.
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Shakespeare, William
Title
Twelfth Night
Summary
Romantic comedy filled with mistaken identities, ridicule of
Puritans, and love.
Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot
Drama of inaction in a quintessential example of Theatre of
the Absurd.
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Classic journal noted for its philosophy as well as its
naturalistic observations.
Tolstoy, Leo
War and Peace
Story of Russian aristocracy as it functions during the
Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
Woulk, Herman
War and Remembrance
WWII seen through the eyes of a USN commander and a
fugitive Jewish family.
Wells, H. G.
War of the Worlds, The
First really convincing tale of an alien invasion of Earth,
and without the nationalism of Independence Day.
Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching
for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can
live in peace.
Howarth, David
We Die Alone
Norwegian commandos flub a raid on a Nazi sea base. An
epic journey across the mountains of Norway to Sweden
ensues.
Rand, Ayn
We the Living
Young woman searches for meaning in revolutionary
Russia.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Welcome to the Monkey
House
When Heaven and Earth
Changed Places
Off-center, thought-provoking short stories.
Hayslip, Le Ly
Hayslip was born a peasant in 1949; 20 + years later she
left for the US with an American husband. She had been a
Viet Cong courier and lookout; a black marketer; an unwed
mother; a bar girl; a hospital aide, and survived torture.
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DeLillo, Don
Title
White Noise
Summary
Considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of
themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and
technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention
of literary scholars since its publication.
Albee, Edward
Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?
A powerful examination of marriage that deals with illusion
and reality .
Chang, Jung
Wild Swans: Three
Daughters of China
Travels the course of three generations of women in 20th
century China. Shows the struggle of these three women
as they live through the Maoist revolution.
Woulk, Herman
Winds of War
Events in Europe and Asia forecast the start of World War
II for those who can see it.
Anderson, Sherwood
Winesburg, Ohio
Portrait of frustrated citizens of a small town at the end of
the 19th century.
Cisneros, Sandra
Woman Hollering Creek
A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the
vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border.
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Woman Warrior
Friedman, Thomas L.
World is Flat, The
Recollection of a Chinese-American girl growing up in
America.
A timely and essential update on globalization, its
successes and discontents, illuminated by one of our most
respected journalists.
Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Stormy relationship of two very different people set on the
heaths of Scotland.
Dorris, Michael
Yellow Raft in Blue Water,
A
A lyrical saga of three generations of Native American
women beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets.
Pirsig, Robert M.
Zen & the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
Mental and emotional crises experienced in the real-life
odyssey of a father and son.
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Curnett
Childers, Havlik, Hinton,
Hutchinson, Leisge, Nosal
S. Clark, Milliser, Varvel
Muldoon
S. Clark, Hiland
McKeown
Boatright
Arnold, Avery, Childers, Cobb,
Fisher, Fraase, Leisge,
Murrin, Snell, Stewart
Maloy, Stratton
Cobb, Hinton, Maloy, Nosal,
Riley, Shawcross, Stewart,
Stratton
Maloy, Muldoon, Murrin
Curnett, Evenson
Arnold, McKeown, Murrin,
Riley, Wagner
Avery, Curnett, Fisher, Wagner
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S. Clark, Curnett, Griffin,
Maloy, Nosal
Arnold, Boatright, McKeown,
Wagner
Murrin
Hinton
Maloy, Milliser, Stratton
Curnett, Boatright
Geisendorfer
Childers
Arnold, Shawcross, Maloy
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S. Clark, Cobb, Hinton,
Hutchinson, Maloy, Nosal,
Riley,Smick, Stewart, Stratton
Maloy
Cobb
Maloy, Shawcross, Stratton
Curnett, Maloy, Stratton
S. Clark, Roome
Maloy
S. Clark, Hutchinson,
Muldoon, Varvel
Geisendorfer
Avery
Evenson, Griffin, Maloy,
Murrin
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McKeown
Arnold
Arnold, Maloy, Nosal, Riley,
Shawcross
Arnold, Leisge, Maloy
Edwards, Hinton
Fraase, Griffin, Roome,
Wagner
Avery, Smick
S. Clark, Roome, Snell
Edwards, Griffin, Sobczyk,
Varvel
Boatright
Muldoon
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Stratton
Curnett, Maloy
Arnold, Hinton, Maloy,
Stewart, Varvel
Boatright, Hinton, Maloy,
Murrin, Stratton
Favors
Boatright, S. Clark, Cobb,
Griffin, Maloy, Shawcross
Murrin, Smick
S. Clark, Cobb, Curnett,
Griffin, Maloy
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Hinton, Murrin, Stratton
Arnold, Avery, Cobb, Curnett,
Hinman, Maloy, Shawcross
Avery, Cobb, Frampton,
Shawcross, Stewart
Cobb, Leisge, Stewart
Curnett, Hutchinson, Maloy,
Murrin, Riley, Hinman
Edwards, Nosal
Cobb, Maloy, Hinton
M. Clark, Edwards, Fisher,
Stewart
Curnett, Hiland, Varvel
S. Clark, Hutchinson, Maloy,
Smick, Varvel
Edwards, M. Clark, S. Clark,
Hutchinson
Milliser
M. Clark
Cobb, Fisher, Hinton,
McKeown, Riley
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Smick
S. Clark, Roome
S. Clark, Fisher, Hinton,
Hutchinson
S. Clark
S. Clark, Cooper, Curnett,
Edwards, Maloy, Nosal, Varvel
Maloy
Hinton, Stewart
McKeown
Cobb, Maloy, Stewart
S. Clark
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Avery, Shawcross, Stewart
Maloy
Evenson, Maloy, Muldoon
Arnold, Stratton
Geisendorfer
Maloy
Avery, Leisge, Maloy, Stewart,
Geisendorfer
Boatright, Riley, Sobczyk,
Stratton, Whiteford
Nosal, Griffin
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S. Clark, Maloy, Stratton
Arnold, Avery, Curnett, Leisge,
Maloy
Anderson, McKeown, Wagner
Geisendorfer
M. Clark, S. Clark, Cobb,
Hinton, Stratton
Evenson
Millliser
S. Clark, Evenson, Maloy,
Riley, Stewart
Curnett, Edwards, Fraase,
Hinton
Childers
S. Clark, Curnett, Fisher,
Maloy
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Griffin, Roome
S. Clark, Maloy, Stewart,
Varvel
Arnold, McKeown, Milliser,
Nosal, Stewart, Wagner
Shawcross
Curnett, La Flam, Sobczyk
Curnett
Evenson, Fisher, Stratton
Boatright, S. Clark, Cobb,
Shawcross
Boatright, Cobb, Hinton,
Leisge, Shawcross, Stratton
Stewart
Curnett
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Arnold, M. Clark, S. Clark,
Curnett, Hutchinson, Maloy,
Smick
Childers, Cobb, Frampton,
Maloy
Cobb, Fisher, Hutchinson,
Maloy, Milliser, Seiler, Stratton
M. Clark, S. Clark, Fisher,
Griffin, Hutchinson, Maloy,
Stewart
Hinman
Griffin
Palmer
S. Clark, Curnett, Edwards,
Fisher, Griffin, Leisge, Maloy,
Nosal, Wagner
S. Clark, Hinton, Murrin,
Smick
Curnett, Stewart
Wagner
S. Clark, Curnett, Griffin
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Geisendorfer
McKeown
Childers
Cobb, Maloy
Geisendorfer
Khalaf, Maloy, S. Clark
Khalaf, McKeown
M. Clark, S. Clark
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Maloy
Griffin
Boatright, S. Clark, Griffin,
Maloy, Varvel
Curnett, Hutchinson, Maloy,
Varvel
Arnold, Geisendorfer
Childers
Curnett
Hinton, Hutchinson, Khalaf,
Leisge, Millisner, Stewart
McKeown
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Curnett, McKeown
Curnett, Hiland, Smick,
Stratton, Varvel, Wagner
M. Clark
Whiteford
Avery, S. Clark, Griffin, Maloy
Avery, M. Clark, S. Clark,
Fisher, Hutchinson, Milliser,
Shawcross, Stewart, Wagner
Maloy
Avery
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Arnold, Cobb, Fisher, Maloy,
Murrin, Smick, Sobczyk
Hiland, Milliser, Muldoon,
Seiler
Arnold, Childers, Smick
S. Clark, Curnett, Griffin,
Hutchinson, Maloy, Smick,
Wagner
Arnold, Avery, Boatwright,
Cobb, Childers, Cunnane, Dry,
Fraase, Khalaf, Leisage,
Maloy, Stewart, Stratton,
Williams, Havlik
Fraase, Leisge, Maloy
Hinton
Avery, Cobb, Shawcross
Evenson
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S. Clark
M. Clark, S. Clark, Fisher,
Fraase
Cobb, Murrin, Leisge, Nosal,
Smick, Stewart, Varvel
Arnold, Cobb, Fraase, Leisge,
Maloy, Riley, Shawcross,
Stratton, Stewart, Whiteford
Boatright, S. Clark, Cobb,
Edwards, Hinton, Leisge,
Maloy, Milliser, Varvel
Chandler
Maloy
S. Clark, Cobb, Hinton, Maloy,
Muldoon, Shawcross
Edwards, Evenson, Griffin,
Hutchinson, Nosal, Snell,
Varvel, Wagner
Cobb, Hinton, Maloy
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S. Clark
Stewart, Varvel
Boatright, M. Clark, Maloy,
Stewart
Curnett, Maloy, Milliser,
S. Clark, Maloy, Muldoon,
Varvel
Brandt, Maloy
Avery, Boatright, Hinton, Riley,
Shawcross
Cobb
Griffin, Hinton
S. Clark, Curnett, Edwards,
Griffin, Leisage, Maloy,
Shawcross, Varvel
Avery, Boatright, Cobb, Khalaf,
Maloy, Williams
Arnold, M. Clark, S. Clark,
Hinton, Maloy
Boatright, Edwards, Fisher,
Maloy, McKeown
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S. Clark, Edwards, Fisher,
Muldoon, Varvel
Childers, Edwards, Evenson,
Hinton, Griffin
S.Clark
Griffin
Avery, S. Clark, Curnett,
Fisher, Maloy, Smick
S. Clark, Cobb, Evenson,
Maloy
Avery, Bush, Earley
Fisher, Snell, McKeown
Curnett, Maloy, Milliser
S. Clark, Curnett
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S. Clark, Hinton
Curnett
S. Clark, Fraase, Shawcross,
Varvel
S. Clark, Griffin, Varvel
S. Clark, Griffin, Varvel
Childers, Curnett, Maloy,
Muldoon, Riley, Varvel
S. Clark, Hinton, Maloy
Hinton, Stratton
Maloy, Stewart
Cobb, Maloy, Shawcross,
Stewart
Griffin
Griffin
Ask around for a teacher with
whom to discuss the play
Griffin
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Maloy, Stratton
Childers, McKeown
M. Clark
Muldoon
Avery, Cobb, Curran, Hinton,
Hutchinson, Maloy, Riley,
Stewart, Stratton
Evenson, Stratton
Keller, Maloy, Varvel
Arnold, Boatright, Cobb,
Fraase, Maloy, Shawcross,
Stewart, Stratton
Hutchinson, Maloy, Varvel
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Evenson
Cobb, Stratton, Wagner
Avery, S. Clark, Hutchinson,
Maloy, Stratton, Varvel
Avery, Brandt, S. Clark, Cobb,
Maloy, Stewart
S. Clark, Griffin, Hiland, Maloy,
Muldoon, Varvel , Wagner
Arnold, Boatright
Griffin
S. Clark, Cobb
S. Clark, Maloy, Stewart
S. Clark, Cobb, Maloy
S. Clark, Fraase, Hinton,
Leisge, Milliser
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Chandler, Curnett, Shawcross
S. Clark, Hinton, Hutchinson,
Stewart
Cobb, Leisge, Maloy,
Shawcross, Stratton
Maloy
McKeown
Curnett
Geisendorfer
Boatright, S. Clark, Curnett,
Hinton, Maloy, Smick,
Stratton, Varvel, Wagner
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Maloy, Milliser
Varvel, Wagner
Geisendorfer
Geisendorfer
S. Clark, Edwards, Griffin,
Hinton
Evenson, Griffin, Muldoon
M. Clark, Cobb, Griffin, Milliser
Arnold, Boatright, Cobb,
Cunnane, Edwards, Fraase,
Girtin, Herbers, Khalaf,
Leisge, Milliser, Stewart,
Stratton, Whiteford, Williams
Edwards
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Curnett, Dry, McKeown,
Shawcross, Stewart
Cobb, Curnett, Fisher, Maloy,
Riley, Shawcross
Adams, Chandler, Kesler,
Maloy, Milliser, Stewart,
Clark, Curnett, Maloy, Varvel
Edwards, Griffin, Hinton,
Hutchinson, Varvel
Curnett, Havlik, Hinton, Maloy,
McKeown, Stewart, Varvel
Arnold, Boatright, Cobb,
Hutchinson, Murrin, Maloy,
McKeown Shawcross,
Sobczyk, Varvel
Cobb, Edwards, Stratton
Curnett, Evenson
Curnett
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Curnett
Hinton, Muldoon
Hutchinson, Stratton
Boatright, Leisge
S. Clark, Maloy
Hinton
Maloy
Maloy
M. Clark, S. Clark, Shawcross,
Stewart, Stratton
Arnold, Cobb, Maloy, Stewart,
Milliser
Cobb, Griffin
M. Clark, Curnett, Maloy,
Nosal, Varvel, Wagner
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Curnett, Milliser, McKeown,
Varvel
McKeown
Boatright, Curnett,
Hutchinson, Maloy, Smick,
Arnold, S. Clark, Maloy, Riley,
Stewart
Chandler, Curnett, Edwards,
Kesler, Khalaf, Langer,
Shawcross, Stewart
Geisendorfer
Arnold, S. Clark, Curnett,
Nosal
Wagner
Arnold, Boatright, Curnett,
Murrin, Snell, Varvel, Wagner
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Boatright, Maloy, Shawcross,
Stratton
Arnold, Fisher, Hinman, Kelly,
Leisge, Murrin
Griffin
S. Clark
Evenson
Maloy, Muldoon
Griffin
S. Clark, Hinman, Maloy
Griffin
Murrin, Nosal, Wagner
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S. Clark, Curnett, Edwards,
Griffin, Varvel, Wagner
M. Clark, Hinton, Maloy,
Milliser, Varvel, Wagner
Childers, Marshall, Muldoon,
Varvel
Griffin
Evenson
Griffin
Fisher, Griffin, Hinton, Maloy,
Varvel
Evenson
Arnold, Milliser, Stewart
Milliser, Riley
Arnold
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Conferees
Curnett, Stratton
Maloy
Khalaf
Evenson
Curnett, McKeown
Hutchinson, McKeown, Smick,
Stratton
Hutchinson, Smick
Curnett, Maloy
Arnold, Avery, M. Clark, S.
Clark, Fisher, Hinton, Nosal,
Saltar, Stewart, Wagner
Avery, Maloy, Stratton
Hiland, Maloy, Milliser,
Stratton
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