Always bring your
book with you to class!
English I Honors Outside Reading Requirement
In order to sharpen your reading comprehension skills, increase your vocabulary, and encourage
you to realize the value and enjoyment that can be contained in a book, you are required to read a
minimum of 400 pages per quarter (one or two novels to total the 400 pages). The novel must
be selected from this list, and it should not be a novel that you have already read. You must select
the unabridged version of the novel; please do not choose the large print version for younger kids.
The 400 pages are worth 100 points every quarter. The points are based on the percentage of the
400 pages read, and on the student’s demonstration of comprehension. Following the reading list
is a list of possible ways you can choose from to demonstrate comprehension of your book by the
quarterly due date. Some teachers may choose to limit your choices to a particular method.
The following outlines the reading requirement by quarter:
Quarter 1 Due Date: Oct 20, 2011
Quarter 2 Due Date: Jan 13, 2012
Quarter 3 Due Date: Mar 16, 2012
Quarter 4 Due Date: May 30, 2012
You will keep a weekly outside reading log. It is CRUCIAL that you read every day because the
writing log is worth 50 points every two weeks. Please see the instructions for the weekly
outside reading log. *Ten points extra credit may be earned by writing an extra ½ page of
summary. This is the only extra credit work that I give. Please take advantage of it.
Novel Titles
Author
Run Silent, Run Deep
A Walk across America
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Across Five Aprils
April Morning
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
The Ox-Bow Incident
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jacob Have I Loved
Words by Heart
Homecoming
The Summer of My German Soldier
Strong at Broken Places
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Ice Castles
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Jamaica Inn
Nine Coaches Waiting
Z for Zachariah
The Other
The Fantastic Voyage
Lost Horizon
The Hollow Hills
To Sir with Love
The Hiding Place
Up the Down Staircase
I Am Third
The Contender
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Dollmaker
Go Up for the Glory
Edward L. Beach
Peter Jenkins
Alan Burgess
Irene Hunt
Howard Fast
Herman Wouk
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Maya Angelou
Katherine Patterson
Ouida Sebestyen
Cynthia Voigt
Bette Greene
Max Cleland
Margaret Craven
Thornton Wilder
Leonore Fleischer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Daphne Du Maurier
Mary Stewart
Robert C. O’Brien
Thomas Tryon
Isaac Asimov
James Hilton
Mary Stewart
E. R. Braithwaite
Corrie Ten Boom
Bel Kaufmann
Gail Sayers with Al Silverman
Robert Lipsyte
John Patrick
Harriette Arnow
Bill Russell
Cold Sassy Tree
The African Queen
All Quiet on the Western Front
Christy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
David Copperfield
The Sun Also Rises
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
West with the Night
Rebecca
Clouds of Witness
Little Women
The Thornbirds
Roots
The Dollmaker
Watership Down
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
All the President’s Men
Eric
Profiles in Courage
Anna and the King of Siam
Foundation
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Inn of Sixth Happiness
The Stranger
Sister Carrie
Fragments of Isabella
Babbitt
Coming into the Country
The Mask of Apollo
A Reckoning
Other People’s Houses
The Gates of Zion
Things Invisible to See
A Death in the Family
Becket
The Chalk Garden
Ice Castles
Alas, Babylon
I Always Wanted to Be Somebody
The Peacock Spring
The Lion in Winter
Green Dolphin Street
Cheaper by the Dozen
Never Cry Wolf
The Learning Tree
The Beloved Invader
Day of Infamy
The Three Musketeers
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Cimmarron
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Alas, Babylon
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Thornbirds
The Good Earth
The Crucible
The Virginian
Two Years Before the Mast
Intruder in the Dust
The Agony and the Ecstasy
East of Eden
Mrs. Miniver
Battle Cry
Olive Ann Burns
C S Forester
Erich Remarque
Catherine Marshall
Carson Mc Cullers
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Beryl Markham
Daphne Du Maurier
Dorothy Sayers
Louisa May Alcott
Colleen Mc Cullough
Alex Haley
Hariette Arnow
Richard Adams
Dee Brown
Woodward & Bernstein
Doris Lund
John F. Kennedy
Margaret Landon
Isaac Asimov
James Baldwin
Edward Beach
Alan Brugess
Albert Camus
Theodore Dreiser
Isabella Leitner
Sinclair Lewis
John McPhee
Mary Renault
May Sarton
Lore Segal
Bodie Thoene
Nancy Willard
James Agee
Jean Anouilh
Enid Bagnold
Leonore Fleischer
Pat Frank
Althea Gibson
Rumer Godden
James Goldman
Elizabeth Goudge
Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Carey
Farley Mowat
Gordon Parks
Eugenia Price
Walter Lord
Alexandre Dumas
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Edna Ferber
Herman Wouk
Pat Frank
Robert Heinlein
Colleen Mc Cullough
Pearl Buck
Arthur Miller
Owen Wister
Richard Dana
William Faulkner
Irving Stone
John Steinbeck
Jan Struther
Leon Uris
Form for Writing Log
*Blue or black ink required
Student Name ______________________________________________________________
Period __________
Title of Novel ______________________________________________________________
Author’s name _____________________________________________________________
Pages read ______
Summary _______________________________________________________________________________________
Student’s reactions to development of characters, plot believability, author’s writing style and techniques used, and
predictions of what will happen next.
Extra Credit Summary (10 points)
*Note: Logs are due every other week.