Reading List Suggestions for 2017-18
Novels: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
I am one of you forever by Fred Chappell
Plays: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
(https://myetudes.org/access/content/user/mazu48009/PDF%20Files/
DollsHouse_full01.pdf)
Another Shakespeare play, suggested: Macbeth or The Taming of the Shrew.
Twelve Angry Men – Reginald Rose
The Diary of Anne Frank - Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
Nonfiction: John F. Kennedy Moon Speech at Rice Stadium
(https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm)
On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner
(http://bedfordjfhs.sharpschool.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=12041589)
The Green Mamba (Roald Dahl)
Memoir / Autobiography The Color of Water by James McBride
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Short Stories: "Lather and Nothing Else" by Hernando Tellez
(http://mrquarrie.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/1/0/10102453/just_lather_thats_all.pdf)
Poetry: “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” by Wendell Berry
(http://www.context.org/iclib/ic30/berry/)
“The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bells )
A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats
Easter 1916 – W. B. Yeats
Kettle Bottom - Denise Gilliam Fisher