Southern Regional High School Summer Reading List
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Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Adams, Douglas. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Agee, James. A Death in the Family
Ahern, Celia. If You Could See Me Now
Alcott, Louisa Mae. Little Women
Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Prom, Twisted, Speak
Anderson, M.T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation,Vol.1: The Pox Party
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield From Vietnam to Bagdad
Arundhati, Roy. The God of Small Things
Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why: A Novel
Atwood, Margaret.The Handmaid’sTale
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice*, Sense and Sensibility, Emma
Ayers, Ian. Super-Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart
Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten Fire: A Novel
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain*
Balzac, Honore de. Pere Goriot
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot*
Bellany, Edward. Looking Backward
Bellow, Saul. Adventures of Augie March
Berg, Elizabeth. Durable Goods
Best, Joel. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Bester, Alfred. The Stars, My Destination
Binchy, Maeve. Circle of Friends
Blinn, William. Brian’s Song
Blumenthal, Karen. Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
Borland, Hal G. When Legends Die*
Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons
Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down
Bowker, John. World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained
Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable
Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked this Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles*
Brennan, Herbie. Faerie Wars
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre*, Wuthering Heights*
Brooks, Geraldine. March
Brooks, Max. World War Z
Brooks, Terry. Magic Kingdom for Sale
Brown, Dan. Angels and Demons
Bryson, Bill. Shakespeare: The World as Stage. 2007
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth*
Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter**
Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress*
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh*
Campbell, Joseph and Bill Moyers. The Power of Myth
Camus, Albert. The Plague*
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood
Carchidi, Sam. Standing Tall: The Kevin Everett Story* (Buffalo Bills)
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game
Carey, Lisa. Mermaid Singing
Carman, Patrick. Thirteen Days to Midnight**
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring
Cary, Kate. Bloodline
Casey, Susan. The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks
Cassidy, Kay. The Cinderella Story**
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia*, Death Comes for the Archbishop*
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote*
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Chekhov, Anton . The Cherry Orchard*
Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Chen, Joanne. The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with the Pearl Earring
Chotjewitz, David. Daniel Half-Human: And the Good Nazi
Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo
Coelo, Paulo. The Alchemist
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone*
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim*, The Heart of Darkness*
Cooney, Caroline. The Face on the Milk Carton
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans*
Cormier, Robert. Fade
Coy, John. Crack Back
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage*
Crichton, Michael. Jurrasic Park**, The Lost World**, The Sphere**
Crutcher, Chris. Ironman
Crystal, Billy. 700 Sundays
Dante. The Divine Comedy
Dashner, James. The Maze Runner
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe*
Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Dessen, Sarah. ALL TITLES**
Diamant , Anita. The Red Tent
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dickens, Charles. ALL Titles, (Tale of Two Cities*)
Dickinson, Emily. Poems
Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother
D’Orso, Michael. Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment*, the Brothers Karemazov*
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
Deuker, Carl. On the Devil’s Court
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass*
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy*
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca*
Dumas, Alexadre. The Three Musketeers*, The Count of Monte Cristo
Edsen, Margaret. Wit
Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Eggers, Dave. What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
Eliot, George. Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss*
Eliot, T.S. Murder in the Cathedral
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man*
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays*
Engle, Margarita. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the
Collision of Two Cultures
Fainaru-Wada, Mark. Game of Shadows
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury*, Intruder in the Dust* As I Lay Dying*
Foer, Johathan. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones*
Firlik, Katrina. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier*
Forman, Gayle. If I Stay**
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary*
Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for the Earth
Flynn, Vince. ALL Titles (American Assassin)
Follett, Ken. All Titles (Pillars of the Earth, Eye of the Needle)
Forster, E.M. A Passage to India*
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Freedman, Russell. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Human
Rights
Frey, Darcy. The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams
Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book**
Galsworthy, John. The Forsythe Saga*
George, Rose. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Gibson, William. The Miracle Worker
Gladwell, Malcom. Blink
Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer
de Gramont, Nina. Every Little Thing in the World**
Grass. Gunter. The Tin Drum*
Graves, Robert. I, Claudius
Greenberg, Joanne. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory
Gretsky, Wayne. Gretsky
Grisham, John. All Titles (Runaway Jury, Rainmaker, The Chamber, The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Firm**)
Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust*
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Ha Jin. The Crazed
Hamill, Peter. Snow in August
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles*, Far From the Maddening Crowd, Return of the Native
Harris, Joanne. Five Quarters of the Orange
Hartinger, Brent. Project Sweet Life**
Hautman, Peter. Sweetblood
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22*
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls*, Farewell to Arms*, The Sun Also Rises*, The Old Man and the
Sea*
Hemphill, Stephanie. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Henry, O. Stories (The Gift of the Magi, The Ransom of Red Chief, etc.)
Herbert, Frank. Dune*
Hershey, John. A Bell for Adano*
Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf*
Hodgkinson, Amanda. 22 Britannia Road**
Homer. The Iliad*
Hopkins, Ellen. ALL TITLES**
Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
Howe, Peter. Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Hudson, W.H. Green Mountains*
Hughes, Langston. Poems
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables*, The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God*
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World*
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House
Irving, John. The World According to Garp
Jacobs, A.J.. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw*, Portrait of a Lady*
Jones, Chris. . Out of Orbit: the Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles
Above the Earth When They Lost Their Way Home
Jones, Edward. . The Known World
Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip
Joyce, Graham. How to Make Friends with Demons**
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Juette, Melvin. . Wheelchair Warrior
Kafka, Franz. The Trial*, Metamorphosis*
Kazantzantzakis. Nikos. Zorba the Greek*
Keillor, Garrison. Good Poems
Keaney, John. The Hollow People
Keillor, Garrison. Good Poems
Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
Kidd, Sue Monk. Secret Life of Bees
King, Melissa. She’s Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot
King, Stephen. ALL TITLES** Carrie, Children of the Corn, Christine, Cujo, The Dark Half, The Dead Zone,
Dolores Claiborne, Dreamcatcher, Firestarter, Green Mile, Hearts in Atlantis, Misery, The Mist,
Needful Things, Pet Semetary, The Running Man, The Shining, Silver Bullet, Stand by Me, Thinner
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior*
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim*
Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon
Kohl, Jana. A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs
Everywhere
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird*
Krakauer, John. Into the Wild
Kyle, Aryn. The God of Animals
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake
Lanidis, Deborah Nadoolman. Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee. Inherit the Wind
Lederer, W.J. The Ugly American*
LeGuin, Ursala. ALL TITLES
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt*, Main Street* Arrowsmith*
Lewis, Michael. The Blindside**
Lipstye, Robert. The Contender**
Llewellyn, Morgan. 1916
Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley*
London, Jack. Call of the Wild*
Lubar, David. Dunk**
Lupica, Michael. Too Far
Lurie, April. The Less-Dead**
Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable**
Macaulay, David. Mosque. The Way We Work
Madigan, L. K. Flash Burnout: A Novel**
Maguire, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer*
Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy
Maltman, Thomas. The Night Birds: A Novel
Malory, Thomas. Le Morte D’ Arthur*
Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain*
Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus
Martin, Steve. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage*
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road
McCarthy, Susan. Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands
McDonald, Abby. Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots**
McGreevey, Tom. Our Movie Heritage
McCormick, Patricia. Sold, My Brother’s Keeper
McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter*
Melville, Greg. Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil Powered Car, and a Cross-country Search for a Greener
Future
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick*
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind*
Mitchell, Todd. The Secret to Lying**
Monsarrat, Nicholas. The Cruel Sea*
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables Series
Moore, Alan. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Morrison, Toni. Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved*
Mortenson, Greg. Stones to Schools
Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise Over Falluja, Bad Boys, Riot
Nemat, Marina. Prisoner of Tehran
Nordhoff, Charles. Mutiny on the Bounty*
O’Brien, Tim. The Things they Carried
O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood, A Good Man is Hard to Find*
Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall, Delirium**
Olson, Tillie. Tell Me A Riddle
Omololu, Cynthia. Dirty Little Secrets**
O'Neill, Eugene. Long Day's Journey into Night*
Orwell, George. A Collection of Essays
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon**
Partridge, Elizabeth. John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth; This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and
Story of Woody Guthrie
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago*
Pausch, Randy. The Last Lecture**
Perkins, Lynn Rae. As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth**
Picoult, Jodi. ALL TITLES** Salem Falls, My Sister's Keeper, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle
Pipher, Mary. The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar*
Plum-Ucci, Carol. Fire Will Fall**, The She**, The Body of Christopher Creed**
Polly, Matthew. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in
the New China
Prachett, Terry. The Color of Magic
Preston, Richard. The Wild Trees
Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49*
Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling*
Reeve, Philip. Fever Crumb**
Remarque, Erich Maria.All Quiet on the Western Front*
Richter, Conrad. The Sea of Grass*
Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage*
Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth*
Roth, Henry. Call It Sleep
Roth, Phillip. The Plot Against America
Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac*
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things
Saez, Benjamin. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Saint-Expery, Antoine de. The Little Prince*,Wind, Sand and Stars*
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln
Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy*
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Nine Tailors
Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst
Scott, Walter Sir. Ivanhoe*
See, Lisa. Snowflower and the Secret Fan
Shakespeare, William. King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing
Sheeler, Jim. Final Salute
Sheinmel, Alyssa B. The Beautiful Between**
Shellaberger, Samuel. The Prince of Foxes*
Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein*
Shepard, Sara. Pretty Little Liars**
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal
Shreve, Anita. Resistance
Shute, Nevil. A Town Like Alice
Sienkiewicz, Henry. Quo Vadis*
Silko, Mary. Ceremony*
Silverstein, Ken. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex*, Antigone*
Sparks, Nicholas. ALL TITLES**Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember,
The Last Song, Dear John
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Steidle, Brian. The Devil Came on Horseback
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath*, Travels with Charlie, Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped,The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* Treasure Island*,
Dracula*
Stiefvater, Maggie. The Scorpio Races, Shiver**
Stone, Irving. Love is Eternal*, Lust for Life*
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin*
Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
Strasser, Todd. Can’t Get There From Here**
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels*
Tademy, Lalita. Cane River
Teresi, Dick. Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science- From the Babylonians to the Maya
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina*, War and Peace*
Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons*
Twain, Mark. ALL TITLES*(except The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Ung, Loung. First they Killed My Father: The Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Updike, John. Rabbit Run
Urrea, Luis Alberto.The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Uris, Leon. QBVII
Virgil. The Aeneid
Volponi, Paul. Riker's High**
Voltaire. Candide*
Vreeland, Susan. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Vonnegut, Kurt.Cat’s Cradle* Slaughterhouse-Five*
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle
Ward, Rachel. Numbers
Wastvedt, Tricia. The River
Wheelan, Charles. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men*
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Weller, Sheila. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-And the Journey of a Generation
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence; Ethan Frome*; The House of Mirth*; The Bridge of San Luis Rey*
Wharton, William. Birdy*
White, T.H. The Once and Future King
Wiesel, Elie. Dawn
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray*
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town
Williams, David. Bitterly Divided: the South’s Inner Civil War
Wilson, August. Fences
Wolf, Allan. New FoundLand: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery
Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. You Can’t Go Home Again*
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse*
Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny
Wulffson, Don. Soldier Z
Wright, Richard. Native Son*
Wharton, William. Birdy*
Yancey, Richard. The Monstrumologist**
Yee, Paul. Learning to Fly
Yep, Laurence.The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner, California, 1852
Yolan, Jane. Girl in a Cage, Armegedden Summer
Yovanoff, Brenna. The Replacement**
Zusak, Marcus. Getting the Girl, I Am the Messenger**
*Recommended by The College Board and other certifying organizations for those students who
anticipate attending college.
**Recommended by Southern students.
Teacher Suggestions
Mr. Wilhelm
Benioff, David – City of Thieves
Deaver, Jeffrey – The Coffin Dancer
Dwyer, Jim - 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Hillenbrand, Laura – Unbroken
Patterson, James – Mary Mary
Pausch, Randy – The Last Lecture
Picoult, Jodi - Plain Truth
Ralston, Aron –
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks with My Brother
127 Hours-Aron Ralston
Mrs. Grose
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise
Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India
Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love
Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants
Kidd, Sue Monk – The Secret Life of Bees
McCafferty, Megan - Sloppy Firsts
Meyer, Stephanie - Twilight
Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture
Mrs. Abbato
Albom, Mitch – Have a Little Faith
Boyne, John - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Grandin, Temple - Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Namioka, Lensey – The Ties that Bind, The Ties that Break
Picoult, Jodi - 19 Minutes; My Sister’s Keeper
Schiffman, Suzanne - One Fine Day
Mrs. Sattan
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Hoff, Clea - Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda
Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Martel, Yan - Life of Pi
Poitier, Sydney - The Measure of a Man
Mrs. Fox
Ashe, Arthur - Days of Grace
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
D’Orso, Michael - Eagle Blue: A A Team, A Tribe and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth
Keillor, Garrison - Good Poems
King, Carol, Mitchell, Joni and Simon, Carly - Girls Like Us
Levitin, Daniel - This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Weller, Sheila - The Journey of a Generation
Mrs. Adams
Boyne, John - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Erskine, Katherine - Mockingbird
Gruen, Sara - Water For Elephants
Murray, Liz - Breaking Night
Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones
Sittenfeld, Curtis - Prep
Mrs. Sledden
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bradbury, Ray - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Christie, Agatha - And Then There Were None
DuMaurier, Daphne - Rebecca
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Pollan, Michael - The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Twain, Mark - The Prince and the Pauper
Mrs. Krejsa
Albom, Mitch - One More Day
Alcott, Louisa Mae - Little Women
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Cather, Willa - O Pioneers
Dessen, Sarah - ALL TITLES
Picoult, Jodi - ALL TITLES, Salem Falls, The Tenth Circle, My Sister's Keeper, Plain Truth
Sebold, Alice - Lovely Bones
Skloot, Rebecca - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Mrs. Piscopo
Dowell, Frances O’Roark - Shooting the Moon
Ingold, Jeanette - Hitch
Luttrell, Marcus - Lone Survivor
Moran, Katy - Bloodline
Myers, Walter Dean - Riot
Paulsen, Gary - Woods Runner
Pullman, Philip - The Golden Compass
Quick, Barbara - A Golden Web
Richards, Jaime - Three Rivers Rising
Sappey, Maureen Stack - Letters from Vinnie
Ward, Rachel - Numbers
Weinreb, Michael - The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up
America’s Top High School Chess Team
Mrs. Parks
Coelho, Paulo - The Alchemist
Gregory, Philippa - The Constant Princess
Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants
Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
Picoult, Jodi - 19 Minutes
Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
Schaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Sweet Potato Peel Society
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
Vonnegut, Kurt - Cat’s Cradle
Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns
Mrs. Conley
Anderson, Laurie Halse - Fever 1793
Bront , Emily - Wuthering Heights
Crane, Stephen - Maggie: Girl of the Streets
Eliot, George - Silas Marner
Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
Lansing, Alfred - Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage
Thackery, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
Winchester, Simon - The Professor and the Madman
Mrs. Carr
Gruen, Sara - Water For Elephants; Riding Lessons
Grealy, Lucy - Autobiography of a Face
Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation
Krauss, Nicole - The History of Love
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Kidd, Sue Monk - The Secret Life of Bees
Philbrick, N. - Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian