Pre-AP Outside Reading List

Pre-AP English

Outside Reading List

You will be required to complete two book reports from outside reading this year. Any of the books listed below are acceptable for those two reports. You must, however, turn in one of the attached permission slips before reading any of these books. If I do not have a signed permission slip when I am ready to grade your report, you will receive no credit for your effort and a zero will be recorded. I will expect you to attach the permission slip to your book report at the time you turn it in. Information on the reports themselves will come to you closer to the time they are due.

Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart

Austen, Jane Persuasion

Austen, Jane Emma

Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain

Blackmore, Richard Lorna Doone

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Buck, Pearl The Good Earth

Burns, Olive Ann Cold Sassy Tree

Capote, Truman In Cold Blood

Carson, Rachel Silent Spring

Carson, Rachel The Sea Around Us

Cather, Willa Death Comes to the Archbishop

Cather, Willa My Antonia

Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote

Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street

Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist

Cooper, James F. The Pathfinder

Cooper, James F. The Spy

Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe

Dostoevski, Feodor Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

duMaurier, Daphne Rebecca

Eliot, George Silas Marner

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Ferber, Edna Cimarron

Gruen, Sarah Water for Elephants

Guest, Judith Ordinary People

Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Hegi, Ursula Floating in My Mother’s Palm

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises

Holt, Victoria Mistress of Mellyn

Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hudson, William Green Mansions

Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God

Kingsolver, B. The Bean Trees

Kingsolver, B. Pigs in Heaven

Kingsolver, B. Animal Dreams

Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous

Lewis, Sinclair Main Street

Lindburg, Anne North to the Orient

MacClean, Alistair Guns of Navarone

Mandela, Nelson Long Walk to Freedom

Meyer, Stephanie Breaking Dawn (4th in a series)*

Orczy, Emmuska The Scarlet Pimpernell

Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago

Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country

Poitier, Sidney The Measure of a Man ((autobiography)

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein

Silko, Leslie Ceremony

Sinclair, Upton The Jungle (not The Jungle Book!!)

Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath

Stone, Irving The Agony and the Ecstasy

Stone, Irving Lust for Life

Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club

Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina

Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne, Jules 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

Wallace, Lewis Ben Hur

Walls, Jeanette Glass Castles

Wright, Richard Black Boy

Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

*Do not select this book unless you have already read the first three books in the series.

Outside Reading Permission Slip

Dear _____________________,

My student _____________________________________has my permission to read

(print student's name)

_________________________________________ for his/her outside reading.

(print title of book from list)

__________________________________________ _________________

(parent signature) (date)

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