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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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