What Book Out Of This List Should I Read For My Summer Reading Homework?
*100 Years of Solitude, by Marquez
*1984, by Orwell
Absalom, Absalom!, by Faulkner
The Adventures of Augie March, by Bellow
After This, by McDermott
The Age of Innocence, by Wharton
Agnes Grey, by Bronte
Alias Grace, by Atwood
All the King’s Men, by Warren
All Souls, by Schutt
All the Pretty Horses, by McCarthy
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Chabon
American Pastoral, by Roth
An American Tragedy, by Dreiser
Amsterdam, by McEwan
*Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner
Babbitt, by Lewis
The Beautiful and Damned, by Fitzgerald
*Bel Canto, by Patchett
*Beloved, by Morrison
*Black Boy, by Wright
Bleak House, by Dickens
Bless Me Ultima, by Anaya
*The Blind Assassin, by Atwood
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Tan
Brave New World, by Huxley
Brick Lane, by Ali
Brideshead Revisited, by Waugh
Bridge of Sighs, by Russo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Diaz
Catch 22, by Heller
Ceremony, by Silko
Clear Light of Day, by Desai
Cloudsplitter, by Banks
Cold Mountain, by Frazier
The Color Purple, by Walker
*A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
The Corrections, by Franzen
*The Count of Monte Cristo, by Dumas
*Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Paton
David Copperfield, by Dickens
Dead Souls, by Gogol
Death in Venice, by Mann
The Deerslayer, by Cooper
Doctor Zhivago, by Pasternak
Don Quixote, by Cervantes
*Dracula, by Stoker
*Drop City, by Boyle
East of Eden, by Steinbeck
The Echo Maker, by Powers
Emma, by Austen
Empire Falls, by Russo
The English Patient, by Ondaatje
Ethan Frome, by Wharton
Europe Central, by Vollmann
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Foer
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Hardy
A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway
Fathers and Sons, by Turgenev
Fieldwork, by Berlinski
Fifth Business, by Davies
The Fixer, by Malamud
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Hemingway
Frankenstein, by Shelley
The Gathering, by Enright
Germinal, by Zola
A Gesture Life, by Chang-rae Lee
Gilead, by Robinson
The God of Small Things, by Roy
The Good Earth, by Buck
The Good Soldier, by Ford
*The Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck
The Gravedigger’s Daughter, by Oates
*Great Expectations, by Dickens
Great Fire, by Hazzard
Gulliver’s Travels, by Swift
A Handful of Dust, by Waugh
Hard Times, by Dickens
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by McCullers
The Heart of the Matter, by Greene
Henderson and the Rain King, by Bellow
The Hours, by Cunningham
House Made of Dawn, by Momaday
The House of Mirth, by Wharton
The House of Seven Gables, by Hawthorne
The House on Mango Street, by Cisneros
Howards End, by Forster
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Hugo
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
In Country, by Mason
In the Country of Men, by Matar
*In the Lake of the Woods, by O’Brien
In the Time of Butterflies, by Alvarez
Inferno, by Dante
The Inheritance of Loss, by Desai
Intruder in the Dust, by Faulkner
Invisible Man, by Ellison
Ivanhoe, by Scott
*Jane Eyre, by Bronte
Jude the Obscure, by Hardy
The Jungle, by Sinclair
The Known World, by Jones
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by Lawrence
The Last of the Mohicans, by Cooper
The Lazarus Project, by Hemon
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), by Laclos
Les Misérable, by Hugo
*Life of Pi, by Martel
Light in August, by Faulkner
*Lolita, by Nabokov
Look at Me, by Egan
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Marquez
Love Medicine, by Erdrich
Mansfield Park, by Austen
March, by Brooks
The March, by Doctorow
*The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Erdrich
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Hardy
Middle Passage, by Johnson
Middlemarch, by Eliot
*Middlesex, by Eugenides
Moby-Dick, by Melville
Moll Flanders, by Defoe
Moonstone, by Collins
Mrs. Dalloway, by Woolf
My Ántonia, by Cather
*The Namesake, by Lahiri
Nana, by Zola
Native Son, by Wright
Native Speaker, by Chang-rae Lee
Never Let Me Go, by Ishiguro
Nicholas Nickleby, by Dickens
Northanger Abbey, by Austen
O Pioneers!, by Cather
Obasan, by Kogawa
A Passage to India, by Forster
People of the Book, by Brooks
Pére Goriot, by Balzac
Persuasion, by Austen
Plague of Doves, by Erdrich
The Plot against America, by Roth
*The Poisonwood Bible, by Kingsolver
The Power and the Glory, by Greene
*A Prayer for Owen Meany, by Irving
Ragtime, by Doctorow
The Remains of the Day, by Ishiguro
Reservation Blues, by Alexie
The Return of the Native, by Hardy
*The Road, by McCarthy
Robber Bride, by Atwood
A Room with a View, by Forster
Saint Maybe, by Tyler
*The Scarlet Letter, by Hawthorne
The Sea, by Banville
Sense and Sensibility, by Austen
Shadow Country, by Matthiessen
The Shipping News, by Proulx
Silas Marner, by Eliot
Sister Carrie, by Dreiser
Snow, by Pamuk
Song of Solomon, by Morrison
Song Yet Sung, by McBride
Sons and Lovers, by Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice, by Styron
The Sound and the Fury, by Faulkner
The Stone Diaries, by Shields
*The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway
The Sweet Hereafter, by Banks
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Ap Lit Summer Reading – Which Of The Following Should I Read?
For AP Lit, I’m supposed to read 2 books: Kite Runner and any book from the list.
I’d like some suggestions for my 2nd book since I’m not too familiar with any of the titles.
Please help 
Also, a short description of the book(s)[your suggestion(s)] would be great ^^
Sorry, the list might be a little long.
AP Lit – British Text
Austen, Emma
Austen, Mansfield Park
Austen, Persuasion
Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Churchill, The Crisis
Conrad, Lord Jim
Conrad, Victory
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Defoe, Moll Flanders
Dickens, Bleak House
Dickens, David Copperfield
Dickens, Great Expectations
Dickens, Hard Times
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
Dinesen, Out of Africa
Eliot, G., Adam Bede
Eliot, G., The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, G., Middlemarch
Eliot, G., Silas Marner
Eliot, T.S., The Wasteland
Eliot, T.S., Murder in the Cathedral
Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Tom Jones
Forster, A Room with a View
Forster, Passage to India
Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
Golding, The Lord of the Flies
Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Greene, Brighton Rock
Greene, The Power and the Glory
Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Huxley, Brave New World
Ishigura, Remains of the Day
Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, The Dead
Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Madox, The Good Soldier
Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Milton, Paradise Lost
Orwell, 1984
Pinter, The Birthday Party
Pinter, The Caretaker
Pinter, The Homecoming
Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Richardson, Pamela
Shaffer, Equus
Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Shakespeare, Henry V
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Shakespeare, King Lear
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare, Othello
Shakespeare, Richard III
Shakespeare, Tempest
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale
Shaw, Candida
Shaw, Major Barbara
Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Shaw, Pygmalion
Shaw, Saint Joan
Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Trollope, The Warden
Trollope, The Way We Live Now
Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Waugh, The Loved One
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
Woolf, To the Lighthouse
AP Lit – World Text
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Aeschylus, The Eumenides
Alvarez, In the Time of Butterflies
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Atwood, Alias Grace
Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Surfacing
Brecht, Mother Courage and her Children
Camus, The Fall
Camus, The Plague
Camus, The Stranger
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chekov, The Cherry Orchard
Davies, Fifth Business
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground
Euripides, Medea
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Fugard, Master Harold…and the Boys
Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban
Goethe, Faust
Homer, The Odyssey
Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Ghosts
Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
Ibsen, The Wild Duck
Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Kafka, Metamorphosis
Kafka, The Trial
Kogawa, Obasan
Laurence, The Stone Angel
MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mistry, A Fine Balance
Moliere, Tartuffe
Moliere, The Misanthrope
Nabokov, Pnin
Nabokov, Pale Fire
Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
Racine, Phedre
Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Satre, No Exit
Solzhenistsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desinovich
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Strindberg, The Father
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Illych
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Voltaire, Candide
If you know of any other great books that aren’t on the list, please lemme know. And, if you could, include a short description on those books as well.
Thank you in advance ^^
Summer Reading. Please Help? =)?
For my honors English class, we are required to read a book(s) and write a “reflective journal” on it. We were given a list of 7 books, and I can’t decide which one to read. I was also planning on reading more than one, as I greatly enjoy reading.
This is the list of choices:
Gulliver’s Travels (unabridged)…….Jonathan Swift
The Choseen……………………………… Potok
Silas Marner…………………………….… Eliot
David Copperfield………………………Ch… Dickens
The Three Musketeers………………..Alexander Dumas
The Elephant Man……………………….Christine Sparks
The Space Trilogy……………………….C.S. Lewis
Which book(s) should I read?
Thanks so much for the help. =)
Summer Reading? What To Choose?
For AP English I am to choose two of the novels off of a list to read, and then produce somewhat of a report.
I have already read one novel, “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton.
I am looking for suggestions on the other choice, because I am just not sure or familiar with the choices.
If you could, in addition to letting me know your choice, give me a short synopsis, without giving any important plot away, that would be great.
Here are the choices:
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Middlemarch – George Eliot
The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Jude the Obsure – Thomas Hardy
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephan Crane
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Also, If you want to give me a short description on other novels, other than those of your choice, that would be great as well. (Maybe worth some extra points *Wink* as well!)
Thank you all in advance,
_Sam Temple_ 
Summer Reading For An Incoming High School Freshman?
I am a middle schooler going into high school next year and have been (in the past) enraptured by classic literature. I recently finished the unabridged editions of Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and the Pickwick Papers. I was delighted by the work of Dickens and I am now thoroughly ready for further classical reading. I also recently read to Kill a Mockingbird. All of which were considerably more complex than the selection of modern literature that I previously busied myself with.
I happen to read at a level exceptionally higher than my grade level may suggest. Because of this (accompanied by a desire to learn and explore) I am interested in a list of books and authors that may perhaps ready me for high school or even give me a bit of a head start. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Can Someone Order The Following Books According To Their Reading Level.?
1. I Know why the Caged Birds Sing Maya Angelou
2. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
4. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
5. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
6. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemmingway
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
8. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
9. The Bachman Books Stephen King
10. Pet Semetary Stephen King
11. Rose Madder Stephen King
12. The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux
13. The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
14. The Chosen Chaim Potok
15. Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
16. of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
17. The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
18. The Color Purple Alice Walker
For example:
1. Cat in the Hat
2. The Boxcar Children
3. Moby Dick
Summer Reading Books!?
So I have summer reading that I need to do. I’m not sure what books I should read so any recommendations would be nice,
I have to pick two books (any two) from the following authors/playwrights:
Margaret Atwood
John Irving
Robert Penn Warren
Achebe, Chinua
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Updike, John
Alvarez, Julia
Melville, Herman
Oates, Joyce Carol
Twain, Mark
Angelou, Maya
Kingsolver, Barbara
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Austen, Jane
Morrison, Toni
Woolf, Virginia
Hemingway, Ernest
Bronte, Charlotte or Emily
Steinbeck, John
Wharton, Edith
Defoe, Daniel
O’Connor, Flannery
Tolkien, JRR
Dickens, Charles
Vonnegut, Kurt
Salinger, JD
Dostoevski, Fyodor
Tan, Amy
Playwrights:
Williams, Tennessee
Faulkner, William
Tolstoy, Leo
Chekhov, Anton
O’Neill, Eugene
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Walker, Alice
Miller, Arthur
Wilde, Oscar
Hardy, Thomas
White, EB..
Shepard, Sam
Ibsen, Henrik
August Wilson
Lorraine Hansberry
Also I have to read ONE of the following books:
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
DAVID COPPERFIELD BY Charles Dickens
If it helps any to some of my favorite books are The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and To Kill A Mockingbird. I read Nineteen Minutes and really liked that also. This year in school I also read Of Mice and Men and Our Town which I thought were decent books.
Thanks in advanced!
