10th Grade Research Paper Recommended Author List
*Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Agee, James
A Death in the Family
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women
+Alvarez, Julia
How the Garcia Girls lost Their Accent
In the Time of the Butterflies
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Buck, Pearl
The Good Earth
+Camus, Albert
Stranger
Plague
Capote, Truman
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
O’ Pioneers
Song of the Lark
Clancy, Tom
Hunt for Red October
Red Storm Rising
Patriot Games
Mrs. Zarnas
Cooper, James Fenimore
Deerslayer
Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Crichton, Michael
The Andromeda Strain
Sphere
Congo
*Dickens, Charles
Oliver Twist (only)
*Doyle, Arthur Conan
Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore
American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
This Side of Paradise
Gibbons, Kaye
Ellen Foster
Virtuous Woman
Grisham, John
The Client
The Firm
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
House of Seven Gables
Heinlein, Robert
A Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph
Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Irving, John
Cider House Rules
Hotel New Hampshire
A Prayer for Owen Meaney
The World According to Garp
Jackson, Shirley
The Haunting of Hill House
We Lived in a Castle
Kesey, Ken
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
King, Stephen
Carrie
Shining
Misery
Stand
Kingsolver, Barbara
Bean Trees
Pigs in heaven
Poisonwood Bible
*Kipling, Rudyard
Kim
LeGuin, Ursula
Left Hand of Darkness
Wizard of Earthsea
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
McCullers, Carson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Member of the Wedding
Malamud, Bernard
The Natural
Mason, Bobbie Ann
In Country
Meyers, Walter Dean
Fallen Angels
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
+Paton, Alan
Cry the Beloved Country
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
+Remarque, Erich
All Quiet on the Western Front
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
*Stevenson Robert Louis
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Styron, William
Sophie’s Choice
Tan, Amy
Joy Luck Club
Kitchen God’s Wife
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Tyler, Anne
Accidental Tourist
Breathing Lessons
Dinner at Homesick Restaurant
+Verne, Jules
Around the World in 80 days
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Vonnegut, Kurt
Sirens of Titan
Slaughter House Five
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith
Age of Innocence
Ethan Frome
House of Mirth
Wright, Richard
Black Boy
Native Son
*British Author
+World Author
Italics=NON-fiction classics for students
Bold=Novels for students
Revised 9/08