Sophomore Honors English
Reading List
It is important that students and parents/guardians review these works as some of these novels contain mature situations and/ or language. When choosing a novel, please review your selection to make sure it is appropriate for you. If the subject matter is too difficult or mature, feel free to choose a different novel.
African
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart (1958) Nigeria
Arrow of God (1964)
Emecheta, Buchi The Bride Price (1976) Nigeria
Equiano, Olaudah Autobiography
Gordimre, Nadine A Guest of Honor (1983)
My Son’s Story(1990)
Kogawa, Joy Obasan
Laye, Camara The Radiance of Kings
Lessing, Doris The Grass is Signing(1950)
*** Mahfouz, Naguig The BeggarEgypt
Maran, Rene Batoula(1921) Martinique
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy South Africa
Naipaul, V.S. A House of Mr. Biswas (1938) Trinidad
A Bend in The River (1979)
Ngugi, James Matigari(1938) Kenya
Nwapu, Flora Efuru (1966)
Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) South Africa
Salih, al-Tayyib Season of Migration to the North Sudan
waThiong’ o, Ngugi Weep Not, Child (1964)
The River Between
A Grain of Wheat
North American
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
Cather, Willa My Antonia (1918)
+++One of Ours
Dos Passos, John U.S.A (1936)
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man (1952)
Erdrich, Lourise Tracks
Fernadez, Roberto Raining Backwards (1988)
+++Hijuelos, Oscar The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1990)
Kingston, Marilyn Hong The Woman Warrior
Marshall, Paule Walkabout
Morrison, Toni Beloved (1987)
Song of Solomon
Momaday, N. Scott House Make of Dawn (1967)
Mohawk Never Cry Wolf
Okada, John No-No Boy (1980)
Potok, Chaim My Name is Asher Lev (1976)
Roy, Gabrielle The Tine Flute (1945)
***Singer, Issac B. Satan in Goray (1976)
The Manor (1967)
The Penitent (1983)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tan, Amy A Hundred Secret Senses
*** The Fifth Son (1985)
Wright, Richard Rites of Passage
British
Butler, Samuel The Ways of All Flesh (1903)
Conrad, Joseph Nostromo (1904)
The Secret Agent (1904)
Dickens,Charles The Old Curiousity Shop
Eliot, George Middle March (1872)
Silas Marner
***Galsworthy, John TheForsyte Saga (1921)
Joyce, James Portrait of an Artist as Young Man (1916)
Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow (1915)
Sheridan, Richard The School for Scandal (1777)
Waugh, Evelyn BridesheadRevisted
Continental European
Alighieri, Dante The Divine Comedy
de Balzac, Honore PereGoriot (1835) France
***Boll, Heinrich The Clown (1965) Germany
Group Portrait with a Lady (1973)
***Camus, Albert The Stranger (1942) France
The Plague (1948)
Grass, Gunter The Tin Flute
***Hesse, Herman Steppenwold (1929) Germany
Homer Iliad
Ibanez, V.B. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1941) Spain
***Jimenez, Juan R. Platero and I (1914) Spain
Kafke, Fraz The Trial (1917) Austria
The Castle
Lorca, Frederico Garcia The House of Bernardo Alba
The Blood Wedding
Machiavelli The Prince Italy
***Mann, Thomas Buddenbrooks (1901) Germany
Manzoni, Alessandro The Betrothed (1826) Italy
Moliere The Misanthrope
Musil, Robert The Man Without Qualities (1933) Austria
Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way (1913) France
Remembrance of Things Past
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Emile
Sartre, Jean-Paul The Age of Reason (1948) France
The Reprieve (1947)
Stendhal, (Henri Beyle) The Read and the Black (1830) France
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
Voltaire Candide
Zola, Emile Germinale (1885) France
Far Eastern and Southwest Asia
Anonymous Panchatantra (200-400 A.D.) India
Godden, Rumer Black Narcissus (1939)
***Kawabata, Yasunari Snow Country (1969) Japan
Lao She The Yellow Storm (1970) China
Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve India
A Handful of Rice (1966)
Mishima, Yukio Confessions of a Mask (1958) Japan
Murasaki, Shikiby The Tale of Genji (1500) Japan
***Tagore, Rabindranat The Gardener India
The King of the Dark Chamber
TsaoHsueh-Chin Dream of the Red Chamber (1978) China
Latin American
Allende, Isabel Eva Luna (1988)
Argueta, Manilo One Day of Life (1983) El Salvador
Azuela, Mariano The Underdogs (1927) Mexico
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist Brazil
Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria Helena (1876) Brazil
Mistral, Gabriela Desolation
Onetti, Juan Carlos Body Snatcher Uruaguay
Puig, Manuel Tropical Night Falling Argentina
Puz, Octavio Labyrinth of Solitude
Vargas Llosa, Mario Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982) Peru
Middle Eastern
Arabian and Persian Traditition The Thousand and One Nights (1200) Persia
Appelfeld, Aharon The Retreat (1985) Israel
The Age of Wonders
Muhfouz, Naguib Cairo Trilogy Egypt
Oz, Amos Black Box (1988) Israel
Shammas, Anton Arabesques (1988) Israel
Russian
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Dostoevsky, Fyodor The House of the Dead (1862)
The Brothers of Karamazov (1880)
Gogol, Nikolai V. Dead Souls (1842)
Tolstoi, Leo War and Peace (1869)
Turgenev, Ivan The Torrents of Spring (1875)
***Indicates winners of Nobel Prize of Literature or Nobel Peace Prize
+++Indicates winners of Pulitzer Prize