Novel List

The following list represents books written by authors from diverse cultures and time periods. Although this list isn’t comprehensive, you are strongly encouraged to choose one of these books. If you want to read a different novel it MUST BE APPROVED. You must use the novel for SSR and complete the novel.

  1. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart, Anthills of the Savannah
  2. Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  3. Isabel Allende House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia
  4. Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina
  5. Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents
  6. Margaret Atwood Handmaid’s Tale
  7. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Emma, MansfieldPark, Sense & Sensibility
  8. James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
  9. EmilyBrontëWutheringHeights
  10. Sandra Cisneros Caramelo
  11. Paulo Coelho The Alchemist, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
  12. Edwidge Danticut Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming of Bones
  13. Don Dellilo White Noise
  14. Michael Dorris A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
  15. Louise Erdrich The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
  16. Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniMistress of Spices, Arranged Marriage
  17. Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
  18. Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
  19. Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
  20. Alduos Huxley Brave New World
  21. Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies
  22. Harper Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird
  23. NajibMahfusPalace Walk
  24. Toni Morrison Bluest Eye, Beloved, Solomon
  25. V.S. Naipul A Bend in the River
  26. Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
  27. George Orwell Animal Farm, 1984
  28. Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country
  29. Matthew Pearl TheDante Club, Poe Shadow
  30. Chaim Potok My Name is Asher Lev, The Chosen, Davita’s Harp
  31. JeanRhysWideSaragassoSea paired with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
  32. Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
  33. Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
  34. Zadie Smith White Teeth, On Beauty
  35. Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen
  36. Art Spiegelman Maus
  37. Amy Tan Bonesetter’s Daughter, Hundred Secret Senses, Kitchen God’s Wife
  38. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  39. Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger
  40. Alice Walker The Color Purple
  41. Elie Wiesel Night