Mrs.Leite, Mrs. Novean Honors 10 Outside Reading
This year you must read two different novels from two different time periods. The reading for the semester is divided up into two groups by time periods. Works translated into English are marked with an (*). Works marked with a (+) have appeared on the AP Literature test 5 times or more.
1700-1900
Austen, JaneMansfield Park
Austen, JaneNorthanger Abbey
Austen, JaneEmma
Austen, JaneSense and Sensibility
Bronte, CharlotteJane Eyre+
Bronte, EmilyWuthering Heights+
Butler,SamuelErewhon
Chopin, KateThe Awakening+
Collins, WilkieThe Moonstone
Conrad, JosephLord Jim+
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, DanielMoll Flanders+
Defoe, DanielRobinson Crusoe
Dickens, CharlesBleak House
Dickens, CharlesLittle Dorrit
Dickens, CharlesTale of Two Cities
Dickens, CharlesGreat Expectations+
Dickens, CharlesDavid Copperfield
Dostoevsky, FyodorCrime and Punishment *+
Dostoevsky, FyodorThe Idiot *
Dostoevsky, FyodorThe Brothers Karamazov*
Doyle, Sir Arthur ConanA Study in Scarlet
Eliot, GeorgeMiddlemarch
Eliot, GeorgeAdam Bede
Eliot, GeorgeMill on the Floss
Eliot, GeorgeSilas Marner
Flaubert, GustaveMadame Bovary *+
Haggard, H. RiderKing Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, ThomasMayor of Casterbridge+
Hardy, ThomasTess of the D’Urbervilles+
Hardy, ThomasFar From the Madding Crowd
Hardy, ThomasReturn of the Native
Hardy, ThomasJude the Obscure+
Hugo, VictorLes Miserables*
James, HenryPortrait of a Lady+
James, HenryThe Turn of the Screw+
Maupassant, Guy deBel Ami *
Rostand, EdmondCyrano de Bergerac *
Stevenson, R.LTreasure Island
Stevenson, R.LKidnapped
Swift, JonathanGulliver’s Travels+
Tolstoy, LeoAnna Karenina*+
Wells, H.GThe Invisible Man
Wells, H.G. The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wilde, OscarThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Zola, Emile Germinal *
Zola, EmileTherese Raquin *
1901-Present
Alexie, ShermanReservation Blues
Alvarez, JuliaIn the Time of Butterflies
Anaya, RudolfoBless Me Ultima+
Atwood, MargaretAlias Grace
Atwood, MargaretSurfacing
Atwood, MargaretThe Blind Assassin
Atwood, MargaretThe Handmaid’s Tale
Butler, SamuelThe Way of All the Flesh *
Camus, AlbertThe Plague
Cao, LanMonkey Bridge
Chesterton, GKThe Innocence of Father Brown
Christie, AgathaAnd Then There Were None
Christie, AgathaMurder on the Orient Express
Christie, AgathaMurder in Three Acts (not a play)
Doctorow, E.O.Ragtime
Du Maurier, DaphneRebecca
Ellison, RalphInvisible Man++
Erdich, LouiseTracks
Faulkner, WilliamA Light in August+
Faulkner, WilliamAs I Lay Dying+
Faulkner, WilliamThe Sound and the Fury+
Ford, Madox FordThe Good Soldier
Forester, C. S.Captain HoratioHornblower
Forester, E.MA Passage to India+
Forester, E.M. A Room With a View
Frazier, CharlesCold Mountain
Gaines, ErnestA Gathering of Old Men
Galsworthy, JohnThe Forsythe Saga
Garcia, CristinaDreaming in Cuban
Grahame, KennethThe Wind in the Willows
Graves, RobertI, Claudius
Graves, RobertThe Long Weekend
Greene, GrahamEngland Made Me
Greene, GrahamBrighton Rock
Greene, GrahamThe Power and the Glory
Griffin, John HowardBlack Like Me
Guterson, DavidSnow Falling on Cedars
Heller, JosephCatch-22+
Hesse, HermannSteppenwolf
Hemingway, ErnestA Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, ErnestFor Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, ErnestThe Sun Also Rises+
Hosseini, KhaledThe Kite Runner
Hughes, RichardA High Wind in Jamaica
Hurston, Zora NealeTheir Eyes Were Watching God+
Huxley, AldousEyeless in Gaza
Ishiguro, KazuoThe Remains of the Day
Jen, GishTypical American
Johnson, J.W.Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Kafka, FranzThe Trial*
Kafka, FranzThe Castle*
Kesey, KenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Koestler, ArthurDarkness at Noon*
Kogawa, JoyObasan+
Lawrence, T.E.Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lee, Chang-RaeNative Speaker+
Lee, Chang-RaeA Gesture Life
Llewellyn, RichardHow Green was My Valley
Mann, ThomasThe MagicMountain*
Mann, ThomasDeath in Venice *
Maugham, SomersetOf Human Bondage
Maugham, SomersetThe Moon and Sixpence
Maugham, SomersetThe Razor’s Edge
MacLean, NormanA River Runs Through It
Malamud, BernardThe Fixer
McCarthy, CormacAll the Pretty Horses+
McEwan, IanAtonement
Melville, HermanBilly Budd+
Melville, HermanMoby Dick+
Mistry, RohintonA Fine Balance
Morrison, ToniThe Bluest Eye
Morrison, ToniBeloved+
Morrison, ToniSula+
Morrison, ToniSong of Soloman+
Murakami, HarukiKafka on the Shore
Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the Middle
Naipaul, V.S.Middle Passage
Ng, FaeBone: A Novel
O’Brien, TimIn the Lake of the Woods
O’Brien, TimGoing After Cacciato
O’Brien, TimThe Things They Carried
Oates, Joyce CarolWe Were the Mulvaneys
Ondaatje, MichaelComing Through the Slaughter
Orczy, BaronessThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Orwell, George1984
Paton, AlanCry the Beloved Country+
Petry, AnnThe Street
Potok, ChaimMy Name is Asher Lev
Potok, ChaimThe Chosen
Rhys, JeanThe Wide Sargasso Sea+
Rushdie, SalmanThe Moor’s Last Sigh
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
SapphirePush
Sayers, Dorothy LWhose Body?
Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter Views the Body
Silko, Leslie MarmonCeremony+
Smiley, JaneA Thousand Acres
Solzhenitsyn, A.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Tan, AmyThe Bonesetter’s Daughter
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Villareal, Jose AntonioPocho
Vonnegut, KurtSlaughterhouse Five
Walker, AliceThe Color Purple+
Warren, Robert PennAll the King’s Men+
Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome+
Wideman, John EdgarSend For You Yesterday
Wolff, TobiasOld School
Wodehouse, P.GThe Inimitable Jeeves
Wodehouse, P.GVery Good, Jeeves
Woolf, VirginiaTo the Lighthouse
Woolf, VirginiaMrs. Dalloway+
Wright, RichardNative Son+