English 10
Critical Analysis
Recommended Reading List
Nathaniel Hawthorne -The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Pearl Buck - The Good Earth
Aldous Huxely - A Brave New World
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise
Earnest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea;
The Sun Also Rises
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; East of Eden; The Pearl
Richard Wright – Native Son
J.D.Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451; Dandelion Wine; The Martian Chronicles;
Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Illustrated Man
John Updike – Rabbit Run
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
George Orwell-1984, Animal Farm
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying; Go Down, Moses; Light in August; The Sound and the Fury;
The Unvanquished
Earnest J. Gaines - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; A Gathering of Old Men;
A Lesson Before Dying
Kate Chopin – The Awakening
Toni Morrison – Beloved; Song of Solomon; Sula; Tar Baby
John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
Joseph Heller – Catch-22
Tennessee Williams – Cat on A Hot Tin Roof; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie
Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain
James McBride – The Color of Water
Alice Walker – The Color Purple; Meridian
Robert Newton Peck – A Day No Pigs Would Die
John Gunther – Death Be Not Proud
Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
Robert Loius Stevenson- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth
Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
James Baldwin – Go Tell It on the Mountain; Another Country
John Gardner – Grendel
Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Member of the Wedding
Saul Bellow- Seize the Day; Herzog
John Hershey – Hiroshima
Michael Cunningham – The Hours
Joanne Greenberg – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Willa Cather – My Antoni; O Pioneers!
Ralph Ellison – The Invisible Man
Alex Haley – Roots; The Autobiography of Malcolm X
James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans; The Deerslayer
Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee – Inherit the Wind
Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
Sinclair Lewis – Main Street
Thorton Wilder – Our Town
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
Henry James – The Turn of the Screw
Mark Twain – Pudd’nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime
Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
Arthur Clarke – 2001-A Space Odyssey; 2010 Odyssey Two
John Knowles – A Separate Peace
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
David Guterson –Snow Falling on Cedars
Mitch Albom – Tuesdays with Morrie
Arthur Miller – A View from the Bridge; Incident at Vichey
Pat Frank – Alas, Babylon
Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace
Cormas McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses
Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie
Jane Yolen – Briar Rose
Leslie Marmon Silko – Ceremony
Chaim Potok – Davita’s Harp
James Agee – A Death in the Family
Frank Herbert – Dune
Leon Uris – Exodus
N. Scott Momaday – House Made of Dawn; The Way to a Rainy Mountain
William Kennedy – Ironweed
Zora Neale Hurston – Dust Tracks on the Road; Mule Bone (written with Langston Hughes)
Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
Walter Van Tilberg Clark – The Ox-Bow Incident
W.E.B Dubois – The Souls of Black Folk
Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land