Ms. Pennington’s
English IV
Outside Reading Book List
Title of BookAuthor
2001: A Space OdysseyClarke, Arthur C.
90 Minutes in HeavenPiper, Don
A Canticle for LeibowitzMiller, Walter
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtTwain, Mark
A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck, Robert Newton
A Death in the Family Agee, James
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Beah, Ishmael
A Majority of OneSpigelgass, Leonard
A Man Called PeterMarshall, Catherine
A Midwife’s StoryArmstrong, Penny
A Night to RememberLord, Walter
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James
A Raisin in the SunHansbury, Lorraine
A ReckoningSarton, May
A Separate PeaceKnowles, John
A Tale of Two CitiesDickens, Charles
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
A Walk Across AmericaJenkins, Peter
A Wrinkle in TimeL’Engle, Madeleine
Absalom, Absalom!Faulkner, William
Accidents of Nature Johnson, Harriet McBryde
Across Five AprilsHunt, Irene
Alas, BabylonFrank, Pat
All Creatures Great and SmallHerriot, James
All Quiet on the Western FrontRemarque, Erich Maria
All the President’s MenWoodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
AnchorwomanSavich, Jessica
And Then There Were NoneChristie, Agatha
Angel Street (Gas Light)Hamilton, Patrick
Animal FarmOrwell, George
Anna and the King of SiamLandon, Margaret
Anna KareninaTolstoy, Leo
April MorningFast, Howard
Arsenic and Old LaceKesselring, Joseph
Auntie MameLawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee
BabbittLewis, Sinclair
Babe Dikrikson: The World’s Greatest Woman AthleteSchoor, Gene
Babe: the Legend Comes to LifeCreamer, Robert W.
Battle CryUris, Leon
BecketAnouilh, Jean
Beige Castellucci, Cecil
Beverly: An AutobiographySills, Beverly and Lawrence Linderman
Billy BuddMelville, Herman
Black Like MeGriffin, John Howard
BlackDekker, Ted
Blithe SpiritCoward, Noel
Blood Brothers Harazin, S. A.
Born FreeAdamson, Joy
Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeBrown, Dee
Cannery RowSteinbeck, John
Captains and the KingsCaldwell, Taylor
CarrieKing, Stephen
Cheaper by the Dozen Gilbreth, Frank, Jr. and
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
ChristyMarshall, Catherine
CimarronFerber, Edna
Citizen Tom PaineFast, Howard
Civil Disobedience Thoreau, Henry David
Cloud of WitnessSayers, Dorothy L.
Cold Sassy TreeBurns, Olive Ann
Coming Into the CountryMcPhee, John
Crime and PunishmentDostoyevsky, Fyodor
Common SenseBeck, Glenn/Paine, Thomas
Cry, the Beloved CountryPaton, Alan
Twelve Angry MenRose, Reginald
Cures for Heartbreak Rabb, Margo
Dark Water Rising Hale, Marian
David CopperfieldDickens, Charles
Davita’s HarpPotok, Chaim
DawnWiesel, Elie
Day of InfamyLord, Walter
Deadline Crutcher, Chris
Death Be Not ProudGunther, John
Death of a SalesmanMiller, Arthur
Doctor ZhivagoPasternak, Boris
DoveGraham, Robin Lee
Drums Along the MohawkEdmonds, Walter D.
East of EdenSteinbeck, John
Echo Morgenroth, Kate
Eleanor and FranklinLash, Joseph P.
Elizabeth the QueenAnderson, Maxwell
Enter Three Witches Cooney, Caroline B.
EricLund, Doris
Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
ExodusUris, Leon
Farenheit 451Bradbury, Ray
Farewell to ManzanarHouston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
Flowers for AlgernonKeyes, Daniel
Fragments of IsabellaLeitner, Isabella
FrankensteinShelley, Mary
FundationAsimov, Issac
Generation MeTwenge, Dr. Jean
Giant StepsAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem and
PeterKnobler
Giants in the EarthRolvaag, O. E.
Go Tell It on the MountainBaldwin, James
Go Up for GloryRussell, Bill
Gone With the WindMitchell, Margaret
Grapes of WrathSteinbeck, John
Great ExpectationsDickens, Charles
Green Dolphin StreetGoudge, Elizabeth
HarveyChase, Mary
HomecomingVoigt, Cynthia
How Green Was My Valley Llewellyn, Richard
I Always Wanted to Be SomebodyGibson, Althea
I Am the CheeseCormier, Robert
I Am ThirdSayers, Gale with Al Silverman
I Heard the Owl Call My NameCraven, Margaret
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsAngelou, Maya
I Never Promised You a Rose GardenGreenburg, Joanne
I Will Call It Georgie’s BluesNewton, Suzanne
Ice CastlesFleisher, Leonore
In Search of Mockingbird Ellsworth, Loretta
Incantation Hoffman, Alice
Inherit the WindLawrence, Jerome and Robert E.Lee Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder Shivack, Nadia
Intruder in the DustFaulkner, William
IvanhoeScott, Sir Walter
Jacob Have I LovedPatterson, Katherine
Jamaica InnDu Maurier, Daphne
Jane EyreBronte, Charlotte
Johnny TremainForbes, Ester
JosephLandorf, Joyce
Kaffir BoyMathabane, Mark
Keturah and Lord Death Leavitt, Martine
KidnappedStevenson, Robert Louis
Knights of the Hill Country Tharp, Tim
Kon-TikiHeyerdahl, Thor
Life and Death in a Coral SeaCousteau, Jacques-Yves
Life with Father Lindsey, Howard and
Russell Crouse
Little WomenAlcott, Louisa May
Lord of the FliesGolding, William
Lorna DooneBlackmore, R. D.
Lost HorizonHilton, James
MachoVillasenor, Edmund
Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave
Madame SarahSkinner, Cornelia Otis
Maddy’s SongDickson, Margaret
Main StreetLewis, Sinclair
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Zevin, Gabrielle
Midnight Hour EncoresBrooks, Bruce
Mistress of Mellyn Holt, Victoria
Moby DickMelville, Herman
MossflowerJacques, Brian
Mrs. MiniverStruther, Jan
My AntoniaCather, Willa
My LifeMeir, Golda
My Name is Asher LevPotok, Chaim’
Native SonWright, Richard
Never Cry WolfMowat, Farley
NightWiesel, Elie
Nine Coaches WaitingStewart, Mary
Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi
Not Like You Davis, Deborah
Notes From the Midnight Driver Sonnenblick, Jordan
Oliver TwistDickens, Charles
On Golden PondThompson, Ernest
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichSolzhenitsyn, Alexander
Only Earth and Sky Last ForeverBenchley, Nathaniel
OprahWaldron, Robert
Ordinary PeopleGuest, Judith
Other People’s HousesSegal, Lore
Our Town Wilder, Thornton
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You Jansen, Hanna
PentimentoHellman, Lillian
Pere Goriotde Balzac, Honore
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
Profiles in CourageKennedy, John F.
PygmalionShaw, George Bernard
Queen DolleyWilson, Dorothy Clarke
Quiet StrengthTony Dungy
Rabbit, RunUpdike, John
Rabble in ArmsRoberts, Kenneth
RebeccaDu Maurier, Daphne
Red Glass Resau, Laura
Requiem for a HeavyweightSerling, Rod
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party Compestine, Ying Chang
RootsHaley, Alex
Rubber Houses Yeomans, Ellen
RuckerPark Setup Volponi, Paul
Run Silent, Run DeepBeach, Edward L.
Saving Grace Ryan, Darlene
ShaneSchaefer, Jack
Shark Girl Bingham, Kelly
Show BoatFerber, Edna
Silas MarnerEliot, George
Sister CarrieDreiser, Theodore
SkindeepJones, Toeckey
Song of the Sparrow Sandell, Lisa Ann
Stranger in a Strange LandHeinlein
Strong at the Broken PlacesCleland, Max
Susan’s StoryHampshire, Susan
Tamar Peet, Mal
Tantalize Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood Barakat, Ibtisam
Teacher: Anne Sullivan MacyKeller, Helen
Tell McClintock, Norah
Tess of the D’UrbervillesHardy, Thomas
TexHinton, S. E.
The Paper LionPlimpton, George
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman, Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnTwain, Mark
The African QueenForester, C. S.
The Agony and the EcstasyStone, Irving
The Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanGaines, Ernest J.
The Bell JarPlath, Sylvia
The Beloved Invader Price, Eugenia
The Braid Frost, Helen
The Breakup Bible Kantor, Melissa
The Bridge of San Luis ReyWilder, Thornton
The Caine Mutiny Court-MartialWouk, Herman
The Call of the WildLondon, Jack
The Camera Never BlinksRather, Dan with Mickey
Herskowitz
The Catcher in the RyeSalinger, J. D.
The ChalkGardenBagnold, Enid
The Chocolate WarCormier, Robert
The ChosenPotok, Chaim
The Color PurpleWalker, Alice
The ContenderLipsyte, Robert
The Country of the Pointed FirsJewett, Sarah Orne
The CrucibleMiller, Arthur
The Decoding of Lana Morris McNeal, Laura and Tom
McNeal
The DollmakerArnow, Harriette
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon MarigoldsZindel, Paul
The Fantastic VoyageAsimov, Isaac
The Friendly PersuasionWest, Jessamyn
The Gates of ZionThoene, Bodie
The Gift of MusicSmith, Jane Stuart and Betty
Carlson
The Glass MenagerieWilliams, Tennessee
The Good EarthBuck, Pearl
The Great DivorceLewis, C. S.
The Great GatsbyFitzgerald, F. Scott
The Greatest Story Ever ToldOursler, Fulton
The Heart is a Lonely HunterMcCullers, Carson
The Heart of DarknessConrad, Joseph
The Hiding PlaceBoom, Corrie Ten
The HobbitTolkien, J. R. R.
The Hollow HillsStewart, Mary
The Honorable Prisonde Jenkins, Lyll de Becerra
The Houose of MirthWharton, Edith
The House of Seven GablesHawthorne, Nathaniel
The Inn of the Sixth HappinessBurgess, Alan
The InnocentsArchibald, William
The Jewel in the CrownScott, Paul
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last UnicornBeagle, Peter S.
The Learning Tree Parks, Gordon
The Lion in WinterGoldman, James
The Lion, the Witch, and the WardrobeLewis, C. S.
The Little FoxesHellman, Lillian
The Martian ChroniclesBradbury, Ray
The Mask of ApolloRenault, Mary
The Member of the WeddingMcCullers, Carson
The MetamorphosisKafka, Franz
The Miracle WorkerGibson, William
The MousetrapChristie, Agatha
The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie Moriarty, Jaclyn
The NaturalMalamud, Bernard
The Odd CoupleSimon, Neil
The Old Man and the SeaHemingway, Ernest
The Once and Future KingWhite, T. H.
The Other Side of the MountainValens, E. G.
The OtherTryon, Thomas
The Ox-Bow IncidentClark, Walter Van Tilburg
The Peacock Spring Godden, Rumer
The PearlSteinbeck, John
The Picture of Dorian GrayWilde, Oscar
The Pilgrim’s ProgressBunyan, John
The Plain James Castellucci, Cecil
The Playboy of the Western WorldSynge, John M.
The Portrait of a LadyJames, Henry
The Prime of Miss Jane BrodieSpark, Muriel
The Red Badge of CourageCrane, Stephen
The Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas
The RobeDouglas, Lloyd C.
The Scarlet LetterHawthorne, Nathaniel
The Shack Young, William Paul
The Shoes of the FishermanWest, Morris L.
The Silenced DeVita, James
The Skin of Our TeethWilder, Thornton
The StrangerCamus, Albert
The Summer of My German SoldierGreene, Bette
The Sun Also RisesHemingway, Ernest
The Teahouse of the August MoonPatrick, John
The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane
The ThornbirdsMcCullough, Colleen
The Three MusketeersDumas, Alexandre
The Time MachineWells, H. G.
The VirginianWister, Owen
The Winthrop WomanSeton, Anya
Them That Glitter and Them That Don’tGreene, Bette
Things Invisible to SeeWillard, Nancy
To Kill a MockingbirdLee, Harper
To Sir With LoveBraithwaite, E. R.
Treasure IslandStevenson, Robert Louis
Twisted Anderson, Laurie Halse
Two Years Before the MastDana, Richard Henry
Up the Down StaircaseKaufmann, Bel
Wait For Me Na, An
WaldenThoreau, Henry David
Watership DownAdams, Richard
West With the NightMarkham, Beryl
When the Legends DieHal Borland
Where Are the Children?Clark, Mary Higgins
Wicked Lovely Marr, Melissa
Winesburg, OhioAnderson, Sherwood
Words by HeartSebestyen, Quida
WutheringHeights Bronte, Emily
Yankee From OlympusBowen, Catherine Drinker
Z for ZachariahO’Brian, Robert C.