11 Honors Outside Reading List 1st Quarter

Disclaimer: This reading list is in the process of being revised. However, few if any novels will be deleted from
the list. Most of the changes will occur as many novels will be added to the reading list that are approved
reading for AP and IB courses. 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
with your parents/guardians to make sure it is appropriate for you. If the subject matter is too difficult or
mature, feel free to choose a different novel.

Books from this list will be used for quarterly reading projects.

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
Love Medicine Louise Erdich
Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan
Fools Crow James Welch
The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Native Son Richard Wright
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave Frederick Douglass
Moby Dick Herman Melville
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Black Boy Richard Wright
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
In a Hollow of the Hills Bret Harte
11 Honors Outside Reading List 2nd Quarter

Disclaimer: This reading list is in the process of being revised. However, few if any novels will be deleted from
the list. Most of the changes will occur as many novels will be added to the reading list that are approved
reading for AP and IB courses. 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
with your parents/guardians to make sure it is appropriate for you. If the subject matter is too difficult or
mature, feel free to choose a different novel.

Books from this list will be used for quarterly reading projects. Please make sure that these novels are read
ONLY at HOME. They cannot be brought to class and read during reading time.

Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a
Multiple Murder and Its Consequences Truman Capote
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolve
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Antelope Wife Louise Erdich
Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington
The Chosen Chaim Potok
East of Eden John Steinbeck
The Bean Trees Barbara Kinsolver
Billy Budd Herman Melville
The Color of Water: A Black Man's
Tribute to His White Mother James McBride
Maggie Stephen Crane
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
The Turn of the Screw and
Other Short Novels Henry James
Alas, Babylon Pat Frank
Annie John Jamaica Kincaid
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court Mark Twain
11 Honors Outside Reading List 3rd Quarter

Disclaimer: This reading list is in the process of being revised. However, few if any novels will be deleted from
the list. Most of the changes will occur as many novels will be added to the reading list that are approved
reading for AP and IB courses. 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
with your parents/guardians to make sure it is appropriate for you. If the subject matter is too difficult or
mature, feel free to choose a different novel.

Books from this list will be used for quarterly reading projects. Please make sure that these novels are read
ONLY at HOME. They cannot be brought to class and read during reading time.

The Fountainhead Ayn Rand

Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
A Thief of Time Tony Hillerman
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Sula Toni Morrison
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir Esmeralda Santiago
The Namesake: A Novel Jhumpa Lahiri
The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
The Light in the Forest Conrad Richter
O Pioneers! Willa Cather
Out of the Dust Karen Hesse
McTeague Frank Norris
Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia
Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X with Alex Haley
11 Honors Outside Reading List 4th Quarter

Disclaimer: This reading list is in the process of being revised. However, few if any novels will be deleted from
the list. Most of the changes will occur as many novels will be added to the reading list that are approved
reading for AP and IB courses. 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
with your parents/guardians to make sure it is appropriate for you. If the subject matter is too difficult or
mature, feel free to choose a different novel.

Books from this list will be used for quarterly reading projects. Please make sure that these novels are ready
ONLY at HOME. They cannot be brought to class and read during reading time.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane

Pittman Ernest J. Gaines
Caramelo Sandra Cisneros
The Dollmaker Harriette Anrow
Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons
Fences August Wilson
A Gathering of Old Men Ernest J. Gaines
The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls
Going After Cacciato Tim O’Brien
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their
Accents Julia Alvarez
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Virginian Owen Wister
Montana 1948 Larry Watson
Kindred Octavia E. Butler
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston
If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
The Log of a Cowboy Andy Adams