Mr. Koenig’s Classic Reading List

Junior English – American authors

(Ones marked with * are available in BJSHS library)

 

Adams, D. - A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

Adams, R. - Watership Down; *

Agee – A Death in the Family*

Albom – Tuesdays with Morrie*

Alcott – Little Women*; Little Men*

Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima*

Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*

Armstrong - Sounder

Baldwin – Go Tell It on the Mountain*

Bellamy – Looking Backward:  2000-1887*

Bellow – Seize the Day*; Herzog

Borland – When the Legends Die*

Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451*

Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee*

Buck – The Good Earth*

Card - Ender's Game*

Capote – In Cold Blood*

Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop*; My Antonia*; O Pioneers!*

Chopin – The Awakening*

Collier - My Brother Sam Is Dead

Clark – The Ox-Bow Incident

Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans*; The Deerslayer; The Pioneers; The Prairie*

Cormier – The Chocolate War*

Crane – The Red Badge of Courage*; Maggie:  A Girl of the Streets

Dessen - Speak

Dorris - A Yellow Raft on Blue Water*

Dreiser – An American Tragedy*

Ellison – Invisible Man*

Erdrich - Love Medicine

Fast - Across Five Aprils*

Faulkner – As I Lay Dying*; Absalom, Absalom!; The Light in August; The Sound and the Fury*

Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby*; Tender Is the Night*; This Side of Paradise*

Forbes - Johnny Tremaine*

Frank - Alas, Babylon*

Franklin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin*

Gaines – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman*; A Lesson before Dying*

Green - Summer of My German Soldier*

*Grisham - Check with Mr. Koenig.

Guest - Ordinary People*

Gunther – Death Be Not Proud*

Haley – Roots

Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun*

Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter*; The House of the Seven Gables*; The Blithdale Romance; The Marble Faun; Mosses from an Old Manse*

Heller – Catch 22*

Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms*; For Whom the Bell Tolls*; The Sun Also Rises*; The Old Man and the Sea*

Hinton - The Outsiders*

Howells - The Rise of Silas Lapham

Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God*

Jackson - Ramona

James – Daisy Miller; The Portrait of a Lady; The Turn of the Screw*

Keller – The Story of My Life*

Kerouac - On the Road

Kesey – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest*; Flowers for Algernon*

Kingsolver - The Bean Tree

Knowles – A Separate Peace*

Kosinski - The Painted Bird; Being There; The Devil Tree; Pinball

Kotlowitz – There Are No Children Here*

Kovic – Born on the Fourth of July*

Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird*

Lewis – Babbit*; Main Street*

Lipsyte - The Contender*

London – The Call of the Wild*; White Fang*; The Sea Wolf*

Lowry - The Giver

Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

McCullers – The Member of the Wedding*

Melville – Bartleby the Scrivener*; Benito Cereno*; Billy Bud; Typee*; Moby Dick*

Meyers - Monster

Miller – Death of a Salesman*

Mills – This Little Light of Mine

Momaday - House Made of Dawn

Morrison – Beloved*; The Bluest Eye*; Song of Solomon*; Sula*

Nabakov - Pale Fire

Norris - The Octopus*

O’Brien – The Things They Carried*

O’Connor – A Good Man Is Hard to Find*; Wise Blood*

Parks – The Learning Tree*

Peck - A Day No Pigs Would Die*

Plath – The Bell Jar*

Porter - Ship of Fools*

Potok – The Chosen*

Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

Rand - The Fountainhead*; Atlas Shrugged*; Anthem*

Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows*

Rose – Twelve Angry Men*

Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye*; Franny & Zooey*; Raise High the Moonbeam, Carpenters

Schaefer - Shane*

Shute - On the Beach*

Sinclair – The Jungle*

Smiley - A Thousand Acres*

*Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath*; East of Eden*; Travels with Charley*; Of Mice and Men*; The Pearl*

Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin*

Styron – Sophie’s Choice*

Tan – The Joy Luck Club*

Taylor - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry*

*Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*; The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi*; The Prince and the Pauper*; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Puddin'Head Wilson*

Tyler - The Accidental Tourist

Updike - Rabbit, Run

Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five*

Walker – The Color Purple*

Warren – All the King’s Men*

Wells – The Time Machine

Wharton – Ethan Frome*

Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel*

Wright – Black Boy*; Native Son*

Zindel - The Pigman*