Mr. Koenigs 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
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
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*
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
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
Heller Catch 22
Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Hinton - The Outsiders*
Howells - The Rise of Silas Lapham
Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jackson - Ramona
James Daisy Miller
Keller The Story of My Life
Kerouac - On the Road
Kesey One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
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
Lipsyte - The Contender*
London The Call of the Wild
Lowry - The Giver
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
McCullers The Member of the Wedding
Melville Bartleby the Scrivener
Meyers - Monster
Miller Death of a Salesman
Mills This Little Light of Mine
Momaday - House Made of Dawn
Morrison Beloved
Nabakov - Pale Fire
Norris - The Octopus*
OBrien The Things They Carried*
OConnor A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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
Stowe Uncle Toms Cabin
Styron Sophies 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 Kings Men
Wells The Time Machine
Wharton Ethan Frome
Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel
Wright Black Boy
Zindel - The Pigman*