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Goshen High School Suggested Reading List: English 11

 

       NOTE:  Please select an independent reading text that you have not previously read and which is outside of your teacher's selections for class reading.  You are responsible for obtaining your own copy of the book from any library, bookstore, or online source.  To learn more about a selection, refer to online summaries from, for example, Spark Notes or Wikipedia.

 

      If you wish to read something by an American author not on this list, excellent, but please get approval from Mr. Mackay or Mrs. Vanchy prior to reading!

 

  1. Alcott, Louisa May                               Little Women

  2. Anderson, Sherwood                            Winesburg, Ohio

  3. Ashe, Arthur                                         Days of Grace

  4. Baker, Russell                                      Growing Up

  5. Benet, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Johnny Appleseed

  6. Brown, Dee                                          Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

  7. Burland, Cottie                                     North American Indian Mythology

  8. Capote, Truman                                   In Cold Blood

  9. Cather, Willa                                        My Antonia

  10. Cather, Willa                                        O' Pioneers

  11. Cheever, John                                      Collected Stories

  12. Crane, Stephen                                     Maggie: Girl of the Streets

  13. Crane, Stephen                                     The Red Badge of Courage

  14. Douglass, Frederick                              Narrative of the Life of F.D.

  15. Douglass, Frederick                              The Life and Times of F.D. 

  16. Ellison, Ralph                                        Invisible Man

  17. Faulkner, William                                  Absalom, Absalom

  18. Faulkner, William                                  As I Lay  Dying

  19. Faulkner, William                                  The Sound and the Fury

  20. Fitzgerald, F. Scott                               Tender is the Night

  21. Fitzgerald, F. Scott                               This Side of Paradise

  22. Griffin, John Howard                            Black Like Me

  23. Grisham, John                                       The Firm

  24. Hallowell, Edward M.                           Connect

  25. Hammet, Dashiell                                  The Maltese Falcon

  26. Hamill, Pete                                          Snow in August

  27. Hawthorne, Nathaniel                           The House of Seven Gables

  28. Heller, Joseph                                       Catch 22

  29. Hellman, Lillian                                     The Little Foxes

  30. Hemingway, Ernest                               A Farewell to Arms

  31. Hemingway, Ernest                               The Sun Also Rises

  32. Hemingway, Ernest                               To Have and Have Not

  33. Irving, John                                           The World According to Garp

  34. Irving, John                                           A Prayer for Owen Meaney

  35. Kennedy, W.                                        Ironwood

  36. King, Stephen                                       The Shining

  37. King, Stephen                                       The Green Mile

  38. Kesey, Ken                                          One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  39. Kesey, Ken                                          Sometimes a Great Notion

  40. Lawrence/ Lee                                     Inherit the Wind (drama)

  41. LeGuin, Ursula K.                                The Left Hand of Darkness

  42. LeGuin, Ursula K.                                The Dispossessed

  43. Lessing, Doris                                       The Golden Notebook

  44. Lewis, Sinclair                                      Babbitt

  45. Malamud, Bernard                                The Natural

  46. Malcolm X                                           The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  47. Masters, Edgar Lee                              Spoon River Anthology

  48. McCullers, Carson                               The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

  49. Melville, Herman                                  Moby Dick

  50. Melville, Herman                                  Billy Budd

  51. Miller, Arthur                                        Death of a Salesman (drama)

  52. Mitchell, Margaret                                Gone With the Wind

  53. Moon, William Least Heat                    Blue Highways

  54. Morrison, Toni                                     Beloved

  55. Morrison, Toni                                     The Bluest Eye

  56. Nabakov, Vladimir                               Lolita

  57. Naylor, Gloria                                      The Women of Brewster Place

  58. O'Connor, Flannery                              Collected Stories

  59. O'Neill, Eugene                                    The Ice-Man Cometh

  60. Plath, Sylvia                                          The Bell Jar

  61. Roosevelt, Eleanor                                My Day

  62. Rose, Reginald                                     Twelve Angry Men

  63. Salinger, J.D.                                        The Catcher in the Rye

  64. Sandburg, Carl                                     Paul Bunyan (folklore)

  65. Shaara, Michael                                    Killer Angels

  66. Sinclair, Upton                                      The Jungle

  67. Smith, Betty                                          A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  68. Stein, Gertrude                                     The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

  69. Steinbeck, John                                    The Grapes of Wrath

  70. Steinbeck, John                                    Of Mice and Men

  71. Stowe, Harriet B.                                 Uncle Tom's Cabin

  72. Thoreau, Henry David                          Walden

  73. Toomer, Jean                                       Cane

  74. Twain, Mark                                        A Connecticut Yankee....

  75. Twain, Mark                                        The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  76. Updike, John                                        Rabbit Run

  77. Updike, John                                        The Witches of Eastwick

  78. Vonnegut, Kurt                                     The Sirens of Titan

  79. Vonnegut, Kurt                                     Slaughterhouse-Five

  80. Walker, Alice                                       The Color Purple

  81. Warren, Robert Penn                            All the King's Men

  82. West, Nathaniel                                    Miss Lonelyhearts

  83. Wharton, Edith                                     Ethan Frome

  84. Wharton, Edith                                     The House of Mirth

  85. Wilder, Thornton                                  Our Town

  86. Williams, Tennessee                              A Streetcar Named Desire

  87. Wright, Richard                                    Black Boy

 

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