Mrs. Johnson's Independent Reading
Complete Book List
November 19, 2007
From www.animationlibrary.com
| Following is the complete Independent Reading List. Only those titles marked with an "X" are available in the Farragut School Library. |
Individualized Reading
Reading List # 1
E= easy, M= medium, D= difficult
Soldiers, Pirates, and Knights-Tales of Adventure and Survival
xE Born Free - Joy Adamson
xM The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
xM The African Queen - C.S. Forester
D Green Dolphin Street - Elizabeth Goudge
xE The Call of the Wild - Jack London
xM Day of Infamy - Walter Lord
xE A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
xD Moby Dick - Herman Melville
xE Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
xM All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
D Rabble in Arms - Kenneth Roberts
xM Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
xE Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
xD The Once and Future King - T.H. White
M The Virginian - Owen Wister
Coming of Age- The Maturation of Self
xM When the Legends Die - Hal Borland
xM Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
xM Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
xE The Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Greene
xE Tex - S.E. Hinton
D The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
xE A Separate Peace - John Knowles
xM Christy - Catherine Marshall
xM The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
xM The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers
xM The Chosen Chaim Potok
xM The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
xE Shane - Jack Schaefer
E The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
xD Rabbit, Run - John Updike
xM Macho - Edmund Villasenor
The Imagined Past- History in Fiction
M Elizabeth the Queen - Maxwell Anderson
xM Becket - Jean Anouilh
xD A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
xE April Morning - Howard Fast
M Cimarron - Edna Ferber
xM The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
xE Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
xM The Lion in the Winter - James Goldman
D The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
xD The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
M The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
xD Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
D The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
xD Exodus - Leon Uris
xE The Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West
M The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - Herman Wouk
Other Worlds and Future Times- Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction
xE The Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
M Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
E Harvey - Mary Chase
M 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
E Blithe Spirit - Noel Coward
M Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
xD Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
xE Lost Horizon - James Hilton
xM Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
xE The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
xD A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
xM The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
In Search of Conscience- The Literature of Social Issues
xE To Sir With Love - E. R. Braithwaite
xM The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
xE The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
xM I Am the Cheese - Robert Cormier
xE The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines
xM Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
xM A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansbury
M The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman
xE Inherit the Wind - Lawrence and Lee
xM To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
xM Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
xM The Crucible - Arthur Miller
xE Animal Farm - George Orwell
M Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
xM Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose
M The Majority of One - Leonard Spigelgass
xE The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
xD Native Son - Richard Wright
The Triumph of the Spirit- Overcoming Handicaps
E Strong at the Broken Places - Max Cleland
xE I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
E Ice Castles - Leonore Fleischer
xM The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
xM I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg
xM Ordinary People - Judith Guest
xM Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther
M Susan's Story - Susan Hampshire
xE The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
xM Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
xM Eric - Doris Lund
E Requiem for a Heavyweight - Rod Serling
xE One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
xM Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
xE The Pearl - John Steinbeck
E On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
M The Other Side of the Mountain - E.G. Valens
xE The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
xM The Skin of Our Teeth - Thornton Wilder
The Top of the Ladder- Stories of Professional Success and Achievement
M Life and Death in a Coral Sea - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
M Babe: the Legend Comes to Life - Robert W. Creamer
M Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
E I Always Wanted to Be Somebody - Althea Gibson
xM All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
xM Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy - Helen Keller
M Joseph - Joyce Landorf
M Auntie Mame - Jerome Lawrence & Lee
E The Contender - Robert Lipsyte
D My Life - Golda Meir
xM Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
M The Greatest Story Ever Told - Fulton Oursler
xE The Teahouse of the August Moon - John Patrick
M The Paper Lion - George Plimpton
xD My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
M The Camera Never Blinks - Dan Rather with....
E Go Up for Glory - Bill Russell
E Anchorwoman - Jessica Savitch
E Babe Didrikson: The World's Greatest Woman Athlete - Gene Schoor
xM Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
E The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
xM The Playboy of the Western World - John M. Synge
xD The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Who Done It???- Tales of the Dark and Mysterious
M The Innocents - William Archibald
M The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
xE Where Are the Children? - Mary Higgins Clark
xE And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
xM The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie
xE Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
xM Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
M Angel Street (Gas Light) - Patrick Hamilton
M Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring
M Cloud of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers
E Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
Relived Memories- Childhood Remembered
xD A Death in the Family - James Agee
xM Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
xE I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
xM My Antonia - Willa Cather
xE Cheaper by the Dozen - Frank Gilbreth Jr. and...
E Life With Father - Howard Lindsay
xD How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
xM The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks
xE A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck
xM Our Town Thornton Wilder
M The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
xM The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Paul Zindel
Moonlight and Roses- Tales of Love and Romance
xD Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
xD Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
xM Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
M The Peacock Spring - Rumer Godden
xD The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
E Mistress of Mellyn - Victoria Holt
E The Beloved Invader - Eugenia Price
xM Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Reading List 2
Adventure and Survival
xE Run Silent, Run Deep - Edward l. Beach
M Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
D The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
M The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Alan Burgess
M The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
xM Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana
xM The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
xE Lord of the Flies - William Golding
E Dove - Robin Lee Graham
xM Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
E A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins
M Coming Into the Country - John McPhee
xE Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Maturing Self
M Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
E Midnight Hour Encores - Bruce Brooks
M The Stranger - Albert Camus
xM David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
D Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
M Maddy's Song - Margaret Dickson
xM Silas Marner - George Eliot
E Them That Glitter and Them That Don't - Bette Greene
D A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
xE Carrie - Stephen King
E I Will Call It Georgie's Blues - Suzanne Newton
xE Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Patterson
M Davita's Harp - Chaim Potok
xE Words by Heart - Quida Segestyen
xE Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
History in Fiction
M The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
M The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
xM Drums Along the Mohawk - Walter D. Edmonds
xM The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
xE Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt
xM Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
xM Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
M The Mask of the Apollo - Mary Renault
D The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott
xE The Gates of Zion - Bodie Thoene
xM A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
M Battle Cry - Leon Uris
xM Queen Dolley - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural
xM Watership Down - Richard Adams
M Foundation - Isaac Asimov
E The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
xM The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
xE A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
M A Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
E Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O�Brien
M The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart
E The Other - Thomas Tryon
xM The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
E Things Invisible - to See Nancy Willard
Social Issues and Moral Challenge
M Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
E Only Earth and Sky Last Forever - Nathaniel Benchley
xM Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
xD Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
D Intruder in the Dust - William Faulkner
E Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
E The Honorable Prison - Lyll de Becerra de Jenkins
E Skindeep - Toeckey Jones
E Fragments of Isabella - Isabella Leitner
M Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
M Other People's Houses - Lore Segal
M The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris L. West
M All the President's Men - Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstien
Success and Achievement
M Giant Steps - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler
xM Yankee From Olympus - Catherine Drinker Bowen
D Captains and the Kings - Taylor Caldwell
xM Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
M Pentimento - Lillian Hellman
xE Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufmann
xM Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedyx
M Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon
D Eleanor and Franklin - Joseph P. Lash
M The Natural - Bernard Malamud
M West With the Night - Beryl Markham
M A Man Called Peter - Catherine Marshall
M The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
xE I Am Third - Gale Sayers with Al Silverman
M Beverly: An Autobiography - Beverly Sills and Lawrence Linderman
M Madame Sarah - Cornelia Otis Skinner
M The Gift of Music - Jane Stuart Smith and Betty Carlson
M The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
E Oprah - Robert Waldron
M The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Reflections of the Family
E A Midwife's Story - Penny Armstrong
M The Dollmaker - Harriette Arnow
xM Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
M Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
E Show Boat - Edna Ferber
M Roots - Alex Haley
M Tess of the D'Urbervilles ' Thomas Hardy
D Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
M The Thornbirds - Colleen Mc Cullough
M Giants in the Earth - O.E. Rolvaag
M A Reckoning - May Sarton
M East of Eden - John Steinbeck
E Mrs. Miniver - Jan Struther
xD Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
E The Color Purple - Alice Walker
