Academic English 12

Outside Reading List

Mr. Funk

A Death in the Family James Agee Contemporary

I Know Why the Caged Bird Maya Angelou Autobiographical
Sings
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Classic
Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov Science Fiction
Seize the Day Saul Bellow Classic
Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Science Fiction
Dandelion Wine
In Cold Blood Truman Capote Non-fiction Journalism
O Pioneers Willa Cather Classic
My Antonia
The Awakening Kate Chopin Classic
Salvador Joan Didion Journalistic
The Year of Magical Autobiographical
Thinking
Wait Until Spring, Bandini John Fante Classic
The Road to Los Angeles
Ask the Dust
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Southern Classic
The Sound and the Fury
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic
The Autobiography of Alex Haley, Malcom X Autobiographical
Malcom X
The Quiet American Graham Greene Contemporary
Catch—22 Joseph Heller War/Satire
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Classic/War
The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
On the Road Jack Kerouac Avant garde
Desolation Angels
Dharma Bums
One Flew Over the Ken Kesey Avant garde
Cuckoo’s Nest
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer War/Creative Non-fiction
An American Dream
The Fixer Bernard Malmud Historical non-fiction
The Natural
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry Historical Fiction
The Last Picture Show
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Contemporary
Sula
 Tar Baby
We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates Contemporary
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Contemporary/War
Going After Cacciato
In the Lake of the Woods
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Avant garde
Anthem Ayn Rand Science
Fiction/Philosophical
The Fountainhead
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Coming of
Age/Contemporary
Franny and Zooey
In America Susan Sontag Contemporary
The Winter of Our John Steinbeck Classic
Discontent
In Dubious Battle
East of Eden
The Jungle Upton Sinclair Journalistic
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Contemporary
Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Satirical Humor
Welcome to the Monkey
House
Breakfast of Champions
Rabbit, Run John Updike Avant garde
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Contemporary/Social Satire
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Man in Full
This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolff Contemporary
Old School Coming of
Age/Contemporary
In the Garden of North Short Stories
American Martyrs
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Contemporary
Montana 1948 Larry Watson Contemporary
Native Son Richard Wright Classic
Black Boy
 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Classic
The Stranger Albert Camus Classic
Jack Maggs: A novel Peter Carey Contemporary/Dialogue
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee Contemporary
Diary of a Bad Year Philosophical
Boyhood: Stories from
Provincial Life
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Classic
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Classic
A Passage to India E. M. Forster Classic
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy Classic
Siddhartha Herman Hesse Classic/coming of age
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Contemporary
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Brave New World Aldous Huxley Science Fiction
A Portrait of the Artists as James Joyce Classic
a Young Man
The Trial Franz Kafka Classic/philosophical
The Metamorphosis
Being There Jerzy Kosinski Contemporary
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri Contemporary/short stories
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence Classic
One Hundred Years of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Contemporary
Solitude
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Classic
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Contemporary
Half a Life V.S. Naipaul Contemporary
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie Contemporary
Midnight’s Children
Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai Contemporary
Frankenstein Mary W. Shelley Classic
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Classic
Riders in the Chariot Patrick White Contemporary
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Classic
Mrs. Dalloway Classic