12^th Grade Independent Reading List

Chapter 1:

            The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

            How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch

            The Inferno by Dante

            Body and Soul by Frank Conroy

            The Places in Between by Rory Stewart

            The King Must Die by Mary Renault

            Troy by Adele Geras

            Heroes: A Novel by Robert Cormier

Chapter 2:

            A River Sutra by Gita Mehta

            Cambodian Folk Stories from Gatiloke by Muriel P. Carrison

            Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

            Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

            Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse

            The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle

            A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

            Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

            Grendel by John Gardner

            The Medieval Castle by Phillip Warner

            Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero by David Adams Lemings

            Becket (a drama) by Jean Anouilh

            The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

            A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

            Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale

            Murder in the Cathedral (drama) by T.S. Eliot

Chapter 3:

            The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

            Collected Poems by W.H. Auden

            Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

            Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

            Death by Not Proud by John Gunther

            Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

            Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

            The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

            Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

            A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

            Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery

Chapter 4:

            Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer

            Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer

            Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Persig

Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets

Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser

Hamlet (drama) by William Shakespeare

Cyrano de Bergerac (drama) by Edmond Rostand

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (drama) by Tom Stoppard

http://www.folger.edu

Chapter 5:

            The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

            The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase

            The Plague by Albert Camus

            Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes and Solutions, Robert Baird ed.

            The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

            Animal Farm by George Orwell

            My World and Welcome to It by James Thurber

            The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

            A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

Chapter 6:

            Candide by Francois Voltaire

            The Education of Robert Nifkin by Daniel Pinkwater

            Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez

            Growing up Asian American by Maria Hong

            The Autobiography of Mark Twain

            Novemberland: Selected Poems, 1956-1993 by Gunter Grass

            The Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Monfredo

            Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge

            The Misanthrope and Tartuffe (dramas) Moliere

            Joseph Andrews and Shamela by Henry Fielding

            Pamela by Samuel Richardson

            Ireland: A Graphic History by Morgan Llywelyn

            Satire: From Horace to Yesterday’s Comic Strips by James Scott

            English Society in 18^th Century by Roy Porter

            Isaac Newton by James Gleick

Chapter 7:

            Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

            The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

            “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou

            The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

            The Land of Bliss by Cathy Song

            Coming into the Country by John McPhee

            Gorillas in the Mist by Diane Fossey

Chapter 8:

            The Complete Poems by John Keats

            Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

            Blood on the Forehead: What I Know About Writing by Eve Kerr

            Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

            Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

            Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

            The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes

            Voices: Poetry and Art from Around the World by Barbara Brenner

            Haiku en’kin by Shuuton Kato

            Essential Haiku: Version of Basho, Busson, and Issa by Robert Hess

            Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S. Forester

            Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

            The sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

            The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

            John Keats: Selected Letters, Robert Gittings, ed.

            The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth

            The Prince of Pleasure by Saul David

Chapter 9: 

Road to Camlann: The Death of King Arthur by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Tempest (drama) by William Shakespeare

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

A Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

Chapter 10:

            Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

            Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

            A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

            Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe

            Rumors of Rain by Andre P Brink

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Mount of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Silas Marner by George Eliot

The Importance of being Ernest by Oscar Wilde

What Jane Austin Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Poole

Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford

Dared & Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning by Julia Markus

The Victorian Web www.victorianweb.org

Chapter 11:

            Sonny’s War by Valerie Hobbs

            A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

            Dawn by Elie Wiesel

            Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman

            In My Hands, Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi

Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

Nobel Lectures in Literature (1991-1995) edited by Sture Allen

Restless, A Ghosts’ Story by Rich Wallace

The Grave by James Heneghan

Daisies in the Junkyard by Michael Enright

The Orwell Reader by George Orwell

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Chapter 12:

            All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

            Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot

            Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life by Robert Haas

            Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni

            Mythology by Edith Hamilton

            Eden by Stanislaw Lem

            The Accident by Elie Wiesel

            King Lear by William Shakespeare

            Paradise of the Blind by Thu Huong

            The Little World of Don Camillo by Gionvanni Guareschi

            Love that Dog by Sharon Creech

            The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

            Daughter by the Sea by Berlie Doherty

            Tomorrownland: Ten Stories about the Future by Michael Cart

            Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

            Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards

            The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell

            Oranges by John McPhee

            The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

            Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginian Woolf by Virginia Woolf

            Pale Hourse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter

            The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel

            Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin

            The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

            The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco

            In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

            Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan

Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming fo Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta

Ties that Bind, Ties that Break: A Novel by Lensey Namioka

The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

The Odyssey by Homer

Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White: Our Own Stories fo Growing up Black in America; Laurel Holliday (ed.)

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene