| Author |
Title |
| Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
| Julia Alvarez |
How the Garcia Girls
Lost Their Accents |
| Sherwood Anderson |
Winesburg, Ohio |
| Jane Austen |
Complete works (e.g.
Pride and Prejudice) |
| Avi |
Blue Heron |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley |
The Mists of Avalon |
| Charlotte Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
| Bruce Brooks |
Midnight Hour Encores |
| Willa Cather |
Complete Works |
| Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
| Tracy Chevalier |
The Girl with a Pearl
Earring |
| Kate Chopin |
The Awakening |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
The 2001 Series |
| Breena Clarke |
River, Cross My Heart |
| Brock Cole |
Celine |
| Courtenay Bryce |
The Power of One |
| Stephen Crane |
The Red Badge of Courage/Maggie:
A Girl of the Streets |
| Charles Dickens |
David Copperfield/Oliver
Twist/other works |
| Peter Dickinson |
Eva |
| Sharon Draper |
Forged by Fire |
| George Eliot |
Silas Marner |
| Ralph Ellison |
The Invisible Man |
| Laura Esquivel |
Like Water for Chocolate |
| E.M. Forster |
Passage to India/A Room
With a View |
| Neil Gaiman |
Stardust |
| Pete Hamill |
Snow in August |
| Thomas Hardy |
Return of the Native/Tess
of the d’Urbrevilles |
| Ernest Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms/The
Old Man and the Sea |
| John Richard Hersey |
The Child Buyer |
| Kimberly Willis Holt |
When Zachary Beaver Came
to Town |
| H.M. Hoover |
Treasures of the Morrow |
| Henry James |
Portrait of a Lady |
| Angela Johnson |
Heaven |
| M.E. Kerr |
Is that You, Miss Blue? |
| M.E. Kerr |
Night Kites |
| Rudyard Kipling |
Kim/Captains Courageous |
| John Knowles |
A Separate Peace |
| Ursula LeGuin |
The Earthsea Trilogy |
| Sonia Levitin |
The Mark of Conte |
| Margaret Mahy |
The Catalogue of the
Universe |
| Margaret Mahy |
The Tricksters |
| Juliet Marillier |
Daughter of the Forest |
| Victor Martinez |
Parrot in the Oven |
| Sharon Bell Mathis |
Teacup Full of Roses |
| Walter Dean Myers |
Hoops |
| Han Nolan |
Dancing on the Edge |
| Zibby O’Neal |
The Language of Goldfish |
| Zibby O’Neal |
In Summer Light |
| Alan Paton |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Richard Peck |
Remembering the Good
Times |
| K.M. Peyton |
Pennington’s Last
Term |
| K.M. Peyton |
The Beethoven Medal |
| K.M. Peyton |
Prove Yourself a Hero |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
The Gold Bug/Narrative
of A.Gordon Pym |
| Mark Salzman |
Iron & Silk |
| Allen Say |
The Ink-Keeper’s
Apprentice |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
any work (mysteries,
but real novels in themselves) |
| Michael Sharra |
The Killer Angels |
| Mary Shelley |
Frankenstein |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
Kidnapped/Treasure Island |
| Bruce Stone |
Been Clever, Forever |
| Marc Talbert |
Dead Birds Singing |
| Julian F. Thompson |
Simon Pure |
| Stephanie Tolan |
Good Courage |
| Stephanie Tolan |
Plague Year |
| J.R.R. Tolkien |
Lord of the Rings series |
| Leo Tolstoy |
Anna Kerenina |
| Mark Twain |
Huckleberry Finn/ Tom
Sawyer/
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court |
| Hermann Vinke |
The Short Life of Sophie
Scholl |
| H.G. Wells |
The War of the Words/The
Time Machine |
| Edith Warton |
Ethan Frome |
| Kate Wilhelm |
Huysman’s Pets |
| T.H. White |
The Once and Future King |
| Connie Willis |
To Say Nothing of the
Dog |
| V. Wolff |
The Mozart Season |
Biography and
Non-Fiction |
| Caroline Alexander |
The Endurance: Shackleton’s
Legendary Antartic Expedition |
| Russell Baker |
Growing Up |
| John Boslough |
Sephen Hawking’s
Universe |
| Humphrey Carpenter |
Tolkien: A Biography |
| Mary Catherine Bateson |
With a Daughter’s
Eye |
| Jill Ker Conway |
The Road from Coorain |
| Eve Curie |
Madame Curie |
| Annie Dillard |
An American Childhood |
| Mary Crow |
Dog and Richard E Lakota
Woman |
| Rigoberta Menchu |
I, Rigoberta: An Indian
Woman in Guatemala |
| James Albert Michener |
The World is My Home:
A Memoir |
| Merle Miller |
Plain Speaking: An Oral
Biography of Harry S. Truman |
| Sara Suleri |
Meatless Days |
| Tobias Wolff |
This Boy’s Life:
A Memoir |
Drama |
| Karel Capek |
R.U.R. (Rossum’s
Universal Robots) |
| Arthur Miller |
The Crucible |
| Moliere |
complete works (e.g.
Tartuffe/Misanthrope) |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
No Exit |
| George Bernard Shaw |
Pygmalion |
| Richard Sheridan |
The Rivals/School For
Scandal |
| Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie |
Short Stories |
| Martha Brooks |
Paradise Cafe |
| Isak Dinesen |
Seven Gothic Tales and
other stories |
| Rudyard Kipling |
Plain Tales from the
Hills |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Crown of Feathers and
other stories |
| Robert Silverberg |
Legends: Short Novels
by the Masters of Modern Fantasy |
| Gary Soto |
Living Up the Street |
| Dylan Thomas |
A Child’s Christmas
in Wales |
| Eudora Welty |
Short stories |
| Budge Wilson |
The Leaving |
Humor and Essay |
| Robert Benchley |
any work |
| Gerald Durrell |
My Family and Other Animals/Birds,
Beasts and Relatives/Fauna and Family |
| Stephen Leacock |
any work |
| James Thurber |
The Thurber Carnival/My
World and Welcome to It |
| P.G. Wodehouse |
any work |
Poetry |
| The Norton Anthology
of Poetry |
| The Oxford Anthology
of American Poetry |
| Oxford Anthology of British
Poetry |
| 20th Cent poets grouped
roughly by period: |
| W.H.Auden, Hart Crane,
E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, |
| Robert Frost, Langston
Hughs, Marianne Moore, Wallace |
| Stevens, Dylan Thomas,
William Carlos Williams, |
| W.B. Yeats |
| Elizabeth Bishop, Louise
Bogan, Robert Lowell, Randall |
| Jarrell, Theodore Roethke. |
| Marvin Bell, Lucille
Clifton, Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, |
| Robert Hayden, Weldon
Kees, Galway Kinnell, Denise |
| Levertov, W.S. Merwin,
Frank O’Hara, Marge Piercy, |
| Sylvia Plath, Donald
Justice, Adrienne Rich, Muriel |
| Rukeyser, Mark Strand,
Nancy Willard, James Wright. |
Science and
Mathematics |
| David Attenborough |
The Living Planet: A
Portrait of the Earth |
| David Bodanis |
The Secret Family: Twenty-Four
Hours Inside the Mysterious World of our Minds and
Bodies |
| James Gleick |
Chaos |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
The Panda’s Thumb/Bully
for Brontosaurus |
| Allen Hammond |
A Passion to Know: Twenty
Profiles in Science |
| Godfrey H. Hardy |
Mathematician’s
Apology |
| Steven Hawking |
A Brief History of Time |
| Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Godel, Echer, Bach: and
Eternal Golden Braid |
| Bernard Jaffe |
Crucibles: The Story
of Chemistry |
| Peter Medawar |
Plato’s Republic:
Incorporating: The Art of the Soluble and Induction
and Intuition in Scientific Thought |
| Gyorgy Polya |
How To Solve It |
| Carl Sagan |
The Demon-Haunted World:
Science As a Candle in The Dark |
| C. Stoll |
The Cuckoo’s Egg:
Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage |
| Lewis Thomas |
The Fragile Species/The
Lives of a Cell |
| Alvin Toffler |
The Third Wave |
| James D. Watson |
The Double Helix: A Personal
Account of the Discovery of DNA |
Periodicals |
| Concord Review (History) www.tcr.org |
| Discover Magazine www.discover.com |
| Scientific American www.sciam.com |
