LIST
#1
FREE
CHOICE – MODE:
PLEASURE/RAPID
– COMPREHENSION
LEVEL: LITERAL/AFFECTIVE
Titles
Read/Author
Genre
Date Completed
Rating
(***** = Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations:
NOTES:
CLASSICS
OPTION: YOU MAY COMPLETE YOUR INDEPENDENT READING REQUIREMENT
BY READING CLASSICS ONLY. SEE THE SUGGESTED WEBSITES ON THE CLASSICS
PAGE AND CONSULT WITH YOUR INSTRUCTOR AS YOU CHOOSE YOUR TITLES.REMEMBER TO USE THIS LIST
AS A RECORD OF YOUR READING AND RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGHOUT THE
SEMESTER. KEEP YOUR ANNOTATED LIST IN YOUR LAB FOLDER.
LIST
#2
POPULAR FICTION / MYSTERY / LEGAL
THRILLER / COURTROOM
DRAMA / SCIENCE FICTION
– MODE:
PLEASURE/CRITICAL
- COMP. LEVEL: AFFECTIVE/CRITICAL
LISTED
BELOW ARE SOME SUGGESTED TITLES. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO CHOOSE FROM THIS
LIST AS LONG AS YOUR BOOK FITS THE MODE AND COMPREHENSION LEVEL INDICATED
ABOVE.
(Be
sure to check out WRITERS WHO READ and BOOKS
GUARANTEED NOT TO BE "CHICK BOOKS" for more ideas.)
THE
NAME OF THE ROSE AND/OR
THE
ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE - UMBERTO ECO
THE
MOOR – LAURIE R. KING
THE
HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES –
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
JANE
AUSTEN MYSTERIES
ANYTHING
BY AGATHA CHRISTIE
LORD
PETER WIMSEY MYSTERIES – DOROTHY SAYERS
FATHER
BROWN MYSTERIES - G. K. CHESTERTON
THE RUMPOLE STORIES – JOHN
MORTIMER
THE
RAINMAKER – JOHN GRISHAM
A
CIVIL ACTION – JONATHAN HARR
A
LESSON BEFORE DYING – ERNEST
J. GAINES
BILLY
BUDD – HERMAN
MELVILLE
BLEAK
HOUSE – CHARLES
DICKENS
INHERIT
THE WIND – LAWRENCE AND LEE
THE
CRUCIBLE – ARTHUR MILLER
ANATOMY
OF A MURDER –
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
FIVE (OR ANYTHING BY)- KURT
VONNEGUT
CHILDHOOD’S END (OR ANYTHING BY)- ARTHUR C. CLARKE
DANDELION
WINE, FARENHEIT 451, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, MARTIAN CHRONICLES, (OR ANYTHING
BY) - RAY BRADBURY
TIMELINE,
EATERS OF THE DEAD, JURASSIC PARK (OR ANYTHING BY) – MICHAEL
CRICHTON
THE
LATHE OF HEAVEN – URSULA
LEGUIN
THE
MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE – PHILIP
K. DICK
CANTICLE FOR
LEIBOWITZ – WALTER
M. MILLER, JR.
DUNE
TRILOGY (any
one or more)– FRANK
HERBERT
THE
PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN : A TALE OF MURDER, INSANITY, AND THE MAKING OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH
DICTIONARY – SIMON
WINCHESTER
ROBERT HEINLEIN
Titles
Read/Author
Date Completed
Rating (***** = Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations
LIST
#3
NON-FICTION –
MODE:
PLEASURE/STUDY– COMP.
LEVEL: LITERAL/CRITICAL
(Be
sure to check out WRITERS WHO READ and BOOKS
GUARANTEED NOT TO BE "CHICK BOOKS" for more non-fiction ideas)
ON
WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT
– STEPHEN KING
ESSAY
COLLECTIONS:
LATE NIGHT REFLECTIONS ON
LISTENING TO MAHLER’S NINTH SYMPHONY, LIVES OF A CELL
-
LEWIS THOMAS
HOW
TO BE ALONE - JONATHAN FRANZEN
WRITINGS
FROM THE NEW YORKER - E.B. WHITE - A selection of short pieces and
essays
THE
WEIGHT OF GLORY (A collection of essays) - C.
S. LEWIS
- SEEING
VOICES : A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF THE DEAF- OLIVER SACKS , M.D.
- Oliver Sacks' voyage into the subject of Sign, it's
implicatIons for language, and the deaf movement.
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT AND OTHER CLINICAL
TALES - Tales of astonishing neurological disorders (OR ANY BY)
OLIVER SACKS, M.D.
VICTOR
VILLASENOR – ANY NON-FICTION
ANNIE
DILLARD – ANY NON-FICTION
WOMAN WARRIOR – MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
WOULDN’T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY NOW, EVEN THE
STARS LOOK LONESOME (OR ANY BY) MAYA ANGELOU
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME – STEVEN HAWKING
I NEVER HAD IT MADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY – JACKIE ROBINSON
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X – ALEX HALEY AND MALCOLM X
ANGELA’S ASHES – FRANK MCCORT
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE – DEE BROWN
IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE – PETER MATHIESSEN
THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN: A TALE OF MURDER, INSANITY,
AND THE MAKING OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY – SIMON WINCHESTER
WRITERS
WHO READ (AND ASSORTED OTHER BIBLIOPHILES)
JACK:
C.S.LEWIS AND HIS TIMES –
GEORGE SAYER
HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFE - ANNA QUINDLEN
HOW TO READ A BOOK - MORTIMER J. ADLER AND CHARLES VAN DOREN
The classic guide to intelligent reading
THE COMMON READER - VIRGINIA WOOLF
Actually for readers who are anything but common
You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the
people you meet and ...
THE BOOKS YOU READ - CHARLES E. "T" JONES
WALKING A LITERARY LABYRINTH - NANCY
M. MALONE
An annotated reading list from a woman who understands how reading makes us
who we are
HOW TO READ AND WHY - HAROLD
BLOOM
Written
by a Yale professor (formerly Harvard, etc.) who is the winner of many
prestigious awards including a MacArthur "genius" Grant, this
one is for classics lovers and English majors
THE CHILD THAT BOOKS BUILT: A LIFE IN READING - FRANCIS
SPUFFORD
Remember
The Chronicles of Narnia, The Little House on the Prairie Series, science
fiction you read in elementary school? Spufford does, and he wants to
remind you why you loved them.
EX LIBRIS: CONFESSIONS OF A COMMON READER - ANNE
FADIMAN
Includes "The Joy of Sesquipedalians" - Should this be on the
Banned Book list?
A HISTORY OF READING - ALBERTO
MANGUEL
On
the back cover - "From clay tablet to CD-ROM ... book burners,
bibliophiles, book fools ... the quirky and passionate 6000-year-old
history of the written word ... If you love reading, this, at long last,
is your story.
BOOKS GUARANTEED NOT TO BE "CHICK BOOKS"
NONFICTION:
HOW THE UNIVERSE GOT ITS SPOTS: DIARY OF A FINITE TIME IN A FINITE
SPACE - JANNA LEVIN
Great look at current theory
regarding the shape of our universe.
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE - LANCE ARMSTRONG
ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE - ALFRED LANSING
BAND OF BROTHERS - STEPHAN AMBROSE
SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM: A TRIUMPH - T.E. LAWRENCE
SOUL OF BATTLE OR WHO KILLED HOMER? - VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
GATES OF FIRE - STEPHAN PRESSFIELD
FICTION:
ONCE AN EAGLE - ANTON MYER (This one is fiction, but it made Jeff's
list anyway!!)
THE GUN SELLER - HUGH LAURIE
Who knew this actor could write!?! A
spy-thriller spoof said to be hilarious.
PASTWATCH: THE REDEMPTION OF
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - ORSON SCOTT CARD
Scientists travel back in
time and change the outcome of history by keeping Christopher Columbus
from going back to Europe.
Great book!!
ENDER'S GAME -
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Supersmart children are trained in
futuristic, "Star Wars" military strategy. Great story and everything is not
as it appears for the kids.
LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY - J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A GAME OF THRONES - GEORGE R.R.
MARTIN
There is much bloodshed,
cruelty, and death, but A Game of Thrones is nevertheless
compelling; it garnered a
Nebula nomination and won the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy
Novel. So, on to
A
Clash of Kings! --Nona Vero (from Amazon.com review)
CRYPTONOMICON - NEAL
STEPHENSON
From Library Journal
Computer expert Randy Waterhouse spearheads a
movement to create a safe haven for data in a world where
information equals power and big business and government seek to
control the flow of knowledge. His ambitions collide with a
top-secret conspiracy with links to the encryption wars of World War
II and his grandfather's work in preventing the Nazis from
discovering that the Allies had cracked their supposedly unbreakable
Enigma code. The author of Snow Crash (LJ 4/1/92) focuses his
eclectic vision on a story of epic proportions, encompassing both
the beginnings of information technology in the 1940s and the
blossoming of the present cybertech revolution. Stephenson's
freewheeling prose and ironic voice lend a sense of familiarity to a
story that transcends the genre and demands a wide readership among
fans of technothrillers as well as a general audience. Highly
recommended.
HYPERION - DAN SIMMONS
Titles Read/Author
Date Completed
Rating (***** = Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations
LIST
#4
BANNED
BOOKS –
MODE:
CRITICAL/PLEASURE/RAPID
-
COMP.
LEVEL: CRITICAL/ANALYTIC
“If there is a bedrock principle
underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit
the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself
offensive or disagreeable.”—Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Texas
v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all
subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat
us.”—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
don’t believe in it at all.”—Noam Chomsky, speaking in a BBC television
interview with John Pilger on The Late Show (1992)
For
information about your banned book (where it was challenged or banned, by
whom and why) see 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World on
reserve (behind the desk) in the reading lab.
Literature
AS
I LAY DYING
– WILLIAM FAULKNER
BRAVE
NEW WORLD – ALDOUS HUXLEY
CANTERBURY
TALES – CHAUCER
CARRIE
– STEPHEN KING
CATCH-22
– JOSEPH HELLER
DEATH
OF A SALESMAN – ARTHUR MILLER
EAST
OF EDEN, GRAPES OF WRATH –
JOHN STEINBECK
FLOWERS
FOR ALGERNON – DANIEL KEYES
HARRY
POTTER SERIES – J.K. ROWLING
I
KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS – MAYA ANGELOU
ONE
FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST – KEN KESEY
ONE
HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE – GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
ORDINARY
PEOPLE – JUDITH GUEST
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
FIVE – KURT VONNEGUT
THE
LIVING BIBLE
THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE, TWELFTH NIGHT
– WM. SHAKESPEARE
TO
KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – HARPER LEE
WEBSTER’S
NINTH NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY
Consult the following websites for more titles:
Banned Books Week
Books Banned in the United
States
The Most
Frequently Banned Books in the 1990's
BANNED
BOOKS ONLINE
Banned Books and
Censorship
Titles Read/Author
Date Completed
Rating (***** = Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations
LIST
#5
CLASSICS –
MODE:
PLEASURE –
COMP.
LEVEL: AFFECTIVE/CRITICAL
"THERE ARE TWO
MOTIVES FOR READING A BOOK;
ONE, THAT YOU ENJOY IT;
THE OTHER, THAT YOU CAN BOAST ABOUT IT."
BERTRAND RUSSELL
| The Harvard Classics and The Shelf of Fiction |
| Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD
This is an excellent source of ideas for your
classic literature selection whether or not you decide to do your
reading online. |
|
Available
online at http://www.bartleby.com/hc/
20-volume
Shelf of Fiction available in e-book - honor
system download - $1/book at
http://www.bartleby.com/ebook/
|
| The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology
of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books”
and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every
major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical
subject through the twentieth century. |
SUGGESTED
AUTHORS:
ERNEST
HEMINGWAY
JOHN STEINBECK
JANE AUSTEN
CHARLES DICKENS
THE BRONTE SISTERS
VOLTAIRE
WILLIAM FAULKNER
OSCAR WILDE
J.R.R.
TOLKIEN
HENRY JAMES
VIRGINIA WOOLF
ALBERT CAMUS –
THE
STRANGER, THE FALL
THOMAS WOLFE
–
LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL
F.
SCOTT FITZGERALD
GUNTER GRASS –
THE
TIN DRUM
YOUR CHOICE – AS APPROVED
BY INSTRUCTOR
Titles Read/Author
Date Completed
Rating (***** = Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations
LIST
#6
MULTICULTURAL
THEMES –
MODE:
CRITICAL/PLEASURE
-
COMP.
LEVEL: AFFECTIVE
Suggested
Titles/Authors
(by
cultural/ethnic groups)
MIDDLE EASTERN
Hosseini, Kahled, KITE RUNNER
Kwi-mi,
Kang, LITERATURE FROM THE AXIS OF EVIL (A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES)
Pamuk, Orhan, (2006 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE) SNOW, MY NAME IS RED
BLACK
Angelou,
Maya. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD
SINGS
Butler,
Octavia. KINDRED
Delaney,
Elizabeth, et al. HAVING OUR
SAY: THE DELANEY SISTERS” FIRST ONE HUNDRED
Ellison,
Ralph. INVISIBLE MAN
Griffin,
John. BLACK LIKE ME
Haley, Alex
and Malcolm X. THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
Lee, Harper.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Morrison,
Toni. THE BLUEST EYE
Walker,
Alice. THE COLOR PURPLE
Wright,
Richard. THE NATIVE SON
CHINESE
Buck, Pearl
S. THE GOOD EARTH
Kingston, Maxine Hong. WOMAN WARRIORS: MEMOIRS OF A
GIRLHOOD AMONG
Lee, Gus.
CHINA
BOY
Lord, Bette Bao.
SPRINGMOON
Robinson, Jackie. I NEVER HAD IT MADE: AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Tan, Amy.
THE
JOY LUCK CLUB, KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE, THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES
NATIVE
AMERICAN
Harrison, Jim. DALVA
Hillerman, Tony.
THE GHOSTWAY
Kingsolver, Barbara.
ANIMAL DREAMS
Kingsolver, Barbara.
PIGS IN HEAVEN
Momaday, N. Scott.
HOUSE MADE OF DAWN
JAPANESE
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsui and James D.
FAREWELL TO MANZANAR
Michener, James.
SAYONARA
LATINO/A
– CHICANO/A - HISPANIC
Esquivel, Laura.
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
VIETNAMESE
Butler, Robert Glen.
A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN
IRISH
Joyce, James. DUBLINERS
McCort, Frank. ANGELA’S ASHES
KOREAN
Potok,
Chaim. I AM THE CLAY
JUDEO-CHRISTIAN
Boom, Corrie Ten. THE HIDING PLACE
Bunyan,
John. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Diamant,
Anita. THE RED TENT
Lewis,
C.S. THE WEIGHT OF GLORY (A collection of essays) or anything else by
C.S. Lewis
Peretti,
Frank. THIS PRESENT DARKNESS
Potok, Chaim.
THE CHOSEN, THE PROMISE, MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
Sayers,
Dorothy. THE MIND OF THE MAKER
Wangerin,
Walter. PAUL, A NOVEL
Titles
Read
Date Completed
Rating (***** = Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations
LIST
#7
BOOKS YOU WISH WOULD NEVER END - HUMOR
-
MODE:
PLEASURE/RAPID
–
COMP.
LEVEL: AFFECTIVE
"Outside
of a dog, books are man's best friend.
Inside
a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
ANY OF THE “JEEVES” SERIES
– P.G. WODEHOUSE
EAST OF EDEN
– JOHN STEINBECK
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
– WILLIAM GOLDMAN
A SHORT HISTORY OF A SMALL PLACE
– T.R. PEARSON
THE STAND
– STEPHEN KING
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS
THE YEARLING – RAWLINGS
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE –
(OR
ANY IN THE NARNIA SERIES) C.S. LEWIS
HALF MAGIC – EDWARD EAGER
A WRINKLE IN TIME – (OR
ANYTHING BY) MADELINE L’ENGLE
HARRY POTTER AND THE … (ANY IN
THE SERIES) - J.K. ROWLING
Titles Read/Author
Date Completed
Rating (***** =
Excellent)
Suggestions/Recommendations
