BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR ENTRANCE INTO CLASSES 10, 11 AND 12

 

 

Agee, James                            A DEATH IN THE FAMILY

Allison, Dorothy                    BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA

Allende, Isabel                        THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS

Alvarez, Julia                          IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES

Anderson, Sherwood              WINESBURG, OHIO

Angelou, Maya                       I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

Atwood, Margaret                  CAT'S EYE

Austen, Jane                           EMMA

Baldwin, James                       GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Barker, Pat                              REGENERATION

Beattie, Ann                            PICTURING WILL

Brookner, Anita                      PROVIDENCE

Brown, Rosellen                     BEFORE AND AFTER

Burroughs, Augusten              RUNNING WITH SCISSORS

Camus, Albert                         THE STRANGER

Canin, Ethan                           CARRY ME ACROSS THE WATER

Cheever, John                         THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER

Chopin, Kate                          THE AWAKENING

Conrad, Joseph                       HEART OF DARKNESS

Danticat, Edwidge                   BREATH, EYES, MEMORY

Diamant, Anita                       THE RED TENT

Dinesen, Isak                          WINTER'S TALES

Divakaruni, Chitra                  ARRANGED MARRIAGE

Doctorow, E.L.                       BILLY BATHGATE

Dostoevsky, Fyodor              THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Dove, Rita                               THROUGH THE IVORY GATE

Dreiser, Theodore                   AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

Eco, Umberto                          THE NAME OF THE ROSE

Erdrich, Louise                        LOVE MEDICINE

Esquivel, Laura                       LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

Faulkner, William                    LIGHT IN AUGUST

Forster, E.M.                          A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Forster, Margaret                    LADY'S MAID

Fowles, John                           THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

Frazier, Charles                       COLD MOUNTAIN

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins      THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

Godwin, Gail                          FATHER MELANCHOLY'S DAUGHTER

Golden, Arthur                       MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

Greene, Graham                      THE END OF THE AFFAIR

Gruen, Sarah                           WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

Guest, Judith                          ORDINARY PEOPLE

Guterson, David                     SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS

Ha, Jin                                     WAITING

Hansen, Ron                           DESPERADOES

Hardy, Thomas                       RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Hesse, Hermann                      DEMIAN

Hoffman, Alice                       TURTLE MOON

Hosseini, Khaled                     THE KITE RUNNER

Humphreys, Josephine           RICH IN LOVE

Ishiguro, Jazuo                        THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

James, Henry                          PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer            HEAT AND DUST

Jones, EP                                THE KNOWN WORLD

Joyce, James                           A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Kerouac, Jack                          ON THE ROAD

Kesey, Ken                             ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Krauss, Alison                        THE HISTORY OF LOVE

Lahiri, Jhumpa                        THE NAMESAKE

Lawrence, D.H.                       SONS AND LOVERS

Maguire, Gregory                   WICKED: THE  LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE                   WEST

McCarthy, Cormac                 ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

McDermott, Alice                  CHILD OF MY HEART

Mc Ewan, Ian                         ATONEMENT

Mann Thomas                        DEATH IN VENICE

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia        ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

McCarthy, Cormac                 THE ROAD

McCullers, Carson                  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER

Melville, Herman                    MOBY DICK

Moore, Brian                          THE STATEMENT

Morris, Mary                         THE NIGHT SKY

Morrison, Toni                       SONG OF SOLOMON

Mortimer, John                       SUMMERŐS LEASE

Naylor, Gloria                         THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE

Oates, Joyce Carol                  THEM

O'Connor, Flannery                COMPLETE STORIES

Pasternak, Boris                      DR. ZHIVAGO

Plath, Sylvia                            THE BELL JAR

Pym, Barbara                          EXCELLENT WOMEN

Renault, Mary                        LAST OF THE WINE

Roth, Philip                            THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA

Santiago, Esmeralda                WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN

Sebold, Alice                           THE LOVELY BONES

See, Lisa                                  SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN

Singer, Isaac B.                        A CROWN OF FEATHERS

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander         ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

Stegner, Wallace                      ANGLE OF REPOSE

Stendhal                                  THE RED AND THE BLACK

Tan, Amy                               THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE

Tanizaki, Junichiro                 THE MAKIOKA SISTERS

Thackeray, William M.           VANITY FAIR

Tolsoy, Leo                            ANNA KARENINA

Turgenev, Ivan                        FATHERS AND SONS

Tyler, Anne                            THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

Updike, John                          CLAUDIUS AND GERTRUDE

Vonnegut, Kurt                       SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5

Walker, Alice                          MERIDIAN

Watson, Larry                         WHITE CROSSES

Waugh, Evelyn                        BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

Welty, Eudora                         THE COLLECTED STORIES

West, Dorothy                        THE WEDDING

Wharton, Edith                       THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

Wiesel, Elie                             NIGHT

Wilder, Thornton                    THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

Wolfe, Tom                             THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES

Wolfe, Thomas                       LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

Woolf, Virginia                        TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

Wright, Richard                       NATIVE SON