Independent Reading

It's Time to Choose!

All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Being There by Jerzy Kozinski

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Cider House Rules by John Irving

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Cutting for Stones by Abraham Verghese

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus, III

I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gullman

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moo by Jane Smiley

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Circle, by Dave Eggers

The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Wicked by Gregory Maguire