Mr. Brian McAuliffe-English-11th Grade Independent Reading Project

INDEPENDENT READING-COMP ENGLISH

“Students will read a minimum of 25 books or the equivalent per year across all content areas and standards.” (NYS ELA Core Curriculum: Reading)

Below is a partial list of recommended books. It is a good starting place.

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Rule of the Bone – Russell Banks
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
The Natural – Bernard Malamud
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Tender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Girl Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
Plainsong – Kent Haruf
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
Jim the Boy – Tony Early
Fences – August Wilson
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Ironweed – William Kennedy
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Brysson
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
One True Thing – Anna Quindlan
The Plot Against America – Phillip Roth
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathon Saffron Foer