Honors Sophomore Language Arts: Independent Reading List

Afghani

Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns

British

Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (if you didn’t read it in HFLA)

Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass

Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness*

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders

Charles Dickens Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities

George Eliot Silas Marner

E.M. Forster A Passage to India

Thomas Hardy Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest and Other Plays

Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway

French

Albert Camus The Stranger

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Victor Hugo Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (abridged versions)

German

Franz Kafka The Trial

African-American

Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Toni Morrison Beloved*

Richard Wright Native Son

African

Chuinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah

South African

Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country

Colombian

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude

Spanish

Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote (abridged version)

Russian

Alexander Solzhenitsyn A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Fyodor Dostoevski The Idiot*, The Brothers Karamazov*, Crime and Punishment*

Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina*, War and Peace*

Native American

Louise Erdrich Tracks

Asian American

Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior

Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, Bonesetter’s Daughter

Jewish

Chaim Potok The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev, Davita’s Harp

Italian

Dante Any of the Divine Comedy trilogy-- The Inferno is suggested

Greek

Homer The Iliad*, The Odyssey

* = Most difficult reading