Beechum’s Outside Reading List

English IV

Tales of Adventure

The African Queen - Forester
Green Dolphin Street – Goudge
Day of Infamy – Lord
All Quiet on the Western Front-
Remarque
Rabble in Arms - Roberts
Ivanhoe – Scott
The Once and Future King –White
The Virginian – Wister
Two Years After the Mast – Dana
Kon-Tiki – Heyerdahl

Coming of Age

When Legends Die – Borland
Jane Eyre - Bronte
The Metamorphsis – Kafka
Christy – Marshall
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
The Member of the Wedding – McCullers
The Chosen –Potok
The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
Rabbit, Run – Updike
The Stranger – Camus
Silas Marner – Eliot
Davita’s Harp – Potok

History in Fiction

Elizabeth the Queen – Anderson
Cimarron – Ferber
The Lion in Winter – Goldman
The House of Seven Gables –Hawthorne
The Country of the Pointed Firs – Jewett
Doctor Zhivago – Pasternak
The Winthrop Woman – Seton
Exodus – Uris
The CaineMutiny Court Martial – Wouk
The Robe – Douglas
The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
Gone with the Wind – Mitchell
The Jewel in the Crown – Scott
Battle Cry - Uris

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey – Clarke
Alas, Babylon - Frank
Stranger in a Strange Land – Heinlein
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
The Hobbit – Tolkien
Foundation – Asimov
The Martian Chronicles – Bradbury
The Great Divorce - Lewis
The Hollow Hills – Stewart

Literature of Social Issues

I Am the Cheese - Cormier
Black Like Me – Griffin
The Little Foxes – Hellman
Main Street – Lewis
Twelve Angry Men – Rose
A Majority of One - Spigelgass
Native Son – Wright
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Baldwin
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Brown
Kaffir Boy – Mathabane
Other People’s Houses - Segal
The Shoes of the Fisherman – West
All the President’s Men - Woodward & Bernstein
Babbitt - Lewis

Triumph of the Spirit

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Greenburg
Ordinary People – Guest
Death Be Not Proud – Gunther
Susan’s Story - Hampshire
Flowers for Algernon – Keyes
Eric – Lund
Cannery Row – Steinbeck
The Other Side of the Mountain – Valens
The Skin of our Teeth – Wilder

Professional Success & Achievement

Life and Death in a Coral Sea – Cousteau
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life – Creamer
Citizen Tom Paine – Fast
All Creatures Great and Small – Herriot
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy – Keller
Joseph – Landorf
Auntie Mame – Lawrence and Lee
My Life – Meir
The Greatest Story Ever Told – Oursier
The Paper Lion – Plimpton
My Name is Asher Lev – Potok
The Camera Never Blinks – Rather
The Playboy of the Western World – Synge
The House of Mirth – Wharton
Captains and Kings – Caldwell
Eleanor and Franklin – Lash
West with the Night – Markham
A Man Called Peter – Marshall
The Gift of Music – Smith and Carlson

Mysteries

The Innocents – Archibald
The Chalk Garden – Bagnold
The Mousetrap – Christie
Rebecca – duMaurier
Angel Street – Hamilton
Arsenic and Old Lace – Kesseiring
Cloud of Witness – Sayers

Relived Memories

A Death in the Family – Agee
Little Women – Alcott
My Antonia – Cather
How Green Was My Valley – Llewellyn
The Learning Tree – Paarks
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the- Moon Marigolds - Zindel

Tales of Love and Romance

Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Wuthering Heights – Bronte
The Peacock Spring – Godden
The Return of the Native – Hardy
Ethan Frome – Wharton

Family Portraits

The Dollmaker – Arnow
Cold Sassy Tree – Burns
Roots – Hailey
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Hardy
The Portrait of a Lady – James
The Thornbirds – McCullough
Giants in the Earth – Rolvaag
A Reckoning – Sarton
East of Eden - Steinbeck

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