Raider Reading Directory

 Young Adult selections added and noted with *

 
 

 

 


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Adventure

Defoe, Daniel               Robinson Crusoe

Krakauer, Jon              Into the Wild

Into Thin Air

Martel, Yann                The Life of Pi

McKernan, Victoria      *Shackleton’s Stowaway

McMurtry, Larry                       Lonesome Dove

Patchett, Ann               Bel Canto

Stevenson, Robert Louis          Treasure Island

Swift, Jonathan                       Gulliver’s Travels

 

Africa

Achebe, Chinua                       Man of the People

No Longer at Ease

Courtenay, Bryce         The Power of One

Gourevitchk, Philip      We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed

with Our Families

Kinsolver, Barbara       The Poisonwood Bible

Melville, Herman         Benito Sereno

Paton, Alan                  Cry the Beloved Country

 

 

African American

Angelou, Maya                        I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Baldwin, James                       Go Tell It On the Mountain

Bambara, Toni Cade   Gorilla, My Love

Chestnut, Charles W.   The Marrow of Tradition

Delany, Martin R.         Blake, or The Huts of America Ellison, Ralph               Invisible Man

Gaines, Ernest J.          Gathering of Old Men

                                    A Lesson Before Dying

Hughes, Langston        Short Stories

                                    The Ways of White Folks

Jones, Edward P.                     The Known World

Malcom  X, Attallah

Shabazz, Alex Haley   Autobiography of Malcom X

McBride, James                       The Color of Water

Morrison, Toni                         Jazz

Love, A Novel

Song of Solomon

Sula

Sapphire                      Push

Taylor, Mildred                        *Roll of Thurder, Hear My Cry

Twain, Mark                 Puddin’ Head Wilson

Walker, Alice               The Color Purple

Wright, Richard                        Black Boy

                                    Native Son

 

The Asian and Asian-American Experience

Buck, Pearl S.              The Good Earth

Clavel, James              Shogun

Fadiman, Ann              The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Ghosh, Amitav             The Glass Palace

Golden, Arthur             Memoirs of a Geisha

Houston & Houston      *Farewell to Manzanar

Jen, Gish                     Typical American

Jin, Ha                         Waiting

Lee, Chang-Rae                       Native Speaker

Mishima, Yukio                        The Sound of Waves

Tan, Amy                     The Hundred Secret Senses

The Kitchen God’s Wife

 

 

Childhood Stories

Allison, Dorothy                       Bastard Out of Carolina

Lee, Harper                 To Kill a Mockingbird

McCourt, Frank                        Angela’s Ashes

 

Classic

Austen, Jane                Emma

Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James                       Go Tell It On the Mountain

Bronte, Charlotte         Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily               Wuthering Heights

Carroll, Lewis              Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Cervantes                    Don Quixote

Crane, Stephen                       The Red Badge of Courage

Fitzgerald, F. Scott      Tender is the Night

Hardy, Thomas                        Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Hemingway, Ernest      The Sun Also Rises

Kafka, Franz                The Trial

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia         One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera

Melville, Herman         Moby Dick

Remarque, Erich Maria            All Quiet on the Western Front

Swift, Jonathan                       Gulliver’s Travels

Twain, Mark                 Puddin’head Wilson

Verne, Jules                Around the World in Eighty Days

Wharton, Edith             The House of Mirth

Wilde, Oscar                The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

Coming of Age OR Smells Like Teen Angst

Allison, Dorothy                       Bastard Out of Carolina

Alvarez, Julia              How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Anderson, Sherwood   Winesburg, Ohio

Carroll, Jim                  Basketball Diaries

Chabon, Michael         The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Coelo, Paulo                The Alchemist

Cormier, Robert                       *The Chocolate War

Courtenay, Bryce         The Power of One

Dorris, Michael                        A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Duncan, David James  The Brothers K

Eugenides, Jeffrey       Middlesex

Finch, Janet                 White Oleander

Goldberg, Myla                        Bee Season

Haddon, Mark              The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Hinton, S.E.                  *The Outsiders

                                    *Rumble Fish

                                    *That Was Then, This Is Now

Irving, John                 Cider House Rules

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Joravsky, Ben              Hoop Dreams

Kidd, Sue Monk                       The Secret Life of Bees

Lamb, Wally                I Know This Much Is True

                                    She’s Come Undone

Mahfuz, Najib              Fountain and Tomb

Martel, Yann                The Life of Pi

McBride, James                       The Color of Water

McCourt, Frank                        Angela’s Ashes

                                    ‘Tis

McEwan, Ian                Atonement

Morrison, Toni             Sula

Salinger, JD                 Franny & Zooey

Sebold, Alice               The Lovely Bones

Shriver, Lionel             We Need to Talk About Kevin

Silko, Leslie Marmon   Ceremony

Steinbeck, John                       East of Eden

 

For the Ladies OR “This One’s For the Girls”

Allison, Dorothy                       Bastard Out of Carolina

Atwood, Margaret        The Blind Assassin

The Handmaid’s Tale

Alvarez, Julia              How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Bambara, Toni Cade   Gorilla, My Love

Austin, Jane                 Emma

Pride and Prejudice

Chopin, Kate                The Awakening

Diamant, Anita             The Red Tent

Esquivel, Laura                        Like Water for Chocolate

Finch, Janet                 White Oleander

Golden, Arthur             Memoirs of a Geisha

Hemingway, Ernest      A Farewell to Arms

Kingston, Maxine Hong           Woman Warrior

Kincaid, Jamaica         Annie John

Lucy

Kidd, Sue Monk                       The Secret Life of Bees

Lamb, Wally                I Know This Much Is True

                                    She’s Come Undone

Markandaya,Kamala   Nectar in a Sieve

Morrison, Toni             Sula

Robbins, Tom              Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Sapphire                      Push

Sebold, Alice               The Lovely Bones

Tan, Amy                     The Hundred Secret Senses

Walker, Alice               The Color Purple

Wharton, Edith             The House of Mirth

 

 

Historical Novels

Alvarez, Julia              In the Time of the Butterfiles

Chabon, Michael         The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Chestnut, Charles W.   The Marrow of Tradition

Crane, Stephen                       The Red Badge of Courage

Esquivel , Laura                       Like Water for Chocolate

Frazier, Charles                       Cold Mountain

Ghosh, Amitav             The Glass Palace

Hegi, Ursulu                 Stones from the River

Hemingway, Ernest      A Farewell to Arms

The Sun Also Rises

The Old Man and the Sea

Jin, Ha                         Waiting

Kinsolver, Barbara       The Poisonwood Bible

McMurtry, Larry                       Lonesome Dove

Shaara, Michael                      Killer Angels

 

Latino/Chicano and Latin American Experience

Allende, Isabele                       *City of the Beasts

                                     *Kingdom of the Golden Dragon        

                                          *Forrest of the Pygmies

Alvarez, Julia              How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Anaya, Rudolfo                        Bless Me, Ultima

Esquivel, Laura                        Like Water for Chocolate

 

Love

Alexie, Sherman                     Reservation Blues

The Toughest Indian in the World

Alvarez, Julia              How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Atwood, Margaret        The Blind Assassin

Austen, Jane                Emma

Pride and Prejudice

Bronte, Charlotte         Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily               Wuthering Heights

Esquivel, Laura                        Like Water for Chocolate

Frazier, Charles                       Cold Mountain

Harrix, Joanne             The Five Quarters of the Orange

Helprin, Mark               Winter’s Tale

Hemingway, Ernest      The Sun Also Rises

Irving, John                 Cider House Rules

Krauss, Nicole              The History of Love

McBride, James                       The Color of Water

McMurtry, Larry                       Lonesome Dove

Morrison, Toni             Sula

Mishima, Yukio                        The Sound of Waves

Robbins, Tom              Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

 

Manly Reads OR This One’s For (or about) the Boys

Anaya, Rudolfo                        Bless Me, Ultima

Carroll, Jim                  Basketball Diaries

Chabon, Michael         The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Dickey, James             Deliverance

Duncan, David James  The Brothers K

Gaiman, Neil               American Gods

Kesey, Ken                  One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Sometimes a Great Notion

Joravsky, Ben              Hoop Dreams

L’Amour, Louis                        The Lonesome Gods

The Walking Drum

Lethem, Jonathan       Motherless Brooklyn

Obama, Barak             Dreams of My Father

Patchett, Ann               Bel Canto

Puzo, Mario                 The Godfather

Roth, Phillip                 The Plot Against Amerca

Saks, Oliver                 Awakenings

The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr  One Day in the Life of Ivan

Denisovich

Steinbeck, John                       East of Eden

The Pearl

Tortilla Flat

Middle East and Indian

Lapierre, Dominique   The City of Joy

Lahiri, Jhumpa                        The Interpreter of Maladies

Mahfuz, Najib              Fountain and Tomb

Markandaya,Kamala   Nectar in a Sieve

Roy, Arundhati             The God of Small Things

Rushdie, Salman         Midnight’s Children

Staples, Suzanne             *Shabanu

                                    *Haveli

Suli, Manil                   The Death of Vishnu

 

 

 

Mystery

Haddon, Mark              The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Lethem, Jonathan       Motherless Brooklyn

 

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Adams, Richard                       Watership Down

Asimov, Isaac              Foundation

Atwood, Margaret        The Handmaid’s Tale

Oryx and Crake

Bradbury, Ray              Fahrenheit 451

Burgess, Anthony         A Clockwork Orange

Card, Orson Scott        Enders Game

Carroll, Lewis              Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Cervantes                    Don Quixote

Clarke, Arthur C.                      2001 A Space Odyssey

Childhood’s End

DeLillo, Don                 White Noise

Dick, Philip                  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Gibson, William                       Neuromancer

Heinlein, Robert                      Starship Troopers

Helprin, Mark               Winter’s Tale

Herbert, Frank             Dune

LeGuinn, Ursula                       The Left Hand of Darkness

Maguire, Gregory        Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Niven, Larry                 Ringworld

Orwell, George                        1984

Rand, Ayn                    Anthem

Russel, Mary Doria       The Sparrow

Tolkein, JRR                The Fellowship of the Ring

Two Towers

The Return of the King

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