Sophomore Honors English Reading List

It is important that students and parents/guardians review these works as some of these novels contain mature situations and/ or language. When choosing a novel, please review your selection to make sure it is appropriate for you. If the subject matter is too difficult or mature, feel free to choose a different novel.
African Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart (1958) Nigeria Arrow of God (1964) Emecheta, Buchi The Bride Price (1976) Nigeria Equiano, Olaudah Autobiography Gordimre, Nadine A Guest of Honor (1983) My Sons Story (1990) Kogawa, Joy Obasan Laye, Camara The Radiance of Kings Lessing, Doris The Grass is Signing (1950) *** Mahfouz, Naguig The Beggar Egypt Maran, Rene Batoula (1921) Martinique Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy South Africa Naipaul, V.S. A House of Mr. Biswas (1938) Trinidad A Bend in The River (1979) Ngugi, James Matigari (1938) Kenya Nwapu, Flora Efuru (1966) Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) South Africa Salih, al-Tayyib Season of Migration to the North Sudan wa Thiong o, Ngugi Weep Not, Child (1964) The River Between A Grain of Wheat North American Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) Cather, Willa My Antonia (1918) +++ One of Ours

Dos Passos, John U.S.A (1936) Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man (1952) Erdrich, Lourise Tracks

Fernadez, Roberto Raining Backwards (1988) +++Hijuelos, Oscar The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1990) Kingston, Marilyn Hong The Woman Warrior Marshall, Paule Walkabout Morrison, Toni Beloved (1987) Song of Solomon Momaday, N. Scott House Make of Dawn (1967) Mohawk Never Cry Wolf Okada, John No-No Boy (1980) Potok, Chaim My Name is Asher Lev (1976) Roy, Gabrielle The Tine Flute (1945) ***Singer, Issac B. Satan in Goray (1976) The Manor (1967) The Penitent (1983) Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Toms Cabin Tan, Amy A Hundred Secret Senses *** The Fifth Son (1985) Wright, Richard Rites of Passage

British Butler, Samuel The Ways of All Flesh (1903) Conrad, Joseph Nostromo (1904) The Secret Agent (1904) Dickens,Charles The Old Curiousity Shop Eliot, George Middle March (1872) Silas Marner ***Galsworthy, John The Forsyte Saga (1921) Joyce, James Portrait of an Artist as Young Man (1916) Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow (1915) Sheridan, Richard The School for Scandal (1777) Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisted

Continental European Alighieri, Dante The Divine Comedy de Balzac, Honore Pere Goriot (1835) France ***Boll, Heinrich The Clown (1965) Germany

Group Portrait with a Lady (1973) ***Camus, Albert The Stranger (1942) France The Plague (1948) Grass, Gunter The Tin Flute ***Hesse, Herman Steppenwold (1929) Germany Homer Iliad Ibanez, V.B. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1941) Spain ***Jimenez, Juan R. Platero and I (1914) Spain Kafke, Fraz The Trial (1917) Austria The Castle Lorca, Frederico Garcia The House of Bernardo Alba The Blood Wedding Machiavelli The Prince Italy ***Mann, Thomas Buddenbrooks (1901) Germany Manzoni, Alessandro The Betrothed (1826) Italy Moliere The Misanthrope Musil, Robert The Man Without Qualities (1933) Austria Proust, Marcel Swanns Way (1913) France Remembrance of Things Past Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Emile Sartre, Jean-Paul The Age of Reason (1948) France The Reprieve (1947) Stendhal, (Henri Beyle) The Read and the Black (1830) France The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) Voltaire Candide Zola, Emile Germinale (1885) France

Far Eastern and Southwest Asia Anonymous Panchatantra (200-400 A.D.) India Godden, Rumer Black Narcissus (1939) ***Kawabata, Yasunari Snow Country (1969) Japan Lao She The Yellow Storm (1970) China Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve India A Handful of Rice (1966) Mishima, Yukio Confessions of a Mask (1958) Japan Murasaki, Shikiby The Tale of Genji (1500) Japan

***Tagore, Rabindranat The Gardener India The King of the Dark Chamber Tsao Hsueh-Chin Dream of the Red Chamber (1978) China

Latin American Allende, Isabel Eva Luna (1988) Argueta, Manilo One Day of Life (1983) El Salvador Azuela, Mariano The Underdogs (1927) Mexico Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist Brazil Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria Helena (1876) Brazil Mistral, Gabriela Desolation Onetti, Juan Carlos Body Snatcher Uruaguay Puig, Manuel Tropical Night Falling Argentina Puz, Octavio Labyrinth of Solitude Vargas Llosa, Mario Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982) Peru

Middle Eastern Arabian and Persian Traditition The Thousand and One Nights (1200) Persia Appelfeld, Aharon The Retreat (1985) Israel The Age of Wonders Muhfouz, Naguib Cairo Trilogy Egypt Oz, Amos Black Box (1988) Israel Shammas, Anton Arabesques (1988) Israel Russian Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard Dostoevsky, Fyodor The House of the Dead (1862) The Brothers of Karamazov (1880) Gogol, Nikolai V. Dead Souls (1842) Tolstoi, Leo War and Peace (1869) Turgenev, Ivan The Torrents of Spring (1875)
***Indicates winners of Nobel Prize of Literature or Nobel Peace Prize +++Indicates winners of Pulitzer Prize