1. Students are required to read 600 pages of outside reading
per quarter.
2. As soon as a book is finished, students are to report to
the teacher before school, after school or during lunch.
3. Students must bring their books with them when they report.
4. Report on only one book at a time.
5. Choose one book from the reading list per semester.
6. All other books may be the student's free choice, with
parent approval.
Jung Chang, Wild Swans (Chinese)
Vikram Seth, Heaven Lake (an Indian author writes about China and Tibet)
Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (Sri Lanka) and The English Patient.
Anchee Min,Red Azalea, Chinese) Becoming Madame Mao
Fulang Lo, Morning Breeze (Chinese)
Mo Yan, Red Sorghum (Chinese), The Garlic Ballads, The Republic of Wine.
From Emperor to Citizen, by Aisin-Geiro Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China (Chinese)
Pearl Buck, The Good Earth (about China)
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet (China)
Kitty de Ruyter, As I Have Loved You (Indonesia)
Pramoedye Toer, This Earth of Mankind (Indonesia), The Fugitive.
Fiona Cheong, The Scent of the Gods (Singapore)
Huynh Quang Nhuong, The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam (Vietnam)
Phung Thi Le Ly Haship Ky La, When Heaven and Earth Trade Places (Vietnam)
Tim O’Brian, The Things They Carried (Vietnam)
Ho, Rice Without Rain (Thailand)
Jeanne Betancourt, More Than Meets the Eye (Cambodia)
Linda Crew, Children of the River (Cambodia)
Libby Hathorn, Thunderwith (Australia)
Michael Noonan, McKenzie’s Boots
Peter Bachol, Cebu (Philippines)
Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, The Tiger’s Daughter (India)
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (India)
Anita Desai, Fire on the Mountain , Clear Light of Day , Baumgartner's Bombay (India)
Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown (India)
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (India)
M. M. Kaye, Shadow of the Moon , The Far Pavilions (India)
Kamala Markandaya, A Handful of Rice, Two Virgins (India)
Bhabani Bhattacharya, A Goddess Named God (India)
Farrukh Dhondy, Poona Company (India)
Rumer Godden, The River (India)
Ruth Jhabawala, Out of India (India)
R. K. Narayan Under the Banyan Tree (India)
Santha Rmam Rau, Remember the House (India)
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World (Japan)
Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes (Japan)
Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
Yoko Kawashima Watkins, My Brother, My Sister, and I, So Far From the Bamboo
Grove (Japan)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Not about Japan, but Japanese author)
Kogawa, Obasan (Japan)
Uchida, Picture Bride, Desert Exile (Japan)
Okada, No-No Boy (Japan)
Bruce S. Feller, Learning to Bow (Japan)
Nancy Mars Freedman, The Seventh Stone (Japan)
Shizuko Go, Requiem (Japan)
Sledge, Empire of Heaven (Japan)
Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves, (Japan)
Sawako Ariyoshi, The Doctor’s Wife, The River Ki (Japan)
Tomiko Higa, The Girl With the White Flag, (Okinawa)
Chaim Potok, I am the Clay (Korea)
Kim Ronyoung, Clay Walls, (Korea)
Isabel Allende, House of Spirits (Latin America)
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra (Latin America)
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (Russia)
Betty Bao Lord, The Middle Heart (China)
Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
Honors selections: Recommended for students who wish to test for Honors English
Shaefer, Shane
Tolkien, The Hobbit
Mason, In Country
McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Café, Member of the Wedding
Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
Hemingway, In Our Time
Carter, The Education of Little Tree
Conroy, The Water is Wide
Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Dickens, David Copperfield
Bradford, Red Sky at Morning
Borland, When the Legends Die
Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage
Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Dinesen, Out of Africa
Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Wright, Native Son
Hemingway, For Whom the Bells Toll, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
Orwell, 1984
Jackson, Ramona
Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
Wallace, Ben Hur
Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Scott, Ivanhoe
Dumas, Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask
Ellison, The Invisible Man
Nordhoff, Mutiny on the Bounty
Walker, The Color Purple
Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath,Of Mice and Men,The Pearl
Toni Morrison, Sula, Beloved
Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Haley, Roots
Cooper, Last of the Mohicans,Deerslayer
Clavell, Shogun
Stevenson, Treasure Island,Kidnapped
Uris, Mila 18,Trinity,Exodus
Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame,Les Miserables
Tarkington, Seventeen
Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
Sinclair, The Jungle
Huxley, Brave New World
Heller, Catch-22
Kipling, Captains Courageous
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
H.G. Wells, Time Machine
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, Main Street
Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey
Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Dreiser, An American Tragedy
Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident
Cather, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Wharton, Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence
Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Rolvaag , Giants in the Earth
Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
Other recommendations:
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Frank Chin, Donald Duk
Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Gish Jen, Typical American
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
David Mura, Turning Japanese
Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Amy Tan,The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife,The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter
Alfredo Vea, La Maravilla
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Isabel Allende, House of Spirits, Daughter of Fortune