[LM_NET] Hit: Books for the College Bound

[Cheryl Whitmore Stevens <cwstevens@EARTHLINK.NET>]

I only received a couple of responses and I would like to thank those who replied. 
Below is the final list I have come up with to go in our brochure.

Albom, Mitch    Tuesday’s with Morrie
Alvarez, Julia  In the Time of Butterflies
Anderson, Laurie Halse  Speak
Atwood, Margaret        The Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, Jane    Pride And Prejudice
Baldwin, James  Go Tell It On The Mountain
Bronte, Charlotte       Jane Eyre
Card, Orson Scott       Ender’s Game
Cather, Willa   My Antonia
Conrad, Joseph  Lord Jim
Crow Dog, Mar and Richard Endoes        Lakota Woman
Defoe, Daniel   Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles        Tale of Two Cities
DuBois, W. E. B.        The Souls Of Black Folk
Ellison, Ralph  The Invisible Man
Forster, E. M.  A Passage to India
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 100 Years Of Solitude
Gibbons, Kaye   On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Haddon, Mark    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hansberry, Lorraine     A Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, Thomas   The Return Of The Native
Hemingway, Ernest       A Farewell to Arms
Hersey, John    The Wall
Homer   The Odyssey
Hosseini, Khaled        The Kite Runner
Hulme, Keri     The Bone People
Hurston, Zora Neale     Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ibsen, Henrik   A Doll’s House
Kafka, Franz    The Metamorphosis
King, Stephen.  The Green Mile
McCullers, Carson       Member Of The Wedding
Morrison, Toni  Song Of Solomon
Naylor, Gloria  The Women of Brewster Place
Orwell, George  Animal Farm
Paton, Alan     Cry, The Beloved Country
Poe, Edgar Allan        Collected Short Stories
Potok, Chaim    The Chosen
Shelley, Mary   Frankenstein
Spiegelman, Art Maus
Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice   The Color Purple
Welty, Eudora   Delta Wedding
Wiesel, Eli     Night
Wolfe, Thomas   Look Homeward Angel
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard Native Son
Zusak, Marcus   The Book Thief

Poetry

There are certain poets with whom students should also be familiar. It is suggested 
to read at least some works by the following poets:

        Angelou, Maya
        Auden, W. H.
        Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
        Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
        cummings, e. e.
        Dickinson, Emily
        Dove, Rita
        Eliot, T. S.
        Giovanni, Nikki
        Frost, Robert
        Hughes, Langston
        Keats, John
        Pinksy, Robert
        Plath, Sylvia
        Sandburg, Carl
        Shelley, Percy Bysshe
        Thomas, Dylan
        Whitman, Walt
        Williams, William Carlos
        Yeats, William Butler


Cheryl Whitmore Stevens, MLS, MA Ed. Psych
Library Media Specialist
Mansfield, CT 06250
cwstevens@earthlink.net

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