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Eleventh Grade Honors English
Reading List

This is the list that is used for outside reading.

The assignment sheet reads: "Read three of the following selections.  Choose no more than one play or one poet.  You may read three novels, however.  Choose only specific works where listed."

Just click on the title to see if the book is available at this time.

***There may be additional copies available.
Ask a librarian for help in finding them.***


Go to: PlaywrightsPoetsNovelistsMiscellaneous


PLAYWRIGHTS
The plays listed under the playwrights are not a complete list. They usually denote what we own. If you need help finding others, ask a librarian.

Lillian Hellman

Collections of Hellman's Works
The Collected Plays
Six Plays

Autumn Garden
Autumn Garden

The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes
Sixteen Famous American Plays
Six Modern American Plays

Toys in the Attic
Toys in the Attic


Arthur Miller - (any play except The Crucible and Death of a Saleman)

Collections of Miller's works
Danger: memory!
Collected Plays

After the Fall
After the Fall
After the Fall, a play

All My Sons
All My Sons

Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy: a play
Incident at Vichy

The Price
The Price
The Price; a play
Collected Plays

View From the Bridge
View From the Bridge

Tennessee Williams - (except A Streetcar Named Desire)

Collections of Williams' works
American Blues
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Three by Tennessee
27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Battle of Angels
Battle of Angels

Camino Real
Camino Real
Three Plays

Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Clothes for a Summer Hotel

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Masters of Modern Drama
Six Modern American Plays

Night of the Iguana
Three by Tennessee

Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending

Out Cry
Out Cry

Period of Adjustment
Period of Adjustment

Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo
Three Plays
Three by Tennessee

Small Craft Warnings
Small Craft Warnings

Sweet Bird of Youth
Three by Tennessee
Three Plays


August Wilson

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson

Seven Guitars
Seven Guitars

Two Trains Running
Two Trains Running


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POETS
American Poetry can be found in the 811s. Call numbers for specific poets follow their names.

Edgar Lee Masters - 811 M37

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 811 F46

e.e. cummings -
811 C8

Richard Wilbur -
811 W554

Anne Sexton - 811 S48

Carl Sandburg -
811 S25

Howard Nemerov -
811 N45

Elinor Wyle - 811 W94

Robert Frost - 811 F75

James Dickey - 811 D51

Gwendolyn Brooks -
811 B75

Sylvia Plath - 811 P55

Li-Young Lee - 811 L42

Denise Levertov - 811 L48

James Wright -
811 W73

Maggie Anderson -
811 A52

Maya Angelou - 811 A53

Nikki Giovanni -
811 G55

Allen Ginsberg -
811.54 G55

Langston Hughes - 811 H8

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NOVELISTS
Novels can be found in the fiction section, shelved alphabetically by the author's last name.

James Baldwin

Saul Bellow
Anything but Sieze the Day
 
Willa Cather
My Antonia
 
Louise Erdich
 
William Faulkner
Anything but As I Lay Dying
 
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any novel except The Great Gatsby
 
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
 
Ernest Hemingway
Anything but A Farewell to Arms and Short Stories
 
Henry James
Anything but Daisy Miller
 
Sinclair Lewis
 
Bernard Malamud
The Assistant
The Fixer
The Natural
 
Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn
 
Toni Morrison
 
John Steinbeck
Anything but Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, or The Pearl
 
Alice Walker
 
Edith Wharton
Age of Innocence
Ethan Frome
 
Eudora Welty


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MISCELLANEOUS

Thomas Bell
Out of This Furnace

Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles

Rachel Carson

Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Loren Eisley

Ernest Gaines
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nancy Milford
Zelda

William Saroyan
The Human Comedy

James Thurber
Anything but 13 Clocks
 

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