MHS READING LISTS (All books can be found at your MHS Library.
Simply click the teacher's name to go to their list.
Some books are not fiction books. Call numbers have been added to those
books. All fiction books can be found under the author's last name.
Mrs. Flippo
Mrs. Huey
Mrs. Burns
Suggested Reads for Mrs. Huey's Class
Arranged by author's last name. Some books are not fiction books. Call
numbers have been added to those books. All fiction books can be found under
the author's last name.
Classics:
Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Bolt - Man for All Seasons - 822 BOL
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Buck - The Good Earth
Carmac - All the Pretty Horses
Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Crane - Red Badge of Courage
Crane - Lord Jim
Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens - Great Expectations
Dickey - Deliverance
DuMaurier - Rebecca
Ellison - Invisible Man
Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner - The Reivers
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Forster - A Room with a View
Forster - A Passage to India
Gaarder - Sophie's World
Golding - Lord of the Flies
Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
Hammett - The Thin Man
Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun - 812.54 Han
Heller - Catch 22
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway - Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hurston - Their Eyes were Watching God
Ibsen - A Doll's House - 839.8 IBS
Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
London - The Call of the Wild
London - White Fang
Malcolm X - The Autobiography - BIO MalcolmX
Maugham - Of Human Bondage
McCullers - Member of the Wedding - 812.5 McC
McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Miller - The Crucible - 812 Mil
Miller - Death of a Salesman - 812 Mil
Morrison - Beloved
Orwell - Animal Farm
Orwell - 1984
Paton - Cry the Beloved Country
Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Shaw - Pygmalion - 822 Sha
Shaw - Arms and the Man - 822 Sha
Shelley - Frankenstein
Sophocles - Antigone - 882 Sop
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex - 882 Sop
Steinbeck - The Red Pony
Steinbeck - The Pearl
Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson - Treasure Island
Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Swift - A Modest Proposal
Tan - The Joy Luck Club
Thoreau - Walden - 818 Tho
Tolstoy - Anna Karenia
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
Warren - All the King's Men
Wells - The Time Machine
Wells - The War of the Worlds
Welty - Collected Short Stories – SC W
Wharton - Ethan Frome
Wharton - Age of Innocense
Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest - 822 Wil
Wilder - Our Town - 812 Wil
Williams - Streetcar Named Desire812 Wil
Williams - The Glass Menagerie - 812.54 Wil
Wright - Native Son
Wright - Black Boy - BIO Wright
Contemporary:
Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Asimov - Foundation Edge
Bradbury - Farenheit 451
Bragg - All Over but the Shoutin' - BIO Bragg
Burns - Cold Sassy Tree
Carr - The Alienist
Chappell - I am One of You Forever
Clancy - The Sum of All Fears
Conroy - Water is Wide
Conroy - Prince of Tides
Conroy - The Great Santini
Conroy - Beach Music
Cornwell - The Body Farm or other thrillers.
Crichton - Terminal Man
Crichton - Jurassic Park
DeMille - Up Country
Dinesen - Out of Africa - BIO Dinese
Diamant - The Red Tent
Douglas - The Robe
Edgerton - Walking Across Egypt
Edgerton - The Floatplane Notebooks
Edgerton - Raney
Edgerton - Killer Diller
Esquirel - Like Water for Chocolate
Ford - The Raider
Ford - The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Care
Gaines - Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying
Gibbons - Ellen Foster
Gibbons - A Cure for Dreams
Green - Be True to Your School - BIO Greene
Haley - Roots
Harris - Silence of the Lambs
Hillerman - Any of various Indian mysteries.
Hoffman - Practical Magic
Hoffman - Turtle Moon
Jenkins - Life Its Own Self
Jenkins - Semi Tough (Out of Print)
Kay - Dance With the White Dog
Kay - Dark Thirty
Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees
Kinsella - The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
Kinsella - Shoeless Joe
Kingsolver - The Bean Trees
Kingsolver - Animal Dreams
Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
Krakuer - Into Thin Air - 796.5 Kra
Kuralt - Life on the Road - BIO Kuralt
LaFollet - Jackdaws
LaFollet - Key to Rebecca
Leffland - Rumors of Peace
L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time and others.
Marshall - Christy
Michener - Centennial
Michener - Hawaii and others.
Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
McLean - A River Runs Through It
McCorkle - Ferris Beach
McCullough - The Thorn Birds
McCullough - Ladies of Miscellongy
Naslund - Ahab's Wife
McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
Patchet - Taft
Patchet - Bell Canto and others.
Pilcher - The Shell Seekers
Raucher - The Summer of '42
Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Russo - Empire Falls
Sayers - Nine Tailors or any other mystery.
Smith - Fair and Tender Ladies
Stone - The Agony and her Ecstasy
Tan - A Hundred Secret Senses
Tyler - Accidental Tourist
Tyler - Ladder of Years
Uris - Exodus
Uris - Trinity
Wells - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Wouk - Winds of War
Wouk - War and Rememberance
Wood - GRACE
Woodehouse - Leave it to Smith
Entertaining/Super Easy:(currently not in alphabetical order)
Crutcher - Ironman
Ross - Miss Julia series.
Karon - Mitford series.
Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful
Herriot - All Things Great and Small
Grishom - The Firm
Grishom - Pelican Brief
Whitney - any Romance
Fletcher - Mrs. Mike
Dailey - Seventeenth Summer
Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Zindel - The Pigman
Head - Mr. and Mrs. Bojo Jones
Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson
Lamour - Any western.
Mayle - Chasing Cezanne
Mayle - A Year in Provence
Hickman - October Sky
Outside Reading for Ms. Flippo’s Class
Selections on this list are arranged by author’s last name. Students are to
select and read six books from this list. Book 1 will be due September 8.
Book 2 will be due October 11. Book 3 will be due November 14. Book 4 is due
on February 5. Book 5 is due on March 14, and Book 6 is due on April 20.
Before each date, students will sign off which book they are reading. All
tests will be given for each book the same day. For Book 1, each student
will be asked to read a different book. After that, you may choose any book
from the list to read.
Anderson - I Never Sang For My Father
Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Bio Ang
Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, C. - Jane Eyre
Brown - Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee - 970.5 Bro
Buck - The good Earth
Burns - Cold Sassy Tree
Cather - My Antonio
Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Dickens - David Copperfield
Dickens - Great Expectations
Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
DuMaurier - Rebecca
Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Dunn – Ella Minnow Pea
Edgerton - Walking Across Egypt
Gibbons - Ellen Foster
Greene - Once Upon a Town - 940.54 GRE
Greene - Be True to Your School - Bio Greene
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Karon - At Home in Mitford
Kay - To Dance with the White Dog
Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Knowles - A Separate Peace
Lawrence and Lee - Inherit the Wind - 812 Law
McCullars - A Member of the Wedding - 812.5 McC
Mason - Feathercrowns (note: see Mrs. Flippo)
Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernell
Remarque - All quiet on the Western Front
Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 822.3 Sha
Steinbeck - Travels with Charlie - 917.3 Ste
Tolkien – Any of the Lord of the Rings series (but only one for the
year!)
Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Walker - The Color Purple (see Ms. Flippo)
Warren - All the King’s Men
Warton - Ethan Frome
White - Once and Future King
Wilder - Our Town - 812 Wil
Williams - The Glass Menagerie - 812.54 Wil
Outside Reading for Ms. Burns’s Class
Selections on this list are arranged by title.