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CCS Approved Reading List Books

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100 Years of SolitudeUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendia family.
Marquez, Gabriel GarciaNon-Fiction36
12
12/1/201012th Honors English & AP Literature and Composition, Parental Permission required before instruction begins.
1984Use SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.
Orwell, GeorgeSatire43
12
1/1/2004
All Creatures Great and SmallUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An English veterinarian reminisces about his life, career, and animal patients in a small village.
Herriot, JamesBiography2
12
1/1/2004
Any Agatha Christie mysteryUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Christie, AgathaFiction4
12
1/1/2004
Any Brother Cadfael mysteryUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Peters, EllisFiction1
12
1/1/2004
Any other Shakespeare play not previously listedUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
ShakespeareDrama
12
1/1/2004
BecketUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history.
Anouilh, JeanPlay1
12
1/1/2004
BeowulfUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Epic Poem3
12
1/1/2004
Brave New WorldUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
Huxley, AldousFiction35
12
1/1/2004
C.S. Lewis’ Space TrilogyUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Lewis, C. S.Science Fiction1
12
1/1/2004
Canterbury Tales (selected sections)Use SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A group of pilgrims tell their stories on the way to Canterbury Cathedral.
Chaucer, GeoffreyPoetry1
12
1/1/2004
Doctor FaustusUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Sixteenth-century drama about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
Marlowe, ChristopherPlay1
12
1/1/2004
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist, takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde by night.
Stevenson, Robert LouisFiction3
12
1/1/2004
DraculaUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil empire.
Stoker, BramFiction36
12
1/1/2004
Fellowship of the Ring; 1st part of Lord of the RingsUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The first book of the famous fantasy trilogy.
Tolkien, J.R.R.Fantasy3
12
1/1/2004
FrankensteinUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has created a monster being by using this terrible power.
Shelley, Mary WollstonecraftFiction61
12
1/1/2004
Gulliver’s TravelsUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high, a land of giants, and island of sorcerers, and a land where horses are masters of human-like creatures.
Swift, JonathanFiction2
12
1/1/2004
HamletUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father’s murder after being visited by his ghost.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay92
12
1/1/2004
Heart of DarknessUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The captain of a steamship on the Congo River meets and observes Mr. Kurtz, the fabled chief of the Inner Station for the trading company on that river in 1890.
Conrad, JosephFiction25
12
1/1/2004
Henry IVUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A play about court and double-dealing in the King’s court.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay28
12
1/1/2004
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend.  Together they journey through the galaxy.
Adams, DouglasScience Fiction1
12
1/1/2004
Importance of Being EarnestUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
In this satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, Jack Worthing is a fashionable young man who lives in the country with his ward Cecily. He has invented a rakish brother named Ernest whose supposed exploits give Jack an excuse to travel to London periodicall
Wilde, OscarDrama2
12
1/1/2004
Jane EyreUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.
Bronte, CharlotteFiction20
12
1/1/2004
King LearUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
King Lear disinherits his daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters who are plotting against him.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay33
12
1/1/2004
Kite Runner, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Amir and Hassan are good friends growing up together in Afghanistan but when the Soviets invade the country, Amir and his family use their wealth and influence to flee to California, but Hassan and his impoverished family, who are also a shunned ethnic mi
Hosseini, KhaledFiction1
12
Lord of the FliesUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Stranded on an island while an atomic war destroys the rest of the world, a group of young boys revert to savagery as they struggle to survive.
Golding, WilliamFiction79
12
1/1/2004
MacbethUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A Scottish noble kills the king to claim the throne for himself.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay48
12
1/1/2004
Man and SupermanUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A new twist on the Don Juan legend.
Shaw, George BernardDrama1
12
1/1/2004
Man For All Seasons, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A play based on the historical relationship between Henry VIII and Thomas More whom he appointed Bishop of Canterbury.
Bolt, RobertPlay1
12
1/1/2004
Master Harold . . . and the BoysUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Play which journeys so deep into the psychosis of racism that all national boundaries quickly disappear.
Fugard, AtholPlay, Nonfiction1
12
1/1/2004
Merchant of Venice, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Shakespeare’s comedy about a creditor demanding a pound of flesh in payment of a defaulted debt and a lover who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay3
12
1/1/2004
MiddlemarchUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
Eliot, GeorgeFiction1
12
1/1/2004
Midsummer Night’s Dream, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Shakespeare’s play involving young Athenian lovers, a boisterous group of local tradesmen, and the monarchs and subjects of the fairy kingdom.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay52
12
1/1/2004
Murder in the CathedralUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A drama of the conflict between church and state in 12th century England culminates in the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
Eliot, T. S.Play1
12
1/1/2004
Nicholas NicklebyUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
In a series of adventures Nicholas, a young hero, journeys from the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school to a high-spirited acting troupe in nineteenth-century England.
Dickens, CharlesFiction1
12
1/1/2004
Of Human BondageUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Philip Cary, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman.  Shedding his religious faith as a young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.
Maugham, W. SomersetFiction1
12
1/1/2004
OthelloUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Iago, who has been passed over for a promotion, plots revenge against Othello, a general in the service of Venice.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay44
12
1/1/2004
Paradise LostUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Epic poem which deals with the original sin of Adam and Eve and their temptation by the devil.
Milton, JohnPoetry2
12
1/1/2004
Passage to India, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century revealing the menace lurking just under the surface of ordinary misunderstanding.
Forster, E. M.Fiction1
12
1/1/2004
Picture of Dorian Gray, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil.
Wilde, OscarFiction29
12
1/1/2004
Poisonwood BibleUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
This enthralling novel about a troubled white American family in Africa is narrated by a missionary's four funny, smart, brave daughters, who are caught up in the political upheaval of what was called the Congo in 1961.
Kingsolver, BarbaraFiction1
12
1/1/2004
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.
Joyce, JamesFiction1
12
1/1/2004
Pride and PrejudiceUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Austen, JaneFiction28
12
1/1/2004
PygmalionUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A play about Eliza Doolittle, an untutored flower girl who is transformed into a "duchess" with the help of Henry Higgins.
Shaw, George BernardPlay32
12
1/1/2004
RebeccaUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
For months after her death, the memory of Rebecca de Winter continues to dominate everyone at her former home, Manderley, one of the most famous English country houses.
Du Maurier, DaphneFiction1
12
1/1/2004
Return of the Native, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon Heath to open a school.  There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows.
Hardy, ThomasFiction2
12
1/1/2004
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
 Presents the play of Hamlet as seen through the eyes of Resencrantz and Guildenstern.
Stoppard, TomPlay1
12
1/1/2004
Tale of Two Cities, AUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.
Dickens, CharlesFiction37
12
1/1/2004
Taming of the Shrew, TheUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Play about a man who sets out to tame his shrewish wife.
Shakespeare, WilliamPlay1
12
1/1/2004
Tess of the D’UrbervillesUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
An English woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control.
Hardy, ThomasFiction29
12
1/1/2004
Two Towers: 2nd part of Lord of the RingsUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
The second book of the famous fantasy trilogy has the Fellowship of the Ring divided by an attack of the Orc soldiers.
Tolkien, J.R.R.Fantasy61
12
1/1/2004
Walk to RememberUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A middle-aged man looks back on his first love at age seventeen.
Sparks, NicholasFiction6
12
1/1/2004
Wide Sargasso SeaUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Imaginatively constructs the girlhood and marriage of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the mysterious madwoman in Jane Eyre.
Rhys, JeanHistorical Fiction1
12
1/1/2004
Wuthering HeightsUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.
Bronte, EmilyFiction69
12
1/1/2004
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