To Receive
Extra Credit for Completing a Book:
The catch? The
book must not be available in film or Cliff Notes.
You must type
and turn in a library report. and provide the
class with a 3-5 minute oral critique of the book
(Siskel& Ebert style). Each Book you read and report
on will add up to 10 points to a test. (Max=2 per tri.)
*Browse the internet for reviews at
www.amazon.com or Borders on-line , or just use www.
metacrawler.com and search
under the book’s author and title.
Books By Genre
Mystery
1. Unnatural Exposure, Cause of Death,
Body Farm, etc...
by Patricia Cornwell
2. Kiss the Girls, etc..
by James Patterson
3. Plum Island
by Nelson Demille
4. The Green Mile
by Stephen King
5. Secret History
by Donna Tart
6. The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
Horror
1. Swan Song , Mine by Robert McCammon
2. Carrion Comfort
by Dan Simmons
If you like Grisham....
7. The Partner,
The Chamber, etc...
8. Rules of Prey
by Jon Sanford
9. The Laws of Our Fathers, etc...
by Scott Turow
Nonfiction
1. The Whole Shebang
by Timothy Ferris
2. Angela’s Ashes
by Frank McCourt
3. The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J.Stanley,
William D. Danko
4. The Napolean of Crime
by Ben Macintrye
5. The Man Who Listens to Horses
by Monty Roberts
6. Biographies of Kennedy, Truman, Gates,
Colon Powell, Margaret Thatcher, Zelda Fitzgerald, etc...
6. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
Sports/Adventure
Nonfiction
1. The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the
Sea
by Sebastian Junger
2. Into Thin Air or
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
3. The Last Shot
by Darcy Frey
4. Instant Replay
(ftball) by Jerry Kramer
5. Paper Lion (ft.ball)
by George Plimpton
6. Ball Four
by Jim Palmer
7.Feeding the Rat
(mountain climbing)
by A.Alvarez
8. A Wolverine is Eating My Leg
by Tim Cahill
 Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
is a personal favorite. It recounts
the story of a boy who decides to
drop out of college to pursue
adventure in Alaska, but ends up
with a lot more than he'd bargained for!
Click here
for the details.
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Science
Fiction
1. Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert Heinlein
2. The Doomsday Book
by Connie WIllis
3. Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
4. The Diamond Age
by Neil Stephenson
5. Star Tide Rising
by David Brin
6. Enders’ Game
by Orson Scott Card
7. Neuromancer by WIlliam Gibson
8. The Handmaiden’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Modern Classics
and Pulitzer Prize Winners (*)
1. Cat’s Cradle ,etc...
by Kurt Vonnegut
2. On the Road
by Jack Karouak
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter Thompson
4. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
5. Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
6. Journey to Ixtlan
by Carlos Castaneda
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
8. Bonfire of the Vanities , The Purple Decadees by Tom
Wolfe
*9. Executioner’s Song
by Norman Mailer
*10. Rabbit Run, etc.
by John Updike
11. Breathing Lessons, etc...by Ann Tyler
*12. Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
*13. Confederacy of Dunces by
John Kennedy Toole
14. East is East by T. Coraghesan Boyle
*15. Beloved by Toni Morrison
*16. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
17. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
18. A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen
Butler
19. The Shipping News,
Accordian Crimes by Annie Proulx
19. The Stone Diaries by Richard Ford
20. Martin Dressler by Steven Miller
Bestselling
Fiction/Drama
1. Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
2. Songs in Ordinary Time
by Mary McGarry Morris
3. The Truth Machine
by James Halperin
4. Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
5. The Horse Whisperer
6. She’s Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
7. Pigs in Heaven,etc..
by Barbara Kingsolver
8. All the Pretty Horses
by McCarthy
9. Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Gutterson
10. Primary Colors
by Anonymous
11. The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
12. Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
13. The Divine Secrets of the Ya Yas
by Rebecca Wells
AND THESE ARE JUST A FEW ... |
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Modern
Library's Top 100 List
- 1.
"Ulysses," James Joyce
- 2. "The
Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3. "A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce
- 4.
"Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov
- 5. "Brave
New World," Aldous Huxley
- 6. "The
Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner
- 7.
"Catch-22," Joseph Heller
- 8.
"Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler
- 9. "Sons
and Lovers," D.H. Lawrence
- 10. "The
Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck
- 11.
"Under the Volcano," Malcolm Lowry
- 12. "The
Way of All Flesh," Samuel Butler
- 13.
"1984," George Orwell
- 14. "I,
Claudius," Robert Graves
- 15. "To
the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf
- 16. "An
American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser
- 17. "The
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers
- 18.
"Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut
- 19.
"Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison
- 20.
"Native Son," Richard Wright
- 21.
"Henderson the Rain King," Saul Bellow
- 22.
"Appointment in Samarra," John O'Hara
- 23.
"U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos
- 24.
"Winesburg, Ohio," Sherwood Anderson
- 25. "A
Passage to India," E.M. Forster
- 26. "The
Wings of the Dove," Henry James
- 27. "The
Ambassadors," Henry James
- 28.
"Tender Is the Night," F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 29. "The
Studs Lonigan Trilogy," James T. Farrell
- 30. "The
Good Soldier," Ford Maddox Ford
- 31.
"Animal Farm," George Orwell
- 32. "The
Golden Bowl," Henry James
- 33.
"Sister Carrie," Theodore Dreiser
- 34. "A
Handful of Dust," Evelyn Waugh
- 35. "As I
Lay Dying," William Faulkner
- 36. "All
the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren
- 37. "The
Bridge of San Luis Rey," Thornton Wilder
- 38.
"Howards End," E.M. Forster
- 39. "Go
Tell It on the Mountain," James Baldwin
- 40. "The
Heart of the Matter," Graham Greene
- 41. "Lord
of the Flies," William Golding
- 42.
"Deliverance," James Dickey
- 43. "A
Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell
- 44.
"Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley
- 45. "The
Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway
- 46. "The
Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad
- 47.
"Nostromo," Joseph Conrad
- 48. "The
Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence
- 49.
"Women in Love," D.H. Lawrence
- 50.
"Tropic of Cancer," Henry Miller
- 51. "The
Naked and the Dead," Norman Mailer
- 52.
"Portnoy's Complaint," Philip Roth
- 53. "Pale
Fire," Vladimir Nabokov
- 54.
"Light in August," William Faulkner
- 55. "On
the Road," Jack Kerouac
- 56. "The
Maltese Falcon," Dashiell Hammett
- 57.
"Parade's End," Ford Maddox Ford
- 58. "The
Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton
- 59.
"Zuleika Dobson," Max Beerbohm
- 60. "The
Moviegoer," Walker Percy
- 61.
"Death Comes to the Archbishop," Willa Cather
- 62. "From
Here to Eternity," James Jones
- 63. "The
Wapshot Chronicles," John Cheever
- 64. "The
Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger
- 65. "A
Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess
- 66. "Of
Human Bondage," W. Somerset Maugham
- 67.
"Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad
- 68. "Main
Street," Sinclair Lewis
- 69. "The
House of Mirth," Edith Wharton
- 70. "The
Alexandria Quartet," Lawrence Durrell
- 71. "A
High Wind in Jamaica," Richard Hughes
- 72. "A
House for Ms. Biswas," V.S. Naipaul
- 73. "The
Day of the Locust," Nathaniel West
- 74. "A
Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway
- 75.
"Scoop," Evelyn Waugh
- 76. "The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Muriel Spark
- 77.
"Finnegans Wake," James Joyce
- 78.
"Kim," Rudyard Kipling
- 79. "A
Room With a View," E.M. Forster
- 80.
"Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh
- 81. "The
Adventures of Augie March," Saul Bellow
- 82.
"Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner
- 83. "A
Bend in the River," V.S. Naipaul
- 84. "The
Death of the Heart," Elizabeth Bowen
- 85. "Lord
Jim," Joseph Conrad
- 86.
"Ragtime," E.L. Doctorow
- 87. "The
Old Wives' Tale," Arnold Bennett
- 88. "The
Call of the Wild," Jack London
- 89.
"Loving," Henry Green
- 90.
"Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie
- 91.
"Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell
- 92.
"Ironweed," William Kennedy
- 93. "The
Magus," John Fowles
- 94. "Wide
Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys
- 95.
"Under the Net," Iris Murdoch
- 96.
"Sophie's Choice," William Styron
- 97. "The
Sheltering Sky," Paul Bowles
- 98. "The
Postman Always Rings Twice," James M. Cain
- 99. "The
Ginger Man," J.P. Donleavy
- 100. "The
Magnificent Ambersons," Booth Tarkington
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Top
100 Novels of the 20th Century
- 1. The
Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 2. The
Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
- 3. The
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
- 4. To Kill
a Mockingbird Harper Lee
- 5. The
Color Purple Alice Walker
- 6. Ulysses
James Joyce
- 7. Beloved
Toni Morrison
- 8. The Lord
of the Flies William Golding
- 9. 1984
George Orwell
- 10. The
Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
- 11. Lolita
Vladmir Nabokov
- 12. Of Mice
and Men John Steinbeck
- 13. Charlotte's
Web EB White
- 14. A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
- 15. Catch-22
Joseph Heller
- 16. Brave
New World Aldous Huxley
- 17. Animal
Farm George Orwell
- 18. The Sun
Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
- 19. As I
Lay Dying William Faulkner
- 20. A
Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
- 21. Heart
of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- 22. Winnie-the-Pooh
AA Milne
- 23. Their
Eyes are Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
- 24. Invisible
Man Ralph Ellison
- 25. Song of
Solomon Toni Morrison
- 26. Gone
with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
- 27. Native
Son Richard Wright
- 28. One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
- 29. Slaughterhouse
Five Kurt Vonnegut
- 30. For
Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
- 31. On the
Road Jack Kerouac
- 32. The Old
Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
- 33. The
Call of the Wild Jack London
- 34. To the
Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
- 35. Portrait
of a Lady Henry James
- 36. Go Tell
it on the Mountain James Baldwin
- 37. The
World According to Garp John Irving
- 38. All the
King's Men Robert Penn Warren
- 39. A Room
with a View EM Forster
- 40. The
Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
- 41. Schindler's
List Thomas Keneally
- 42. The Age
of Innocence Edith Wharton
- 43. The
Fountainhead Ayn Rand
- 44. Finnegans
Wake James Joyce
- 45. The
Jungle Upton Sinclair
- 46. Mrs.
Dalloway Virginia Woolf
- 47. The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz Frank L. Baum
- 48. Lady
Chatterley's Lover DH Lawrence
- 49. A
Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
- 50. The
Awakening Kate Chopin
- 51. My
Antonia Willa Cather
- 52. Howard's
End EM Forster
- 53. In Cold
Blood Truman Capote
- 54. Franny
and Zooey JD Salinger
- 55. Satanic
Verses Salman Rushdie
- 56. Jazz
Toni Morrison
- 57. Sophie's
Choice William Styron
- 58. Absalom,
Absalom! William Faulkner
- 59. Passage
to India EM Forster
- 60. Ethan
Frome Edith Wharton
- 61. A Good
Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor
- 62. Tender
is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 63. Orlando
Virginia Woolf
- 64. Sons
and Lovers DH Lawrence
- 65. Bonfire
of the Vanities Thomas Wolfe
- 66. Cat's
Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
- 67. A
Separate Peace John Knowles
- 68. Light
in August William Faulkner
- 69. The
Wings of the Dove Henry James
- 70. Things
Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
- 71. Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
- 72. A
Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
- 73. Naked
Lunch William S. Burroughs
- 74. Brideshead
Revisited Evelyn Waugh
- 75. Women
in Love DH Lawrence
- 76. Look
Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
- 77. In Our
Time Ernest Hemingway
- 78. The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein
- 79. The
Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
- 80. The
Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
- 81. The
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
- 82. White
Noise Don DeLillo
- 83. O
Pioneers! Willa Cather
- 84. Tropic
of Cancer Henry Miller
- 85. The War
of the Worlds HG Wells
- 86. Lord
Jim Joseph Conrad
- 87. The
Bostonians James Henry
- 88. An
American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
- 89. Death
Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
- 90. The
Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
- 91. This
Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 92. Atlas
Shrugged Ayn Rand
- 93. The
French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
- 94. Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
- 95. Kim
Rudyard Kipling
- 96. The
Beautiful and the Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 97. Rabbit,
Run John Updike
- 98. Where
Angels Fear to Tread EM Forster
- 99. Main
Street Sinclair Lewis
- 100. Midnight's
Children Salman Rushdie
EXTRA
CREDIT BOOK REPORT FORM
Directions: Type the answers to these
questions on your own paper
1. List all the main characters in the book
and use three adjectives to describe each character. Put a +,-, or = by each
character to tell whether you liked him, her, it; hated him, her, it; felt
neutral.
2. What is the setting? (TIME, PLACE, DATE,
ATMOSPHERE)
3. List the titles (if untitled-- what you
would name them) of the best 10 chapters in the novel, and tell at least three
interesting events which happen in each chapter. If there are no chapters,
divide the book into at least five parts.
4. Who is your favorite AND least favorite
character; why?
a
5. What was the most memorable part of the
book? Explain what happened.
6. Write down 20 words which you learned
from this book and define them.
7. If you could change one part of the
book, what would it be? How would you rewrite it?
8. What would you name a sequel to this
book and what would it be about?
9. Which character in the book is most like
you? Why?
10. Which character would you want to be a
friend of yours? Why?
11. Which parts of the book are believable?
Which are not?
12. Which conflicts (man vs. himself,
nature, man, or society) exist and how are they resolved?
13. From what point of view is the story
told (first, second, or third person; omniscient)?
14. Choose one of the most compelling
passages (at least three hundred words) and write it on your paper. Analyze the
tone (attitude of the author), diction (word choice), imagery (any visual
pictures the author creates), and syntax (sentence structure and punctuation).
How do these literary devices create a unified theme in the passage?
15. What is the central theme of the story?
What is the main message the author wants to give you?
16. Would you recommend this book to a
friend? Why?
Have you heard of Literary Circles?
Here are a few sites who are participating:
http://www.regis.edu/
college/ MAWHOLE/ Circle.htm
http://161.31.208.51/ched/johnson/literatu.htm
http://www.halycon.com/marcs/litcircle3.html
http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cyberen/lit_circles.html
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/desc.html
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