Booklist for 4U Independent Study

The following are some suggestions for your independent study. The books
on this list are at the difficulty level necessary for this assignment, but you
may choose something from outside this list if you talk to your teacher.
Canadian Authors
Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye,
Oryx and Crake, Alias Grace, The
Handmaid's Tale, The Blind
Assassin, Moral Disorder, etc.

Alistair McLeod: No Great Mischief

Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces

Joseph Boyden: Three Day Road,

Through Black Spruce, The
Orenda
Douglas Coupland: Microserfs,
Girlfriend in a Coma, Generation X,
Player One

Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance,

Such a Long Journey, Family
Matters

Robertson Davies: The Lyre of

Orpheus, Fifth Business

Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost,

Coming Through Slaughter, The
English Patient, Divisadero, The
Cats Table, Running in the
Family

Patrick DeWitt: The Sisters

Brothers

Paul Quarrington: Whale Music,

King Leary, Galveston

Esi Edugyan: Half-Blood Blues

David Adams Richards: Mercy

Among the Children, Bay of
Love and Sorrows, River of the
Broken-Hearted

Timothy Findley: Famous Last

Words, Not Wanted on the
Voyage, Pilgrim
Rawi Hage: Deniros Game
Lawrence Hill: The Book of
Negroes
Wayne Johnston: The Divine
Ryans, The Colony of Unrequited
Dreams, Navigator of New York
Thomas King: Green Grass,
Running Water
Margaret Laurence: The Diviners,
The Stone Angel, A Jest of God
Anne-Marie MacDonald: Fall on
Your Knees, The Way the Crow
Flies

Mordecai Richler: The

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Gabrielle Roy: The Tin Flute
Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries,
Unless, Larry's Party
Miriam Toews: A Complicated
Kindness, The Flying Troutmans,
Irma Voth, All My Puny
Sorrows
Jane Urquhart: The Underpainter,
The Stone Carver, Map of Glass,
Away

Guy Vanderhaeghe: The

Englishman's Boy, The Last
Crossing

M. G. Vassanji: The In-Between

World of
Vikram Lall, The Book of Secrets

American Authors
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings
Olive Ann Burns: Cold Sassy Tree
Don DeLillo: Libra, White Noise
Junot Diaz: The Brief and
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the
Goon Squad

Alice Hoffman: Here on Earth, The

River King
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner,
A Thousand Splendid Suns
John Irving: Cider House Rules, A
Widow for a Year, The World
According to Garp
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood
Bible, The Bean Trees
John Knowles: A Separate Peace

Dave Eggers: What is the What, A

Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius
William Faulkner: The Sound and
the Fury, As I Lay Dying
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the
Night
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
David Guterson: Snow Falling on
Cedars
Jane Hamilton: The Book of
Ruth, Map of the World

Cormac McCarthy: The Road, No

Country for Old Men, Blood
Meridian, All the Pretty Horses
Toni Morrison: Beloved, The Bluest
Eye
Tim O'Brien: The Things They
Carried, The Lake of the
Woods
John Kennedy O'Toole: A
Confederacy of Dunces, Neon
Bible
E. Annie Proulx: The Shipping
News

Chad Harbach: The Art of Fielding

Joseph Heller: Catch 22

Sheri Reynolds: The Rapture of

Canaan

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also

Rises, A Farewell to Arms

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse

Five, Sirens of Titan

Other Authors
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall
Apart

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half

of a Yellow Sun
Julian Barnes: A History of the
World in 101/2 Chapters, Sense of
an Ending

Hisham Matar: In the Country of

Men
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha

Ha
Graham Greene: Brighton Rock
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One
Hundred Years of Solitude,
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of
Love and Other Demons

George Orwell: 1984

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small
Things
Jose Saramago: Blindness
Zadie Smith: White Teeth

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

D.M. Thomas: The White Hotel

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Evelyn Waugh: Scoop, Brideshead

Revisited, A Handful of Dust

Ian MacEwan: Atonement,

Saturday, Amsterdam, Enduring
Love

Jeanette Winterson - Written on

the Body

Jeanette Winterson: Orange is Not the Only Fruit Daniel Kehlman:

Measuring the World
Hannah Kent: Burial Rites

Classic Literature
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice,
Persuasion

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and

Punishment, The Brothers
Karamazov

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad: Heart of
Darkness, The Secret Agent
Charles Dickens: Great
Expectations, Oliver Twist, David
Copperfield

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of
Casterbridge, The Woodlanders,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet
Letter
Henry James: The Turn of the
Screw

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, War

and Peace
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian
Gray