International College Secondary School English Department

Suggested Reading List for Summer 2011

Title
1. Silk and Without Blood 2. The Ladies #1 Detective Agency 3. The Truth about Lorin Jones or Foreign Affairs 4. The Kitchen Gods Wife or The Bonesetters Daughter 5. Patchwork Planet or The Accidental Tourist or Noahs Compass 6. Dracula 7. Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress 8. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 9. What Is the What 10.Ragtime 11.Wuthering Heights 12.Fast Food Nation 13.Kalki 14.The Loser Takes All or The End of the Affair 15.Wicked 16.Siddhartha or Damien 17.Enduring Love 18.I, Robot 19.House of the Spirits or The Daughter of Fortune 20.Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice 21. The Magus or The French Lieutenants Woman 22.Cider House Rules or Hotel New Hampshire 23.A Separate Peace 24.Catch-22 25.Wild Swans 26.Remains of the Day 27.One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 28.The Face of Another (biography)

Author
Alexander Baricco Alexander McCall Smith Alison Lurie Amy Tan Anne Tyler Bram Stoker Dai Sijai Dave Eggars David Eggar E.L. Doctorow Emily Bronte Eric Schlosser Gore Vidal Graham Greene Gregory McGuire Herman Hesse Ian McEwan Isaac Asimov Isabelle Allende Jane Austen John Fowles John Irving John Knowles Joseph Heller Jung Chang Kazuo Ishiguru Ken Kesey Kobo Abe

29.Mother Night 30.Swift as Desire 31.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 32.Birds without Wings 33.Blink or The Tipping Point 34.Disclosure 35.Five People You Meet in Heaven or For One More Day 36.Beach Music 37.Perfume 38.Man in the Dark or Invisible 39.The Alchemist or Veronica Decides to Die 40.Presumed Innocent or The Burden of Proof 41.The Blood of Others 42.The Diary of Adrian Mole 43.Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree 44. The Mayor of Casterbridge or Tess of the Dubervilles 45.The Crying of Lot 49 46.Girl with a Pearl Earring or Lady and the Unicorn 47.Another Music

Kurt Vonnegut Laura Esquival Lisa See Louis de Bernires Malcolm Gladwell Michael Crichton Mitch Albom Pat Conroy Patrick Suskind Paul Auster Paulo Coehlo Scott Turrow Simone de Beavoir Sue Townsend Tariq Ali Thomas Hardy Thomas Pinchon Tracy Chevalier Vikram Seth

International College Secondary School English Department

Suggested Reading List for Summer 2011(cont.)

Title
48.Troy 49.The Map of Love 50.The Ladies #1 Detective Agency 51.Foreign Affairs 52.The Rock of Tanios or Ports of Call 53.The Wall of the Plague 54.A Patchwork Planet

Author
Adele Geras Ahdaf Soueif Alexander McCall Smith Alison Lurie Amin Maalouf Andre Brink Anne Tyler

55.The Sleepwalkers or Darkness at Noon 56.Songlines 57.The Lost Life 58.Lady Chatterlys Lover or Sons and Lovers 59.The City of Joy 60.Ragtime 61.The Edward Said Reader or Orientalism 62.A Woman of Independent Means 63.Memoirs of a Geisha 64.Lebanon through Writers Eyes 65.[almost anything is good] 66.The Locust and the Bird 67.The Name of the Rose 68.The Unicorn 69.I, Robot 70.Remains of the Day 71.The Hobbit 72.Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I 73.Interpreter of Maladies 74.The French Lieutenants Woman 75.A Separate Peace 76.Catch 22 77.Maya 78.On Aggression 79.Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea 80.A Border Passage 81.The Ornament of the Worlds 82.Not That Sort of Girl 83.Stranger in a Strange Land 84.Presumed Innocent or The Burden of Proof 85.The Professor and the Madman 86.Theater or The Constant Wife 87.The Once and Future King (nonfiction)

Arthur Koestler Bruce Charin Claire Massud D. H. Lawrence Dominique Lapierre E. Doctorow Edward Said Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Goldman Gorton and Feghali Graham Greene Hanan Al Shaykh Umberto Eco Iris Murdoch Isaac Asimov Ishiguru J.R.R. Tolkien Jane Resh Thomas Jhumpa Lahira John Fowles John Knowles Joseph Heller Jostein Gaarder Konrad Lorenz Lawrence Durell Leila Ahmad Maria Rosa Menocal Mary Wesley Robert Heinlein Scott Turow Simon Winchester Somerset Maugham T.E. White

88.Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree 89.The Mayor of Casterbridge 90.The Whale Rider 91.Strangers 92.The Life of Pi

Tariq Ali Thomas Hardy Witi Ihamaera Yamada Yann Martell