Challenge and Honors Reading List 2015 16

AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS
READING LIST 2015-16

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
THE AENEID
Virgil
Alexie, Sherman
Virgil's epic poem describing the fall of Troy and the

legendary origin of Rome
in English prose.
Budding cartoonist Junior

leaves his troubled school
on the Spokane Indian
Reservation to attend an
all-white farm town school
where the only other Native American is the school
mascot.
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

Wharton, Edith
AHABS WIFE
Naslund, Sena Jeter
A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where

money counted for less than
manners and morals.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Remarque, Erich Maria
Depicts the experiences of

a group of young German
soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of
World War I.
A companion to Herman
Melville's "Moby-Dick," in
which Una Spenser tells the
story of her life, and discusses her loving marriage
to Captain Ahab before the
white whale took his leg
and drove him into madness.
ALL BUT MY LIFE

Klein, Gerda Weissman
The author tells of the

three years she endured as a
slave laborer of the Nazis
during World War II.
AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS READING LIST 2015-16
ALL THE KINGS MEN
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY
Warren, Robert Penn
Chabon, Michael
Willie Stark, a wellintentioned idealistic backcountry lawyer is unable to

resist greed for power and
lust for politics during his
rise and fall as an American
demagogue.
AMERICAN PASTORAL
Joe Kavalier has managed to

escape from Nazi-occupied
Prague, and now he must
use his cunning wits to help
rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.
ANGLE OF REPOSE
Roth, Phillip
Seymour "Swede" Levov, a

hard working man who
came of age in triumphant
postwar America, must give
up his dreams of a peaceful
life when his daughter
grows up to be a 1960s revolutionary
terrorist.
ANIMAL DREAMS
Kingsolver, Barbara
Stegner, Wallace Earle
Story of four generations in

the life of the Ward family,
from America's western
frontier to today.
ANNA KARENINA
Tolstoy, Leo
Codi returns to her hometown

to confront her past and face
her ailing father. What she
finds is a town threatened by
an environmental catastrophe
and a man who could change
her life.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X

X, Malcolm
In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official

loses her family and social
status when she chooses
the love of Count Vronsky
over a passionless marriage.
THE AWAKENING
Chopin, Kate
The personal story of the man

who rose from hoodlum, thief,
dope peddler, and pimp to become a leader of the Black Revolution of the 1960s.
Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era

wife and mother, is awakened to
the full force of her desire for
love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert
LeBrun, a young man she meets
while on vacation.
BEE SEASON
BELOVED
Goldberg, Myla
Morrison, Toni
Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member

of her family, but when she
wins a series of spelling bees,
her once distant family begins
to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.
Sethe, an escaped slave who now

lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has
borne the unthinkable and works
hard at "beating back the past."
She struggles to keep Beloved, an
intruder, from gaining possession
of her present while throwing off
the legacy of her past.
BLACK HAWK DOWN
BILLY BUDD
Melville, Herman
Bowden, Mark
Narrates the hatred of petty

officer Claggart for Billy, a
handsome Spanish sailor. Billy
strikes and kills Claggart, and
is condemned by Captain
Vere even though the latter
senses Billy's spiritual innocence.
Chronicles the experiences

of ninety-nine American soldiers who were trapped in
the city of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993.
BLEAK HOUSE
BLESS ME ULTIMA
Dickens, Charles
Anaya, Rodulfo
Presents Dickens's 1853

novel which tells the story
of several generations of
the Jarndyce family who
wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal
dispute in England's notoriously slow moving Court of
Chancery.
Six-year-old Antonio embarks

upon a spiritual journey under
the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that
leads him to question his faith
and beliefs in family, religion,
and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
THE BLUEST EYE
THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED
Morrison, Toni
Plum Ucci, Carol
An eleven-year-old AfricanAmerican girl in Ohio, in

the early 1940s, prays for
her eyes to turn blue so that
she will be beautiful.
Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams

embarks on a path of terror
and pain when he sets out to
investigate the disappearance
of Christopher Creed, a weird
kid who vanished from his
small hometown of Steepleton,
leaving only a cryptic E-mail
message as a possible clue to
what happened to him.
BONESETTERS DAUGHTER
THE BOOK OF SALADIN

Ali, Tariq
Tan, Amy
Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with
ghosts and curses when she reads
Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China-where LuLing's mute, disfigured
nursemaid committed suicide, and a
nearby cave held what may have been
the bones of the lost ancient hominid
Peking Man.
THE BOOK THIEF
A fictional memoir of
Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as
dictated to a Jewish
scribe.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT
Zusack, Mark
Brown, Daniel James
Tells how in 1936 the University

of Washington's eight-oar crew,
composed of the sons of loggers,
shipyard workers, and farmers
who had mastered collegiate
rowing, went on to the Berlin
Olympics where they defeated
Adolf Hitler's German team to
achieve the Olympic gold medal.
Trying to make sense of the

horrors of World War II,
Death relates the story of
Liesel--a young German girl
whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain
her family and the Jewish man
they are hiding, as well as their
neighbors.
BRAVE NEW WORLD

Huxley, Aldous
BREATHE, EYES, MEMORY

Danticat, Edwidge
A satirical novel about the

utopia of the future, a
world in which babies are
decanted from bottles and
the great Ford is worshipped.
BREATHING LESSONS
Tyler, Anne
Sophie Caco, a child who was

born of rape, leaves Haiti at
the age of twelve to join her
mother in New York City,
where they both battle with
the results of sexual abuse.
THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO

Diaz, Junot
While driving to the funeral of

a friend, a couple married
twenty-eight years examine the
expectations and disappointments of their marriage.
Overweight and nerdy Oscar

lives with his Dominican
American mother and sister
in New Jersey and dreams of
becoming a renowned author
and finding true love, but
unfortunately, a family curse
stands in the way of his wishes.
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THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
CANDIDE
Voltaire
The story of the lives of

three sons of an old drunkard are used to depict Russian character and investigate the concepts of good,
evil, and faith.
CARAMELO
Presents the eighteenthcentury social satire of a gentle

and kind man who is thrashed
by fate and his fellow man yet
continues to believe that he
lives in "the best of all possible
worlds."
CATCH-22
Cisneros, Sandra
Heller, Joseph
Celaya "Lala" Reyes, traveling from Chicago to

Mexico City each summer, draws together stories of her MexicanAmerican family of
shawl-makers, including
her papa and Awful
Grandmother.
CATCHER IN THE RYE

Salinger, J.D.
Presents a classic edition of the

1961 satire of military bureaucracy, focusing on the story of John
Yossarian, a bombadier in World
War II who is trying to avoid
getting killed while at the same
time dealing with a colonel who
keeps upping the number of missions he must fly.
CATS CRADLE
Vonnegut, Kurt
An adolescent boy, knowing

he is about to be dropped by
his school, spends three days
and nights in New York
City.
CATS EYE
In the year 2000, a young man

discovers ice-nine, which can
set off a chain reaction more
deadly than a nuclear bomb,
and a new prophet whose
teachings sweep the world.
CEREMONY
Atwood, Margaret
Silko, Leslie Marmon
A feminist painter returns to

Toronto for a retrospective of
her work and confronts her
memories, family, and friends.
Follows Tayo, a young Native American, after his release from a veteran's hospital following World War II as
he searches for meaning and
sanity in his life.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD

Checkov, Anton
COLD MOUNTAIN
Frasier, Charles
Chekhov's last play, written in

1904, tells the story of an aristocratic Russian family that
struggles to maintain their status in a changing world as they
are faced with the prospect of
selling the family estate to a
land developer in order to pay
off their debts.
COLOR OF WATER: A BLACK MANS TRIBUTE TO HIS WHITE MOTHER

McBride, James
Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital

where he is being treated and
determines to walk home to his
sweetheart Ada, only to find
the land and the girl he remembers as changed by the war as
he.
THE COLOR PURPLE

Walker, Alice
An African-American
male tells of his mother, a
white woman, who refused to admit her true
identity.
COLUMBINE
Cullen, David
Tells the story of two AfricanAmerican sisters: Nettie, a

missionary in Africa, and
Celie, a child-wife living in the
south, in the medium of their
letters to each other and in
Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Toole, John Kennedy
Provides an account of the

shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School on April
20, 1999, focusing on the teenage killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, drawing from interviews, police files, psychological studies, and writings
and tapes by the boys to look
at the signs they left that disaster was looming.
CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

Styron, William
Tells the story of the shortlived, bloody rebellion of

slaves in Southhampton, Virginia, in August, 1831, as seen
through the eyes of the instigator, Nat Turner.
Pulitzer Prize winning farce,

set in New Orleans, telling
about Ignatius J. Reilly and his
various attempts at employment and one-man wars.
COPPER SUN
Draper, Sharon
Two fifteen-year-old girls-one a slave and the other an

indentured servant--escape
their Carolina plantation and
try to make their way to Fort
Moses, Florida, a Spanish
colony that gives sanctuary to
slaves
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CORELLIS MANDOLIN
DeBernieres, Louis
THE CRUCIBLE
Miller, Arthur
Life changes on the Greek

island of Cephalonia as Axis
forces invade during World
War II, and beautiful Pelagia
finds that she must choose between Mandras, a fisherman
who joins the resistance and
Corelli, a captain with the communist Italian troops.
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

Paton, Alan
Presents Arthur Miller's

play in which a vengeful
teenager in 1692 Salem
accuses her former lover
and his wife of witchcraft. Includes an introduction.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME

Haddon, Mark
Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo

travels to Johannesburg on an
errand for a friend and to visit
his son, Absalom, only to learn
Absalom has been accused of
murdering white city engineer
and social activist Arthur Jarvis
and stands very little chance of
receiving mercy.
Despite his overwhelming

fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to
investigate the murder of a
neighbor's dog and uncovers
secret information about his
mother.
DAISY MILLER
DAVID COPPERFIELD
James, Henry
Dickens, Charles
Daisy Miller, an innocent yet

bold American girl, runs afoul
of the European code of conduct at the turn of the twentieth century.
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Larson, Erik
Tells the parallel stories of Daniel

Burnham, the main architect of
the 1893 Chicago World's Fair,
and serial killer Henry H. Holmes,
discussing the challenges Burnham
faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at
how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure
victims to their deaths.
A young boy in nineteenthcentury London runs away

from an unhappy home, finds
employment in a wine factory,
and becomes acquainted with
a wide variety of characters in
the city streets.
A DOLLS HOUSE
Ibsen, Henrik
Presents Ibsen's 1879 play in

which Nora, stifled as a pampered wife, forges a signature
to obtain money for her ailing
husband, resulting in her personal growth and increased
resentment of being treated
like a doll in her own home.
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DON QUIOXOTE
EAST OF EDEN
Cervantes, Miguel de
Steinbeck, John
An abridged version of
Miguel de Cervantes's
classic story of a Spanish
country gentleman and
his friend who set out to
right wrongs and punish
evil.
The saga of three generations of

the Trask and Hamilton families
in the early 1900s in Northern
California.
EQUUS
EMPIRE FALLS
Shaffer, Peter
Russo, Richard
Miles Roby, called back from

college to the small town of
Empire Falls in Dexter County,
Maine to take care of his ailing
mother, falls into a rut that
keeps him trapped until years
later when a series of revelations and tragedies jolts him
back into an awareness of his
life.
THE EXECUTIONERS SONG

Mailer, Norman
A psychiatrist's probings into

the mind of a young man who
has blinded six horses with a
spike, leaves him questioning
his own purpose and the work
he is doing.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Hemingway, Ernest
The story of convicted murderer Gary Mark Gilmore,

who made news in the 20th
Century when he demanded
the death penalty rather then
spending his life in jail.
FAT KID RULES THE WORLD

Going, K.L.
An American ambulance officer serving on the AustroItalian front deserts to join

an English nurse after the
retreat of Caporetto.
FAST FOOD NATION

Schlosser, Eric
Seventeen-year-old Troy,
depressed, suicidal, and
weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a
semi-homeless teen who is a
genius on guitar, asks Troy
to be the drummer in a rock
band.
Traces the history of the fast

food industry and discusses
how it arose in postwar America.
FEED
FENCES
Anderson, M.T.
Wilson, August
This satire is set in a future world

where television and computers are
connected directly into people's brains
when they are babies. The result is a
chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the
avid pursuit of silly entertainment-and
by constant customized murmurs in
their brains of encouragement to buy,
buy, buy.
THE FIXER
Troy Maxson, a strong, hard

man who has learned how to
be Black and proud in the
1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal
with.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Lurie, Alison
Malamud, Bernard
Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman, is accused of the murder of a young Russian boy
and refuses to confess to a
crime he did not commit in
spite of the injustices committed against him.
FREEWILL
Set mostly in London, it is the

story of two American professors of English from an Ivy
League university who spend
several months in the capital
city of England.
FRANKENSTEIN
Lynch, Chris
Shelley, Mary
A teenager trying to recover

from the tragic death of his
father and stepmother believes
himself to be responsible for
the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Bissinger, H.G.
Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter,
and has created a monster
being by using this terrible
power.
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANTS WIFE

Fowles, John
Follows the 1988 season of

the Permian Panthers, a high
school football team in
Odessa, Texas, exploring the
lives of the players and the
impact of the championship
team on the small town.
Charles Smithson, a nineteenth-century English gentleman of traditional values, is

engaged to a wealthy, proper
young woman but finds himself haunted by the independent and destitute Sarah Woodruff.
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GILEAD
THE GLASS CASTLE
Robinson, Marilynne
Walls, Jeannette
In 1956, toward the end of his

life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son,
sharing the story of his life and
explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
The author recalls her life

growing up in a dysfunctional
family with an alcoholic father
and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found
the resources and will to leave
home.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Williams, Tennesee
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Baldwin, James
Describes a day in the life of

several members of a Harlem fundamentalist church.
The saga of three generations of people is related
through flashbacks.
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother,

hopes to match her daughter Laura
with an eligible "gentleman caller"
while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy,
evades her mother's schemes and
reality by retreating to the makebelieve world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home
to become a writer but is forever
haunted by the memory of Laura.
GOING AFTER CACCIATO

OBrien, Tim
An American soldier in Vietnam decides to leave the war

and simply walks out of the
jungle, with the intent of going
to Paris.
THE GOOD EARTH
THE GOLDEN COMPASS

Pullman, Phillip
Accompanied by her daemon,

Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other
kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome
experiments in the Far North.
A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN
Buck, Pearl S.
Butler, Robert Olen
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged

accumulation of land during
famine, drought, and revolution.
Seventeen short stories

blending Vietnamese folklore with American realities
as Vietnamese refugees try
to balance their traditions
with American popular culture.
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Steinbeck, John
A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Bray, Libba
The story of a farm family's

Depression-era journey from
the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to
the California migrant labor
camps in search of a better
life.
GRIFFIN AND SABINE

Bantock, Nick
After the suspicious death of

her mother in 1895, sixteenyear-old Gemma returns to
England, after many years in
India, to attend a finishing
school where she becomes
aware of her magical powers
and ability to see into the spirit world.
GULLIVERS TRAVELS
Swift, Jonathan
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of

people six inches high, a land
of giants, an island of sorcerers, and a land where horses
are masters of human-like
creatures.
Lonely London postcard designer Griffin Moss develops an increasingly intimate correspondence with Sabine Strohem, a
stamp illustrator on a South Pacific island, after she writes to
compliment him on one of his
creations and eventually confesses she shares a psychic connection with him.
GERTRUDE AND CLAUDIUS

Updike, John
THE HANDMAIDS TALE

Atwood, Margaret
A fictional re-creation of the

lives of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of
Denmark, in the years before the action of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" begins.
HARD TIMES
Set in the near future, America

has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story
as a Handmaid under the new
social order.
HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN
Dickens, Charles
Cross, Charles
In a northern English town,

disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his
daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis.
Chronicles the troubled, creative life of rock singersongwriter Kurt Cobain, who
rose to fame in the early 1990s
as the lead singer of Nirvana
and shot himself in 1994, and
describes the aftermath of his
death for his wife, daughter,
parents, friends, and fans.
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THE HELP
THE HIGHEST TIDE
Stockett, Kathryn
Lynch, Jim
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi

from college in 1962 and begins to
write stories about the AfricanAmerican women that are found
working in white households, which
includes Aibileen, who grieves for the
loss of her son while caring for her
seventeenth white child, and Minny,
Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook
for a secretive woman who is new to
town.
HOLE IN MY LIFE
Gantos, Jack
When thirteen-year-old Miles

O'Malley discovers a rare deepsea creature stranded in the mud
of the tidal flats of Puget Sound,
he finds himself thrown into the
limelight, but when he continues
discovering rare ocean creatures,
some begin to wonder if he is an
unlikely prophet.
THE HOURS
Cunningham, Michael
Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing
poet, and together they realize that even though their
lives are different, they are
tied together by a common
bond.
The author relates how, as a

young adult, he became a
drug user and smuggler, was
arrested, did time in prison,
and eventually got out and
went to college, all the while
hoping to become a writer.
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
THE HOUSE OF SCORPION
Wharton, Edith
Farmer, Nancy
Lily Bart is an upper-class miss

in New York at the turn of the
century. She can't quite bring
herself to be a poor, marriageable girl, so she repeatedly fumbles her opportunities for a
"good" marriage.
In a future where humans

despise clones, Matt enjoys
special status as the young
clone of El Patron, the 142year-old leader of a corrupt
drug empire nestled between
Mexico and the United
States.
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

Hawethorne, Nathaniel
Follows the Pyncheon family

who lived for generations under a dead man's curse until his
death restored their house.
HOW I LIVE NOW

Rosoff, Meg
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York

City, fifteen-year-old Daisy
goes to England to stay with
her aunt and cousins, with
whom she instantly bonds,
but soon war breaks out and
rips apart the family while
devastating the land.
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HUMBOLDTS GIFT
Bellow, Saul
IN COLD BLOOD
Capote, Truman
Charlie Citrine has failed to

live up to his potential, until
Humboldt's gift arrives, a
mocking gift from the grave
that sends Charlie groping towards redemption.
An account of the murders

of the four members of the
Clutter family in Holcomb,
Kansas, in 1959 by two drifters who fled to Mexico and
were later arrested and executed for their crimes.
IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES

Alvarez, Julia
Gives a fictionalized account of

four sisters in the Dominican
Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo. The
four sisters were brave
enough to join the resistance
and fight against him until the
end. The Mirabal sisters stood
strong and fought for their
freedom until the last breath.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Ford, Richard
Sequel to: The Sportswriter.

Frank Bascombe, having lost
his career and his family, is selling real estate in Haddam, New
Jersey, and is settling for a life
of mere existence until the
events of one Fourth of July
weekend shock him into real
contact with life.
INTO THIN AIR

Krakauer, Jon
The author relates his experience of climbing Mount

Everest during its deadliest
season and examines what it
is about the mountain that
makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk,
hardship, and expense.
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES
Lahiri, Jhumpa
A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages

and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her
relationships with family and
friends.
INTO THE WILD

Krakauer, Jon
Tells the story of Chris

McCandless, a twenty-fouryear-old who walked into the
Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found
dead of starvation four
months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man
to that point.
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THE INVISIBLE MAN

Ellison, Ralph
IRONWEED
Kennedy, William
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern

college to New York's
Harlem, an African America man
becomes involved in a series of adventures.
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
The author relates how, as a

young adult, he became a
drug user and smuggler, was
arrested, did time in prison,
and eventually got out and
went to college, all the while
hoping to become a writer.
THE JOY LUCK CLUB

Tan, Amy
Trumbo, Dalton
A young man who was severely

wounded in World War I
thinks about his life and about
the horror and futility of war.
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American

women who began meeting in
San Francisco in 1949 to play
mah jong are revealed as the
daughter of one who has died
searches for her sisters in China
to tell them about the mother
they never knew.
THE KILLER ANGELS
KING DORK
Portman, Frank
Shaara, Michael
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The

Catcher in the Rye" may hold
the clues to the many mysteries in his life.
A fictional account of four

days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing
tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the
Northern and Southern
points of view.
KING LEAR
Shakespeare, William
Presents original and modern

English versions of "King
Lear," Shakespeare's drama
about an aging regent who
foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter and splits his
kingdom between his other
two daughters who are secretly plotting against him.
THE KITE RUNNER

Hosseini, Khaled
Amir, haunted by his betrayal of

Hassan, the son of his father's
servant and a childhood friend,
returns to Kabul as an adult
after he learns Hassan has been
killed, in an attempt to redeem
himself by rescuing Hassan's
son from a life of slavery to a
Taliban official.
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THE KNOWN WORLD

Jones, Edward P.
A LESSON BEFORE DYING

Gaines, Ernest
In antebellum Virginia, young

slave Henry Townsend stays with
his powerful white owner after his
parents buy his freedom, soon
becoming a slave owner himself,
but when he dies in his thirties,
his worst fears come true as his
widow, Caldonia, takes over the
plantation and it slips into chaos.
THE LIFE ALL AROUND ME
Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced

to death for a murder he did
not commit, and a teacher who
tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution.
THE LIFE OF PI
Gibbons, Kaye
Martel, Yann
Fifteen-year-old Ellen Foster

is finally settled into a permanent home with a new mother
and tries to prepare for her
future while still carrying the
burden of her mother's death
and father's abuse.
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic

childhood in Pondicherry, India, as
the son of a zookeeper, sets off
with his family at the age of sixteen
to start anew in Canada, but his life
takes a marvelous turn when their
ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving
him adrift on a raft with a 450pound Bengal tiger for company.
LITTLE FOXES
LITTLE PRINCES: ONE MANS PROMISE TO BRING HOME THE

LOST CHILDREN OF NEPAL
Hellman, Lillian
An acting edition of the 1939

drama in which brothers Oscar
and Ben Hubbard steal money
from their ailing brother-in-law
in order to fund a cotton mill,
only to be caught by their sister
Regina who demands they give
her a seventy-five percent share
of the business in exchange for
keeping them out of prison.
Conor, Grennan
Grennan Conor, a young man who

left his job to travel the world, describes his experiences at the orphanage in Nepal that inspired him to vow
to set up another orphanage and find
the abandoned children's parents,
who were tricked by a man they paid
to take the children to somewhere
they could have a better life, safe
from being kidnapped and forced to
work in the rebel army.
LONESOME DOVE
McMurtry, Larry
Two former Texas Rangers,

Augustus McCrae and
Woodrow Call, leave their
Texas ranch to lead a cattle
drive to Montana, encountering outlaws, Native Americans, and ex-loves along the
way.
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LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL

Wolfe, Thomas
LOTTERY
Wood, Patricia
After the death of his grandmother--the only family he ever

knew--mentally disabled store
clerk Perry Crandall wins the
Washington State Lottery and
suddenly he has more family
than he ever imagined, but has
trouble figuring out who he can
trust.
Describes the coming of age

of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina and
his growing passion to experience life.
LUCKY JIM
A MAP OF THE WORLD
Kingsley, Amis
Teaching assistant James Dixon, burdened with a stuffy boss

and an unwanted and unstable
girlfriend, finds himself in a
difficult position when he falls
for Christine, a woman brought
home for the weekend by his
boss's son.
MADAME BOVARY
Hamilton, Jane
From the author of the widely

acclaimed The Book of Ruth
comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous
event that forever changes their
lives.
MARCH
Flaubert, Gustave
The wife of a provincial doctor seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic
fantasies and adulterous affairs
in nineteenth-century France.
Brooks, Geraldine
Follows the experiences of

Mr. March, the father in
Louisa May Alcott's "Little
Women," as he witnesses
the cruelty and racism of
both Northern and Southern
soldiers and the harsh realities of Civil War.
MAJOR BARBARA
Shaw, George Bernard
A play about poverty

and society, dramatized
in the struggle between
a wealthy man and his
daughter, Barbara, who
works with the Salvation Army.
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MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS

Fugard, Athol
MAYOR CASTERBRIDGE
Hardy, Thomas
"Master Harold," or Hally,

learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from
the hospital and struggles
with his emotions during a
confrontation with the two
black men who help in the
family's restaurant in 1950s
South Africa.
THE MEMORY KEEPERS DAUGHTER

Edwards, Kim
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk

and sells his wife and baby
daughter, but nineteen years
later, when he is the Mayor of
Casterbridge, his past is
brought back to haunt him,
when they return, and his success is undone.
MIDDLESEX
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver

his own twins during a snowstorm
in 1964 with only a nurse to help
him, makes a decision that has farreaching effects on his life, and the
lives of his wife and son, when his
infant daughter is born with Down
Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to
protect his wife, he orders the
nurse to take the baby to an institution.
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

Eliot, George
Three generations of a Greek

American family find themselves plagued by a mutant
gene which causes bizarre side
effects in the family's teenage
girls.
MIRAL
Jebreal, Rula
Young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother,

Tom, and to the rest of
her family is fatally torn
when she falls in love
with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.
MOBY DICK
Melville, Herman
Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great

white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.
After years of caring for the fiftyfive orphaned children who were
victims of the violence that erupted
in Jerusalem in 1948, Hind Husseini discovers that some of her
grown students are beginning to
participate in the violent conflict
over Palestinian independence and
Hind races to save Miral, one of
her brightest students.
MOLL FLANDERS
Defoe, Daniel
The fortunes and misfortunes of

the famous Moll Flanders. 1722.
Moll Flanders, born in Newgate
Prison, pursues a life of adventure that eventually leads her to
a position of wealth and stature
in bustling eighteenth-century
London.
17
THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE

Hijuelos, Oscar
Cesar and Nestor, Cuban musicians, make their way from

Havana to the New York
stage in 1949 where they share
triumphs and tragedies.
MARCH TOWARD THUNDER

Bruchac, Joseph
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-yearold Abenaki Indian, joins the

Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight
for the Union in the Civil War.
THE MOTHER TONGUE: ENGLISH AND HOW IT GOT THAT

WAY
MIDDLE PASSAGE
Johnson, Charles
In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave

leading a dissolute life in
New Orleans, finds himself
forced into marriage.
MY ANTONIA
Bryson, Bill
Covers the history of language from its beginnings to

the explosion of English as a
global language in the twentieth century.
MY FORBIDDEN FACE: GROWING UP UNDER THE TALIBAN

Latifa
Cather, Willa
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska

and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.
Latifa, a young woman who was

sixteen in 1996 when the Taliban
came to power in Afghanistan, tells
about her family's experiences under the repressive regime, focusing
on the lives of women and girls
who were abruptly denied the freedom to work, go to school, or
even leave their homes without a
male escort.
NATIVE SON
THE NAMESAKE
Wright, Richard
Lahiri, Jhumpa
A young man born of Indian

parents in America struggles
with issues of identity from
his teens to his thirties.
Trapped in the povertystricken ghetto of Chicago's

South Side, a young AfricanAmerican man finds release
only in acts of violence.
18
NATIVE SPEAKER
NEVER LET ME GO
Lee, Chang Rae
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Henry Park is a Korean

American private investigator
who, in the course of spying
on a New York City politician, comes to terms with his
own sense of identity, family,
and culture.
1984
Thirty-one-year-old Kathy,
along with old friends from
Hailsham, a private school in
England, are forced to face
the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.
NO-NO BOY
Orwell, George
Okada, John
Depicts life in a totalitarian

regime of the future.
A NORTHERN LIGHT
After World War II Ichiro returns home to Seattle after four

years--two spent in a Japanese
internment camp, and two in
prison for refusing to fight in
the U.S. Army, and finds himself rejected by still-frightened
whites, as well as his own people.
OBASAN
Kogawa, Joy
Donnelly, Jennifer
Sixteen-year-old Mattie,
determined to attend college and be a writer against
the wishes of her father
and boyfriend, takes a job
at a hotel in 1906 where
the death of a guest renews
her determination to live
her own life.
ON THE ROAD
Kerouac, Jack
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack

Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for selfknowledge as experienced
by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise
and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life
friend Neal Cassady).
Sequel: Itsuka. Naomi

Nakane, a child of Japanese
immigrant parents, is interned
by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when
she is five years old.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
The rise and fall, birth and

death of the mythical town of
Macondo as told through the
history of the Buendia family.
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THE OPTIMISTS DAUGHTER

Welty, Eudora
OUT OF AFRICA
Dinesen, Isak
The author describes her life

on a coffee plantation in
Kenya for seventeen years
before returning to Denmark
in 1931 to write.
A woman who has left the South

returns when her father is dying.
After his death, she and her silly
young stepmother go back to the
small Mississippi town where she
grew up.
PARABLE OF THE SOWER
O PIONEERS!
Cather, Willa
Butler, Octavia
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm
and finds love with an old
friend.
PASSAGE TO INDIA
Forster, E.M.
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.
PERSEPOLIS
Satrapi, Marjane
Contains black-and-white
comic strip images in which
the author shares the story
of her life in Tehran, Iran,
where she lived from ages
six to fourteen while the
country came under control
of the Islamic regime.
The odyssey of a sensitive

young woman in a world that
has become almost completely
dehumanized. Set in California
in the years 2024 through
2027.
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Chbosky, Stephen
Charlie, a freshman in high

school, explores the dilemmas
of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to
an unknown receiver.
THE PLAGUE
Camus, Albert
A coastal city in Algeria is

struck by bubonic plague and
is shut off from the world for
months.
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THE POISONWOOD BIBLE

Kingsolver, Barbara
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Joyce, James
Nathan Price and his family

move to the Belgian Congo in
1959, and the experiences they
have while living in Africa affect each member of the family in a different way.
THE POWER OF ONE

Courtenay, Bryce
An autobiographical novel
depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood
of Stephen Dedalus.
THE POX PARTY

Anderson, M.T.
Story of Peekay, an English

boy, living in South Africa
during World War II whose
dream is to become a winner.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
James, Henry
A high-spirited American girl,

Isabel Archer, arrives at the
English manor Gardencourt,
rouses the passions of several
men, and finds herself in an unhappy marriage.
THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN

Manchester, Simon
Explains how the "Oxford

English Dictionary" was created and discusses the relationship between the editor
and one of his most influential contributors, a psychotic
murderer in one of England's cruelest asylums.
Various diaries, letters, and

other manuscripts chronicle
the experiences of Octavian, a
young African American, from
birth to age sixteen, as he is
brought up as part of a science
experiment in the years leading
up to and during the Revolutionary War.
PREP
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Midwesterner Lee Fiora is

sent by her father to a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts where she manages
to survive in spite of the social
differences between her and
her classmates.
RABBIT IS RICH
Updike, John
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom's

comfortable new prosperity is
threatened by the return of his
son, and reminders of a former romance.
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RAGTIME
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Doctorow, E.L.
Hansberry, Lorraine
Three remarkable families

lives' become entwined with
Henry Ford, Harry Houdini,
J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the
century.
REBECCA
A three-act play concerned

with the tensions in a middleclass African American family living on Chicago's
Southside in the 1950s.
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
DuMaurier, Daphne
Crane, Stephen
The second Mrs. Maxim de

Winter finds it difficult and
frightening to live in the shadow of her predecessor, a situation that is exacerbated by her
husband's moodiness, and the
presence of sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
THE RED TENT
Presents a retelling of the classic

story of a young Union soldier
who must reconcile his conflicting emotions about war after
coming under fire for the first
time at the battle of Chancellorsville.
REMAINS OF THE DAY
Diamant, Anita
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is told from her

point of view, beginning with
the story of her mothers, Leah,
Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah.
These wives of Jacob give her
the gifts that are to sustain her
through a damaged youth, a
calling to midwifery, and a new
home in a foreign land.
RESERVATION BLUES
Alexie, Sherman
Robert Johnson sold his

soul to the devil in 1931, and
was murdered seven years
later. He reappears in 1992
on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas
Builds-the-Fire, who starts
Coyote Springs, an allIndian Catholic rock-androll band.
The life of Stevens, an aging

English butler, changes after
three decades of service to the
same man.
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Hardy, Thomas
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.
22
THE RIGHT STUFF
THE ROAD
Wolfe, Tom
McCarthy, Cormac
Discusses the lives, ambitions,

thoughts, and feelings of the
seven Project Mecury astronauts before, during, and after
their historic space flights.
A nameless man and his

young son wander through a
decimated landscape, searching for means of survival and
a reason for hope as barbaric
hordes of people roam the
streets and ash falls from the
sky.
RABBIT, RUN
ROBINSON CRUSOE
Defoe, Daniel
Updike, John
During one of his several

adventurous voyages in the
seventeenth century, an
Englishman becomes the
sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly
thirty years on a desert island.
SALT: A WORLD HISTORY

Kurlansky, Mark
Chronicles the history of salt,

discussing how it has shaped
civilizations from the earliest
beginnings of world history and
how it has been used in different cultures.
SEIZE THE DAY
Twenty-six-year-old Harry
(Rabbit) Angstrom, unhappy
with his life, deserts his pregnant wife and young son and
becomes involved with another woman, but when his wife
gives birth, he returns home,
only to be met by tragedy.
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

Kidd, Sue Monk
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her

companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has
cared for Lily since her mother's
death ten years earlier, flee their
home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and
find a safe haven in Tiburon,
South Carolina, at the home of
three beekeeping sisters.
THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
Bellow, Saul
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
A novel about one day in

the life of a middle-aged
New Yorker struggling to
make sense of his failures,
atone for his sins, and understand how to truly "live
in the moment."
In 1945 Spain, the young son

of an antique-book dealer
searches for more books by
Julin Carax, an author he has
recently discovered, and finds
that everything Carax has ever
written has been destroyed-and that his search has put his
friends and family in danger.
23
THE SHIPPING NEWS

Proulx, E. Anne
SHOPGIRL
Martin, Steve
Mirabelle works as a shop assistant in the glove department at

Neimans. She has two men in
her life : Jeremy, a man who stencils amplifiers for a living; and
Mr Roy Porter, a rich, older man
who believes he can apply logic
to relationships. How can she
choose?
Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters return

to the family ancestral home
in Newfoundland to start new
lives.
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
SONG OF SOLOMON
Guterson, David
Morrison, Toni
When a newspaper journalist

covers the trial of a Japanese
American accused of murder,
he must come to terms with
his own past.
Follows the life of Macon

Dead, Jr., the son of the
richest black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves
home on a quest for personal freedom.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
SPEAK
Anderson, Laurie
Faulkner, William
A traumatic event near

the end of the summer
has a devastating effect
on Melinda's freshman
year in high school.
The members of a genteel

southern family are portrayed
as petty failures, drunkards,
suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.
A SPOT OF BOTHER
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Haddon, Mark
Williams, Tennessee
George Hall is ready to settle

down to a comfortable retirement, until his tempestuous
daughter, Katie, announces
she is marrying someone
George disapproves of, and
George is diagnosed with a
devastating illness.
Blanche DuBois, a haggard

and fragile southern beauty
finds her pathetic last grasp
at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her
brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.
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THE STONE ANGEL

Laurence, Margaret
THE STONE DIARIES

Shields, Carol
Story of an ordinary woman's

struggle to find a place for
herself in her own life.
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley, in a final struggle for independence, escapes from her
nursing home and tries to
come to terms with her tumultuous past.
A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS
SULA
Taylor, Peter
Morrison, Toni
Traces the lives of two African-American heroines from

their growing up together in
a small Ohio town, to their
sharply divergent paths of
womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
THE SUN ALSO RISES

Hemingway, Ernest

their growing up together in
a small Ohio town, to their
womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES

McBride, James
Charles Dickens' 1859 historical

novel set in Paris and London
during the French Revolution,
in which a French nobleman,
Charles Darnay, renounces his
position and leaves his country,
then returns during the Terror
to save the life of a servant, putting himself in grave danger.

their growing up together in a
small Ohio town, to their
womanhood, to their ultimate
confrontation and reconciliation.
THE TEMPEST
Shakespeare, William
Presents the text of the darkly

humorous play about Prospero,
the deposed Duke of Milan, who
is exiled to a magical island with
his daughter, Miranda; and includes an introduction, an essay
on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text
used.
TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR
Walker, Alice
Three couples, two in crisis,

talk about themselves and
reconstruct the missing pieces of the past and in the end,
they deeply affect one another.
25
TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES

Hardy, Thomas
THINGS FALL APART

Achebe, Chinua
Tess Durbeyfield, an impoverished sixteen-year-old country

girl, travels to the home of
rich supposed relatives to
"claim kin" at the urging of
her parents, resulting in a tragedy that determines the course
of Tess's life.
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates preChristian tribal life and
shows how the coming the
white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.
THIS BOYS LIFE

Wolff, Tobias
OBrien, Tim
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of

growing up includes paper
routes, whiskey, scouting,
fistfights, friendship, betrayal,
and America in the fifties.
Related stories, linked by

recurring characters and an
interwoven plot, recreate an
American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam
War.
A THOUSAND ACRES
Smiley, Jane
Dark truths and longsuppressed emotions

come to the surface in
1979 when a successful
Iowa farmer decides to
cut one of his daughters
out of his will.
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Hosseini, Khaleo
Afghan women Mariam and

Laila grow close, despite their
nearly twenty-year age difference and initial rivalry, as they
suffer at the hands of a common enemy--their abusive,
much-older husband,
Rasheed.
TOM JONES
Fielding, Henry
Woolf, Virginia
Describes a party gathered at a

house on the Scottish coast, in
later years only caretakers
have the house, and in the last
part of the story the house is
again filled with surviving
family members.
Presents Henry Fielding's

1749 comic novel in which
Tom Jones, abandoned as an
infant, is adopted by Squire
Allworthy and amuses himself
with amorous escapades until
the day he decides to leave
home and seek his fortune and
real identity.
26
TOUCHING THE VOID

Simpson, Joe
THE TRIAL
Kafka, Franz
Joe Simpson shares the story

of his miraculous survival
after he was injured while
climbing in the Andes in
1985 and left for dead by his
partner.
Joseph K. is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest

of his life fighting a charge
against him about which he
can get no information.
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
UNDER THE FEET OF JESUS

Viramontes, Helena Maria
Kundera, Milan
Tomas, a hopeless philanderer

and successful surgeon, flees
Prague when the Russians invade in 1968 and heads for
Switzerland where he must
provide for himself and his
lover by working as a window
washer.
VANITY FAIR
Thackeray, William Makepeace
A satirical look at Victorian

manners recounting the experiences of two finishing school
graduates, Becky Sharp and
Amelia Sedley.
WISE BLOOD
Two young Mexican

American migrant workers in California find
hope in love, despite the
poverty and social conditions in which they live.
WHALE TALK
Crutcher, Chris
Intellectually and athletically

gifted, TJ, a multiracial,
adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gungho athletes at his high
school until he agrees to
form a swimming team and
recruits some of the school's
less popular students.
THE WOMAN WARRIOR
OConnor Flannery
Kingston, Maxine Hong
After his release from the army at age twenty-two, Hazel

Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee,
moves to a Southern city
where he falls under the spell
of Asa Hawks, a blind street
preacher who is led around by
his daughter, Sabbath Lily.
A memoir of the Americanborn daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the
traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.
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THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Naylor, Gloria
Bronte, Emily
A series of vignettes focusing on seven AfricanAmerican women who are

residents of Brewster Place,
showing how their reactions to certain situations
are affected by their backgrounds, ages, dreams, and
problems.
In early nineteenth-century
Yorkshire, the passionate
attachment between a headstrong young girl and a
foundling boy brought up by
her father causes tragedy for
them and many others, even
into the next generation.
A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER

Dorris, Michael
A saga of three generations

of Indian women, beset by
hardship and torn by angry
secrets, yet joined by the indissoluble bonds of kinship.
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AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS

READING LIST 2015-16

Virgil's epic poem describing the fall of Troy and the

Budding cartoonist Junior

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Depicts the experiences of

ALL BUT MY LIFE

The author tells of the

AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS READING LIST 2015-16

ALL THE KINGS MEN

THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

Warren, Robert Penn

Willie Stark, a wellintentioned idealistic backcountry lawyer is unable to

Joe Kavalier has managed to

Seymour "Swede" Levov, a

Stegner, Wallace Earle

Story of four generations in

Codi returns to her hometown

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official

The personal story of the man

Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era

AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS READING LIST 2015-16

Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member

Sethe, an escaped slave who now

BLACK HAWK DOWN

Narrates the hatred of petty

Chronicles the experiences

Presents Dickens's 1853

Six-year-old Antonio embarks

THE BLUEST EYE

THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED

Plum Ucci, Carol

An eleven-year-old AfricanAmerican girl in Ohio, in

Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams

AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS READING LIST 2015-16

THE BOOK OF SALADIN

THE BOOK THIEF

THE BOYS IN THE BOAT

Brown, Daniel James

Tells how in 1936 the University

Trying to make sense of the

BRAVE NEW WORLD

BREATHE, EYES, MEMORY

A satirical novel about the

Sophie Caco, a child who was

THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO

While driving to the funeral of

Overweight and nerdy Oscar

AHS CHALLENGE & HONORS READING LIST 2015-16

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

The story of the lives of

Presents the eighteenthcentury social satire of a gentle

Celaya "Lala" Reyes, traveling from Chicago to

CATCHER IN THE RYE

Presents a classic edition of the