Recommended Reading

The Berea High School English Department strongly recommends that students read for fun.  Research proves that the best way to increase test scores is to read.  We encourage students to
read a variety of materials, such as newspapers, magazines, and novels.  The following books
are suggestions for independent reading.

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur C. Doyle
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Airframe by Michael Crichton
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cain, His Brother by Anne Perry
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Fade by Robert Comier
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
 A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolken
Hounds of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur C. Doyle
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
The Island by Gary Paulsen
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Lakota Woman (nonfiction) by Mary Crowdog
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
Like Sisters On the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
Lilies of the Field by William Barrett
Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Permanent Connections by Sue Ellen Bridgers
Plain City by Virginia Hamilton
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Raney by Clyde Edgerton
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Tale of Terror - Ten Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Taming the Star Runner by S.E. Hinton
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Berry Smith
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Watership Down by Richard Adams
White Fang by Jack London
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen