Mr. Averett's Suggested Reading List

Watership Down - Richard Adams

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong

Warriors Don't Cry - Melba Beals

Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck

Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Ender's Game - Orson Card

The Education Of Little Tree - Forrest Carter

The Chocolate War / I Am the Cheese - Robert Cormier

The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

As I lay Dying - William Faulkner

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox

The Diary Of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank

Mrs. Mike - Benedict & Nancy Freedman

Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman / A Lesson Before Dying- Ernest Gaines

Old Yeller - Fred Gipson

Lord Of the Flies - William Golding

Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin

For Whom the Bell Tolls / A Farewell To Arms / The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Hiroshima - John Hersey

October Sky - Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

Lost Horizon - James Hilton

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Kite Runner / A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Farewell To Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes

Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

Into Thin Air / Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn

The Call Of the Wild / White Fang - Jack London

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute To HIs White Mother - James McBride

Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean

Beloved / The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

Z For Zachariah / Mrs Frisby and Rats Of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien

Island Of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

1984 / Animal Farm - George Orwell

Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck

A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer

The Chosen / My Name Is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok

The Yearling - Marorie Kinnan Rawlings

Where the Red Fern Grows / Summer Of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls

All Quiet On the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare

The Grapes Of Wrath / East Of Eden / Winter Of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck

Treasure Island / Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde - Robert Lewis Stevenson

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor

The Hobbit - J.R. R. Tolkien

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Journey To the Center Of the Earth / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Time Machine - H.G. Wells

Death Watch - Robb White

Night / Dawn - Elie Wiesel

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Shadow Of a Bull - Maia Wojciechowska

This Boy's Life: A Memoir - Tobias Wolff

Autobiography Of Malcolm X - Malcolm X

The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen