Here are just a few of the books that we suggest for our avid readers,
hopefully you can enjoy a few of theses selections during your time at
Timberlane...
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11 Grade 12
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
| FICTION | |
| Accidents of Nature | Harriet McBryde Johnson |
| The Bee Season | Myla Goldberg |
| The Book of Daniel | E.L. Doctrow |
| The Boy Book | E. Lockhart |
| The Boyfriend List | E. Lockhart |
| Boy, Girl , Boy | Ronald Koertge |
| The Brothers K | David Jones Duncan |
| City Of Beasts | Isabel Allende |
| Converting Kate | Beckie Weinheimer |
| The Crazy Horse Effect Game | Chris Crutcher |
| Deadline | Chris Crutcher |
| Dairy Queen | Cathrine Murdock |
| The First Shot | Walter Sorells |
| In Summer | Jeremy Jackson |
| Knights of the Hill Country | Tim Tharp |
| Lessons from a Dead Girl | Johanna Knowles |
| The Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Lock and Key | E. Lockhart |
| The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint | Brady Udall |
| The Necessary Hunger | Nina Revoyr |
| The Off Season | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
| Ordinary Ghosts | Eireann Corrigan |
| Quacking | Kathryn Erskine |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Talk | Kathe Koja |
| The Weight of the Sky | Lisa Ann Sandell |
| NON-FICTION | |
| A Child Called “It” | David J. Pelzer |
| A Man Named Dave | David J. Pelzer |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer |
| The Lost Boy | David J. Pelzer |
| Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog | John Grogan |
| Shadow Divers | Robert Kurson |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom |
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Grade 10
| FICTION | |
| The Age of Reason | John-Paul Satre |
| An Innocent Soldier | Josef Holub |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| The Blood of Flowers | Anita
Amirrezvani |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat |
| Caspian Rain | Gina Nahi |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potok |
| The Cry of the Dove |
Fadia Faqir |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| I, Robot | Issac Asimov |
| Inheritance | Indira Ganesan |
| A Little Piece of Ground | Elizabeth Laird |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Motherland |
Vineeta
Vijayaraghavan |
| Notes From the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Obasan | Joy
Kogawa |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Portrait of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Weight of the Sky | Lisa Ann Sandell |
| The Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula LeGuin |
| NON-FICTION | |
| American Shaolin | Matthew Polly |
| Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft | Thor Heyerdahl |
| Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrer |
| When I Was a Soldier | Valerie Zenatti |
| Zlata’s Diary | Zlata Filipovic |
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Grade 11
| FICTION | |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| Autobiography of my Dead Brother | Walter Dean Myers |
| Bodega Dreams | Ernesto Quinonez |
| Call it Sleep | Henry Roth |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James |
| The Death of Jim Loney | James Welch |
| Four Corners of the Sky | Michael Malone |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| John Henry Days | Colson Whitehead |
| Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry
McCurty |
| The Love Wife | Gish Jen |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Mona in the Promised Land | Gish Jen |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| A Painted House | John Grisham |
| The Postman | David Brin |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike |
| Shanghai Girls | Lisa See |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt
Vonnegut |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| The Winter of our Discontent | John Steinbeck |
| A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Michael
Dorris |
| NON-FICTION | |
| Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream |
Barbara
Ehrenreich |
| Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America |
Barbara Ehrenreich
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| The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron | Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind |
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Grade 12
| FICTION | |
| The Blood of Flowers | Anita Amirrezvani |
| The Code Talker | Joseph Bruchac |
| Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| The Cry of the Dove | Fadia Faqir |
| The Death Of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Echoes of the White Giraffe | Sook Nyul
Choi |
| Elephant Run | Roland Smith |
| Fools Crow | James Welch |
| The Kite Rider | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled
Hosseini |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Savushun |
Simin Daneshvar |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
| Sold | Patricia McCormick |
| Southland | Nina Revoyr |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled
Hosseini |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park |
| Winter in the Blood | James Welch |
| Year of the Impossible Goodbyes | Sook Nyul
Choi |
| NON-FICTION | |
| A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. | Sylvia Nasar |
| Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser |
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson |
| The Zookeeper’s Wife | Diane Ackerman |