INDEPENDENT READING BOOK SELECTION - 10hp

Homework over break:

1. Enjoy yourself to the best of your ability (this is a full time job)
2. Relax and rejuvenate yourself - enough to sustain yourself through a vigorous race to the finish line through June
3. Research the following books for your INDEPENDENT READING BOOK

Each book is rated on a scale of 1-5 Os.  To get a sense of the vocabulary, I recommend you look up each book on Google Books - http://books.google.com/

As for Length, O means anywhere from 0-200 pages.  OOO means 400-600 pages.  OOOOO means up to 1000 pages.  Notice how the longer books have easier content and vocabulary.

Also research this: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ 
(The future of the publishing industry runs through blogs, Google, Amazon, and Apple.  Know and understand this: you might be a published author within the year if you use this information wisely.)

Classic Work	Author	Vocab	Content	Length
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	OOOOO	OOOOO	OO
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	OO	OO	OO
Breakfast of Champions	Kurt Vonnegut	O	OO	OO
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	OOO		OOO
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	OOOO	OOOOO	OO
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut	O	OOO	OO
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	OOOO	OOOOO	OOO
Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	OOOO	OOOOO	O
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	OOOOO	OOOOO	OO
Pale Fire	Vladimir Nabokov	OOOOO	OOOOO	OOO
Deliverance	James Dickey	OOOO	OO	OO
Howard’s End	EM Forster	OO	OOO	OO
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon	OOOO	OOOOO	O
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	OO	OOO	OOO
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	OO	OO	OO
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	OOOOO	OOOO	O
Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis	OOOOO	OO	OO
Classic Work	Author	Vocab	Content	Length
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	OOO	OO	OO
On the Road	Jack Keroac	O	OOO	OO
The Subterraneans	Jack Keroac	OO	OO	O
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	O	OO	OOO
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	OOOO	OOOO	OO
The Road	Cormac McCarthy	OOOO	OO	OO
The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Thornton Wilder	OO	O	OO
White Noise	Don DeLillo	OO	OOOO	OO
No Longer at Ease	Chinua Achebe	OO	OOO	O
Rabbit Run	John Updike	OOOOO	OO	OO
A Book of Common Prayer	Joan Didion	OO	OO	OO
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	O	O	OO
The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen	OOO	OOOO	OOO
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	100 Years of Solitude	OO	OOO	OOO
Classic Work	Author	Vocab	Content	Length
Albert Camus	The Stranger	O	OOOO	O
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	O	OO	OOOOO
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	O	OO	OOOOO
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	OOO	OOO	OOO
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy O’Toole	OO	OO	OO
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	OO	OO	OO
Siddartha	Hermann Hesse	O	OOOO	O
The World According to Garp	John Irving	O	OO	OOO
Ficciones (short stories)	Jorge Luis Borges	OO	OOOOO	O
Interpreter of Maladies (short stories)	Jhumpa Lahiri	OO	OO	OO
The Dubliners (short stories)	James Joyce	OOOO	OOO	OO
Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie	OOOO	OOOO	OOO
Classic Work	Author	Vocab	Content	Length
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Dave Eggers	OO	OO	OO
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Frank L. Baum	OO	OO	OO
The French Lieutenant’s Woman	John Fowles	OOOO	OOOO	OO
Sophie’s Choice	William Styron	OO	OO	OO
Blindness	Jose Luis Saramago	OO	OO	OO
The Intuitionist	Colson Whitehead	OOO	OO	OO
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay	Michael Chabon	OO	OOO	OOO
Of Human Bondage	W Somerset Maugham	OO	OO	OOO