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Below is what I hope will become an ever-expanding list of outside reading suggestions, organized by genre.  Included with each title is a brief description of the book as well as indication of the text's reading level.  It is my hope that you will browse this list often, looking for new reading adventures.  Also, occassionally I will offer extra credit opportunities that will involve reading any book on this list and composing our standard book review.  Finally, students should feel free to suggest their own favorite books to be added to the list; students will be asked to provide brief descriptions of the books they wish to add. 

Mystery
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Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Average
The Cater Street Hangman
by Anne Perry
Average
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Average
The Dain Curse
by Dashiell Hammet
Average
The Final Solution
by Michael Chabon
Average
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
Average
 
Science Fiction
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
Challenging
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
Average
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Average
Watchmen
by Alan Moore and David Gibbons
Challenging
 
Fantasy
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The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
Average
 
Contemporary Fiction
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Angels and Demons
by Dan Brown
Average
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
by Nick Bantock
Average
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
Challenging
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Challenging
Ship Fever
by Andrea Barrett
Challenging
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Challenging
The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Challenging
The Patron Saint of Liars
by Ann Patchett
Average
The Poe Shadow
by Matthew Pearl
Average
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Challenging
The Rope Eater
by Ben Jones
Challenging
The Stolen Child
by Keith Donohoe
Average
Weight
by Jeanete Winterson
Challenging
 
Drama
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Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
Challenging
Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose
Average
 
Poetry
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A.R. Ammons: Selected Poems
by David Lehman (editor)
Challenging
Selected Poems
by Amy Lowell, ed. Honor Moore
Challenging
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
by Billy Collins
Average
 
Non-Fiction
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph Ellis
Challenging
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Challenging
Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand
Average
The Areas of My Expertise
by John Hodgman
Easy Reading
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
Average
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
by Thomas Friedman
Average
 
Classics
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Challenging
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Challenging
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allen Poe
Average
The Plague
by Albert Camus
Challenging
The Town and the City
by Jack Kerouac
Challenging
Typee
by Herman Melville
Challenging
 



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