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Which of these books should I read for a book report? Which ones are the best?
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
The Assistant Bernard Malamud
The Awakening Kate Chopin
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Beloved Toni Morrison
Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Boon Island Kenneth Roberts
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Call of the Wild Jack London
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
The Chosen Chaim Potok
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevski
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
A Death in the Family James Agee
Doctor Zhvago Boris Pasternak
A Doll House Henrik Ibsen
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Emma Jane Austin
Enemies Isaac Bashevis Singer
An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
A Farewell o Arms Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Giants in the Earth Ole Rolvaag
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
The Good Earth Pearl Buck
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Life of Pi Yann Martel
Looking Backward Ralph Bellamy
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Lost Horizon James Hilton
M is for Malice Sue Grafton
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
A Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt
Marrying Mom Olivia Goldsmith
The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers
Mutiny on the Bounty Nordoff and Hall
My Antonia Willa Cather
Native Son Richard Wright
The Natural Bernard Malamud
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
On the Beach Neville Shute
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Sula Toni Morrison
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas
To Dance with the White Dog Terry Kay
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
Walkabout Vance Marshall
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
These are the best out of the list - and I've read about 80% of them.
The chosen - or anything else by Chaim Potok
Color purple - good, but you probably already know the story from the movie
The bluest eye - excellent - excellent excellent
Siddhartha - one of my all time faves - read it about 10 times
The Yellow Wallpaper - wierd but good (you either love it or hate it.
I hated the life of pi - at least the second part, some of the classics you have listed can be boring, so make sure you are committed to finishing them, or read them when you are older (I read war and peace as a teen, then again recently - so much better as an adult!)
edit - of course Anne Frank tops most people's lists and if you haven't read it should read it some day.
- Jess HLv 71 decade ago
OK...this list is way too long. lol.
My favorite book of all time is "Wuthering Heights". I would strongly recommend it. However, it can be a bit complex.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is also a fantastic story, and it's actually a short story. I read it again just the other day, in fact, after someone else asked a question on here about it.
"Jane Eyre" is also a wonderful book, and it's a really easy read.
Yeah...even though "Wuthering Heights" is my favorite book, I'd probably recommend "Jane Eyre" for a book report.
- 1 decade ago
haha...
that was my sophomore year reading list. Try The Diary of Ann Frank. It was pretty good, and it isn't that difficult of a read. There are a few other ones (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights) that were good, but they are much harder and will take longer to read. Plus, those are written in old english....
- 1 decade ago
If i were you i would choose between:
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
I would do Wuthering Heights, but all of these three are pretty good.
I hope i helped! =]
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- 1 decade ago
It's not on your lest, but a book I would recomend for a report is "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown. It is a very good book for reports because it has tons of different characters, settings, and all that other good stuff that teachers like to see on the reports.
Source(s): Buy the book for 9.99 (US) here -- http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fortress-Thriller-Da... - 1 decade ago
The Diary of Anne Frank, I bawled when i read it, such a moving book, amazing story.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I recommend this book:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It is a funny book!
