English 11 Recommended Reads

Hi! Here are some links and lists to help you navigate your journey through reading workshop.

List of books in Ms. Lam's Classroom Library.  Sign-out sheet is in the classroom.

Cambie School Library

Looking for plot summaries or reader reviews? Surf Chapters or Amazon.

What Should I Read Next?
Enter a book you like and the site will suggest what you could read next.

Enjoy controversy? Check out the ALA's lists of frequently challenged books of the 21st century. Click the links on the left for each year's list, from 2001-08. The list also includes why each book is considered controversial.

Visit findmeabook.com for book news and reviews by teens for teens.  Books are divided into Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Romance, Thriller.

We'll be doing booktalks later in the term. Find tips and examples at this site.

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BOOK LISTS - updated regularly, with your recommendations; post in the comments! 

The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - divided into Comedy, Crime, Family and Self, Love, Science Fiction and Fantasy, State of the Nation, War and Travel

Books for Teens - a compilation of book lists for teens.

* Ms Lam's personal picks :)

HOLIDAY - in terms of reading level, not content

• Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson) *
• The Lottery (Beth Goobie) *
• Theories of Relativity (Barbara Haworth-Attard) *
• Catalyst (Laurie Halse Anderson) *
• Maus I and II (graphic novel) (Art Spiegelman) *
• Persepolis (graphic novel) (Marjane Satrapi) *
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie) *
• The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman) *
• Watchmen (graphic novel) (Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons)
• Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Alborn)
• Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Alborn)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) *
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Jules Verne)
• Forbidden City (William Bell)
  
• Feed (M.T. Anderson)
  

JUST RIGHT - in terms of reading level, not content

• Daaku (Ranj Dhaliwal) *
• The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) *
• The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) *
• Cockeyed (Ryan Knighton) *
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Mark Haddon) *
• 1984 (George Orwell) *
• The Kite Runner (Khalid Hosseini) *
  
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
  
• The Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood) *
• The Concubine's Children (Denise Chong) *
• The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
  
• Disappearing Moon Cafe (SKY Lee) ***
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
  
• The True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey) *
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards)
  
• Stanley Park (Timothy Taylor) *
• Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  
• Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
  
• Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
  
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
  
• The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenberger)
  
• The Film Club (David Gilmour)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) *
• Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) 
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
• Atonement (Ian McEwan)
  
• Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) *

CHALLENGE - in terms of reading level, not content

• Bleak House (Charles Dickens) *
• Evelina (Frances Burney) *
• Emma (Jane Austen) *
• Zero:  The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (non-fiction) (Charles Seife)
  
• Three Day Road (Joseph Boyden) *
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  
• A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  
• Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
• The Englishman's Boy (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) *
  
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) *
• The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) *
• Blindness (Jose Saramago)
• Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
• Beloved (Toni Morrison)
• A Passage to India (E.M. Forster) 
• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
• Dracula (Bram Stoker) *
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) *
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) *
• The Three Musketeers (Alexander Dumas)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexander Dumas) *
• The Moonstone (Wilkie  Collins) *
• Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood) *
• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) *