READING SELECTIONS  FOR EIGHTH GRADE

Books Recommended by Librarians

Ambrose, Stephen E..... The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Alcott, Louisa May.... Little Men

Austen, Jane.... Sense and Sensibility

Buck, Pearl S..... The Good Earth

Cisneros, Sandra....  The House On Mango Street

Cormier, Robert.... The Rag and Bone Shop

Crane, Stephen.... The Red Badge of Courage

Crew, Linda.... Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined

Dickens, Charles... The Tale of Two Cities

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.... The Red-Headed League

Dostoyevsky,  Fyodor.... Crime and Punishment

Dreiser.... An American Tragedy

Dumas, Alexandre.... The Count of Monte Cristo

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.... Tender is the Night

Gunther, John.... Death Be Not Proud

Hamilton, Edith.... Mythology

Hansbury, Loraine.... Rasin in the Sun

Hawthorne, Nathaniel...The House of Seven Gables

Hemingway, Ernest....A Farewell to Arms

Hesse, Herman.... Siddhartha

Heyerdahl, Thor.... Kon-Tiki

Hurston, Zora Neale.... Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hugo, Victor.... Les Miserables

James, Henry.... Turn of the Screw

Kesey, Ken.... One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest

Kidd, Sue Monk.... The Secret Life of Bees

Lawrence, Jerome & Robert E. Lee.... Inherit the Wind

Lewis, Sinclair.... The Jungle

Maugham, Somerset.... Of Human Bondage

McCullers, Carson.... The Member of the Wedding

Melville, Herman.... Moby Dick

Miller, Arthur....The Crucible

Mitchell, Margaret.... Gone With the Wind

Mosher, Richard.... Zazoo

Myers, Walter Dean.... Fallen Angels

Na, An.... A Step From Heaven

Nordhoff, Charles.... Mutiny on the Bounty

Orezy, B. Emma.... The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orwell, George.... 1984

Paton, Alan.... Cry the Beloved Country

Pasternak, Boris.... Dr. Zhivago

Paulsen, Gary.... Nightjohn

Potak, Chaim.... The Chosen

Pyle, Howard.... The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Spinelli, Jerry.... Milkweed

Steinbeck, John.... Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Robert Louis.... Treasure Island

Stryron, William.... The Confessions of Nat Turner

Taylor, Mildred.... The Land

Thoreau, Henry David.... Walden

Twain, Mark.... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Voigt, Cynthia.... Izzy, Willy-Nilly

Wharton, Edith... The Age of Innocence

Woodson, Jacqueline.... I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This