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A Teacher's Summer Reading List

© Rebecca Kojetin

As teachers we have required reading lists to cover, and many of us require the students to read and compose at least one book report during the year. During the year, our reading is focused on the literature we are teaching and the students compositions. It leaves little time for personal reading and reading for enjoyment. I have collected several lists of books for personal summer reading lists. The list I want to share with you now is one that I am going to use as a base for my summer reading list. It is the list of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list from 1918 to 1992, and then I will be searching for the titles from 1993 to the present.

Titles arranged alphabetically by title.

The Able McLaughlins (Margaret Wilson) Advise and Consent (Allen Drury) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Alice Adams (Booth Tarkington) All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren) Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor) Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner) Arrowsmith (Sinclare Lewis) A Bell for Adano (John Hersey) Beloved (Toni Morrison) Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder) The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk) Collected Stories (Jean Stafford) Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (Katherine Anne Porter) The Color Purple (Alice Walker) A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styron) A Death in the Family (James Agee) Dragon's Teeth (Upton Sinclair) Early Autumn (Louis Bromfield) The Edge of Sadneww (Edwin O'Connor) Elbow Room (James Alan McPherson) The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer) A Fable (William Faulkner) The Fixer (Bernard Malamud) Foreign Affairs (Alison Lurie) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Guard of Honor (James Gould Cozzens) His Family (Ernest Poole) Honey in the Horn (Harold L. Davis) House Made of Dawn (M. Scott Momaday) Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow) In This Our Life (Ellen Glasgow) Ironweed (William Kennedy) Journey in the Dark (Martin Flavin) The Keepers of the House (Shirley Ann Grau) The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) Lamb in His Bosom (Caroline Miller) The Late Geroge Apley (John P. Marquand) Laughing Boy (Oliver LaFarge) Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos) Now in November (Josephine W. Johnson) The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) One of Ours (Willa Cather) The Optimist's Daughter (Eudora Welty) Rabbit at Rest (John Updike) Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike) The Reivers (William Faulkner) Scarlet Sister Mary (Julia Peterkin) So Big (Edna Ferber) The Store (T.S. Stribling) The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever) A Summons to Memphis (Peter Taylor) Tales of the South Pacific (James A. Michener) A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) The Town (Conrad Richter) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Robert Lewis Taylor)

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