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| Mr. Bright's Suggested Reading for the COLLEGE BOUND |
| -A Painted House - John Grisham |
| -Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| -A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole |
| -Fools Crow - James Welch |
| -Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions -Richard Erdoes & John Lame Deer |
| -Henry V - William Shakespeare |
| -Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury |
| -Catch 22 - Joseph Heller |
| -Richard III- William Shakespeare |
| -The Sea Wolf - Jack London |
| -Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton |
| -Native Son - Richard Wright |
| -Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut |
| -The Color Purple- Alice Walker |
| -Walden- Henry David Thoreau |
| -Chocolat - Joanne Harris |
| -The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck |
| -The Winter of Our Discontent- John Steinbeck |
| -The Red Pony- John Steinbeck |
| -Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston |
| -The Republic- Plato |
| -Brave New World - Aldous Huxley |
| -The Tempest- William Shakespeare |
| -Othello - William Shakespeare |
| -Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh |
| -The Loved One- Evelyn Waugh |
| -A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking |
| -Siddhartha - Herman Hesse |
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| -Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller |
| -Beowulf - (unknown author) |
| -2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke |
| -Moby-Dick - Herman Melville |
| -Imagine the Angels of Bread - Martin Espada |
| -For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway |
| -The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| -Haroun and the Sea of Stories- Salman Rushdie |
| -The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie |
| -Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes |
| -Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe |
| -Hard Times- Charles Dickens |
| -Silas Marner- George Eliot |
| -1984- George Orwell |
| -A Passage to India - E.M. Forster |
| -The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley & Malcolm X |
| -Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle |
| -The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli |
| -Manifesto of the Communist Party- Karl Marx & Frederick Engels |
| -The Crucible- Arthur Miller |
| -Descent of Man - Charles Darwin |
| -Nazi Hunter - Simon Wiesenthal |
| -Alaska- James A. Michener |
| -The Firm - John Grisham |
| -A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving |
| I will add more titles periodically. |
| -Language in Thought and Action - S.I. Hayakawa |
| -Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe |
| -Utopia- Sir Thomas More |
| -Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka |
| -The Water is Wide - Pat Conroy |
| -Coriolanus- William Shakespeare |
| -Gullivers Travels-Jonathan Swift |
| -Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories- Edgar A. Poe |
| -The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| -Idylls of the King- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| -King Solomon's Mines -H. Rider Haggard |
| -Dracula-Bram Stoker |
| -Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Alexander Brown |
| -Ironweed- William Kennedy |
| -Leviathan- Thomas Hobbes |
| -Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad |
| -Waste Land and Other Writings- T.S. Eliot |
| -Watership Down- Richard Adams |
| -Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs- Marc Eliot |
| -The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner- Alan Sillitoe |
| -Indian Killer- Sherman Alexie |
| -Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut |
| -Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison |
| -A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain |
| -Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman |
| Updated 6/25/08 |
| -Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo |
| -The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend |
| -Reservation Blues- Sherman Alexie |
| -The Neon Bible- John Kennedy Toole |
| -Presentation of Self in Everyday Life- Erving Goffman |
| -Ringworld- Larry Niven |
| -The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown |
| -Timeline- Michael Crichton |
| -Deception Point - Dan Brown |
| -Flight- Sherman Alexie |
| * New addition |
| -Billions and Billions- Carl Sagan |
| * New addition |
| -The Last Juror - John Grisham |
| * New addition |
| -Terminal Man- Michael Crichton |
| -The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking |
| * New addition |
| * New addition |
| What I am reading now: The Eagles' Brood by Jack Whyte |
| -Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo - Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume |
| -Velocity - Dean Koontz |
| -Skystone - Jack Whyte |
| -Skipping Christmas - John Grisham |
| -The Singing Sword - Jack Whyte |
| * New addition |
| -Carribean- James A. Michener |
| * New addition |