Booklist for 4U Independent Study
The following are some suggestions for your independent study. The books
on this list are at the difficulty level necessary for this assignment, but you
may choose something from outside this list if you talk to your teacher.
Canadian Authors
Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye, Oryx
and Crake, Alias Grace, The
Handmaid's Tale, The Blind
Assassin, Moral Disorder, etc.
Joseph Boyden: Three Day Road,
Through Black Spruce
Douglas Coupland: Microserfs,
Girlfriend in a Coma, Generation X,
Player One
Robertson Davies: The Lyre of
Orpheus, Fifth Business
Patrick DeWitt: The Sisters
Brothers
Esi Edugyan: Half-Blood Blues
Timothy Findley: Famous Last
Words, Not Wanted on the
Voyage, Pilgrim
Rawi Hage: Deniros Game
Lawrence Hill: The Book of
Negroes
Wayne Johnston: The Divine
Ryans, The Colony of
Unrequited Dreams
Thomas King: Green Grass
Running Water
Vincent Lam: Bloodletting &
Miraculous Cures
Margaret Laurence: The Diviners,
The Stone Angel, A Jest of God
Anne-Marie MacDonald: Fall on
Your Knees, The Way the Crow
Flies
Alistair McLeod: No Great
Mischief
Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance,
Such a Long Journey, Family
Matters
Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost,
Coming Through Slaughter, The
English Patient, Divisadero, The
Cats Table
Paul Quarrington: Whale Music,
King Leary, Galveston
David Adams Richards: Mercy
Among the Children, Bay of Love
and Sorrows, River of the Broken-
Hearted
Mordecai Richler: The
Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kravitz
Tanis Rideout: Above All Things
Gabrielle Roy: The Tin Flute
Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries,
Unless, Larry's Party
Miriam Toews: A Complicated
Kindness, The Flying Troutmans
Jane Urquhart: The Underpainter,
The Stone Carver, Map of Glass,
Away
Guy Vanderhaeghe: The
Englishman's Boy, The Last
Crossing
M. G. Vassanji: The In-Between
World of
American Authors
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings
Olive Ann Burns: Cold Sassy Tree
Don DeLillo: Libra, White Noise
Junot Diaz: The Brief and
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the
Goon Squad
Dave Eggers: What is the What, A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Genius
William Faulkner: The Sound and
the Fury, As I Lay Dying
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the
Night
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
David Guterson: Snow Falling on
Cedars
Jane Hamilton: The Book of Ruth,
Map of the World
Chad Harbach: The Art of
Fielding
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet
Letter
Vikram Lall, The Book of Secrets
Rudy Wiebe: A Discovery of
Strangers
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also
Rises, A Farewell to Arms
Alice Hoffman: Here on Earth, The
River King
John Irving: Cider House Rules, A
Prayer for Owen Meany, The
World According to Garp
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood
Bible, The Bean Trees
John Knowles: A Separate Peace
Cormac McCarthy: The Road, No
Country for Old Men, Blood
Meridian, All the Pretty Horses
Toni Morrison: Beloved, The
Bluest Eye
Tim O'Brien: The Things They
Carried, The Lake of the Woods
John Kennedy O'Toole: A
Confederacy of Dunces, Neon
Bible
E. Annie Proulx: The Shipping
News
Sheri Reynolds: The Rapture of
Canaan
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse
Five, Sirens of Titan
Other Authors
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall
Apart
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half
of a Yellow Sun
Jane Austen: Pride and
Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense
and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: Great
Expectations, Oliver Twist, David
Copperfield
Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha
Ha
Graham Greene: Brighton Rock
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of
Casterbridge, The Woodlanders,
Jude the Obscure, etc.
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite
Runner, A Thousand Splendid
Suns
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One
Hundred Years of Solitude,
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of
Love and Other Demons
Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Henry James: The Turn of the
Screw
Ian MacEwan: Atonement,
Saturday, Amsterdam, Enduring
Love, The Innocent
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall, Bring
Up the Bodies
Hisham Matar: In the Country of
Men
Andrew Miller: Pure
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas, The
Bone Clocks
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
George Orwell: 1984
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small
Things
Jose Saramago: Blindness
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
D.M. Thomas: The White Hotel
Evelyn Waugh: Scoop, Brideshead
Revisited, A Handful of Dust