NOVEL READING LIST

SOME BOOKS TO LOOK FOR

*African or Caribbean material
**Books on Oprah's Book of the Month List

1. *A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
2. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
3. A Grain of Wheat – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
4. **A Lesson before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
5. A Man of the People – Chinua Achebe
6. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
7. **Cane River – Lalita Tademy
8. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
9. **Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
10. Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
11. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
12. *God’s Angry Babies – Ian G. Strachan
13. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
14. How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Terry MacMillan
15. **I Know This Much Is True – Wally Lamb
16. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
17. Interview with the Vampire – Ann Rice
18. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
19. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
20. **The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
21. *The Chosen Place, the Timeless People – Paule Marshall
22. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
23. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
24. **The Deep End of the Ocean – Jacquelyn Mitchard
25. *The Dragon Can’t Dance – Earl Lovelace
26. *The Farming of Bones – Edwidge Danticat
27. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
28. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
30. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
31. The Little Prince – Antoine de St-Exupéry
32. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
33. **The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
34. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
35. **Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
36. **What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day – Pearl Cleage
37. *When Doves Cry – Keith Russell
38. **Where the Heart Is – Billy Letts
39. **White Oleander: A Novel – Janet Fitch
40. *Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

SOME WRITERS TO FOLLOW

Bestseller/Thrillers Classics Christian African diaspora

Mary Stewart
Arthur Hailey
Ian Fleming
Dean Koontz
John Grisham
Tom Clancy
James Clavell
Leslie Forbes
Joseph Heller
Agatha Christie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jack Higgins
Ruth Rendell
Barbara Vine
Michael Crichton
Robert Ludlum

Joseph Conrad
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Dickens
D.H. Lawrence
Jane Austen
John Steinbeck
John Irving
John Bunyan
Daniel Defoe
Robert Louis Stevenson
H.G. Wells
George Orwell
Jules Verne
Leo Tolstoy
Harper Lee
William Golding
Alexandre Dumas
Mark Twain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Shelley
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte

Madeleine L'Engle
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkein
Frank E. Peretti
Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins
Catherine Marshall
Jan Karon
Dee Henderson
Melody Carlson
Francine Rivers

Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Richard Wright
Walter Moseley
Ian Gregory Strachan
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
Earl Lovelace
Terry MacMillan
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Chinua Achebe
Bessie Head
Ben Okri
Ayi Kwei Armah
Zora Neale Hurston
Paule Marshall
Maya Angelou