Recommended Reading
This page lists a few of the favorite books submitted by Chapter One group members.
Eli’s Top 10
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Drew's Top 10
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Dustin’s Top 10
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Beowulf by Anonymous
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Conan Chronicles by Robert Jordan
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Michelle’s Top 10
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Eva’s Top 10
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Too Far From Home by Chris Jones
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
David’s Top 10
Collected Poems by T.S. Eliot
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
The Book of Psalms (The St. John’s Bible)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Essential Haiku, edited by Robert Hass
The Shobogenzo by Eihei Dogen
Cave of Tigers by John Daido Loori
The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel
Megan’s Top 10
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
You by Caroline Kepnes
It by Stephen King
Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series by Richelle Mead
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Jes’s Top 10
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
The Taking by Dean Koontz
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
It by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Becky’s Top 10
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Williams’s Top 10
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Street by Ann Petry
The Odyssey by Homer
Night by Elie Wiesel
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury