PRE-AP AR Reading List by Title
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Books are selected for this list for many reasons including: classic literature, text or plot complexity/difficulty, cultural significance/reference, award winners, etc.
All books on this list will count for independent reading. Should you find a book you'd like to read this is NOT on the list, TALK TO YOUR TEACHER! New books are approved all the time; New AR tests are purchased on a regular basis.
CONTENT Warning: Some of these novels have material that may be offensive (obscene language, sexual issues, religious issues, racial issues, and violence.) Parents, if you have concerns about the material that your child chooses to read, please use Kitsap Regional Library, Amazon.com, or Barnes and Noble.com to read summaries and/or reviews of the novels to assist your child in finding a novel that is not offensive to your family. There are many novels on this list that do not have objectionable material.
| Author | Title | RL | Pts | |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | 8.9 | 17 | |
| Clark, Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 9 | 12 | |
| Clark, Arthur C. | 2010: Odyssey Two | 7.8 | 13 | |
| Clark, Arthur C. | 2061: Odyssey Three | 8.3 | 11 | |
| Clark, Arthur C. | 3001: The Final Odyssey | 8.3 | 9 | |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Fin | 6.6 | 18 | |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 8.1 | 12 | |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence, The | 8.8 | 19 | |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland and Thro | 7.8 | 10 | |
| Read, Piers Paul | Alive | 7.7 | 19 | |
| Herriot, James | All Creatures Great and Small | 6.8 | 26 | |
| Remarque, Erich | All Quiet on the Western Front | 6 | 10 | |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the Kings Men | 6.8 | 36 | |
| Herriot, James | All Things Bright and Beautifu | 6.7 | 23 | |
| Herriot, James | All Things Wise and Wonderful | 6.7 | 26 | |
| Pullman, Philip | Amber Spyglass, The | 6.7 | 26 | |
| Dreiser, Theodore | American Tragedy, An | 8.5 | 65 | |
| Crichton, Michael | Andromedia Strain, The | 6.6 | 11 | |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela's Ashes | 5.9 | 23 | |
| Brown, Dan | Angels and Demons | 5.6 | 23 | |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm | 7.3 | 5 | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina | 9.6 | 69 | |
| Fast, Howard | April Morning | 6.1 | 9 | |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Da | 9.6 | 12 | |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | 5.4 | 9 | |
| Gaines, Ernest | Authobiography of Miss Jane Pitm | 4.6 | 13 | |
| Franklin, Benjamin | Autobiography of Benjamin Fr | 12 | 15 | |
| Malcolm/Haley | Autobiography of Malcolm X, | 7.5 | 32 | |
| Chopin, Kate | Awakening, The | 8.5 | 12 | |
| McKinley, Robin | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of | 6.2 | 11 | |
| King, Laurie | Beekeeper's Apprentice, The | 7 | 19 | |
| Hersey, John | Bell for Adano, A | 5.9 | 13 | |
| Plath, Sylvia | Bell Jar, The | 7.2 | 11 | |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved | 6 | 15 | |
| Anonymous/Raffel | Beowulf | 10 | 5 | |
| Cormier, Robert | Beyond the Chocolate War | 5.4 | 10 | |
| Stevenson, Robert | Black Arrow, The | 9 | 14 | |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy | 7.4 | 22 | |
| Griffin, John Howard | Black Like Me | 7 | 11 | |
| Pyle, Howard | Book of King Arthur | 9.4 | 21 | |
| Adamson, Joy | Born Free | 7.3 | 9 | |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | 7.5 | 11 | |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World Revisited | 11 | 7 | |
| Tyler, Anne | Breathing Lessons | 6.5 | 15 | |
| Yolen, Jane | Briar Rose | 5 | 8 | |
| Wilder, Thornton | Bridge of San Luis Rey, The | 7.1 | 5 | |
| Grisham, John | Broker, The | 5.9 | 16 | |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodo | Brothers Karamazov, The | 10 | 74 | |
| Brown, Dee | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | 7.9 | 27 | |
| Wouk, Herman | Caine Mutiny, The | 6.4 | 34 | |
| Steinbeck, John | Cannery Row | 6 | 8 | |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Captains Courageous | 8 | 9 | |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 | 7.1 | 30 | |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the Rye, The | 4.7 | 11 | |
| Sandoz, Mari | Cheyenne Autumn | 6.9 | 20 | |
| Mah, Adeline | Chinese Cinderella: the True st | 5.7 | 8 | |
| Cormier, Robert | Chocolate War, The | 5.4 | 8 | |
| Potok, Chaim | Chosen, The | 6.6 | 15 | |
| King, Stephen | Christine | 6.6 | 30 | |
| Dickens, Charles | Christmas Carol, A | 6.7 | 5 | |
| Auel, Jean | Clan of the Cave Bear, The | 7 | 35 | |
| Clancy, Tom | Clear and Present Danger | 6.5 | 44 | |
| Frazier, Charles | Cold Mountain | 6.9 | 27 | |
| Walker, Alice | Color Purple, The | 4 | 9 | |
| Toole, John Kennedy | Confederacy of Dunces, A | 5.5 | 20 | |
| Styron, William | Confessions of Nat Turner, The | 8.5 | 28 | |
| Crichton, Michael | Congo | 7.5 | 15 | |
| Twain, Mark | Connecticut Yankee in King Ar | 9.2 | 21 | |
| Sagan, Carl | Contact | 9.4 | 23 | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Count of Monte Cristo, The | 8.8 | 34 | |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodo | Crime and Punishment | 8.7 | 40 | |
| Wilkerson, David | Cross and the Switchblade, The | 6.2 | 11 | |
| Miller, Arthur | Crucible, The | 4.9 | 5 | |
| Paton, Alan | Cry the Beloved Country | 6.2 | 14 | |
| King, Stephen | Cujo | 6.3 | 19 | |
| Haddon, Mark | Curious Incident of the Dog in the | 5.4 | 10 | |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac | 7.6 | 7 | |
| Brown, Dan | Da Vinci Code | 6.4 | 23 | |
| Webster, Jean | Daddy-Long-Legs | 6.1 | 6 | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Dandelion Wine | 6 | 10 | |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | 9.5 | 66 | |
| Wiesel, Elie | Dawn | 5.4 | 4 | |
| Gunther, John | Death Be Not Proud | 8 | 8 | |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbisho | 7.9 | 12 | |
| Agee, James | Death in the Family, A | 6.1 | 16 | |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman | 6.2 | 5 | |
| Cooper, James | Deerslayer, The | 11 | 44 | |
| Frank, Anne | Diary of a Young Girl, The | 6.5 | 14 | |
| Wells, Rebecca | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sister | 5.7 | 20 | |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Doll's House, A | 5.9 | 4 | |
| deCervantes, Migue | Don Quixote | 13 | 91 | |
| Stevenson, Robert | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 9.5 | 5 | |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula | 6.6 | 25 | |
| Boyd, James | Drums | 7.9 | 25 | |
| Edmonds, Walter | Drums Along the Mohawk | 6.2 | 31 | |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune | 5.7 | 28 | |
| Guterson, David | East of the Mountains | 6.7 | 14 | |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | 9.3 | 30 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game | 5.5 | 16 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Shadow | 5.9 | 22 | |
| Alexander, Caroline | Endurance: Shackleton's Lege | 8.6 | 11 | |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | 7.6 | 6 | |
| Uris, Leon | Exodus | 6.7 | 41 | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | 5.2 | 7 | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels | 4.2 | 11 | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Far from the Madding Crowd | 9.7 | 25 | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Farewell to Arms, A | 6 | 13 | |
| Schlosser, Eric | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side | 10 | 22 | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Fellowship of the Ring, The | 6.1 | 29 | |
| Malamud, Bernard | Fixer, The | 7 | 17 | |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon | 5.8 | 13 | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 5.8 | 28 | |
| Lurie, Alison | Foreign Affairs | 7.8 | 19 | |
| Rand, Ayn | Fountainhead, The | 7 | 53 | |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | 12 | 17 | |
| Bissinger, H.G. | Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Tea | 8 | 19 | |
| Flagg, Fannie | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whi | 5.6 | 15 | |
| West, Jessamyn | Friendly Persuasion, The | 6.1 | 12 | |
| Toffler, Alvin | Future Shock | 12 | 30 | |
| Lowry, Lois | Gathering Blue | 5 | 7 | |
| Gaines, Ernest | Gathering of Old Men, A | 4.4 | 9 | |
| Katz, Jon | Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode t | 8.3 | 10 | |
| Rolvaag, Ole Edvart | Giants in the Earth | 8.4 | 28 | |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a Pearl Earring | 5.4 | 11 | |
| Lowry, Lois | Giver, The | 5.7 | 7 | |
| Williams, Tennesse | Glass Menagerie, The | 5.3 | 3 | |
| Heinlein, Robert | Glory Road | 6 | 13 | |
| Abelove, Joan | Go and Come Back | 3.8 | 5 | |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell it on the Mountain | 6.5 | 13 | |
| O'Brien, Tim | Going after Cacciato | 4.6 | 14 | |
| Pullman, Philip | Golden Compass, The | 7.1 | 19 | |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind | 7.1 | 71 | |
| Buck, Pearl S. | Good Earth, The | 6.8 | 19 | |
| Hilton, James | Good-bye, Mr. Chips | 6.5 | 3 | |
| Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath, The | 4.9 | 25 | |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | 9.2 | 35 | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Great Gatsby | 7.3 | 8 | |
| Baker, Russell | Growing Up | 6.9 | 15 | |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels | 14 | 25 | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Halloween Tree, The | 4.7 | 4 | |
| Shakespeare, Willia | Hamlet | 11 | 7 | |
| Atwood, Margaret | Handmaid's Tale, The | 5.4 | 14 | |
| McCullers, Carson | Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The | 6.3 | 19 | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | 9 | 10 | |
| TenBoom, Corrie | Hiding Place, The | 6.4 | 13 | |
| Hersey, John | Hiroshima | 8.4 | 9 | |
| Adams, Douglas | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gala | 6.6 | 8 | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Hobbit, The | 6.6 | 16 | |
| Preston, Richard | Hot Zone | 7.3 | 16 | |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Hound of the Baskervilles, The | 8.3 | 11 | |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn | 6.2 | 11 | |
| Hawthorne, Nathani | House of Seven Gables, The | 11 | 22 | |
| Cisneros, Sandra | House on Mango Street, The | 4.5 | 3 | |
| Saroyan, William | Human Comedy, The | 5.8 | 8 | |
| Hugo, Victor | Hunchback of Notre-Dame | 12 | 38 | |
| Clancy, Tom | Hunt for Red October, The | 6.3 | 25 | |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sin | 6.7 | 13 | |
| Rubio, Gwyn Hyman | Icy Sparks | 4.7 | 15 | |
| Homer | Iliad, The | 11 | 25 | |
| Eckert, Allan | Incident at Hawk's Hill | 7.2 | 9 | |
| Krakauer, Jon | Into Thin Air | 8.9 | 17 | |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | 7.2 | 30 | |
| Wells, H.G. | Invisible Man, The | 7.7 | 9 | |
| King, Stephen | It | 6 | 70 | |
| Scott, Walter | Ivanhoe | 13 | 40 | |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | 7.9 | 33 | |
| Trumbo, Dalton | Johnny Got His Gun | 5.9 | 11 | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Jo's Boys | 8.8 | 18 | |
| Verne, Jules | Journey to the Centre of the E | 9.9 | 17 | |
| Smith, Betty | Joy in the Morning | 4.9 | 13 | |
| Tan, Amy | Joy Luck Club, The | 5.7 | 14 | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure | 8.9 | 27 | |
| Shakespeare, Willia | Julius Caesar | 11 | 6 | |
| Sinclair, Upton | Jungle, The | 8.0 | 22 | |
| Crichton, Michael | Jurassic Park | 7.3 | 20 | |
| Mathabane, Mark | Kaffir Boy | 7.1 | 24 | |
| Stevenson, Robert | Kidnapped | 7.6 | 14 | |
| Shaara, Michael | Killer Angels, The | 4.7 | 15 | |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim | 7.7 | 18 | |
| Haggard, Rider | King Solomon's Mines | 8.9 | 15 | |
| Heyerdahl, Thor | Kon-Tiki | 8 | 14 | |
| Cooper, James | Last of the Mohicans, The | 10 | 29 | |
| LaFarge, Oliver | Laughing Boy | 5.7 | 10 | |
| Irving, Washington | Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 11 | 3 | |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables | 9.8 | 105 | |
| Gaines, Ernest | Lesson before Dying | 4.4 | 11 | |
| Frank, E.R. | Life is Funny | 4.7 | 8 | |
| Twain, Mark | Life on the Mississippi | 9.1 | 24 | |
| Adams, Douglas | Life the Universe and Everythin | 7.6 | 9 | |
| Barrett, William | Lilies of the Field | 5.4 | 3 | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Men | 8.1 | 19 | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women | 7.9 | 33 | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim | 9.1 | 24 | |
| Golding, Willaim | Lord of the Flies | 5 | 9 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Lost Boys | 5.7 | 26 | |
| Hilton, James | Lost Horizon | 9.5 | 12 | |
| Crichton, Michael | Lost World | 5 | 17 | |
| Shakespeare, Willia | Macbeth | 11 | 4 | |
| Lewis,Sinclair | Main Street | 8.6 | 30 | |
| Hammett, Dashiell | Maltese Falcon, The | 6 | 11 | |
| Auel, Jean | Mammoth Hunters, The | 6.6 | 48 | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Martian Chronicles, The | 6.2 | 9 | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Mayor Of Casterbridge, The | 9.5 | 22 | |
| McCullers, Carson | Member of the Wedding, The | 6.3 | 9 | |
| Golden, Arthur | Memiors of a Geisha | 6.5 | 31 | |
| Pyle, Howard | Men of Iron | 9 | 14 | |
| Pyle, Howard | Merry Adventures of Robin Ho | 8.6 | 21 | |
| Shakespeare, Willia | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | 11 | 3 | |
| Gibson, William | Miracle Worker, The | 5.2 | 4 | |
| King, Stephen | Misery | 6.2 | 18 | |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick | 10 | 42 | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Monster | 5.1 | 5 | |
| Nordoff/Hall | Muntiny on the Bounty | 8.4 | 22 | |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | 6.9 | 14 | |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Fredrei | 7.9 | 7 | |
| Bagnold, Enid | National Velvet | 5.5 | 11 | |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son | 6.1 | 24 | |
| Aasseng, Nathan | Navajo Code Talkers | 9.5 | 4 | |
| Markandaya, Kamala | Nectar In a Sieve | 6.2 | 10 | |
| Mowatt, Farley | Never Cry Wolf | 8.9 | 9 | |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night | 4.8 | 4 | |
| Lord, Walter | Night to Remember, A | 7 | 8 | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Now is Your Time! | 8.3 | 9 | |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! | 6.7 | 9 | |
| Homer | Odyssey, The | 10 | 24 | |
| Maugham, Somerse | Of Human Bondage | 8.3 | 48 | |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men | 4.5 | 4 | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Old Man and the Sea, The | 5.1 | 4 | |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist | 11 | 33 | |
| Shute, Nevil | On the Beach | 6.3 | 14 | |
| White, T.H. | Once and Future King, The | 7.4 | 41 | |
| Mori, Kyoko | One Bird | 5.4 | 12 | |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexand | One Day in the Life of Ivan Deniso | 5.5 | 8 | |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 6.2 | 18 | |
| Cather, Willa | One of Ours | 7.2 | 22 | |
| Welty, Eudora | Optimist's Daughter, The | 5.6 | 6 | |
| Shakespeare, William | Othello | 8.4 | 5 | |
| Guterson, David | Our Lady of the Forest | 5.9 | 18 | |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town | 3.9 | 3 | |
| Clark, Walter | Ox-Bow Incident, The | 5.4 | 12 | |
| Morrison, Toni | Paradise | 5.8 | 17 | |
| Grisham, John | Partner, The | 5.6 | 17 | |
| Forster, E.M. | Passage to India, A | 7.7 | 18 | |
| Clancy, Tom | Patriot Games | 5.5 | 31 | |
| Hyde, Catharine Ryan | Pay It Forward | 5.1 | 12 | |
| Steinbeck, John | Pearl, The | 7.1 | 4 | |
| Junger, Sebastian | Perfect Storm, The | 7.4 | 13 | |
| Leroux, Gaston | Phantom of the Opera, The | 7.1 | 12 | |
| Dickens, Charles | Pickwick Papers | 12 | 60 | |
| Wilde, Oscar | Picture of Dorian Gray, The | 7.7 | 14 | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | Pit and the Pendulum | 10 | 1 | |
| Auel, Jean | Plains of Passage, The | 7 | 58 | |
| Chambers, Aidan | Postcards from No Man's Land | 5.4 | 16 | |
| Greene, Graham | Power and the Glory, The | 5.9 | 12 | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | 12 | 27 | |
| Twain, Mark | Prince and the Pauper | 9.3 | 12 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | Profiles in Courage | 11 | 13 | |
| Twain, Mark | Pudd'nhead Wilson | 8.3 | 9 | |
| Shaw, George Bern | Pygmalion | 7 | 6 | |
| Uris, Leon | QB VII | 8.4 | 22 | |
| Updike, John | Rabbit at Best | 6.8 | 31 | |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | Raisin in the Sun, A | 5.5 | 6 | |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca | 6.8 | 26 | |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage, The | 8 | 8 | |
| Steinbeck, John | Red, Pony, The | 6.1 | 6 | |
| Faulkner, William | Reivers, The | 6.1 | 16 | |
| Adams, Douglas | Restaurant at the End of the Un | 6.1 | 8 | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Return of the King, The | 6.2 | 22 | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Return of the Native, The | 10 | 42 | |
| Maclean, Norman | River Runs Through It, A | 6.1 | 13 | |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | 12 | 27 | |
| Shakespeare, Willia | Romeo and Juliet | 13 | 10 | |
| Haley, Alex | Roots | 7.4 | 48 | |
| King, Stephen | Salem's Lot | 5.4 | 23 | |
| Hawthorne, Nathani | Scarlet Letter, The | 12 | 14 | |
| Orczy, B. Emma | Scarlet Pimpernel, The | 8 | 15 | |
| Keneally, Thomas | Schindler's List | 8.6 | 25 | |
| London, Jack | Sea-Wolf, The | 8.1 | 18 | |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility | 8.4 | 22 | |
| Knowles, John | Separate Peace, A | 6.9 | 10 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Seventh Son | 5.9 | 13 | |
| Schaefer, Jack | Shane | 5.5 | 7 | |
| Auel, Jean | Shelters of Stone, The | 6.8 | 53 | |
| King, Stephen | Shining, The | 5.8 | 25 | |
| Proulx, Annie | Shipping News, The | 4.8 | 16 | |
| Mori, Kyoko | Shizuko's Daughter | 5.2 | 9 | |
| Clavell, James | Shogun | 5.1 | 64 | |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha | 7.1 | 6 | |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner | 9.7 | 14 | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Simarillion, The | 7.9 | 21 | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five | 6 | 8 | |
| Rogasky, Barbara | Smoke and Ashes: The Story of | 7.9 | 10 | |
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Cedars | 7 | 23 | |
| Ferber, Edna | So Big | 5.8 | 14 | |
| Adams, Douglas | So Long and Thanks for the Fis | 6.9 | 7 | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Something Wicked This Way C | 4.8 | 9 | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Somewhere in the Darkness | 4.4 | 6 | |
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon | 5 | 14 | |
| Faulkner, William | Sound and the Fury | 4.4 | 14 | |
| Anderson, Laurie H | Speak | 4.5 | 7 | |
| Crichton, Michael | Sphere | 7.1 | 16 | |
| King, Stephen | Stand, The | 5.7 | 72 | |
| Roach, Mary | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human | 9.4 | 16 | |
| Shields, Carol Diggory | Stone Diaries, The | 7.6 | 17 | |
| Keller, Helen | Story of my Life, The | 6.8 | 12 | |
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land | 5.6 | 25 | |
| Camus, Albus | Stranger, The | 6.8 | ||
| Grisham, John | Street Lawyer, The | 5.7 | 15 | |
| Williams, Tennesse | Streetcar Named Desire, A | 5.7 | 4 | |
| Pullman, Philip | Subtle Knife, The | 6.2 | 16 | |
| Taylor, Peter | Summons to Memphis, A | 7.5 | 12 | |
| Wyss, Johann | Swiss Family Robinson | 9.7 | 23 | |
| Dickens, Charles | Tale of Two Cities, A | 9.7 | 27 | |
| Burroughs, Edgar Ri | Tarzan of the Apes | 9 | 16 | |
| Walker, Alice | Temple of My Familiar | 7.5 | 23 | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night | 8.8 | 20 | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of D'ubervilles | 9.5 | 23 | |
| Grisham, John | Testament, The | 5.6 | 20 | |
| Smiley, Jane | Thousand Acres | 6 | 20 | |
| Stuart, Jesse | Thread that Runs So True, The | 6 | 16 | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Three Musketeers, The | 11 | 42 | |
| Pullman, Philip | Tiger In the Well, The | 5.9 | 20 | |
| Wells, H.G. | Time Machine, The | 7.4 | 6 | |
| Grisham, John | Time to Kill, A | 5.2 | 23 | |
| Crichton, Michael | Timeline | 5.2 | 21 | |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | 5.6 | 15 | |
| Stevenson, Robert | Treasure Island | 8.3 | 12 | |
| Smith, Betty | Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A | 5.8 | 23 | |
| Geras, Adele | Troy | 4.9 | 13 | |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie | 5.5 | 5 | |
| James, Henry | Turn of the Screw, The | 8.5 | 10 | |
| Verne, Jules | Twenty Thousand Leagues Und | 10 | 28 | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Two Towers, The | 6.3 | 23 | |
| Dana, Richard Henry | Two Years before the Mast | 7.7 | 26 | |
| Lederer/Burdick | Ugly American, The | 8.2 | 13 | |
| Stowe, Harriet Beec | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 9.3 | 32 | |
| Washington, Booker | Up from Slavery | 8.2 | 13 | |
| Kaufman, Bel | Up the Downstaircase | 5.9 | 9 | |
| Auel, Jean | Valley of the Horses | 6.6 | 37 | |
| Thackeray, William | Vanity Fair | 12 | 66 | |
| Wister, Owen | Virginian, The | 6.3 | 21 | |
| Thoreau, Henry Davi | Walden | 8.7 | 21 | |
| Jenkins, Peter | Walk Across America, A | 6.4 | 14 | |
| Sparks, Nicholas | Walk to Remember, A | 5.8 | 8 | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | 10 | 118 | |
| Wouk, Herman | War and Remembrance | 8.4 | 71 | |
| Wells, H.G. | War of the Worlds, The | 9.1 | 11 | |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down | 6.2 | 25 | |
| Borland, Hal | When the Legends Die | 5.2 | 13 | |
| London, Jack | White Fang | 8.4 | 19 | |
| Wouk, Herman | Winds of War, The | 6.6 | 61 | |
| Aronson, Marc | Witch hunt: Mysteries of the Sa | 8.8 | 8 | |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | 11 | 23 |