| Mr. Bachmeier's Outside Reading List | |||
| (Mr. B has read the books highlighted in yellow.) | |||
| Click on the titles for summaries and reviews. | Highest Rating | ||
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie | ¶¶¶ | |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Alexie, Sherman | Flight | ||
| Alexie, Sherman | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | ||
| Allende, Isabel | Daughter of Fortune | ||
| Almond, David | Clay | ||
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Fever 1793 | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Speak | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Ashe, Arthur | Days of Grace | ¶¶¶ | |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Asimov, Isaac | I, Robot | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Baker, Russell | Growing Up | ||
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell it on the Mountain | ||
| Baum, L. Frank | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Bell, William | Forbidden City | ¶¶ | |
| Bradbury, Jennifer | Shift | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | The Illustrated Man | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Wuthering Heights | ||
| Brown, Dan | Angels & Demons | ||
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Burroughs, William S. | Naked Lunch | ||
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood | ¶¶¶ | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game | ||
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! | ¶¶¶ | |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | ¶¶ | |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | ||
| Clarke, Arthur Charles | 2001: A Space Odyssey | ||
| Clarke, Judith | One Whole and Perfect Day | ||
| Clavell, James | Shogun | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | ¶¶¶ | |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim | ||
| Conroy, Pat | Prince of Tides | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Cormier, Robert | After the First Death | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Corrie, Rachel | Let Me Stand Alone | ||
| Crane, Stephen | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets | ¶¶¶ | |
| Crutcher, Chris | Deadline | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Crutcher, Chris | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Delillo, Don | White Noise | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | ||
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | ¶¶¶ | |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy | ||
| du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Edmonds, I.G. | Trickster Stories | ||
| Elliot, George | Silas Marner | ||
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | ||
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury | ||
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | ||
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom! | ||
| Faulkner, William | Light in August | ||
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender Is the Night | ||
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | This Side of Paradise | ||
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Beautiful and the Damned | ||
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Forster, E.M. | A Room with a View | ¶¶¶ | |
| Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India | ||
| Forster, E.M. | Howards End | ||
| Forster, E.M. | Where Angels Fear to Tread | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant's Woman | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Gaines, Ernest | A Lesson Before Dying | ||
| Gladwell, Malcolm | The Tipping Point | ||
| Gleick, James | Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | ||
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Geisha | ||
| Golding, William | The Lord of the Flies | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Goldman, William | The Princess Bride | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Gordon, Sheila | Waiting for the Rain | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows | ||
| Green, John | An Abundance of Katherines | ||
| Green, John | Looking for Alaska | ||
| Green, John | Paper Towns | ||
| Griffin, John Howard | Black Like Me | ||
| Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants | ||
| Gunther, John | Death be not Proud | ||
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Hailey, Alex | Roots | ||
| Hamilton, Edith | Mythology | ¶ | |
| Hammet, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon | ||
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D’Urbervilles | ¶¶¶ | |
| Hedges, Peter | What's Eating Gilbert Grape? | ||
| Heinlein, Robert A. | Stranger in a Strange Land | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 | ¶¶¶ | |
| Hellman, Lillian | Pentimento | ||
| Hemingway, Ernest | In Our Time | ¶¶ | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls | ¶¶¶ | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms | ||
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises | ||
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Hemphill, Stephanie | Your Own, Sylvia | ||
| Hornby, Nick | Slam | ||
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner | ||
| Hosseini, Khaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns | ||
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Irving, John | The Cider House Rules | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany | ||
| Irving, John | The World According to Garp | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Jacobs, A.J. | The Year of Living Biblically | ||
| James, Henry | The Wings of the Dove | ||
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady | ||
| James, Henry | The Bostonians | ||
| Johnston, Tony | Bone by Bone by Bone | ||
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man | ¶¶¶ | |
| Joyce, James | Finnegans Wake | ||
| Joyce, James | Ulysses | ||
| Keneally, Thomas | Schindler's List | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Kennedy, John F. | Profiles in Courage | ||
| Kennedy, William | Ironweed | ||
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| King, Martin Luther | Stride Toward Freedom | ||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Bean Trees | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim | ||
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| L'Amour, Louis | The Walking Drum | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Lady Chatterley's Lover | ||
| Lawrence, D.H. | Sons and Lovers | ||
| Lawrence, D.H. | Women in Love | ¶¶¶ | |
| Laye, Camara | Dark Child | ¶¶¶ | |
| Least Heat Moon, William | Blue Highways | ||
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Lesley, Craig | The Sky Fisherman | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt | ||
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street | ¶¶¶ | |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Lyga, Barry | The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl | ||
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince | ||
| Mailer, Norman | The Naked and the Dead | ||
| Malory, Sir Thomas | Tales of King Arthur | ¶¶ | |
| Mann, Thomas | A Death in Venice | ||
| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi | ||
| Massie, Robert | Nicholas and Alexandra | ||
| McBride, James | Color of Water | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses | ||
| McCarthy, Cormac | The Road | ||
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | The White Darkness | ||
| McCourt, Frank | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | ||
| McCourt, Frank | Tis: A Memoir | ||
| Meyer, Stephenie | Twilight | ||
| Miller, Henry | Tropic of Cancer | ||
| Milne, A.A. | Winnie-the-Pooh | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon | ||
| Morrison, Toni | Jazz | ¶¶¶ | |
| Mortenson, Greg | Three Cups of Tea | ||
| Moyers, Bill | The Power of Myth | ||
| Myers, Walter Dean | Monster | ||
| Myers, Walter Dean | Sunrise over Fallujah | ||
| Nabokov, Vladmir | Lolita | ¶¶¶ | |
| O'Brien, Tim | The Things they Carried | ||
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | ||
| O' Dell, Scott | Sing Down the Moon | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| O' Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Paton, Alan | Cry the Beloved Country | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Winterdance | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Peck, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Pollan, Michael | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | ||
| Polly, Matthew | American Shaolin | ||
| Prothero, Stephen R. | Religious Literacy: What every American Needs to Know and Doesn't | ||
| Rand, Ayn | Anthem | ||
| Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea | ||
| Roosevelt, Eleanor | My Day | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Ruff, Matt | Bad Monkeys | ||
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight's Children | ||
| Rushdie, Salman | The Satanic Verses | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Salinger, J.D. | Franny and Zooey | ¶¶¶ | |
| Scudamore, James | The Amnesia Clinic | ||
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | ||
| Seierstad, Åsne | The Bookseller of Kabul | ||
| Selznick, Brian | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | ||
| Shakespeare, William | Othello | ||
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Sheth, Kashmira | Keeping Corner | ||
| Sheth, Kashmira | Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet | ||
| Shubin, Neil | Your Inner Fish | ||
| Simpson, Joe | Touching the Void | ||
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Sis, Peter | The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain | ||
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | ¶¶¶ | |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | ¶¶¶ | |
| Soto, Gary | Baseball in April | ¶¶¶ | |
| Stein, Gertrude | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | ||
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath | ||
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Tammet, Daniel | Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant | ||
| Tan, Amy | The Kitchen God’s Wife | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Tan, Shaun | The Arrival | ||
| Terkel, Studs | Hard Times | ||
| Tolan, Sandy | The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | ||
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Fellowship of the Ring | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Two Towers | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Return of the King | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Trueman, Terry | Inside Out | ||
| Trueman, Terry | Stuck in Neutral | ||
| Tuchman, Barbara W. | The Guns of August | ||
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich | Fathers and Sons | ||
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Updike, John | Rabbit, Run | ||
| Uris, Leon | Exodus, Trinity | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat's Cradle | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Deadeye Dick | ¶ | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Sirens of Titan | ¶¶ | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse-Five | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Walls, Jeannette | The Glass Castle | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men | ||
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited | ||
| Wells, H.G. | The War of the Worlds | ¶¶¶ | |
| Wells, H.G. | The Time Machine | ¶¶¶¶ | |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence | ||
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | ||
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Bonfire of the Vanities | ¶¶¶ | |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel | ||
| Woolf, Virginia | Orlando | ||
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse | ||
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway | ||
| Wright, Richard | Native Son | ||
| Yang, Gene Luen | American Born Chinese | ||
| Yolen, Jane | Briar Rose | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |
| Zamyatin, Eugene | We | ||
| Zevin, Gabrielle | Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac | ||
| Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief | ¶¶¶¶¶ | |