List of Novels Used in CLTL

James Agee, A Death in the Family
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Russell Banks, Affliction (see Teaching Specific Texts: Affliction)
Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone
Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Chris Crutcher, Ironman (see Teaching Specific Texts: Ironman)
Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
James Dickey, Deliverance
Janet Fitch, White Oleander (see Teaching Specific Texts: White Oleander)
Alexandra Flinn, Breathing Underwater
Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life
Jane Hamilton, Map of the World
Kent Haruf, Plainsong (see Teaching Specific Texts: Plainsong)
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (see Teaching Specific Texts: The Old Man and the Sea)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (see Teaching Specific Texts: Their Eyes Were Watching God and Teaching Strategies: Using Questions)
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees (see Teaching Specific Texts: The Bean Trees and Teaching Strategies: Using Questions)
Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Francess Lantz, Fade Far Away
Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
Jack London, Seawolf
Jack London, The Call of the Wild (see Teaching Specific Texts: Call of the Wild)
Lois Lowry, The Giver
Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
Bobbie Ann Mason, In Country
Joyce McDonald, Swallowing Stones
Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (see Teaching Specific Texts: Bluest Eye I, (see Teaching Specific Texts: Bluest Eye II, and Teaching Strategies: Using Questions)
Toni Morrison, Sula
Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Tillie Olsen, Tell me a Riddle
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Gordon Parks, The Learning Tree
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Esmerelda Santiago, When I was a Puerto Rican
Anita Shreve, Strange Fits of Passion (see Teaching Specific Texts: Strange Fits of Passion)
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Scott Smith, A Simple Plan (see Teaching Strategies: Using Film with Literature)
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (see Teaching Specific Texts: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and Teaching Strategies: Using Questions)
Larry Watson, Montana, l948
Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Richard Wright, Black Boy (see Teaching Specific Texts: Black Boy)