These novels are commonly read as part of the curriculum in the Reading Program, but are also great reads on their own.
- Alchemist, The (Coelho, 0-006-250218-2)
- Animal Farm (Orwell, 0-451-52634-1)
- Awakening, The (Chopin, 0-380-00245-0)
- Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald, 0-684-80152-3)
- House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros, 0-679-73577-5)
- Joy Luck Club, The (Tan, 0-8041-0630-4)
- Kite Runner, The (Hosseini, 1-59448-000-1)
- Lesson Before Dying, A (Gaines, 0-375-70270-9)
- Life of Pi (Martel, 0-15-602732-1)
- Lovely Bones, The (Sebold, 0-316-16881-5)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden, 0-679-78158-7)
- Montana, 1948 (Watson, 0-671-50703-6)
- My Antonia (Cather, 0-451-52972-3)
- Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck, 0-14-017739-6)
- Secret Life of Bees, The (Kidd, 0-14-200174-0)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee, 0-446-31078-6)