Mike Johnson

Suggested Reading: Mr. Mike Johnson
TITLE & AUTHOR	SYNOPSIS
Adventure Of Huckleberry Finn TWAIN, M	A young boy reaches manhood while fleeing down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave.
Alice's Adventure In Wonderland CAROLL, L	Little Alice falls into a rabbit hole and ends up in another world with peculiar laws of its own.
All The Pretty Horses MCCARTY, C	John Grady Cole is a young Texas rancher who sets off for adventure in the beautiful but dangerous borderland of Mexico.
And Then There Were None CHRISTIE, A	A pathological killer systematically murders ten strangers entrapped on an island.
Andromedia Strain CRICHTON, M	The U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program in an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for, and has to call in the help of Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone.
Autobiography Of Malcolm X MALCOLM X	The absorbing personal story of Malcolm X's rise from hoodlum, dope peddler and pimp to dynamic leader of the black revolution.
Banner In The Sky* ULLMAN, J	Rudi chooses to save an enemy's life rather than fulfill his dream of being the first to climb the Citadel.
Bell Jar PLATH, S	Autobiographical novel about a young woman on the brink of madness and suicide.
Best Stories By Edgar Allen Poe POE, E	Short stories dealing chiefly with mystery, horror and crime.
Black Boy WRIGHT, R	Richard Wright's unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. The book is told from the perspective of the adult Wright, who was still trying to come to grips with the cruel deprivations and humiliations of his childhood.
Black Elk Speaks: Being The Life Story Of A Holy Man Of The Oglala Sioux NEIHARD, J	The life story and personal vision of a Sioux warrior and medicine man who lived through the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the massacre at Wounded Knee and the death of his people.
Black Like Me GRIFFIN, J	A medically darkened white man's record of his month traveling as a black man in the South.
Bless The Beasts And Children SWARTHOUT, G	The Bedwetters, a group of teenage misfits from the Box Canyon Boys Camp, set out on an impossible mission to save the buffalo. A modern classic, frequently compared to Lord Of The Flies and A Separate Peace.
Bonesetter’s Daughter TAN, A	LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the "Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain". Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China.
Bread Givers YEZIERSKA, A	Sara Smolinksy, the youngest daughter of a rabbi, watches as her father marries off her sisters into dire circumstances, and she vows to escape this fate.
Brian's Song BLINN, W	Two football players conquer the differences of race, personality and place of birth to support each other.
Call Of The Wild & White Fang LONDON, J	Two striking and powerful tales of the savage lawlessness of man and beast.
Catcher In The Rye SALINGER, J	Holden Caulfield is the typically alienated private school rebel in this 1945 classic.
Cay* TAYLOR, T	A prejudiced, blind white boy is stranded on a Caribbean Island with an old black man.
Cider House Rules IRVING, J	The story of Dr. Wilbur Larch - obstetrician, director of St. Cloud's orphanage, ether addict and abortionist - and his favorite orphan, Homer Wells.
Color Purple WALKER, A	A triumphant novel of a black woman's life in the South.
Day No Pigs Would Die PECK, R	To a 13-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig that cannot produce a litter.
Day Of The Jackal FORSYTH, F	"Jackal", the world's most dangerous, enigmatic and elusive assassin, has an extremely dangerous contract: to kill Charles de Gaulle, the world's most heavily guarded man.
Dogsong* PAULSEN, G	Russel Suskitt, who is an Eskimo, takes a dog team and sled to escape the modern ways of the village.
Fantastic Voyage ASIMOV	Five doctors are miniaturized and injected into a man's arteries in order to destroy a blood clot.
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales ASIMOV & CONKLIN	Science fiction tales that surprise and shock.
Floating In My Mother’s Palm* HEGI, U	A moving account of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in a small town in Germany in the 1950s, a time when Adolf Hitler isn't mentioned in history classes - or by anyone in town.
Flowers For Algernon KEYES, D	Provocative novel of a dramatic medical experiment and its implication for society. 30-year-old retarded Charlie is turned into a genius.
Foxman PAULSEN, G	Foxman, hideously mutilated in the war, lives an isolated life deep in the woods. When two boys stumble upon his cabin, his life becomes entangled with theirs.
Great Gatsby FITZGERALD, S	Classic novel of life in the 1920's.
Green Mile KING, S	Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls.
Hatchet* PAULSEN, G	Compelling and realistic story of a young boy's survival in the Canadian wilderness.
Hiroshima HERSEY, J	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, John Hersey interviews with survivors of Hiroshima's bomb when the ashes were still warm.
Hobbit TOLKIEN, J	Tolkien has created a world of fantasy called Middle-Earth, populated by small creatures known as Hobbits. This prelude to Lord of the Rings trilogy chronicles the adventures of Bilbo Baggins.
Hunt For Red October CLANCY, T	Gripping military thriller about the chase of for a top-secret Russian missile sub.
Jacob Have I Loved* PATERSON, K	A twin, overshadowed by her talented and charismatic sister, is tormented by hate and jealousy.
Joy Luck Club TAN, A	Chronicles the lives of four Chinese women, their forty-year friendship, and how the death of one member brings her daughter into the group, creating a new understanding for each.
Jurassic Park CRICHTON, M	An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park, and the world can visit them for a price - until something goes wrong.
Killing Mr. Griffin DUNCAN, L	The pranks of a group of high school students misfire and result in the death of their teacher.
Lord Of The Flies* GOLDING, W	A group of English schoolboys, marooned on an island, set up there own society in this classic investigation of the roots of fear and violence.
Lord Of The Rings TOLKIEN, J	Tolkien's trilogy of the Hobbits of Middle Earth and the Great War of Rings.
Lords Of Discipline CONROY, P	Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his own personal code of honor, is battling into manhood the hard way. Immersed in a poignant love affair with a haunting beauty, Will must boldly confront the terrifying injustice of a corrupt institution as he struggles to expose a mysterious group known as "The Ten".
Maus: A Survivor Tale SPIEGELMAN, A	When Art Spiegelman undertook an epic account of the Holocaust and its impact on the American son of an Auschwitz survivor in the form of a comic book featuring mice, cats, and other emblematic animals, few could have foreseen the masterpiece that resulted.
Misery KING, S	After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon meets his biggest fan. She is his nurse-and his captor. Now, she wants Paul to write his greatest work just for her, and she has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work, she can get really nasty.
Monster; The Autobiography Of An LA Gang Member SHAKUR, S	Monster Kody, today known as Sanyika Sakur, spent 16 years as a gangbanger in South Central Los Angeles. His account begins at age eleven, when he was inducted into the ranks of the Crips, and ends (hundreds of bodies later) with Scott serving a seven-year prison term for beating a crack dealer.
Night Shift KING, S	Anthology that features the classic stories "Children of the Corn," "The Lawnmower Man," "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," and "Sometimes They Come Back" - which were all made into hit horror films.
Of Mice And Men STEINBECK, J	Poignant and powerful story of George Milton and mentally retarded Lennie, searching for a better life.
Old Man And The Sea HEMINGWAY, E	The tragic tale of a Cuban fisherman and the giant marlin he kills and loses.
One Fat Summer LIPSYTE, R	Bobby Marks, fat and miserable, takes a strenuous summer job, loses weight and gains respect.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest KESEY, K	Cowed by a sadistic nurse, the inmates of a mental hospital are galvanized by a new patient, the free-spirited McMurphy, who enters a pitched battle of wills with the nurse.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude MARQUEZ, G	The everyday and the miraculous blend in this sweeping chronicle of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo, as seen through the eyes of the Buendia family.
Ordinary People GUEST, J	An incisive, unsparing look at family politics among a father, a mother and a son in the wake of a family tragedy.
Patriot Games CLANCY, T	A CIA analyst and his family are targets in the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. In an explosive wave of violence, an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA hunts one man for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt.
Pearl STEINBECK, J	A sensitively told fable of a pearl diver who hoped to buy peace and happiness for his wife and son with The Pearl of the World.
Pelican Brief GRISHAM, J	An unforgettable and chilling story that begins with the simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices.
Pet Sematary KING, S	When Dr. Louis Creed is first taken to the pet cemetery in the woods behind his house, he thinks it is just an eccentric, if morbid, local site. However, after he learns that the Micmac Indian burial grounds beyond it have the power to bring his daughter's dead cat back from death, albeit slightly altered, he discovers that he has been touched by a power beyond anything imaginable.
Pigman ZINDEL, P	Two lonely high school students meet Mr. Pignati, an old man who lives in his dreams and makes daily visits to the baboons at the zoo. The three find love and laughter, but only for a short time.
Poisonwood Bible KINGSOLVER, B	The story of an American missionary and his family in 1959. A compelling exploration of religion, conscience, imperialist arrogance, and the many paths to redemption.
Presumed Innocent TUROW, S	A courtroom novel about a prosecuting attorney who is charged with the murder of a female colleague with whom he once had an affair.
Prince Of Tides CONROY, P	Spanning 40 years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
Slaughterhouse Five VONNEGUT, K	Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Snow Falling On Cedars GUTERSON, D	In 1954 on the isolated beaches of San Pedro Island in Puget Sound, a local fisherman mysteriously drowns. When a Japanese American is charged with his murder, it becomes clear over the course of the ensuing trial that much more is at stake than one man's guilt.
Stones From The River HEIG, U	At the beginning of WW I, Trudi Montag, a dwarf, is born to an unstable mother and a gentle father in a small Rheinish town. Through the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich into the era following WW II she first struggles with - and later draws strength and wisdom from - her inability to fit into a conformist and repressive society.
Streets Of Laredo MCMURTRY, L	In this sequel to Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae's partner Call is a bounty hunter hired to track down and kill the brilliant, elusive young Mexican bandit Joey Garza. In the ensuing chase, an old man's skills are matched against a young man's daring.
Their Eyes Were Watching God HURSTON, Z	This classic of black literature, written in 1937, tells with sympathy and immediacy the story of Janie Crawford's evolving selfhood through three marriages.
Things Fall Apart ACHEBE, C	The tragedy of a leading member of the Obi tribe in Africa in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene.
Things They Carried O'BRIEN, T	A profound study of men at war and the intangible burdens of soldier - grief, terror, love, longing.
To Be A Slave LESTER, J	Eloquent personal testimony of the men and women who lived through slavery in the USA.
To Kill A Mockingbird LEE, H	Magnificent novel of a quiet Southern town rocked by a crisis of conscience.
Tommyknockers* KING, S	Something is happening to the residents of Haven, Maine. Something that gives everyone in the small town powers no human should have, turning Haven into a death trap for outsiders - and plunging the town into the depths of madness.
Treasure Island STEVENSON. R	A thrilling story of buried treasure, piracy and derring-do in days past.
Tuck Everlasting BABBITT	The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a 10-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older.
War Party* L’AMOUR, L	After the massacre, Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. Stranded on the limitless prairie, the children were up against vation, Indians and wild animals. They were both mighty stubborn - but the odds were against them.
Watership Down ADAMS, R	Picturesque saga of a maverick band of rabbits that, against all odds, seek a new home and a better society.
We Were The Mulvaneys OATES, J	Saga about a seemingly ideal family that is suddenly rocked by the date-rape of 16-year-old Marianne Mulvaney. This shattering event brings about an extraordinary journey into 25 years of shameful secrets and despair, culminating in the unforseen miracles that can bring a family closer together.
White Fang LONDON, J	White Fang, part wolf and part dog, is viciously bad-tempered from mistreatment, but eventually rescued from a cruel owner. The wild animal is finally tamed by a combination of patience and kindness. His new owner, Weedon Scott, is vindicated in his faith in the dog when White Fang defends Scott's father from attack.
Witch Of Blackbird Pond* SPEARE, E	A young girl's rebellion against her Puritan surroundings culminates in a witch-hunt and a trial.
Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories CISNEROS, S	Stories that depict the variety of life on the Mexico-US border as portrayed through the wisdom and vibrant dreams of an exceptional woman.

Suggested Reading: Mr. Mike Johnson