I've just finished re-organizing and updating my "reading workshop" book 
list.

Last fall, the list merged together several "favorite" and "recommended" 
book lists from other sources (including Atwell's and Rief's books, plus 
several web site lists).  My goal was to have a list of titles which might 
be useful in a "reading workshop" secondary classroom library -- not that 
any classroom should include all these titles, but that any secondary 
English/language Arts classroom bookcase might be attractive to students if 
it includes 100+ properly-selected titles from this list (along with other 
books selected by the teacher).

Today, I finally merged in the Newbery award lists (winners and honor 
books), and also the Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District's "core and 
extended high school reading lists" (OUSD has a web site that provides 
links to booknotes, lesson plans, and other resources about these 
books).  I also updated my own "inventory" information, adding at least 150 
more books that I've bought at library book sales or at bookstores in the 
past few months.

I hope the list continues to be useful to other teachers.  The list has now 
grown to a nearly unmanageable 2,385 titles!  Of course, a list this large 
certainly includes many titles that I would NOT personally recommend.  I 
have tried to exclude any books which are "clearly inappropriate" for ANY 
secondary classroom library, but of course some titles that would be fine 
in some high school classrooms would be inappropriate for many middle 
school classrooms.  (If you do use the list, please tell me if you think 
I've included any titles which are "clearly inappropriate" for ANY 
secondary classroom.)

I continue to use the list primarily as a checklist when browsing in used 
bookstores and at library book sales. About half of the entries (including 
all titles which appeared in two or more source lists) include ISBN numbers 
(and links to book information at Amazon.com).

As always, the list is posted in two versions: a Microsoft Excel 
spreadsheet (1.2 megabytes) and an HTML table (which bloats to nearly 5 
megabytes).  I strongly recommend that you download only the Excel version, 
which is smaller and easier to use (feel free to disable macros if you're 
worried about viruses or trojan horses).

Recommended & Favorites Book List [2,485 titles]:

Text version: http://www.MarkWelch.com/workshop.txt (300k)
Zipped text version: http://www.MarkWelch.com/workshop-text.zip (88k)

Excel version: http://www.MarkWelch.com/workshop.xls  (1.3mb)
Zipped Excel version: http://www.MarkWelch.com/workshop-xls.zip (228k)

HTML version: http://www.MarkWelch.com/workshop.htm (2.0mb)
Zipped HTML version: http://www.MarkWelch.com/workshop-htm.zip (153k)



-- Mark J. Welch  - working to become an English teacher
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/MarkWelch-resume.htm
-- http://www.WelchEnglish.com/