e-Sainik School Gopalganj

BOOKS FOR LONG READING BY CADETS

SESSION: 2020-21

Ser No.	Class	Name of Book	Author	Genre/Type	Assignment
1	VII	The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	Children's Literature	(a) Write the book Reviews of any four out of five books in not less than 200 words each. (b) Book Reviews to be submitted on arrival at the school to the Senior Master. (c) The Book Reviews will be graded and the marks taken into account in calculation for the final marks.
2		Peter Pan	James M. Barrie	Folk Tales
3		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carrol	Fiction
4		Jack and Jill	Louisa May Alcott	Children's Story
5		The Prince and the Pauper	Mark Twain	Children's Literature
6	VIII	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	Detective Fiction
7		The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	Fiction,
8		Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction
9		Here There and Everywhere	Sudha Murthy	Short story
10		The Defence of Duffer’s Drift	Ernest D Swinton	Military Art and Science
11	IX	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	Fictional autobiography	(a) Write the book Reviews of any four out of five books in not less than 500 words each. (b) Book Reviews to be submitted on arrival at the school to the Senior Master. (c) The Book Reviews will be graded and the marks taken into account in calculation for the final marks.
12		Three Men In a Boat	Jerome K. Jerome	Fiction
13		The Time Machine	H.G. Wells	Fiction
14		The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne frank	Autobiography
15		Wise and Otherwise	Sudha Murty	Non Fiction
16	X	Animal Farm: A Fairy Story	George Orwell	Political Satire
17		Untouchable	Mulk Raj Anand	Fiction
18		Silas Marner	George Eliot	Fiction
19		A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Fiction
20		A Horse's Tale	Mark Twain	Fiction (Comic)
21	XI	The Vendor of Sweets	RK Narayan	Fiction	(a) Write the book Reviews of any four out of five books in not less than 750 words each (b) Book Reviews to be submitted on arrival at the school to the Senior Master. (c) The Book Reviews will be graded and the marks taken into account in calculation for the final marks.
22		The God of Mars	Edgar Rice Burrough	Science Fiction
23		The Adventure of the Red Circle	Arthur Conan Doyle	Short Story
24		The Guide	RK Narayan	Fiction
25		The Old Man and the Sea	Earnest Hemingway	Fiction
26	XII	Coolie	Mulk Raj Anand	Fiction
27		A House for Mr Biswas	VS Naipaul	Fiction
28		The Canterville Ghost	Oscar Wilde	Fiction
29		The Cycle of Spring	Rabindra Nath Tagore	Drama
30		The Namesake	Jhumpa Lahiri	Fiction

Ser No.	Class	Name of Book	Author	Genre/Type	Assignment
1	VI	The Book of Good Counsels (The Hitopadesha)	Sir Edwin Arnold	Fables	(a) Write the book Reviews of any four books of your choice in not less than 200 words each. (b) Book Reviews to be submitted to the Senior Master on arrival at the school (c) The Book Reviews will be graded and the marks will be taken into account in calculation for the final marks.
2		Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore (English Translation)	Mahatma A Quayum	Novella
3		Grandma's Bag of Stories	Sudha Murthy	Short Stories
4		The Great Panchtantra Tales (English)	Vishnu Sharma	Fables
5		Space Case	Stuart Gibbs	Science Fiction, Mystery and Suspence
6		Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O' Dell	Children Novel
7	VII	Malgudi Days	RK Narayan	Short Story Collection
8		Merry Adventurs of Robin Hood	Horward Pyle	Chidlren's Literature, Novel
9		How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories	Sudha Murthy	Fictional Sholrt Stories
10		The Blue Umbrella	Ruskin Bond	Novel
11		Aesop's Fables	Aesop	Fable, Children's Literature, Fiction
12		Tarzan of the Apes	Edgar Rice Burrogh	Adventure Fiction, Travel Literature
13	VIII	Adventure of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Children's Literature	(a) Write the book Reviews of any four books of your choice in not less than 200 words each. (b) Book Reviews to be submitted to the Senior Master on arrival at the school (c) The Book Reviews will be graded and the marks will be taken into account in calculation for the final marks.
14		Life of Pie	Yann Martel	Novel, Adventure Fiction
15		Anderson's Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Anderson	Fairy Tale, Fiction
16		Three Thousand Stiches	Sudha Muththy	Short Stories
17		Abosultely Normal Chaos	Saron Creech	Chidren's Literature
18		The Cricket in Time Square	George Selden	Children's Literature, Fiction
19	IX	Nostromo: A Tale of Seaboard	Joseph Conrad	Novel, Poltical Fiction
20		A House for Mr Biswal	VS Naipaul	Novel, Himor
21		A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth	Fiction, Romance Novel
22		The Brave Param Vir Chakra Stories	Rachna Bisht Ravat	Short Stories
23		The Private life of Indian Prince	Mulk Raj Anand	Novel
24		Wings of Fire (An Auobioraphy)	Dr APJ Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari	Autobiography, Biography
25	X	A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man	James Joyce	Novel, Modern Literature	(a) Write the book Reviews of any four books of your choice in not less than 200 words each. (b) Book Reviews to be submitted to the Senior Master on arrival at the school (c) The Book Reviews will be graded and the marks will be taken into account in calculation for the final marks.
26		The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	Short Story, Novella
27		Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	Satire, Fiction
28		Island of Doctor Moreau	HG Wells	Science Fiction, Novel
29		The Thirty Nine Steps	John Buchan	Novel, Historical Fiction
30	XI	Train to Pakistan	Khuswant Singh	Novel, Historical Fiction
31		The White Tiger	Arvind Adiga	Novel, Epistolary Novel, Mystery
32		Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	Gothic Fiction, Science Fiction
33		The Story of My Experiments with Truth	Mahatma Gandhi	An Autobiography
34		The Devil	Leo Tolstoy	Novella, Psychological Fiction
35		1984 - Nineteen Eighty- Four	George Orwell	Science Fiction, Political Fiction