Grades 9-12 - Reading List
- Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
- Agee, James. A Death in the Family
- Albom, M. Tuesdays with Morrie
- Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Anonymous. Beowulf
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
- Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons
- Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
- Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights
- Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth
- Camus, Albert. The Stranger
- Cather, Willa. My Antonia
- Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
- Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard
- Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone
- Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim
- Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante. The Divine Comedy
- Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders
- Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations
- Dickinson, Emily. Poems
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment
- Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
- Eliot, George. Silas Marner
- Eliot, T.S. Murder in the Cathedral
- Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays
- Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
- Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
- Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
- Forster, E.M. A Passage to India
- Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Galsworthy, John. The Forsythe Saga
- Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer
- Goulding, William. Lord of the Flies
- Graves, Robert. I, Claudius
- Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory
- Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Henry, O. Stories
- Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf
- Homer. The Iliad
- Homer. The Odyssey
- Hughes, Langston. Poems
- Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House
- James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw
- Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Kafka, Franz. The Trial
- Keats, John. Poems
- Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage
- Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon
- Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee. Inherit the Wind
- Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt
- Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley
- Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain.
- Marlowe, Christopher. Dr.Faustus
- Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage
- McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
- Miller, Arthur. The Crucible
- Monsarrat, Nicholas. The Cruel Sea
- O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood
- O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey into Night
- Orwell, George. 1984
- Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago
- Poe, Edgar Allan. Stories
- Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac
- Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
- Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln
- Sayers, Dorothy L. The Nine Tailors
- Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William. King Lear
- Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare, William. Othello
- Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal
- Shute, Nevil. A Town Like Alice
- Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
- Sophocles. Oedipus Rex
- Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels
- Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
- Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
- Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers
- Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons
- Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Updike, John. Rabbit Run
- Virgil. The Aeneid
- Voltaire. Candide
- Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men
- Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust
- Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence
- White, T.H. The Once and Future King
- Wiesel, Elie. Night
- Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton. Our Town
- Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire
- Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel
- Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse
- Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny
- Wright, Richard. Native Son
