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

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