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Recommended Books List 9-12
 
Grade 9
NOVEL AUTHOR
Alas, Babylon Pat Frank
Animal Farm (Christiana) George Orwell
* Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest Gaines
Breaking Boxes A.M. Jenkins
Burning Up Caroline Cooney
* Clover D. Sanders
Day No Pigs Would Die, A Robert Newton Peck
Day They Came to Arrest the Book, The Nat Hentoff
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
* Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers
Friends, The  Rosa Guy
* Glory Field, The Walter Dean Myers
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Hamilton's Mythology Little, Brown & Cox
Holes (9th Grade Reading Academy) Louis Sachar
Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan
* Hoops Walter Dean Myers
* House on Mango Street, The Sandra Cisneros
Ironman (9th Grade Repeaters) Chris Crutcher
Julius Caesar Shakespeare
* The Learning Tree G. Parks
Lord of the Flies (Newark & Glasgow) William Golding
Merchant of Venice, The Shakespeare (Folgers)
* Miracles' Boys (9th Grade Reading Academy) Jacqueline Woodson
Mrs. Mike Benedict & Nancy Freedman
Night John Gary Paulsen
Odyssey, The Homer
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Pearl, The John Steinbeck
* Picture Bride Yoshiko Uchida
Pigman, The Paul Zindel
* Place Where Sea Remembers, A Sandra Benitez
* Raisin in the Sun, A Lorraine Hansberry
Remembering the Good Times Richard Peck
Seed Folks (9th Grade Reading Academy) Paul Fleshman
Shane Jack Schaeffer
* Slam! (9th Grade Reading Academy) Walter Dean Myers
Soul Fire Louis Hewett
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
Stargirl (9th Grade Repeaters) Jerry Spinelli
* To Sir With Love E.R. Braithwaite
We All Fall Down Robert Cormier
* When the Legends Die Hal Borland
Wizard of Earth Sea, The Ursula K. LeGuin
Z for Zachariah Robert O'Brien
Grade 10
NOVEL AUTHOR
* Adventures of Huck Finn, The Mark Twain
American Dream - Zoo Story Edward Albee
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Thomas Rivera
* Awakening, The K. Chopin
Bear, The (Newark) W. Faulkner
Bernice Bobs Her Hair F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd Herman Melville
* Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
* Bluest Eye, The Toni Morrison
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
Chesapeake James Michener
Civil War: The Boys' War Jim Murphy
*Color Purple, The Alice Walker
Crucible, The Arthur Miller
Cut Patricia McCormick
Dreamland Sarah Dessen
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Famous All Over Town D. Santiago
Farewell to Arms, A Ernest Hemingway
* Fences August Wilson
Fifteen American One Act Plays Paul Kozelka, ed.
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Gathering of Flowers, A: Stories About Being Young in America Joyce Thomas, ed.
Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
* Go Tell It On the Mountain James Baldwin
Grapes of Wrath, The John Steinbeck
Great Gatsby, The F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich A. Childress
Hold Fast Kevin Major
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings M. Angeou
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Inherit the Wind Jerome & Lee Lawrence
* Ishi, Last of His Tribe Theodora Kroeber
* Join-In: Multi-Ethnic Anthology Donald Gallo, ed.
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
Killer Angels, The  Michael Shaara
Killing Mr. Griffith Lois Duncan
Leaving Home David French
* Little Big Man Thomas Berger
Main Street Peter Viney
Miss Lonely Hearts/Day of the Locust Nathanael West
Moby Dick Herman Melville
* Monster Walter Dean Myers
* Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
* Native Son Richard Wright
No Easy Answers Donald Gallo, ed.
No Promises in the Wind Irene Hunt
Old Man and the Sea, The Ernest Hemingway
On Golden Pond Ernest Hemingway
Our Town Thornton Wilder
Out of the Dust Karen Hesse
* Patch of Blue, A Elizabeth Kata
* Piano Lesson August Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain
Red Badge of Courage, The Stephen Crane
Scarlet Letter, The Hawthorne
So Much to Tell You John Marsden
* Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Street Car Named Desire, A Tennessee Williams
Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
* Their Eyes Were Watching God Thomas Rivera
* To Be Young, Gifted and Black Lorraine Hansbery
* To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
* Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Up A Road Slowly Irene Hunt
Wave Todd Strasser
When Jeff Comes Home Catherine Atkins
* Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
Working Days Anne Mazer, ed.
Yearling, The Marjorie Rawlings
You Don't Know Me David Klass
Grade 11
NOVEL AUTHOR
After the First Death Robert Cormier
Animal Farm (Newark & Glasgow) George Orwell
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
Beowulf England in Literature/Anonymous
* Black Boy R. Wright
Blood and Chocolate Annette Klause
Body of Christopher Creed Carol Plum-Ucci
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales G. Chaucer
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke
Chocolate War, The Robert Cormier
* Color of Water, The James McBride
Confession of a Teenage Baboon Paul Zindel
* Contender, The Robert Lipsyte
* Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Dr. Faustus C. Marlowe
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyman Author Unknown
* Final War of Ollie Winter Author Unknown
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Ghost Boy Iain Lawrence
Give the Boy a Gun Todd Strasser
Go Ask Alice Anonymous
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Hamlet Shakespeare
* Heart of the Matter Graham Green
Help Wanted: Short Stories About Young People Working Anita Silvey, ed.
Howard's End E.M. Forster
* If You Come Softly Jacqueline Wood
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
* Joe Turner's Come and Gone August Wilson
* Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
Killer's Cousin Nancy Werlin
King Lear Shakespeare
Macbeth Shakespeare
Night Shift Stephen King
Ordinary People Judith Guest
Other, The Thomas Tyron
Passage to India, A E.M. Foster
Picture of Dorian Grey (Newark) Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin
Pygmalion George B. Shaw
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Stephen King
Room With A View, A E.M. Forster
Shattering Glass Gail Giles
Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults Donald Gallo, ed.
Slave Day Rob Thomas
Someone Like You Sarah Dessen
Swallowing Stones Joyce McDonald
Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens/Bantam
Tempest, The Shakespeare
Tess of the DiUrbervilles Thomas Hardy/Signet
Things Fall Apart (Newark) Achebe
Utopia Thomas Moore
* Walkabout James Marshall
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Grade 12
NOVEL AUTHOR
1984 (Glasgow & Newark) George Orwell
After the First Death Robert Cormier
* Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom Walter Dean Myers
Anthem Ayn Rand
As You Like It Shakespeare
Bless the Beasts and Children  Glendon Swarthout
* Brian Piccolo: A Short Season Jeannie Morris
Brothers Karamazov, The Fyodor Dostoyevski
Burning Bones Christopher Golden & Rick Hautala
Candide Francois Voltaire
Cathcer in the Rye, The J.D. Salinger
Chekhov's Major Plays  Anton Chekhov
Child Called It Dave Pelzer
* Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevski
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Doll's House, A Henrik Ibsen
Doing Time: Notes From the Underground Rob Thomas
Dubliners, The James Joyce
* Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Houston
Give the Boy a Gun Todd Strasser
Hamlet Shakespeare
Hard Times Charles Dickens
* Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Victor Hugo
Ibsen Plays Henrik Ibsen
It's Good to be Alive Ray Campanella
King Lear (Newark) Shakespeare/Folger
* Lesson Before Dying, A Ernest Gaines
Lord of the Flies (Christiana) William Golding
Malcom X: Any Means Necessary Walter Dean Myers
Madame Bovery Gustave Flaubert
Man for All Seasons, A Robert Bolt
Metamorphosis, The Franz Kafka
Monster Walter Dean Myers
* Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya
* Night Elie Wiesel
No Language But a Cry R. D'Ambrosio
Of Mice and Men (Christiana) John Steinbeck
* Obasan Joy Kogawa
* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  K. Kesey
Othello (Glasgow) Shakespeare
* Parallel Journeys Eleanor Ayer, et al.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
Portairt of a Lady Henry James
St. Joan George Bernard Shaw
Sartre's Plays Jean-Paul Sartre
Secret Sharer, The Joseph Conrad
Separate Peace, A John Knowles
Shattering Glass Gail Giles
Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Smack Melvin Burgess
* Stranger, The Albert Camus
Swallowing Stones Joyce McDonald
Tartuffe Jean Moliere
* Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
Twelfth Night Shakespeare
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Samuel Beckett
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Where the Heart Is Billie Letts
* Where the Lillies Bloom Vera & Bill Cleaver

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