Summer Reading List of Classic Authors:

Grade 9:

1. Little Women or Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

2. The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
5. Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare;
6. In Search of History by Theodore White
7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
8. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
9. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
10. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
11. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
12. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
13. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
14. Hiroshima by John Hersey
15. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
16. The Iliad by Homer
17. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
18. Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
19. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
20. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Grade 10:

1. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

2. My Antonia or O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
3. Great Expectations or Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. A Farewell to Arms or collected short stories by Ernest Hemingway
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
9. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
10. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
11. Midsummer Nights Dream or Othello by William Shakespeare
12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
13. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
14. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
15. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
16. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
17. All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
 18. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. Antigone by Sophocles
20. Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Grade 11:

1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Macbeth or King Henry V by William Shakespeare
3. The Cherry Orchard or Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
4. Native Son by Richard Wright
5. The Bonesetters Daughter or The Kitchen Gods Wife by Amy Tan
6. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
7. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
8. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
11. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
14. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
18. Going After Cacciato by Tim OBrien
19. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Grade 12:

1. Jude the Obscure or The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

2. Richard II, The Tempest, or King Lear by William Shakespeare
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
6. Cannery Row or East of Eden by John Steinbeck
7. The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
9. The Iceman Cometh or Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene ONeill
10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
11. A Dolls House or An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
12. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
15. Paradise Lost by John Milton
16. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
17. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
18. The Stranger by Albert Camus
19. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
20. Emma by Jane Austin