Recommended+Reading+List

//Winesburg, Ohio.// Sherwood Anderson First published in 1919, these famed short stories chronicle life in small-town Ohio. //The Handmaid's Tale.// Margaret Atwood Set in a dystopic future society controlled by a Christian fundamentalist government which values women only for their ability to bear children. //Clan of the Cave Bear.// Jean Auel Story of the orphaned Ayla's struggle to fit in and survive in the period when Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals existed at the same time on the Earth. //Emma.// Jane Austen A scheming heiress is convinced that it is her right, perhaps even her "duty," to arrange the lives of those around her; set in early 19th-century England. //Humboldt's Gift.// Saul Bellow The story of the friendship between a successful novelist and a failed poet, a comic send-up of death and the New York literary scene. //Fahrenheit 451.// Ray Bradbury In a society where books are feared and burned, Guy Montag, a fireman, meets individuals who challenge his beliefs regarding the danger of ideas and knowledge. //Oliver Twist.// Charles Dickens Set in 19th-century London, the story of a workhouse orphan who finds the only family he's ever known among a group of unscrupulous thieves. //Yellow Raft in Blue Water.// Michael Dorris The saga of three generations of Native American women worn by hardship and torn by angry secrets. //Intruder in the Dust.// William Faulkner A murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South. //A Lesson Before Dying.// Ernest Gaines A young man returns to Cajun country to teach and visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. //The Lord of the Flies.// William Golding A group of English school boys stranded on an unpopulated island must survive not only the wild, but each other. //I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.// Hannah Green The battle of a mentally ill teenaged girl against a world of her own creation, and the doctor committed to helping her. //A Farewell to Arms.// Ernest Hemingway The unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War I and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. //Siddhartha.// Hermann Hesse A young Indian mystic, a contemporary of Buddha, sacrifices everything to search for the true meaning of life. //Lost Horizon.// James Hilton Three men and a woman seeking escape from political upheaval in the Orient find themselves prisoners in a magical land. //The Floating World.// Cynthia Kadohata The young narrator and her Japanese-American family roam the Pacific-Northwest in the 1950's. //Lucy.// Jamaica Kincaid 19-year-old Lucy comes to America from the West Indies to work for a wealthy family and finds that their wealth hasn't made them happy. //The Bean Trees.// Barbara Kingsolver When Marietta Greer leaves her home in rural Kentucky, she quickly acquires a new name, a child, and a new perspective on her problems. //To Kill a Mockingbird.// Harper Lee 8-year-old Scout narrates the story of the arrest and trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman in Depression-era Alabama. //The Call of the Wild.// Jack London Set in Alaska during the gold rush of the 1890s, the story of an unusual dog who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields, where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. //The Guns of Navarone.// Alistar MacLean A small group of commandos sneak onto a German- held Greek island to destroy a gun battery which guards a strategic strait during World War II. 9th & 10th Grade Recommended Reading List Page 1 of 3 //The Natural.// Bernard Malamud Considered the greatest baseball novel ever written, the story of the fall of a promising young athlete and his attempt to make a comeback. //A House for Mr. Biswas.// V.S. Naipaul The story of a poor man whose tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of his life-long search for identity. //1984.// George Orwell A terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which a worker at the Ministry of Truth tries to free himself from the government's thought control. //Cry, the Beloved Country.// Alan Paton The story of the Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo, and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. //The Chosen.// Chaim Potok The story of the friendship which develops between two Jewish boys in New York City. //Ivanhoe.// Sir Walter Scott Set in the 12th century during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, this is the story of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric's ward. //Frankenstein.// Mary Shelley The chilling fable of a scientist and his misshapen creation. Forget the horror-movie schtick! Read the original! //On the Beach.// Neil Shute A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North. //Of Mice and Men.// John Steinbeck Tragic tale of a slow-witted man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. //Sophie's Choice.// William Styron The story of a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jewish writer and a beautiful Polish woman and the awful wound in Sophie's past that leads her towards destruction. //The Picture of Dorian Gray.// Oscar Wilde The tale of a young man's descent into complete moral decay as he pledges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. //T. Rex and the Crater of Doom//. Walter Alvarez Explores the findings of experts from a variety of scientific fields who are searching for the cause of the dinosaurs' extinction. //Cosmos.// Carl Sagan An overview of the past, present, and future of science is infused with Sagan's characteristic energy and enthusiasm. //Killer Angels.// Michael Shaara An in-depth account of the Battle of Gettysburg that strives to recreate the actions of generals Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. //The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.// Robert Heinlein Set on the moon in 2076, a group of separatists lead the lunar population in a revolt against Earth's colonial rule. //Dune.// Frank Herbert A story of power set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the saga of Paul Atreides, who seeks to avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family. //The Wizard of Earthsea.// Ursula Le Guin The first of four books about Earthsea and an awkward boy who becomes a wizard's apprentice. //Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.// Jules Verne Three seamen are kidnapped by Captain Nemo and taken on a year-long voyage in a huge submarine. //Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death//. Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time and relives all the phases of his life simultaneously, returning always to the horrors of the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. //The Time Machine.// H.G. Wells 19th-century vision of a distant future when the world is divided into a helpless elite fatally dependent on the lower classes it despises. 9th & 10th Grade Recommended Reading List Page 2 of 3 //Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day.// Nikki Giovanni Poetry on the progress of the civil rights movement of the late 1960s. //Ariel.// Sylvia Plath Written during the last months of her life, the poems in this volume are like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings...." //Howl.// Allen Ginsberg Charged with obscenity when it was first published in the 1950s, this long poem helped launch a generation of rebels. //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.// Maya Angelou A celebrated African-American poet describes a youth marked by disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and hard-won independence. //Growing Up.// Russell Baker Traces the author's youth in the mountains of rural Virginia during the Depression. //Death Be Not Proud.// John Gunther A father offers a deeply affecting account of his son's courageous battle against the brain tumor that would take his life at the age of seventeen. //Hiroshima.// John Hersey Survivors recount the day when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb. //Profiles in Courage.// John F. Kennedy Future president JFK profiles eight of his senatorial colleagues for their acts of integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. //A Sense of Where You Are.// John McPhee Biography of former U.S. senator Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. //Coming of Age in Mississippi.// Ann Moody A classic look at growing up poor and black in the rural South before the civil rights movement. //Woman in the Mists.// Farley Mowat A portrait of Dian Fossey, the world-famous scientist whose crusade to save the mountain gorillas of Africa ended with her murder in 1985. //Iron and Silk.// Mark Salzman The author's adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher. //Life on the Mississippi.// Mark Twain Twain presents his view of life along the Mississippi river, gleaned during a stint as a cub-pilot on a steamboat before the Civil War. //Black Boy.// Richard Wright A subtly crafted narrative of Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. A classic of American autobiography. //The Crucible.// Arthur Miller Drama based on the Salem witch trials of the 17th century--considered a comment on the McCarthy Era's hunt for communist sympathizers in 1950s America. //Ah, Wilderness!// Eugene O'Neill A comical tale of the coming of age of a young man and the knowledge that comes with it in a turn-of-the- century New England town. //Our Town.// Thornton Wilder A drama that explores the events of daily life, love, marriage, and death in the small village of Grover's Corners. 9th & 10th Grade Recommended Reading List Page 3 of 3
 * FICTION**
 * 9****th** **&** **10****th** **Grade Recommended Reading List**
 * NONFICTION**
 * FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION**
 * POETRY**
 * BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES**
 * DRAMA**

John Boyne
 * ||  ||   || **// The Boy in the Striped Pajamas //**

Peter Cameron
 * // Someday this pain will be useful to you //**

**// Code //****// Orange //** Caroline Cooney

Christopher Paul Curtis
 * // Elijah of Buxton //**

Neil Gaiman Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved.
 * // Stardust //**

Neil Gaiman
 * // Neverwhere //**

Mark Haddon This is Ms Linda’s “pick”
 * // the curious incident of the dog in the night-time //**

// The **First Part last** // Angela Johnson

Terry Pritchett After a devastating tsunami destroys lath they have ever known, Mau. An island boy and Daphne, and aristocratic girl, together with a small band of refuges, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
 * // Nation //**

Jordan Sonnenblick
 * // Drums, girls and dangerous Pie //**

John Wyndham
 * // The Chrysalids //**

Jane Yolen ** Suspense, Mysteries and Thrillers **
 * // Briar Rose //**

**// The Broken Window: A //****// Lincoln //****// Rhyme Novel //** Jeffrey Deaver

This is a forensic mystery about the ultimate identity theft. It is a great choice to read alongside George Orwell’s //1984// and Aldous Huxley’s //Brave New World.//

Steve Berry This is a historical mystery dealing with the finding of the long lost tomb of Alexander the Great
 * // The Venetian Betrayal //**

Jennifer Lee Carrell If you love Shakespeare, you will be intrigued by this suspense thriller and literary fiction. It has captivating details about Shakespeare and his plays and an original theory as to who exactly wrote them.
 * Interred with Their Bones **

Judith Kelman This is a novel os domestic suspense.
 * // The First Stone //**

Christopher Reich This is an espionage thriller set in Switzerland
 * // Rules of Deception //**

Sarah Andrews Set in Antarctica, this is an “amateur sleuth” novel.
 * // In Cold Pursuit //**

Carolyn Hart This is an example of a classic mystery and whodunit plot.
 * // Death Walked in: A death on Demand Mystery //**

Lincoln Child A chilling suspense dealing with a mysterious illness on an oil-drilling rig. The main character uncovers a military scheme to excavate Atlantis in order to retrieve the strange, powerful objects found within. **// Indiana //****// Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull //** James Rollins Watch the movie and read the book. World War II is over and the Cold War has begun, Nazis have been superseded by Russians, and everyone’s looking for an artefact that will give the finder extraordinary powers…
 * Deep Storm **

**// Classics //**

// Charles Dickens //
 * // Great Expectations //**
 * // A Christmas Carol //**

// Arthur Conan Doyle //
 * // Sherlock Holmes //**
 * // The Hound of the Baskervilles //**

Joseph Conrad
 * // Under Western Eyes //**

Harper Lee
 * // To Kill a Mockingbird //**

Jack London
 * // White Fang //**
 * // The Call of the Wild //**

W.O. Mitchell
 * // Who Has Seen the Wind? //**

Anna Sewell
 * // Black Beauty //**

// Mary Shelley //
 * // Frankenstein //**

**// The //****// Pearl //** // John Steinbeck //

**// Treasure Island //** Robert Louis Stevenson
 * // Robinson Crusoe //**
 * // Kidnapped //**
 * // Around the World in 80 days //**
 * // Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde //**

// Mark Twain //
 * // The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn //**
 * // Tom Sawyer //**

Jules Verne
 * // Around the World in 80 Days //**
 * // 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea //**
 * // Journey to the Centre of the Earth //**

George Orwell
 * // 1984 //**

Aldous Huxley Mark Twain Anna Sewell John Steinbeck John Steinbeck Arthur Conan Doyle Jules Verne James Fenimore Cooper ||
 * Brave New World **
 * // The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn //**
 * // Black Beauty //**
 * // East of Eden //**
 * // The Grapes of Wrath //**
 * // The Hound of Baskerville //**
 * // Journey to the center of the earth //**
 * // The last of the mohicans //**