High School Supplemental Reading

Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
 
 
                                                GRADE 9
 
Literary Options  

Emma Austen  
The Martian Chronicles Bradbury  
The Good Earth Buck  
Jumping the Nail Bunting  
Cold Sassy Tree Burns  
Tunes for Bears to Dance To Cormier  
Tears of a Tiger Draper  
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greenberg  
That Was Then, This Is Now Hinton  
The Language of Goldfish O’Neal  
The Chosen Potok  
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith  
The Wave Strasser  
The Pigman Zindel  

Interdisciplinary Connections  
    The Civil War  
    Undying Glory Cox  
    The Red Badge of Courage Crane  
    Across Five Aprils Hunt  
    Rifles for Watie Keith  
    Civil War Women (Short Story Collection) McSherry  
    Gone with the Wind Mitchell  
    The Slopes of War Perez  
    The Killer Angels Shaara  

    Westward Expansion 
    The Education of Little Tree Carter  
    O Pioneers Cather  
    Westward the Tide L’Amour  
    Journey Michener  
    Shane Schaeffer  

    Industrialism/The Depression 
    No Promises in the Wind Hunt  
    Lyddie Paterson  
    The Jungle Sinclair  

    Immigration 
    Letters From Rifka Hesse 

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                                            GRADE 10
 
Author Title
Anaya, Rudolfo  
Anderson, Sherwood  
Angelou, Maya  
Baker, Russell  
Brown, Tom  
Cather, Willa 
Chopin, Kate  
Clemens, Samuel L.  
Crew, Linda  
Doctorow, E.L.  
Dorris, Michael  
Gaines, Ernest  
Hemingway, Ernest  
Hillerman, Tony  
Houston, J. & Wakasuki,  
Kingsolver, Barbara 
L’Amour, Louis  
McCullers, Carson  
O’Brien, Tim  
Peck, Richard  
Smith, Betty  
Steinbeck, John  
Tan, Amy  
Vonnegut, Kurt  
Wharton, Edith  
Wright, Richard  
Yezierska, Anzia 
Bless Me, Ultima 
Winesburg, Ohio 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Heart of a Woman 
Growing Up  
The Vision 
 O, Pioneers 
The Awakening 
Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi  
Children of the River 
Ragtime 
Yellow Raft in Blue Water 
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 
Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls 
Listening Woman, Dance Hall of the Dead 
J. Farewell to Manzanar 
The Bean Trees 
Selected titles 
Heart is a Lonely Hunter 
The Things They Carried 
A Day No Pigs Would Die 
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 
Travels with Charley, Cannery Row 
The Kitchen God’s Wife, A Hundred Secret Senses 
Slaughterhouse Five 
Ethan Frome 
Black Boy 
The Bread Givers
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                                        GRADE 11
 
Author Title
Richard Adams   
Richard Adams  
Joy Adamson   
Joy Adamson   
Joy Adamson   
Jane Austen   
Jane Austen   
Jane Austen   
Charlotte Bronte   
Emily Bronte   
John Bunyan   
F.H. Burnette   
Samuel Butler   
Samuel Butler  
Lewis Carroll  
Lewis Carroll  
Agatha Christie   
Agatha Christie  
Agatha Christie  
Agatha Christie  
Agatha Christie  
Agatha Christie  
Arthur Clarke   
Arthur Clarke   
Arthur Clarke   
Arthur Clarke   
Arthur Clarke   
Wilkie Collins   
Wilkie Collins   
Joseph Conrad   
Joseph Conrad   
Joseph Conrad   
A.J. Cronin  
A.J. Cronin  
Roald Dahl   
Daniel Defoe   
Daniel Defoe   
Charles Dickens   
Charles Dickens  
Charles Dickens    
Charles Dickens    
Charles Dickens   
Charles Dickens   
Charles Dickens    
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  
Daphne DuMaurier   
Daphne DuMaurier   
Laurence Duvall   
George Eliot   
George Eliot   
George Eliot   
Henry Fielding   
C.S. Forester   
C.S. Forester    
C.S. Forester  
C.S. Forester  
Frederick Forsyth   
Frederick Forsyth 
Frederick Forsyth 
Frederick Forsyth 
Dick Francis   
Paul Gallico   
John Galsworthy   
Rumer Godden   
Rumer Godden  
Oliver Goldsmith   
Elizabeth Goudge   
Grahame   
Robert Graves   
Graham Greene   
Graham Greene  
Graham Greene  
Thomas Hardy   
Thomas Hardy 
Thomas Hardy 
Thomas Hardy 
Thomas Hardy 
James Herriot   
James Herriot  
James Herriot 
James Herriot 
Jack Higgins   
James Hilton   
James Hilton  
W.H. Hudson   
Aldous Huxley   
Henry James   
Henry James  
Henry James  
P.D. James   
P.D. James  
P.D. James    
Rudyard Kipling   
Rudyard Kipling  
Arthur Koestler   
D.H. Lawrence   
D.H. Lawrence  
John Le Carre   
John Le Carre    
John Le Carre  
John Le Carre  
C.S. Lewis   
C.S. Lewis  
Richard Llewellyn   
Walter Lord   
Helen Macinnes   
Helen Macinnes   
Helen Macinnes 
Alistair MacLean   
J.J. Marric   
W. S. Maugham   
W. S. Maugham  
Nicholas Monsarrat   
Iris Murdock   
George Orwell   
George Orwell  
Mary E. Pearce   
Richard Peck   
Richard Peck  
Richard Peck  
Mary Renault   
Mary Renault 
Mary Renault 
Dorothy Sayers   
Dorothy Sayers 
Dorothy Sayers   
Dorothy Sayers 
Sir Walter Scott   
Mary Shelley   
Nevil Shute   
Nevil Shute 
Alan Sillitoe   
Alan Sillitoe  
Muriel Spakre   
Robert Stevenson    
Robert Stevenson 
Robert Stevenson   
Robert Stevenson 
Mary Stewart   
Mary Stewart    
Mary Stewart    
Mary Stewart  
Mary Stewart  
Bram Stoker   
Stranger   
Jonathon Swift   
William M. Thackery   
J. R. Tolkien   
J. R. Tolkien   
J. R. Tolkien 
Honor Tracy   
Anthony Trollope   
Jules Verne   
Evelyn Waugh   
Evelyn Waugh 
Evelyn Waugh   
Evelyn Waugh 
H.G. Welles   
H.G. Welles    
H.G. Welles  
E.G. White   
Leonard Wibberly   
Virginia Woolfe 
Virginia Woolfe
Watership Down   
Shardik   
Born Free    
Living Free   
Forever Free   
Emma  
Pride and Prejudice   
Sense and Sensibility   
Jane Eyre   
Wuthering Heights   
Pilgrim's Progress   
The Secret Garden    
Erewhon    
Way of All Flesh    
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland   
Through the Looking Glass   
And Then There Were None    
Curtain   
Evil Under the Sun   
Murder of Roger Ackroyd   
Murder on the Orient Express    
Sleeping Murder    
Childhood's End   
Imperial Earth   
Rendezvous with Rama   
2001 Space Odyssey    
2010 Odyssey Two   
The Moonstone    
The Woman in White   
Heart of Darkness    
Lord Jim   
Nigger of the Narcissus   
The Citadel   
The Keys of the Kingdom   
Kiss, Kiss   
Moll Flanders   
Robinson Crusoe   
Great Expectations   
Tale of Two Cities   
A Christmas Carol   
Bleak House    
David Copperfield   
Oliver Twist   
Nicholas Nickleby   
Hound of the Baskervilles   
The Adventures of Sherlock Homes   
Sherlock Homes: Selected Stories   
Rebecca   
My Cousin Rachel   
Alexandria Quartet   
Adam Bede   
Silas Marner   
Mill on the Floss   
History of Tom Jones   
African Queen   
Howard's End   
A Passage to India   
A Room with a View   
The Day of the Jackal   
The Odessa File   
Devil's Alternative   
Dogs of War   
Break In    
Snow Goose   
The Forsythe Saga   
In the House of Brede   
Thursday's Children   
Vicar of Wakefiled   
The Child from the Sea   
Wind in the Willows   
I Claudius   
Heart of the Matter   
The Power and the Glory   
Travels with My Aunt   
Jude the Obscure   
Tess of the Durbervilles   
Mayor of the Casterbridge   
Return of the Native   
Far from the Madding Crowd   
All Things Bright and Beautiful   
All Creatures Great and Small   
All Things Wise and Wonderful   
The Lord God Made Them All   
The Eagle Has Landed Solo   
Goodbye, Mr. Chips   
Lost Horizon   
Green Mansions   
Brave New World   
Portrait of a Lady   
Daisy Miller   
The Turn of the Screw   
A Taste for Death   
Black Tower   
Murder in Triplicate   
Captain's Courageous   
The LIght that Failed   
Darkness at Noon   
Sons and Lovers   
Women in Love   
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold   
Little Drummer Girl   
Perfect Spy   
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy   
Out of the Silent Planet   
Last Battle   
How Green Was My Valley   
A Night to Remember   
Above Suspicion   
Snare of the Hunter   
Salzberg Connection   
The Guns of Navarone   
Gideon's Sport   
Of Human Bondage   
The Razor's Edge   
Cruel Sea   
The Bell   
1984   
Animal Farm   
Cast a Long Shadow   
Are You in the House Alone?   
Father Figure   
Remembering the Good Times   
Fire From Heaven   
Funeral Games   
King Must Die   
Nine Taylors   
Five Red Herrings   
Murder Must Advertise   
Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club   
Talisman   
Frankenstein   
On the Beach   
Legacy   
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner   
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning   
The Prime of MIss Jean Brodie   
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde   
Kidnapped   
Black Arrow   
Treasure Island   
The Crystal Cave   
The Hollow Hills   
The Last Enchantment   
Airs Above the Ground   
This Rough Magic   
Dracula   
A Breed of Giants   
Gulliver's Travels   
Vanity Fair   
The Hobbit   
Lord of the RIngs Trilogy   
Silmarillon   
First Day of Friday   
Barchester Towers    
Around the World in 80 Days   
Brideshead Revisited   
The Loved One   
Handful of Dust   
Decline and Fall   
The Invisible Man   
Time Machine   
War of the Worlds   
The Once and Future King   
The Mouse that Roared   
Mrs. Dalloway   
To the Lighthouse
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                                                GRADE 12
 
 Author Title
Isabel Allende   
Isabel Allende  
Julia Alvarez  
Margaret Atwood  
Margaret Atwood  
Merril Beal  
Samuel Beckett  
T. Coraghessan Boyle  
Tsitsi Dangarembga  
Michael Dorris  
Louise Erdrich  
Laura Esquivel  
William Faulkner  
Horton Foote  
Ernest Gaines  
David Guterson  
Alex Haley  
Ursala Hegi  
Ernest Hemingway  
Kazuo Ishiguro  
Ken Kesey  
Barbara Kingsolver  
Gerda Weissmann Klein  
Joy Kogawa  
Jon Krakaur  
Margaret Laurence  
S Bette Lord  
Bernard Malamud  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez  
Anchee Min  
N. Scott Momaday  
William Least Heat Moon  
Toni Morrison 
Amos Oz  
E. Annie Proulx  
Arundhati Roy  
Carol Shields  
Nevil Shute  
Leslie Silko  
Alexander Solzhenitsyn  
Anne Tyler  
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.  
Tennessee Williams 
In the House of Spirits   
Of Love and Shadows  
In the Time of the Butterflies   
The Edible Woman  
Alias Grace   
I Will Fight No More Forever  
Waiting for Godot  
Tortilla Curtain   
Nervous Conditions  
Yellow Raft in Blue Water  
Love Medicine  
Like Water for Chocolate  
The Reivers:  A Reminiscence   
Courtship / Valentine’s Day / 1918   
A Lesson Before Dying  
Snow Falling on Cedars  
The Autobiography of Malcolm X 
Stones From the River  
The Sun Also Rises  
Remains of the Day  
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  
Pigs in Heaven  
All But My Life  
Obasan  
Into Thin Air  
Stone Angel  
Spring Moon:  A Novel of China 
The Natural 
Love in the Time of Cholera  
Red Azalea 
House Made of Dawn  
Blue Highways:  A Journey into America 
 Beloved  
Soumchi  
Shipping News 
God of Small Things  
Stone Diaries  
On the Beach  
Ceremony 
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 
Piano Player 
A Streetcar Named Desire 
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