Grade 9 to Grade 12 Book Suggestions

Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Aeneid by Virgil
Against All Hope by Armando Valladares
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Beowulf by Anonymous
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Candide by Voltaire
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Divine Comedy by Dante
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Iliad by Homer
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Miracle At Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Native Son by Richard Wright
New Testament and Old Testament by The Bible
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
1984 by George Orwell
The Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Poems by Langston Hughes
Poems by John Keats
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Rabbit Run by John Updike
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Stories ("The Gift of the Magi," "The Ransom of Red Chief," etc.) by O. Henry
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë