Academic Reading List (ID 1 & ID 4 English)
Key: # - part of a series
Adventure
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Cay – Theodore Taylor
Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins #
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
White Fang – Jack London
Classics
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Sounder – William H. Armstrong
When the Legends Die – Hal Borland
Where the Lilies Bloom – Vera Cleaver
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Fantasy
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer #
The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
Boneshaker – Cherie Priest #
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper #
The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan #
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld #
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Historical Fiction
Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck
Fever 1793 – Laurie Halse Anderson
Girl in a Cage – Jane Yolen
Milkweed: A Novel – Jerry Spinelli
My Brother Sam is Dead – James Lincoln Collier, et al
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
Out of the Dust – Karen Hess
Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith
Memoirs
Bad Boy: A Memoir – Walter Dean Myers
Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter – Adeline Yen Mah
The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannette Walls
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir – Tobias Wolff
Travels With Charley – John Steinbeck
Mysteries
The Arm of the Starfish – Madeleine L’Engle
Hound of Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie The Ruby in the Smoke – Philip Pullman #
Realistic Fiction
Among Friends – Caroline B. Cooney
The Circuit – Francisco Jimenez
Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt #
Let the Circle Be Unbroken – Mildred D. Taylor
Monster – Walter Dean Myers
The Pigman – Paul Zindel
Rumble Fish – S.E. Hinton
Twerp – Mark Goldblatt
Science Fiction
Divergent – Veronica Roth #
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (series) #
Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
Matched – Ally Condie #
War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle # Accelerated Reading List (ID 2 & ID 3 English)
Key : # - part of a series
Adventure
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Classics
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anthem – Ayn Rand
A Day No Pigs Would Die – Richard Peck
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Fantasy
The Golden Compass – Phillip Pullman #
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke #
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Princess Bride: S. Morgentern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure – William Goldman
Twilight – Stephanie Meyer #
Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Wee Free Men – Terry Prachett #
Historical Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Horror
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Memoirs
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Color of Water – James McBride
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy – Gary Soto Farewell to Manzanar - Jeannette Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
When I Was Puerto Rican – Esmerelda Santiago
Mysteries
The Body of Christopher Creed – Carol Plum-Ucci
Killing Mr. Griffin – Lois Duncan
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
Plays
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Realistic Fiction
The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
A Lesson Before Dying – Earnest J. Gaines
Ordinary People – Judith Guest
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Silent to the Bone – E.L. Konisburg
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Science Fiction
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card #
Dune – Frank Herbert # Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
1984 – George Orwell