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

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