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Just Titles List High School Book List ** These books are recommended for high school students only 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1410L) 1776, David McCullough (1300L) 1984, George Orwell (1090L) A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah (920L) A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hossennii (830L) A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson (1210L) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman AleXie (600L) The Adventures of Huck Finn, Mark Twain (980L) The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock, Arthur Doyle (NC1070L) Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (890L) All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot (990L) All Quiet on the Western Front , Erich Maria Remarque (830L) Revised 6/29/20 All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael Patrick McDonald All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy (940L) And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (570L) Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (1110L) Animal Farm, George Orwell (1170L) Anthem, Ayn Rand (880L) Antigone, Sophocles (1090L) Arcadia, Tom Stoppard Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne (1080L) As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (870L) Athletic Shorts, Chris Crutcher (1010L) Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1070L) Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy (1200L) Bad, Jean Ferris (730L) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (1090L) Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World, Dalai Lama Billy Budd, Herman Melville (1450L) Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden (970L) Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya (840L) Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson (1240L) Revised 6/29/20 The Book, M. 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Bissinger (1260L) A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have SeX, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants, Ruth Kassinger Generation Me, Jean Twenge Get Well Soon, Julie Halpern (850L) The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson Gilgamesh, Unknown The Girl with Seven Names, Hyeonseo Lee Give a Boy a Gun, Todd Strasser (760L) The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls (1010L) Go Ask Alice, Anonymous (1010L) The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck (1530L) The Gospel According to Larry, Janet Tashjian (800L) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (680L) Great EXpectations, Charles Dickens (1230L) Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1070L) Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond Half-Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls Hamlet, William Shakespeare (1390L) Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (750L) Grade 10-12 The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1 of 2) (1050L) Revised 6/29/20 Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (2 of 2) (1050L) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (730L) The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom (900L) Hiroshima, John Hersey (1190L) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein (1000L) The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (660L) The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (870L) How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (810L) I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai (830L) I am the Cheese , Robert Cormier (810L) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1070L) Idylls of the King, Alfred Tennyson (1260L) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (1140L) Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (NP) In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (1040L) (for 11th-12th Grade Only) In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez (910L) The Inferno, Dante Alighieri Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (1270L) Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1320L) Revised 6/29/20 In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (950L) Ishmael, Daniel Quinn Jake, Reinvented, Gordon Korman (800L) Jayne Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (780L) Jesse, Gary Soto (900L) Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (930L) Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare (NP) The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1170L) Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (1040L) Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult (780L) Killer Angels, Michael Shaara (610L) Killing Mr. Griffin, Lois Duncan (720L) King Lear, William Shakespeare (NP) King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard (1230L) Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (840L) Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver Larry and the Meaning of Life, Janet Tashjian (760L) Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv The Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger (900L) The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch Revised 6/29/20 The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Nathaniel Philbrick Life in the Fat Lane, Cherier Bennett (640L) Life of Pi, Yann Martel (830L) Lone Survivor, Marcus Lutrell Lord of the Flies, William Golding (770L) Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story, Douglas Preston Love that Dog, Sharon Creech (1010L) Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (890L) (for 10th-12th grade only) Macbeth, William Shakespeare (NP) Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (1030L) The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammet (760L) The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbruy (740L) Man Who Was Poe, Avi (600L) The Martian, Andy Weir (680L) Medea, Euripides (1000L) Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (1000L) Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (1380L) The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (670L) MeXican White Boy, Matt de la Pena (680L) Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie (1120L) Revised 6/29/20 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare (NP) Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli (510L) Mocking Jay, Suzanne Collins Monster, Walter Dean Myers (670L) The Mosquito Coast, Paul TherouX (720L) The Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto Guevara My Brother Sam is Dead, Christopher Collier (770L) My Forbidden Face, Latifa (970L) My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult (840L) Narrative of the Life of FD, Frederick Douglas (1080L) Native Son, Richard Wright (700L) Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi Night, Elie Wiesel (590L) Grade 11-12 A Night to Remember, Walter Lord (950L) Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult (890L) No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, SparkNotes Editors The Odyssey, Homer (1050L) Oedipus ReX, Sophocles (620L) Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (630L) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (1370L) On Target, Laura Rowley Revised 6/29/20 The Once and Future King, TH White (1080L) Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, Clifton L. Taulbert One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey (1110L) Othello, William Shakespeare (NP) The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore (990L) Our Town, Thornton Wilder (NP) Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell Parrot in the Oven, Victor Martinez (1000L) The Pearl, John Steinbeck (1010L) Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (920L) The Pigman, Paul Zindel (950L) The Plague, Albert Camus (1070L) Poe: Tales of Mystery and Terror, Edgar Allen Poe (1310L) Point Blank, Anthony Horowitz (610L) The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay (940L) Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1050L) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1100L) The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (1450L) The Princess Bride, William Goldman (870L) Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw (NP) The Quiet American, Graham Greene (800L) Revised 6/29/20 The Rag and Bone Shop, Robert Cormier (730L) A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry (NP) Rats Saw God, Rob Thomas (970L) Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (990L) Redcoats and Rebels, Christopher Hibert Right Behind You, Gail Giles (590L) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (670L) The Road to Character, David Brooks Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (GN – 530) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard (NP) Rumble Fish, S.E.
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