ABCUSD CORE LITERATURE LIST 11 11TH GRADE REQUIRED READING TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger YAF/ AF
RECOMMENDED READING TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain AF / JF And the Earth Did Not Devour Him* Tomas Rivera Black Boy Richard Wright BIOG The Crucible Arthur Miller PS / 3525 / I5156 / C7 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller PS / 3525 / I5156 / D4 Family J. California Cooper AF First Confession Montserrat Fontes AF The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck AF / YAF The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald YAF / AF Hunger of Memory* Richard Rodriguez The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan AF / YAF Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill PS / 3529 / N5 / L6 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway YAF / JF One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey AF / YAF Our Town Thornton Wilder YA PAPERBACK The Plum Plum Pickers* Raymond Barrio A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry PS / 3515 / A515 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane YAF / JF The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne YAF / AF Thousand Pieces of Gold Ruthanne Lum McCann AF
EXTENDED WORKS Act One Moss Hart BIOG All My Sons* Arthur Miller An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser YAF / Paperback The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton YAF The Assistant Bernard Malamud YAF Babbitt Sinclair Lewis YAF / AF A Bell for Adano John Hersey YAF / AF The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath YAF / AF Black Elk Speaks* John Neihardt The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder YAF / AF Catch 22 Joseph Heller YAF / AF
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11TH GRADE EXTENDED WORKS (CONT'D) TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION Children of a Lesser God Mark Medoff PS / 3563 / E27 / C47 Confederate General from Big Sur* Richard Brautigan Daisy Miller Henry James AF / YAPB The Dollmaker Harriet Arnow YAF Dove Robin Graham G / 530 / G5997 and L.T. Gill East of Eden John Steinbeck AF / YAF Ethan Frome Edith Wharton AF / YAF Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers YA Paperback Fences August Wilson PN / 6112 / B47 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway AF / YAF Friendly Persuasion* Jessamyn West The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams PS / 3545 / I5365 / G5 The Great Santini* Pat Conroy Hotel New Hampshire John Irving AF / PAPERBACK I Never Sang for My Father* Robert Anderson In Cold Blood Truman Capote HV/6533/K3/C37 PAPERBACK Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence PS / 3523 / A934 / I6 and R.E. Lee The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison YAF / AF / SCI FICT J.B. Archibald MacLeish PS / 3525 / A27 / J2 The Jungle Upton Sinclair AF / YAF The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry LARGE PRINT Light in August William Faulkner AF / YAF The Listening Woman Tony Hillerman PAPERBACK Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe BIOG The Magician of Lublin* Isaac Singer Main Street Sinclair Lewis AF The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett A MYST / YAF The Masscacre at Fall Creek* Jessamyn West The Matchmaker Thornton Wilder PS / 3545 / I345 / A6 Moby Dick Herman Melville AF / JF
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11TH GRADE EXTENDED WORKS (CONT'D) TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION My Antonia Willa Cather YAF / AF The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain YAF / AF Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe YAF / AF Native Son Richard Wright AF / YAF The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Jerome Lawrence PS / 3523 / A934 / N5 and R.E. Lee No No Boy John Okada AF Ordinary People Judith Guest YAF Plaza Suite* Neil Simon The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain A MYSTERY The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain YAF / AF / JF The Prisoner of Second Avenue Neil Simon PN / 6112 / B47 Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie AF Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser YAF /AF/ PBK Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut YAF / AF Sophie’s Choice William Styron YAF / AF The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner YAF / AF Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein YAF / Adult SF / PBK Street Car Named Desire Tennessee Williams PS / 3545 / I5365 / S8 Studs Lonigan James T. Farrell AF Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston AF / YAF The Thurber Carnival James Thurber PS / 3539 / H74 / A6 Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck AF / YAF Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana G/ 540 / D2 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson PS / 350 / N4 / W5 AF A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris AF You Can’t Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe AF Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X BIOG
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