NCTE recommends the YA Novels below. The Knife of Never Letting Go. (Book One of the Chaos Walking Pieces by Chris Lynch Series) by Patrick Ness A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Life of Pie by Yann Martel The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez by Alan Sitomer I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner Tyler Johnson was Here by Jay Coles The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder Refugee by Alan Gratz Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick The Tempest by William Shakespeare The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Tradition by Brendan Kiely Monster by Walter Dean Myers To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Nothing But the Truth by Avi The Uglies series by Scott Westerfield The Odyssey by Homer Dear Martin by Nic Stone I am Alfonso Jones by Toney Medina The Pact by Davis and Jenkins Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clark GRADE 11 The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1776 by David McCullough Incognegro by Mat Johnson Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Goodbye Days by Jeff Zenter The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd An Island Like You by Judith Ortiz Cofer A Separate Peace by John Knowles Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Other reading booklists can be found here They Had a Dream by Jules Archer Johnson The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Black Boy by Richard Wright https://ncte.org/blog/category/booklists/ ___________________________________________ The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton GRADE 10 The Color Purple by Alice Walker Columbine by Dave Cullen This list can be used to guide you as you select All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Crucible by Auther Miller books for summer reading. Ask your librarian for Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates Devil in the White City by Erik Larson help in locating these and other good books. This Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton list offers a wide range of literature which differs in Beowulf Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams subject matter, reading level, and sophistication. Blindness by Jose Saramago Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Not all books are appropriate for all students. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Parents may want to participate in the selection Boy 21 by Mathew Quick Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton process. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman Copper Sun by Sharon Draper The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams GRADE 9 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Crown of Midnight by Sarah Maas The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck by Sherman Alexie David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Hold Still by Nina LaCour All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot by E. Lockhart I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Animal Farm by George Orwell Dracula by Bram Stoker Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Archived by Victoria Schwab The End Games by Martin T. Michael Jesse by Gary Soto The Awakening by Kate Chopin A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Band of Angels by Julian F. Thompson Ferris Beach by Jill Mcorkle Kindness for Weakness by Shawn Goodman Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Grimes Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Begging for Change by Sharon Flake The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Light in August/As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Hamlet by William Shakespeare Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman Call of the Wild by Jack Londaon The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Children of the River by Linda Crew The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Copper Sun by Sharon Draper Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs The Natural by Bernard Malamud Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Old Man and Sea by Ernest Hemingway David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Invisible Man by H. G. Wells The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell Julius Caesar/ Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Out of Dust by Karen Hesse Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Paper Towns by John Green Every Day by David Levithan Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Fallen Angels by Walter D. Myers A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines Roots by Alex Haley Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Fault in our Stars by John Green The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt A Separate Peace by John Knowles Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin River Secrets by Shannon Hale The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Moby Dick by Herman Melville The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells I am the Messenger/ The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by Gregory Neri Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Othello by William Shakespeare NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS GRADE 12 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS 100 Days of Cake by Shari Goldhagen 1984 by George Orwell The Accidental Tourist/Saint Maybe by Ann Tyler Dr. Adale M. Martin, After by Amy Efaw Chair The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho The American Reader Beloved by Toni Morrison Mr. Rodney Jordan, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Vice Chair Boot Camp by Todd Strasser Brave New World by Aldous Huxley SUGGESTED The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Ms. Tanya K. Bhasin Catch 22 by Joseph Heller SUMMER READING Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier The Color of Water by James McBride Ms. Lauren D. Campsen GRADES 9-12 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dreaming in Cuban by Christina Garcia Mr. Carlos Clanton A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen 2021 Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Dr. Noelle Gabriel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Ms. Christine Smith In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare July’s People by Nadine Gordimer Dr. Sharon I. Byrdsong King Lear by Julius Caesar Superintendent Macbeth by William Shakespeare Meridian by Alice Walker Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Dr. James Pohl The Millstone by Margaret Drabble Chief Academic Officer My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth Mr. Bruce W. Brady Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Executive Director, Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick Curriculum and Instruction Paths to Peace by Jane Berskin Zalben A Portrait of the Artist… by James Joyce Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Mrs. Gwen P. Collins Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Senior Coordinator, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut English 2021-2022 Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence Virginia Readers’ Choice The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare The Tempest by William Shakespeare Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi A Thousand Splendid Sons by Khaled Hosseini DISTRIBUTED BY THE Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells NPS ENGLISH OFFICE Frankly in Love by David Yoon Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jackpot by Nic Stone Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming Students who read at least 14.2 minutes Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley every day become better readers!! With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo .