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9TH GRADE READING LIST

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COLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS

SUGGESTED READING LIST

Author
FICTION
Adams, Douglas

Author
FICTION
Agee, James

Title

Anthony, Piers
Archer, Jules
Arthur, Ruth M.
Bauer, Joan
Baumann, H.
Beatty, Patricia

Through the Ice

To Save the Earth
The Saracen Lamp
Hope Was Here
World of the Pharoahs
I Want My Sunday Stranger

Bolton, Carole
Bond, Nancy
Bontemps, Arna
Bradbury, Bianca

Never Jam Today

A String in the Harp
Chariot in the Sky
I'm Vinny, I'm Me

Brust, Steven

Vlad Taltos Series

Capote, T.
Cather, Willa
Clancy, Tom

The Grass Harp

Death Comes for the
Archbishop
Clear and Present Danger

Clancy, Tom

The Hunt for Red October

Clarke, Arthur C.
Coleman, Penny

Childhood's End
Rosie the Riveter

Cook, Karin

What Girls Learn

Cooper, Michael L.
Covington, Dennis
Crichton, Michael

The Double V Campaign

Lizard
Jurassic Park

Dash, Julie
Deuker, Carl
Diamante, A.

Daughters of the Dust

Night Hoops
The Red Tent

Austin, Jane
Baldwin, James
Cather, Willa
Clarke, Arthur C.
Daly, Maureen
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Du Maurier,Daphne
Dumas, Alexandre
Dumas, Alexandre
Eliot, George
Heller, Joseph
Hemingway, Ernest
Lewis, C.S.
O'Brien, Tim
Kingsolver, Barbara
McCarthy, Cormac
Paton, Alan
Scott
Steinbeck, John

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Toole, John Kennedy
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Verne, J.
Verne, J.
Vonnegut, Kurt
Warren, Robert Penn
White, T. H.
Wilder, Thornton
Wolf, Tom
Yan, Martel
BIOGRAPHY
Dinesen, Isak

Title
A Hitchiker's Guide to the
Galaxy series
Emma
Go Tell It on the Mountain
My Antonia
2001, A Space Odyssey
Seventeenth Summer
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Rebecca
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Silas Marner
Catch 22
A Farewell to Arms
Green Hills of Africa
The Screwtape Letters
The Things They Carried
The Poisonwood Bible
The Road
Cry, the Beloved Country
Ivanhoe
The Pearl - included in The
Short Novels of John
Steinbeck
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court
Prince and the Pauper
Journey to the Center of the
Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues
under the Sea
Slaughterhouse Five
All the Kings Men
The Once and Future King
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Right Stuff
The Life of Pi

Out of Africa

A Death in the Family

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9TH GRADE READING LIST

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LIST FOR
COLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS

SUGGESTED READING LIST

Author
Hagedorn, Hermann

Author
Ferber, E.

Title
Giant

Flake, Sharon G.

Money Hungry

Forman, James
Haley, Alex

My Enemy, My Brother
Mama Flora's Family: A Novel

Hamill, Pete

Snow in August

Henry, Will
Hogan, Linda
Kay, Terry
Kerr, M. E.
Knowles
Llewellyn
Mailer, Norman
Malvern, Gladys
McCarthy, Cormac
McCullars

Summer of the Gun

Power
The Runaway
Linger
Peace Breaks Out
How Green was My Valley
The Executioner's Song
Behold Your Queen
The Road
Member of the Wedding

Means, Florence C.
Myers, Walter Dean
Myers, Walter Dean
Peck, Richard

Our Cup is Broken

Monster
Slam!
Father Figure

Plum-Ucci, Carol

The Body of Christopher Creed

Potok, C.
Regis
Robertson
Steinbeck, John

The Chosen
Virus Ground Zero
Survive the Savage Sea
The Acts of King Arthur and
His Noble Knights
The Crystal Cave ( included in
Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy)

Hill, Christine M.
Keller, Helen
Markham, Beryl
Stuart, Jesse

Title
The Roosevelt Family of
Sagamore Hill
Langston Hughes: Poet of the
Harlem Renaissance
Story of My Life
West With the Night

Thurber, James
Washington, Booker T.

The Thread That Runs So

True
My Life and Hard Times
Up from Slavery

NON-FICTION
Hamilton, Edith
Hamilton, Edith
Heyerdahl, Thor

The Greek Way

The Roman Way
Kon-Tiki

Ji Li Jang
Mowat, F.
Rawlings, Marjorie
White, E. B.
Holy Bible

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir or

the Cultural Revolution
Never Cry Wolf
Cross Creek
Essays of E.B. White
Any four books from either the
Old or New Testament, not
previously read, may be read
for one book

Stewart, Mary

Stewart, Mary

Stone, I.
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Teller, Astro
Velmans, Edith
Verne, J.

The Last Enchantment (

included in Mary Stewart's
Merlin Trilogy)
The Great Treasure
Any of her books
Exegesis
Edith's Story
The Mysterious Land

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Author

Author
Wallace, Lew
Walker, Alice
Wells
Wilder, Thornton
Wilson, Budge

Title

Title
Ben-Hur
The Color Purple
Time Machine
The Ides of March
The Leaving

BIOGRAPHY
Chute, Marcette
Dareff, Hal
Forbes, Kathryn
Gallant, Roy A.
Goodall, Jane
Hawthorne,
Hildegarde
Landon, Margaret
Lewis, David L.
Manley, Seon

Shakespeare of London
Jacqueline Kennedy
Mama's Bank Account
Charles Darwin, The Making of
a Scientist
In the Shadow of the Man
Romantic Rebel

Anna and the King of Siam

King: A Critical Biography
Dorothy and William
Wordsworth
Morrison, N. Brysson Haworth Harvest: The Story of
the Brontes
O'Donnell, Kenneth Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye:
Memories of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
Payne, Robert
Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
Sprague, Rosemary Forever in Joy
Twain, Mark
Roughing It
NON-FICTION
Abbott, Edwin A.
Adams, Ansel
Ashe, Geoffrey
Berlitz, Charles
Bontemps, Arna
Burke, James
Wakefield
Delassus, Jean
Francois
Gould, Stephen Jay
Hall-Quest, Olga

Flatland
Ansel Adams: An
Autobiography
The Discovery of King Arthur
Bermuda Triangle
Story of the Negro
Missions of Old Texas
The Japanese
An Urchin in the Storm
Old New Orleans, the Creole
City

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Author

Author
Hamilton, Virginia

Title

Title
Alabama: A Bicentennial
History
Heuer, Kenneth
Thunder, Singing Sands, and
Other Wonders
Charles and Emma: The
Heiligman, Deborah Darwins' Leap of Faith
Heyerdahl, Thor
Aku-Aku
Hoose, Phillips
Claudette Colvin: Twice
Toward Justice
Keith, Agnes Newton Children of Allah
Massie, Robert
McDonald, A.H.
McKee, Alexander
Noble, Iris
Orlob, Helen
Peissel, Michel

Peter the Great

Republican Rome
Farming the Sea
Treasure of the Caves (Dead
Sea Scrolls)
Mountain Rescues
The Great Himalayan Passage

Peltier, Leslie C.

Guideposts to the Stars