Here is a suggested reading list for middle school and high school.

I. Common Core Suggested List

Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, and Range of Student Reading 612
Literature: Stories, Dramas Texts: Literary Nonfiction
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869)( good read for 9th,10th,11th)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915)
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973)( recommend for 9
th
)
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (1975)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (1976)(MS)
Letter on Thomas Jefferson by John Adams (1776)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by
Frederick Douglass (1845)( recommended for 11
th
)
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th,
1940 by Winston Churchill (1940)
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann
Petry (1955)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (1962)
910
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1592)
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (1906)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)( recommended for 10
th
)
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry (1775)
Farewell Address by George Washington (1796)
Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln (1863)
State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1941)
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)
Hope, Despair and Memory by Elie Wiesel (1997)
11
CCR
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (1820)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront (1848)recommended 12th
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (1890) (recommended 11
th
)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)recommended 12
th
and 11th
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)(MS)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)(HS)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)(HS)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)(HS)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)(HS)
Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857)(HS)
The Fallacy of Success by G. K. Chesterton (1909)
Black Boy by Richard Wright (1945)(recommended for 9
th
and MS
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell (1946)

Take the Tortillas Out( Middle School)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)( Middle School)
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (1906)(Middle School)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry (1775)(HS)
Farewell Address by George Washington (1796)
Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln (1863)(HS)
State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1941)
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)(MS and HS)
Hope, Despair and Memory by Elie Wiesel (1997)
11
CCR
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (1820)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront (1848)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (1890) (Middle School)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) (recommended 11
th
)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) ( recommended 9
th
)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857)
The Fallacy of Success by G. K. Chesterton (1909)
Black Boy by Richard Wright (1945)
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell (1946)


II. Books suggested by English Teachers and the Media Specialist
Key
(MS) Middle School
(HS) High School
POPULAR READS
Goodbye Amanda the Good by Susan Shreve (HS)
Denim Diaries Series by Darrien Lee (HS and MS Girls)
Bluford High Series (HS and MS Boys)
The White House Boys by Roger Dean Kiser (HS)
Stolen Innocence by Erin Merryn( HS: Seniors)
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (HS and MS)
Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (HS and MS)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (MS)
The Watson Go to Birmingham -1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (MS)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (MS)
The Body by Stephen King (MS)
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (MS)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ( MS)
A Confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole (MS)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (MS and HS)
The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton (HS and MS)
Night by Elie Wiesel (HS and MS)
The Drama High Series by L.Divine (HS)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker(HS)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller(HS)
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Maylor (HS)


POPULARS AUTHORS
Books by Chris Crutcher (HS)
Athletic Shorts Six Short Stories
Ironman
Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes
Books by Suzanne Collins (HS and MS)
Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Books by Sharon Draper( HS and MS)
Tears of a Tiger
Forged By Fire
Darkness Before Dawn
Romiette and Julio
Double Dutch
The Battle of Jericho
Copper Sun
Books with a Math Connection (recommended by Mr. Marcus Oubre and Jane Schexnayder)(HS and MS)
Money Ball
The Life of Pie
Books by Rachel Cohn (HS and MS)
Cupcake
Shrimp
Gingerbread
Books by Walter Dean Myers ( HS and MS)
Slam
Monster
Fallen Angles
Kick
Riot
The Cruisers
Game

POPULARS GENRES
Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Hickhikers Guide to the Galaxy;Life, the Universe and Everything; and The restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas
Adams
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
The Martian Chronicals by Ray Bradbury
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Warrior Heir Series by Cinda Williams Chima
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Clark

Biography and Autobiography
I know why the Bird Cage Sings by Maya Angelou
Warriors Dont Cry by Melba Beals
Manchild in the Promise Land by Claude Brown
Alone by Richard E. Byrd
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Historical Fiction
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
A Gathering of Days by John Blos
When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Graphic Novels
Bleach by Tite Kubo
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakaw
Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto