Novels for High School English Students

To prevent overlap in the use of novels that are studied in depth at each grade level, lists have been created. Novels have been chosen for each list because they have a connection to a specific subject at that grade level (i.e., social studies, science, etc), they are included in a grade level anthology or they are considered age appropriate for a particular grade level. The novels on these lists should not be used at other grade levels. Although students may choose to read a novel independently, the novels listed should not be used as novel sets, read alouds or used in literature circles. Bellingham High School Grade 9 Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare Braided Lives, An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy Children of the River, Linda Crew The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Into the Wild, John Krakauer Night, Elie Wiesel Grade 10/Grade 10 Honors To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan Macbeth, William Shakespeare Animal Farm, George Orwell Lord of the Flies, William Golding A Midsummer Night's Dream, William
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Sehome High School Grade 9 To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Dove, Robin Lee Graham I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Night, Elie Wiesel Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare Whirligig, Paul Fleischman

Squalicum High School Grade 9 Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy Children of the River, Linda Crew Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Night, Elie Wiesel The Pigman, Paul Zindel Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Grade 10/Grade 10 Honors Hamiltons Mythology, Edith Hamilton All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 1984, George Orwell Animal Farm, George Orwell A Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata The River Sutra, Gita Mehta

Grade 10/Grade 10 Honors 1984, George Orwell Animal Farm, George Orwell The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift Hamlet, William Shakespeare House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros Lord of the Flies, William Golding Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Novels for High School English Students, Page 2 Bellingham High School Sehome High School Grade 10/Grade 10 Honors (continued) Grade 10/Grade 10 Honors (continued) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Native Son, Richard Wright Beowulf, Anonymous trans. by M. Alexander Gullivers Travels, Johnathan Swift The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Everyman, Hugo von Hofmannsthal Seddhartha, Herman Hesse Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift Lord of the Flies, William Golding Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Hamlet, William Shakespeare Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy The Tempest, William Shakespeare Lord of the Flies, William Golding Shakespeare Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Squalicum High School Grade 10/Grade 10 Honors (continued) Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe Three Comedies of American Life, Joseph Mersand Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith A Walk Across America, Peter Jenkins A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw

Grades 11 and 12 1984, George Orwell The Things They Carried, Tim OBrien A Separate Peace, John Knowles Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe Elements of Style, Strunk and White Cats Eye, Margaret Atwood Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel A River Sutra, Gita Mehta One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Signet Classic Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World, an anthology of world literature The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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Grade 11/A.P. Language and Composition The Crucible, Arthur Miller The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Uncle Toms Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes are Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Moby Dick, Herman Melville Hamlet, William Shakespeare Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Black Boy, Richard Wright Grade 12 Everyman, Anonymous The Book of Job Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe

Grades 11 and 12 Autobiography of Malcolm X w/Alex Haley The Awakening, Kate Chopin Beloved, Toni Morrison Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Candide, Francois Voltaire Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Cats Eye, Margaret Atwood Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky The Crucible, Arthur Miller Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Novels for High School English Students, Page 3 Bellingham High School Sehome High School Grades 11 and 12 (continued) Grade 12/A.P. Literature and Composition: The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane Paradise Lost, John Milton The Crucible, Arthur Miller Inferno, Dante Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller No Exit, Jean Paul Sartra A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris The Merchant of Venice, William Obasan, Joy Kogawa Shakespeare Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson Othello, William Shakespeare Ricochet River, Robin Cody King Lear, William Shakespeare This Boys Life, Tobias Wolff The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Billy Budd, Herman Melville Craven Rhinoceros, Louise Martin Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Oedipus, Sophocles The Awakening, Kate Chopin The Stranger, Albert Camus Lysistrata, Aristophanes Antigone, Sophocles Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes The Merchant of Venice, William and An Epilogue, Bernard Shaw Shakespeare The Things They Carried, Tim OBrien Beloved, Toni Morrison Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka Othello, William Shakespeare The Bedford Reader, by St. Martins Press Readings for Writers: Student, ed. by Jo Ray McCuen Published by H.B.J. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Squalicum High School Grades 11 and 12 (continued) Giants In The Earth, O. E. Rolvaag The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad The Inferno, Dante Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel Macbeth, William Shakespeare The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury Medea, Euripides Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers Moby Dick, Herman Melville Obasan, Joy Kagawa The Odyssey, Homer Othello, William Shakespeare The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli Ricochet River, Robin Cody A River Sutra, Gita Mehta The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson The Stranger, Albert Camus Sula, Toni Morrison The Tempest, William Shakespeare Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston The Things They Carried, Tim OBrien This Boys Life, Tobias Wolff Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett A Wife for My Son, Ali Ghalem The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Antigone, Sophocles

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