High School Major Works Reading List
Fall 2011
Putnam City High School
Grade 9
Title/Author
Ender’s Game/Card
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
The Odyssey/Homer
The Iliad/Homer
The Plays of Sophocles
To Kill a Mockingbird/Lee
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare
Grade 10
Title/Author
Alas, Babylon/Frank
Animal Farm/Orwell
The Bean Tree/Kingsolver
Bless Me, Ultima/Anaya
Cold Sassy Tree/Burns
Cry, the Beloved Country/Paton
A Separate Peace/Knowles
Pygmalion/Shaw
Cyrano de Bergerac/Rostand
Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
The Holocaust Reader
Grade 11
Title/Author
As I Lay Dying/Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Twain
Asian American Writers
The Awakening/Chopin
Founding a Nation
The Grapes of Wrath/Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby/Fitzgerald
The Harlem Renaissance
The House on Mango Street/Cisneros
In Cold Blood/Capote
Latino Writers in the U.S.
A Lesson Before Dying/Gaines
A Raisin in the Sun/Hansberry
The Red Badge of Courage/Crane
The Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne
Tales of Mystery and Terror/Poe
Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
Walden/Thoreau
Grade 12
Title/Author
The Aeneid/ Virgil
And Then There Were None/Christie
Frankenstein/Shelley
Hamlet/Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness/Conrad
Jane Eyre/Bronte
1984/Orwell
Pride and Prejudice/Austen
A Tale of Two Cities/Dickens
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales/Chaucer
Grendel/Gardner
The Inferno/Dante Alighieri
Life of Pi/Mantel
The Lord of the Flies/Golding
A Passage to India/Forester
Macbeth/Shakespeare
Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells
The Great Plague
The Picture of Dorian Gray/Wilde
Queen Elizabeth Selected Works
Putnam City North High School
Grade 9
Title/Author
Night/Weisel
To Kill A Mockingbird/Lee
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare
The Odyssey/Homer
Jane Eyre/Bronte
Great Expectations/Dickens
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/Stevenson
A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Shakespeare
Animal Farm/Orwell
Speak/Anderson
Fahrenheit451/Bradbury
Grade 10
Title/Author
The Count of Monte Cristo/Dumas
A Separate Peace/Knowles
Tuesdays with Morrie/Albom
Antigone/Sophocles
Othello /Shakespeare
Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew/Shakespeare
Twelve Angry Men/Rose
All Quiet on the Western Front/Remarque
Candide/Voltaire
Cyrano de Bergerac/Rostand
Lord of the Flies/Golding
Things Fall Apart/Achebe
Grade 11
Title/Author
The Crucible/Miller
Of Mice and Men/Steinbeck
The Awakening/Chopin
Beloved/Morrison
The Great Gatsby/Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye/Salinger
In Cold Blood/Capote
Bean Trees/Kingsolver
The Narrative of an American Slave/ Douglass
Fast Food Nation/Schlosser
Into the Wild/Krakauer
Grade 12
Title/Author
Angela’s Ashes/McCourt
Pride and Prejudice/Austen
Wuthering Heights/Bronte
Brave New World/Huxley
1984/Orwell
The Lovely Bones/Seebold
The Chosen/Potok
Frankenstein/Shelley
Rebecca/DuMaurier
Beowulf
Hamlet /Shakespeare
King Lear/Shakespeare
Canterbury Tales/Chaucer
The Poisonwood Bible/Kingsolver
Oedipus Rex/Sophocles
The Stranger/Camus
Grendel/Gardner
Macbeth/Shakespeare
Cat’s Cradle/Vonnegut
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin/de Bernieres
Crime and Punishment/Dostoyevsky
Lysistrata/Aristophanes
Inferno/Dante
A Portrait of an Artist/Joyce
Purple Hibiscus/Adichie
Heart of Darkness/Conrad
Putnam City West High School
Grade 9
Title/Author
Bean Trees/Kingsolver
Contender/Lipsyte
Ender’s Game/Card
Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury
Great Expectations/Dickens
Hobbit/Tolkien
Odyssey/Homer
Old Man and the Sea/Hemingway
Romiette & Julio/Draper
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare
Separate Peace/Knowles
Tex/Hinton
To Kill a Mockingbird/Lee
Grade 10
Title/Author
Anthem/Rand
Antigone/Sophocles
Bless Me, Ultima/Anaya
Chocolate Wars/Cormier
Cry the Beloved Country/Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac/Rostand
House on Mango Street/Cisneros
Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
Midsummer Night’s Dream/Shakespeare
My Name is Asher Lev/Potok
Night/Wiesel
Secret Life of Bees, The/Kidd
Separate Peace, A/Knowles
Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
Things Fall Apart/Achebe
When the Legends Die/Borland
Grade 11
Title/Author
Adventures of Huck Finn/Twain
All the King’s Men/Warren
Book of Virtues/Bennett
Cold Sassy Tree/Burns
The Color of Water/McBride
The Crucible/Miller
Fallen Angels/Myers
Farewell to Arms/Hemingway
Farewell to Manzanar/Houston
Friday Night Lights/Bissinger
Going After Cacciato/O’Brien
Grapes of Wrath/Steinbeck
Great Gatsby/Fitzgerald
Hatter Fox/Harris
Hiroshima/Hersey
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/Angelou
In Cold Blood/Capote
Invisible Man/Ellison
Light in the Forest/Richter
My Antonia/Cather
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail/Lawrence and Lee
Of Mice and Men/Steinbeck
Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne
Speak/Anderson
Time Machine and War of the Worlds/Wells
Tuesdays with Morrie/Albom
Walden/Thoreau
Grade 12
Title/Author
1984/Orwell
And Then There Were None/Christie
The Awakening/Chopin
Count of Monte Cristo/Dumas
Crime and Punishment/Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield/Dickens
Dracula/Stoker
Dubliners/Joyce
Frankenstein/Shelley
Grendel/Gardner
Gulliver’s Travels/Swift
Hamlet/Shakespeare
Handmaid’s Tale/Atwood
Heart of Darkness/Conrad
Jane Eyre/Bronte
Lord of the Flies/Golding
Macbeth/Shakespeare
Metamorphosis/Kafka
Of Human Bondage/Maugham
Once and Future King/White
Portrait of an Artist/Joyce
Pride and Prejudice/Austen
Tale of Two Cities/Dickens
Tess of the D’Urbervilles/Hardy
Three Musketeers/Dumas
Wuthering Heights/Bronte
Putnam City Academy
Grade 9
Title/Author
The Odyssey/Homer
To Kill a Mockingbird/Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare
Night/Weisel (only 5 copies)
Outsiders/Hinton
The Last Book in the Universe/Rodman Philbrick
Bronx Masquerade/Nikki Grimes
We Beat the Street/Davis, Jenkins & Hunt
Grade 10
Title/Author
Cold Sassy Tree/Burns
Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
The Secret Life of Bees/Sue Monk Kidd
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café/Flagg
Tuesdays with Morrie/Albom
Midsummer Night’s Dream/Shakespeare
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/Angelou
Night Thoreau Spent In Jail Lawrence and Lee
Various Pieces by Langston Hughes
Grade 11
Title/Author
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Twain
The Great Gatsby/Fitzgerald
In Cold Blood/Capote
The Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne
Invisible Man/Ellison
The Crucible/Miller
The Things They Carried/O’Brien
Walden/Thoreau
The Harlem Renaissance
Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
Grade 12
Title/Author
Frankenstein/Shelley
Dracula/Stoker
Hamlet/Shakespeare
1984/Orwell
Beowulf
Excerpt from Grendel/Gardner
The Canterbury Tales/Chaucer
The Lord of the Flies/Golding
Macbeth/Shakespeare