High School Major Works Reading List
Spring 2006
(Note: Not all teachers do all pieces.)
Putnam City High School
Grade 9
Title/Author
Ender’s Game/Card
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
The Odyssey/Homer
To Kill a Mockingbird/Lee
A Tale of Two Cities/Dickens
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare
Grade 10
Title/Author
Animal Farm/Orwell
Bless Me, Ultima/Anaya
Cold Sassy Tree/Burns
Cry, the Beloved Country/Paton
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich/Solzhenitsyn
A Separate Peace/Knowles
Pygmalion/Shaw
Cyrano de Bergerac/Rostand
Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
Grade 11
Title/Author
As I Lay Dying/Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Twain
The Awakening/Chopin
The Grapes of Wrath/Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby/Fitzgerald
The House on Mango Street/Cisneros
The Red Badge of Courage/Crane
The Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne
Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
Walden/Thoreau
Grade 12
Title/Author
The Aeneid/ Virgil
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
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
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
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
In Cold Blood/Capote
Beloved/Morrison
Fast Food Nation/Schlosser
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
Dubliners/Joyce
Things Fall Apart/Achebe
Lysistrata/Aristophanes
Inferno/Dante
The Poisonwood Bible/Kingsolver
A Portrait of an Artist/Joyce
Putnam City West High School
Grade 9
Title/Author
A Day No Pigs Would Die/Peck
Bean Trees/Kingsolver
Call of the Wild/London
Ender’s Game/Card
Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury
Great Expectations/Dickens
Hobbit/Tolkien
Odyssey/Homer
Old Man and the Sea/Hemingway
Outsiders/Hinton
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare
Separate Peace/Knowles
Tex/Hinton
To Kill a Mockingbird/Lee
Grade 10
Title/Author
Anthem/Rand
Auto of Miss Jane Pittman/Gains
Black Like Me/Griffin
Bless Me, Ultima/Anaya
Cry the Beloved Country/Paton
Fellowship of the Ring/Tolkien
Glory Field/Myers
Hiding Place/ten Boom
House on Mango Street/Cisneros
I Heard the Owl Call My Name/Craven
Ivanhoe/Scott
Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
Lilies of the Field/Barrett
Freak, the MightyPhilbrock
Jungle/Sinclair
Midsummer Night’s Dream/Shakespeare
My Name is Asher Lev/Potok
Night/Wiesel
Picture Bride/Uchida
Sword in the Stone/White
Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
When the Legends Die/Borland
Grade 11
Title/Author
Adventures of Huck Finn/Twain
All the King’s Men/Warren
Animal Dreams/Kingsolver
Animal Farm/Orwell
Cold Sassy Tree/Burns
The Color of Water/McBride
The Crucible/Miller
Ethan Frome/Wharton
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
Good Earth/Buck
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
Scarlet Letter/Hawthorne
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