Reading List from the Alabama College and Career Readiness Standards (2011)
Grades 6–8 Text Exemplars
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
Churchill, Winston. “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940.”
Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Fletcher, Louise. Sorry, Wrong Number
Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett. The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist.
Isaacson, Phillip. A Short Walk through the Pyramids and through the World of Art
Katz, John. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho from the Big Bang to the Big
Crunch
L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time
Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember
Macaulay, David. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
Mackay, Donald. The Building of Manhattan
Monk, Linda R. Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire
Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Paterson, Katherine. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Peterson, Ivar and Nancy Henderson. Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone
Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black Ships before Troy: The Story of the Iliad.
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings
Please note:
 The library does not have all of these books, especially the non-fiction titles and the newer
fiction titles. If a student is interested in a particular book, Mrs. Page will make every effort to
obtain it. Please do not wait until the last minute, as it may have to be ordered.
 The books with asterisks (*) next to them have known controversial content.
 Mrs. Page has not read all of the books on the list; this list is published by the State Department
of Education. There are many worthwhile books that did not make the list, and you are
welcome to submit suggestions.
 Books that will be read as a class, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and The
Canterbury Tales, have been deleted from the list.
 For content reviews, please visit http://amazon.com or http://publishersweekly.com
Reading List from the Alabama College and Career Readiness Standards (2011)
Grades 9–10 Text Exemplars
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies
*Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Connell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Dash, Joan. The Longitude Prize
Devlin, Keith. Life by the Numbers.
Euclid. Elements
Gombrich, E. H. The Story of Art, 16th Edition
Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
Haskins, Jim. Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War
Homer. The Iliad
Hoose, Phillip. The Race to Save Lord God Bird
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House
Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis
Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Mann, Charles C. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
Nicastro, Nicholas. Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe
*Ovid. Metamorphoses
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club
Thompson, Wendy. The Illustrated Book of Great Composers
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/U.S. Department of Energy. Recommended Levels of Insulation
Voltaire, F. A. M. Candide, or The Optimist
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie
Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief
Please note:
 The library does not have all of these books, especially the non-fiction titles and the newer
fiction titles. If a student is interested in a particular book, Mrs. Page will make every effort to
obtain it. Please do not wait until the last minute, as it may have to be ordered.
 The books with asterisks (*) next to them have known controversial content.
 Mrs. Page has not read all of the books on the list; this list is published by the State Department
of Education. There are many worthwhile books that did not make the list, and you are
welcome to submit suggestions.
 Books that will be read as a class, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and The
Canterbury Tales, have been deleted from the list.
 For content reviews, please visit http://amazon.com or http://publishersweekly.com
Reading List from the Alabama College and Career Readiness Standards (2011)
Grades 11-12 Text Exemplars
Amar, Akhil Reed. America’s Constitution: A Biography
An American Primer. Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Calishain, Tara, and Rael Dornfest. Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching, 2nd Edition
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying
FedViews by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms
*Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake
McCullough, David. 1776
McPherson, James M. What They Fought For 1861–1865
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor
Mencken, H. L. The American Language, 4th Edition
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye
Paulos, John Allen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America
U.S. General Services Administration. Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental,
Energy, and Transportation Management
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
*Wright, Richard. Black Boy
Please note:
 The library does not have all of these books, especially the non-fiction titles and the newer
fiction titles. If a student is interested in a particular book, Mrs. Page will make every effort to
obtain it. Please do not wait until the last minute, as it may have to be ordered.
 The books with asterisks (*) next to them have known controversial content.
 Mrs. Page has not read all of the books on the list; this list is published by the State Department
of Education. There are many worthwhile books that did not make the list, and you are
welcome to submit suggestions.
 Books that will be read as a class, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and The
Canterbury Tales, have been deleted from the list.
 For content reviews, please visit http://amazon.com or http://publishersweekly.com