Fiction and Non-Fiction
Title Author
Things Fall Apart .............................................................................. .................... Achebe, Chinua
Bless Me, Ultima .................................................................................................... Anaya, Rudolfo
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ......................................................................... Angelou, Maya
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life ................................................. Armstrong, Lance
Days of Grace ........................................................................................................ Ashe, Arthur
Growing Up ........................................................................................................... Baker, Russell
Forbidden City ...................................................................................................... Bell, William
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream ............................................. Bissinger, H D
My Antonia ............................................................................................................ Cather, Willa
And Then There Were None ................................................................................... Christie, Agatha
Shogun .................................................................................................................. Clavell, James
Heart of Darkness ................................................................................................. Conrad, Joseph
After the First Death .............................................................................................. Cormier, Robert
Maggie: Girl of the Streets .................................................................................... Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage ................................................................................... Crane, Stephen
Tale of Two Cities ................................................................................................. Dickens, Charles
Yellow Raft in Blue Water ...................................................................................... Dorris, Michael
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass ............................................................ Douglass, Frederick
Hound of the Baskervilles ...................................................................................... Doyle, Arthur Conan
Silas Marner ......................................................................................................... Elliott, George
As I Lay Dying ...................................................................................................... Faulkner, William
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter Street ....................................................................... Ford, Jamie
Waiting for the Rain .............................................................................................. Gordon, Sheila
Black Like Me ........................................................................................................ Griffin, John Howard
Roots ..................................................................................................................... Haley, Alex
Color of the Sea ..................................................................................................... Hamamura, John
Tess of the D’Urbervilles ....................................................................................... Hardy, Thomas
Pentimento ............................................................................................................ Hellman, Lillian
A Farewell to Arms ............................................................................................... Hemingway, Ernest
The Snows of Kilimanjaro ..................................................................................... Hemingway, Ernest
Lés Miserables ...................................................................................................... Hugo, Victor
Dust Tracks on a Road ........................................................................................... Hurston, Zora Neale
The Kite Runner ..................................................................................................... Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns ..................................................................................... Hosseini, Khaled
A Time to Speak ..................................................................................................... Jackson, Jesse
The Lottery ............................................................................................................ Jackson, Shirley
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ............................................................... Joyce, James
Profiles in Courage ............................................................................................... Kennedy, John F
Ironweed ............................................................................................................... Kennedy, William
The Secret Life of Bees ........................................................................................... Kidd, Sue Monk
Stride Toward Freedom ......................................................................................... King, Martin Luther
A Separate Peace ................................................................................................... Knowles, John
Dark Child ............................................................................................................ Laye, Camara
Call of the Wild ...................................................................................................... London, Jack
The Prince ............................................................................................................. Machiavelli, Niccolo
A Death in Venice ................................................................................................. Mann, Thomas
Life of Pi ................................................................................................................ Martel, Yann
Nicholas and Alexandra ......................................................................................... Massie, Robert
Color of Water ....................................................................................................... McBride, James
All the Pretty Horses ............................................................................................. McCarthy, Cormac
The Road ................................................................................................................ McCarthy, Cormac
Moby Dick ............................................................................................................. Melville, Herman
Blue Highways ....................................................................................................... Moon, William Least Heat
Song of Solomon ................................................................................................... Morrison, Toni
The Power of Myth ................................................................................................ Moyers, Bill
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World ............................ Myron, Vicki and Bret Witter
1984 ....................................................................................................................... Orwell, George
Animal Farm .......................................................................................................... Orwell, George
The Vampire Archives ............................................................................................ Penzlo, Otto
GRADE
9
Independent
Reading
List

Cry the Beloved Country ....................................................................................... Paton, Alan
A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck, ........................................................................... Robert Newton
All Quiet on the Western Front .............................................................................. Remarque, Erich Maria
My Day ................................................................................................................... Roosevelt, Eleanor
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society..................................................... Schaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ..................................................................................... Smith, Betty
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch ................................................................ Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr
When You Reach Me .............................................................................................. Stead, Rebecca
Grapes of Wrath ..................................................................................................... Steinbeck, John
The Pearl ............................................................................................................... Steinbeck, John
The Joy Luck Club ................................................................................................. Tan, Amy
Hard Times ............................................................................................................ Terkel, Studs
The Good Thief ...................................................................................................... Tinti, Hannah
Walden ................................................................................................................... Thoreau, Henry David
The Guns of August ................................................................................................ Tuchman, Barbara W
Fathers and Sons ................................................................................................... Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich
Rabbit Run ............................................................................................................. Updike, John
Exodus .................................................................................................................... Uris, Leon
Slaughterhouse Five............................................................................................... Vonnegut, Kurt
Sweeping Up Glass ................................................................................................ Wall, Carolyn
Ethan Frome .......................................................................................................... Edith Wharton
Black Boy ............................................................................................................... Wright, Richard
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .......................................................................... Adams, Douglas
Watership Down .................................................................................................... Adams, Richard
The Handmaid’s Tale ............................................................................................. Atwood, Margaret
I Robot .................................................................................................................. Azimov, Isaac
Dandylion Wine ..................................................................................................... Bradbury, Ray
The Illustrated Man ............................................................................................... Bradbury, Ray
Jurassic Park ........................................................................................................ Crichton, Michael
The Princess Bride ................................................................................................ Goldman, William
Stranger in a Strange Land ................................................................................... Heinlein, Robert A
Brave New World .................................................................................................. Huxley, Aldous
1984 ....................................................................................................................... Orwell, George
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ....................................................... Twain, Mark
Sirens of the Titan .................................................................................................. Vonnegut, Kurt
The Time Machine ................................................................................................ Wells, Herbert George
Drama
Becket .................................................................................................................... Anouilh, Jean
Antigone ................................................................................................................ Anoulih, Jean
Waiting for Godot .................................................................................................. Beckett, Samuel
The Stranger ......................................................................................................... Camus, Albert
Medea .................................................................................................................... Euripides
Julia ...................................................................................................................... Hellman, Lillian
A Doll’s House ...................................................................................................... Ibsen, Henry
Inherit the Wind .................................................................................................... Lawrence, Jerome
Long Day’s Journey Into Night ............................................................................. O’Neill, Eugene
Twelve Angry Men ................................................................................................ Rose, Reginald
Cyrano de Bergerac .............................................................................................. Rostand, Edmond
As You Like It ........................................................................................................ Shakespeare, William
Richard II .............................................................................................................. Shakespeare, William
Pygmalion .............................................................................................................. Shaw, George Bernard
Tartuffe ................................................................................................................. Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
The Heidi Chronicles ............................................................................................ Wasserman, Wendy
Our Town ............................................................................................................... Wilder, Thornton
Fences .................................................................................................................... Wilson, August