CORE LITERATURE/PLAYS
Titles in BOLD are the required books by grade; the titles that follow are listed by the frequency they are taught. Note, not all titles are taught by each teacher. The titles in the lower section have not been in recent circulation.
NINTH | TENTH | ELEVENTH | TWELFTH |
Romeo and Juliet To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm Of Mice and Men Speak Fahrenheit 451 Mythology / Iliad / Odyssey Farewell to Manzanar | Lord of the Flies Macbeth Catcher in the Rye 1984 Twelve Angry Men Brave New World The Glass Castle Women of the Silk A Separate Peace Julius Caesar Cyrano de Bergerac | The Great Gatsby A Raisin in the Sun Death of a Salesman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Into The Wild The Crucible Grapes of Wrath Scarlet Letter Under the Feet of Jesus | Hamlet* (or Much Ado About Nothing or Taming of the Shrew) The Kite Runner All the Pretty Horses Black Boy Catch-22 Metamorphosis Theban Plays (Oedipus; Antigone) A Doll’s House The Stranger Outliers Fences The Awakening JB Cry The Beloved Country Candide Heart of Darkness Ready Player One Slaughterhouse-Five |
All Quiet On the Western Front A Tale of Two Cities Bless Me Ultima House on Mango Street Just Mercy Night Secret Life of Bees | Cat’s Cradle I Am the Clay Frankenstein Jane Eyre A Man for All Seasons One Day in the Life of Ivan D Twelfth Night | Anthem Autobiography of Malcolm X I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Inherit the Wind The Jungle Old Man and the Sea One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A Streetcar Named Desire | Crime and Punishment Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nickeled and Dimed The Plague Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Power and Glory Pride & Prejudice Rhinoceros Their Eyes Were Watching God Waiting for Godot |
NINTH Possible ISBNs (may not match school’s copy) | TENTH Possible ISBNs (may not match school’s copy) | ||
Romeo and Juliet To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm Of Mice and Men Speak Fahrenheit 451 Farewell to Manzanar All Quiet On the Western Front A Tale of Two Cities Bless Me Ultima House on Mango Street Just Mercy Night Secret Life of Bees Mythology / Iliad / Odyssey | 9780743477116 9780060935467 9780451526342 9780140177398 9780312674397 9781451673319 9781328742117 9780449213940 9780141439600 9780446600255 9780679734772 780812984965 9780374500016 9780142001745 Ham: 9780316223331 Bul: 9780399169229 Iliad: 9780872203525 Odd: 9780140268867 | Lord of the Flies Macbeth Catcher in the Rye 1984 Twelve Angry Men Brave New World The Glass Castle Women of the Silk A Separate Peace Julius Caesar Cyrano de Bergerac Cat’s Cradle I Am the Clay Frankenstein Jane Eyre A Man for All Seasons One Day in the Life of Ivan D Twelfth Night | 9780140283334 9780743477109 9780316769488 9780451524935 9780143104407 9780060850524 9780743247542 9780312099435 9780743253970 9780743482745 9781593083878 9780385333481 9780449221389 9781593081157 9780486424491 9780679728221 9780451228147 9780743482776 |
ELEVENTH Possible ISBNs (may not match school’s copy) | TWELFTH Possible ISBNs (may not match school’s copy) | ||
The Great Gatsby A Raisin in the Sun The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Into The Wild The Crucible Grapes of Wrath The Scarlet Letter Death of a Salesman Anthem Autobiography of Malcolm X I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Inherit the Wind The Jungle Old Man and the Sea One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Feet of Jesus | 9780743273565 9780679755333 9781402724992 9780385486804 9780142437339 9780143039433 9789176370827 9780140481341 9780451191137 9780345350688 9780345514400 9780345466273 9781598183221 9780684801223 9780451163967 9780811216029 9780452273870 | Hamlet Much Ado About Nothing Taming of the Shrew The Kite Runner All the Pretty Horses Black Boy Catch-22 Metamorphosis A Doll’s House The Stranger Outliers Fences The Awakening JB Cry The Beloved Country Candide Heart of Darkness Ready Player One Slaughterhouse-Five Crime and Punishment Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nickeled and Dimed The Plague Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Power and Glory Pride & Prejudice Rhinoceros Their Eyes Were Watching God Waiting for Godot Theban Plays (Oedipus; Antigone) | 9780743477123 9780743482752 9780743477574 9781594631931 9780679744399 9780062964137 9781451626650 9780553213690 9780486270623 9780679720201 9780316017930 9780452264014 978048627786 9780395083536 9780743262170 9780393960587 9780141441672 9780307887443 9780385333849 9780451530066 9780679785897 9780451239426 9780679720218 9780142437346 9780143107552 9780141439518 9780573614743 9780060838676 9780802144423 Oed: 9780062132086 Ant: 9780895980953 |