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NMHS English Dept. Book List 2018-19
*signifies book can be used at all levels
9th Grade
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
American Born Chinese (graphic novel)
*As You Like It
*Brown girl dreaming (memoir in poetry)
*Cats, TS Eliot (Poetry)
Curious incident of the dog in the night-time (9/10)
Dorothy Must Die
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Fellowship of the Ring Trilogy
Five People You Meet in Heaven
*Fortune’s Bones (Poetry)
Frankenstein
Dickens: Choices of: Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield
Heat
Hobbit, The
House on Mango Street
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth/Romeo and Juliet
Murder on the Orient Express
Mythology, Hamilton
Odyssey, The
Red Kayak
Red Queen
Rocket Boys (October Sky)
Shakespeare Sonnets
Sleeping on the Wing (Poetry)
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Time Machine, The
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tristan & Iseult
Tunes for Bears to Dance To
Twelfth Night
War of the Worlds
Warriors Don’t Cry
When the Emperor Was Divine
What the Night Sings
Whirligig
*Worlds A Fire (poetry)
*indicates core titles that all 9th grade students will read at any level
10th Grade
Alchemist, The
Antigone
Bean Trees
Bless Me, Ultima
Boy’s Life
Burning Bright
Catcher in the Rye, The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Cyrano de Bergerac
Death Be Not Proud
Doll's House, A
Don Quixote
Emma
Fahrenheit 451
Fortune’s Bones ( poetry)
Freedom Writers Diary
Girl with the Pearl Earring, The
Goldengrove
Good Earth, The
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The
In the Time of the Butterflies
Into Thin Air
Joy Luck Club
Julius Caesar
Les Miserables
Love in the Driest Season
Man of LaMancha
Nectar in a Sieve
Of Mice and Men
Once & Future King, The
Othello
Other Wes Moore, The
Out of Africa
Perfect Storm
Persepolis I and II (graphic novel)
Phantom of the Opera
Raisin in the Sun, A
River Between, The
Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Preston
Secret Life of Bees, The
Separate Peace
Things Fall Apart
Three Musketeers, The
Walkabout
11th Grade
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Awakening, The
All the Pretty Horses
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Billy Budd & other Melville Stories
Ceremony
Cold Mountain
Color of Water
Crucible, The
Dear America – Letters Home From Vietnam
Death of a Salesman
Fences
Ethan Frome
Grapes of Wrath
Great Gatsby
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Illustrated Man, The
I Am the Darker Brother (11/12 Poetry)
Inherit the Wind
In the Heart of the Sea (The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex)
Into the Wild
Invisible Man, Ellison
Jazz Short Stories (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Language of Literature (McDougal-Little)
Leaves of Grass
Lesson Before Dying
Letters of a Nation
March Book I
March Book II (class set)
MAUS I
MAUS II
Night (Wiesel)
Narrative of Frederick Douglass, The
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Natural, The
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The
On Walden Pond
Our Town
Practice of Creative Writing, The
Red Badge of Courage, The
Rereading America, anthology
Robert Frost's Poems
Round House, The
Scarlet Letter, The
Slaughterhouse Five
Snow Falling on Cedars
Spoon River Anthology
Streetcar Named Desire
Sun Also Rise, The
Tempest, The
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things They Carried, The
Time and Again
Travels with Charlie
Twelve Years a Slave
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Zeiton, Edger Evers
12th Grade
2001: A Space Odyssey
Adventures in the Human Spirit (Text Humanities I and II)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
Alas, Babylon
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All My Sons
A Long Way Gone /Lion
Anna Karenina
Being There
Beloved
Beowulf
Brave New World (Science Fiction)
Candide, Voltaire
Cannery Row
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Chekov (plays) Cherry Orchard
Crime and Punishment
Diary of Anne Frank
Dr. Faustus
Dubliners, The
East of Eden
Einstein’s Dream
Fable Haven (Child Lit)
Galileo’s Daughter
Gilgamesh
Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Ed. Blaisdell) PubSpeak
Gulliver's Travels
Heart of Darkness
Hamlet (World Lit)
Hard Times
Heart of Darkness (VideoProd)
I Am Legend
*I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball (poetry)
Inferno
Invention of Hugo Cabret, The (book and film) Lit and Media
King Lear (APLit)
Lion (film Lt and Media)
Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez
Much Ado About Nothing
On Writing Well (WWkshop)
Passing (Diverse Voice)
Plague,The
Poetry 180 (Contemp/Mod Poetry)
Poetry: an Introduction
Points of View- Short Stories
Pride & Prejudice
Road, The
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Shakespeare (Plays and Sonnets)
Short fiction- Classic and contemporary
Siddhartha (World LitI)
Silas Marner
Snows of Kilimanjaro
Sophie’s World
Sound and Sense Story and Structure (APLit)
Station Eleven
Stranger, The
Taming of the Shrew
Tartuffe
Themes in Science Fiction
This I Believe I and II
Waiting for Godot
Wuthering Heights