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Revised April 8, 2008 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Alchemist, The Alice in Wonderland All the Pretty Horses All Quiet on the Western Front Amadeus Among the Volcanoes And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Rivera) Angela’s Ashes Animal Farm Anthem Antigone “Araby” As I Lay Dying Atlas Shrugged Aunt’s Story, The Awakening, The “Barn Burning” Barrio Boy Bean Trees, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, The Beloved Beowulf Big Fish Black Boy Bluest Eye, The Book Thief, The Bottoms, The Brave New World Brian Piccolo: A Short Season Brighton Beach Memoirs Broken Cord, The “Carnal Knowledge” Cancer Ward Canterbury Tales, The Catch-22 Catcher in the Rye, The Cat’s Cradle Cherry Orchard, The Chief, The Child in Time, The Chinese Cinderella Chocolate War, The Chosen, The Cobra Event, The (for only 11th and 12th grade students) Cold Mountain Cold Sassy Tree Common Sense Contact Count of Monte Cristo, The Crime and Punishment Crucible, The Cry, the Beloved Country Cyrano de Bergerac Dances with Wolves Dangerous Minds (Johnson) Dark Child, The Dawn Dear Rhonda Death of a Salesman Death of the Heart, The Diary of a Madman, The Doll’s House, A Don Quixote Downtown Dracula Dr. Faustus Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Education of Little Tree, The “Electric Arrows” Ellen Foster Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Enemy Women Epic of Gilgamesh, The Essays of EB White Ethan Frome Exodus Fahrenheit 451 Fallen Angels, The Farewell to Arms, A *Fast Food Nation Federalist Papers, The Fifth Business, The Fire Next Time, The First Circle, The For Whom the Bell Tolls Fountainhead, The Frankenstein Frederick Douglass’ Autobiography Friends, The Gentlehands Glass Bead Game, The Glass Menagerie, The Glory Field, The Going After Cacciato Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Expectations Great Gatsby, The Grendel (Gardner) Grimms’ Fairy Tales Gulliver’s Travels Hamlet “Hand, The” Handmaid’s Tale, The Hard Times Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Heart of Darkness Hiding Place, The Hiroshima Hispanic, Female and Young Home Before Dark Hot Zone (Preston) House of the Spirits, The House on Mango Street, The How to Lie With Statistics Hunchback of Notre Dame, The I Am One of You Forever I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Iliad Illusions Importance of Being Earnest, The- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl In Cold Blood (Capote) Inherit the Wind “In the American Society” Invisible Man Island of Dr. Moreau Jane Eyre Johnny Got His Gun Joy Luck Club, The Julius Caesar Jungle, The Kaffir Boy Last of the Mohicans Leaves of Grass (Whitman) Les Miserables Lesson Before Dying, A “Lesson, The” Let’s Roll Letters from a Birmingham Jail Letters of Abigail and John Adams Life of Pi “Life You Save May Be Your Own, The” Listen Up Little Altars Everywhere Little Nicholas, The Long Day’s Journey into Night Long Walk to Freedom Look Homeward, Angel Lorax, The Lord of the Flies Loud and Clear Macbeth Man for All Seasons, A Man in the Iron Mask, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Medea Merchant of Venice, The Metamorphosis, The Midsummer Night's Dream, A Miracle to Believe In, A “Miss Brill” Moby Dick Mother Night Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones Much Ado About Nothing Murder Is Announced, A Murder on the Orient Express Music of the Heart My Forbidden Face Mythology by Edith Hamilton Narrative of the Life of a Slave (Frederick Douglass), The Nectar in a Sieve Nervous Condition, The (Dangarembga) Never Cry Wolf Night Night Shift Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The 1984 No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The No Easy Answers No Promises in the Wind October Sky Odyssey, The Oedipus Rex Oedipus the King Of Mice and Men Old Man and the Sea, The Old Wives’ Tales, The One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ordinary People Othello Our Town Part of the Sky, A Perfect Spy, A Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Place Where the Sea Remembers, A (Benitez) Plays by Moliere Poisonwood Bible, The “Popular Mechanics” Portable Poe Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Power of One, The Prayer for Owen Meany, A Pride and Prejudice Prince, The Princess Bride, The Pudd’nhead Wilson Pygmalion Raisin in the Sun, A Raising Fences Rebecca “Red Woman With Backward Eyes” Remains of the Day, The Return of the Native, The Rice Without Rain Road, The Romeo and Juliet Romiette and Julio “Rose for Emily, A” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Run With the Horsemen Sabriel Sang Spell Scarlet Letter, The Secret Life of Bees, The Secret Sharer, The Selected Short Stories (Hawthorne) Selected Short Stories (O’Connor) Separate Peace, A Seventh Son, The Shipping News, The Siddhartha Silas Marner Slam Snow Falling on Cedars Something Wicked This Way Comes Song of Solomon Sound and the Fury, The Speak Spoon River Anthology Staying Fit for Sarah Byrnes Step from Heaven, A Stranger, The Streetcar Named Desire, A Tale of Two Cities, A Taming of the Shrew, The Tartuffe Tarzan of the Apes Tempest, The Tess of the D’Urbervilles Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart Through the Looking Glass Time to Kill, A To Kill a Mockingbird To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) Travels Treasure Box Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Tuesdays With Morrie Uncle Tom’s Cabin Underdogs, The (Azuela)
“Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, A” Waiting for the Rain Walden Walk Across America, A Walk in the Woods, A Walking Across Egypt Water Is Wide, The Watership Down West Side Story West with the Night (Markham) Wheel of Life, The Where the Heart Is Woman Warrior, The Wuthering Heights Year of Wonders, A “Young Goodman Brown” Zoya’s Story * AIG students may have read this selection at the middle school level.
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