GRADE 9
Anderson, Speak
Bissinger, Three Nights in August
Booth, Tyrell
Bowden, Black Hawk Down
Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Card, Ender’s Game
Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Collins, The Hunger Games
Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
Crutcher, Whale Talk
Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
Donnelly, A Northern Light
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
Gantos, Hole in my Life
Going, Fat Kid Rules the World
Green, The Fault in Our Stars or Paper Towns or Looking for Alaska
Haddon, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Hamilton, The Lock Artist
Lynch, Freewill
McEwan, The Daydreamer
Pierson, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To
Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed
Pullman, The Golden Compass (first in a trilogy)
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Rosoff, How I Live Now
Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Steinbeck, Cannery Row
Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Zusak, I Am the Messenger
GRADE 11
Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
Alexie, Flight
Banks, Rule of the Bone
Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed*
Dubner & Levitt, Freakonomics*
Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization*
Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Gibson, Neuromancer
Gladwell, The Tipping Point*
Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Herbert, Dune
Hornby, High Fidelity
Jones, Humble Boy
Klein, The Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism*
Krakauer, Into Thin Air/ Into the Wild
Liss, Conspiracy of Paper
Lopez, Arctic Dreams*
McBride, The Color of Water
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran*
O’Brien, In the Lake of the Woods
Plath, The Bell Jar
Pollan, The Botany of Desire*
Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Sedaris, D. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Shields, Black Planet
Smith, I Capture the Castle
Staples, Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White*
Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents*
Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen
Süskind, Perfume
Tartt, The Secret History
Toole, Confederacy of Dunces
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Walls, The Glass Castle
Wolff, Old School
* Non-Fiction: Students entering 11AP consider these books