Sample Reading Lists

(Actual lists vary a bit from year to year.)

English 7
Apuleis, The Golden Ass
The Arabian Nights
Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Lyric poetry, selections from Shakespeare and Frost
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Hamilton, Mythology
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream
Twain, Tom Sawyer

English 8
Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
Borland, When the Legends Die
Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Hersey, Hiroshima
Conan Doyle, "The Red-headed League"
Knowles, A Separate Peace
Lawrence and Lee, Inherit the Wind
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Markayanda, Nectar in the Sieve
Poe, Selected Stories and Poems
Potok, The Chosen
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar
Shaw, Pygmalion
Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams, The Glass Menagerie

English 9
Beowulf
Genesis
Gardner, Grendel
Homer, The Odyssey
Huxley, Brave New World
James, Daisy Miller
Kafka, The Metamorphosis
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Shakespeare, Othello and The Tempest
Shelley, Frankenstein
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wright, Black Boy

English 10
Camus, The Stranger
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Dante, The Inferno
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ibsen, A Doll's House
Selections from Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night
Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Antigone
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
Tan, The Joy Luck Club

English 11 (AP English Literature)
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Deuteronomy
Eliot, Middlemarch
Ellison, Invisible Man
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Maclean, A River Runs through It
Romans
Rosenbaum, The Secret Parts of Fortune
Shakespeare, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina or War and Peace
Warren, All the King's Men

English 12 (AP English Language)
Ecclesiastes
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Hugo, Les Miserables
James, The Portrait of a Lady
Jonah
Luke
Machiavelli, The Prince
Macmurray, Reason and Emotion
Manzoni, The Betrothed
Milton, Paradise Lost
Plato, The Republic
Qutb, Social Justice in Islam
Shakespeare, King Lear and Macbeth
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Walden
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Percy, The Moviegoer
Proudhon, What is Property?