These books are required for high school English. Books may be purchased as needed and student does not have to purchase all of them at the beginning of class.
| Freshman Books | Sophomore Books |
| ????? by Shakespeare | ????? by Shakespeare |
| A Separate Peace by Knowles | The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee | The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
| A Day No Pigs Would Die by Peck | Cold, Sassy Tree by Burns |
Students in grades nine through twelve must read at least five books or 1000 pages of choice from the grade-appropriate reading list and take suitable notes on each in preparation for both class discussion and written analyses. During the first week of school, students will be asked to complete a writing assignment on one of the books selected by the teacher. Students may choose to read up to two additional books for extra credit: one book will add one point to the student's semester average. Two books will add one point ot the student's semester average for both semesters. (Students: Remember that you cannot receive credit for books previously read.)
| Little Women Alcott | Joan and Craig, Two Lives Asinof |
| Brian's Song Blinn | When the Legends Die Borland |
| Planet of the Apes Boulle | The Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilder |
| The Good Earth Buck | The Virginian Wister |
| Tarzan of the Apes Borroughs | Dear and Glorious Physician Caldwell |
| Other Voices, Other Room Capote | The Glass Harp Capote |
| My Antonia Cather | The Babe Ruth Story Considine |
| Something for Joey Countryreck | The Chocolate War Cromier |
| Beyond the Chocolate War Cromier | Fade Cromier |
| The Red Badge of Courage Crane | The Andromeda Strain Chrichton |
| The Great Train Robbery Crichton | Congo Crichton |
| Oliver Twist Dickens | Hard Times Dickens |
| Sherlock Holmes Doyle | Sister Carrie Dreiser |
| The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas | The Three Musketeers Dumas |
| Raney Edgerton | Fences Wilson |
| Giant Ferber | Save Me the Waltz Z. Fitzgerald |
| Coming Attractions Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes Flagg |
| Ellen Foster Gibbons | The Spire Golding |
| Forrest Gump Groom | Ordinary People Guest |
| Death Be Not Proud Gunther | The Maltese Falcon Hammett |
| The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne | The Bad Seed March |
| The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway | Goodbye, Mr. Chips Hilton |
| Lost Horizon Hilton | The Iliad Homer |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo | The Metamorphosis Kafka |
| Lake Wobegon Days Keillor | Flowers forAlgernon Keyes |
| Profiles in Courage Kennedy | Ironweed Kennedy |
| Captains Courageous Kipling | Kim Kipling |
| How the West Was Won L'Amour | Inherit the Wind Lawrence & Lee |
| The Phantom of the Opera Leroux | The Contender Lipsyte |
| Of Human Bondage Maugham |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers |
| The Members of the Wedding McCullers |
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe McCullers |
| Billy Budd Melville | Typee Melville |
| The Day the Senior Class Got Married | The War Between the Classes Miklowitz |
| Gone With the Wind Mitchell | Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff |
| Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff & Hall | Animal Farm Orwell |
| Doctor Zhivago Pasternak | The Pigman Zindel |
| The Chosen Potok | Run With the Horsemen Sams |
| The Last of the Whitfields Sanguinetti | The Dowager Sanguinetti |
| The New Girl Sanguinetti | Caeser and Cleopatra Shaw |
| Major Barbara Shaw | On the Beach Shute |
| Cannery Row Steinbeck | East of Eden Steinbeck |
| The Master of Ballantrae Stevenson | The Crystal Cave Stewart |
| Love is Eternal Stone | The President's Lady Stone |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court or Life on the Mississippi Twain | |
| Puddin'head Wilson Twain | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler |
| Candide Voltaire | Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut |
| The Invisible Man Wells | The Time Machine Wells |
| The Day of the Locust West | |
Choose any two authors from the following list for extra credit:
| The Age of Innocence | All the King's Men |
| Anna Karenina | As I Lay Dying |
| The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man | The Awakening |
| Beloved | Beowulf |
| Billy Budd | Catch-22 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Ceremony | Cold Mountain |
| Coming Through Slaughter | Clear and Present Danger |
| Crime and Punishment | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| Don Quixote | Ender's Game |
| An Enemy of the People | Equus |
| Fahrenheit 451 | The Father |
| Faust | Fences |
| The Glass Menagerie | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Great Expectations | Gulliver's Travels |
| Heart of Darkness | Hedda Gabler |
| Henry V | Invisible Man |
| Jane Eyre | King Lear |
| Les Miserables | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Medea | The Merchant of Venice |
| Moby Dick | Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| Native Son | Of Mice and Men |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Pale Fire |
| Pere Goriot | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| The Plague | Poccho |
| Rebecca | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Silas Marner | Sister Carrie |
| The Sound and the Fury | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Sula | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| The Turn of the Screw | Typical American |
| Waiting for Godot | We |
| The Zoo Story |