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.
| Junior Books | Senior Books |
| ????? by Shakespeare | ????? by Shakespeare |
| Wuthering Heights by Bronte | Night by Elie Wiesel |
| Brave New World by Huxley | Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Growing Up by Russell Baker |
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.)
| Agamemnon Aeschylus | A Death in the Family Agee |
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Agee & Evans | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee |
| Go Tell It On the Mountain Baldwin | Emma Austen |
| Lorna Doone Blackmore | Herzog Bellows |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's Capote | The Plague Camus |
| My Mortal Enemy Cather | In Cold Blood Capote |
| Don Quixote Cervantes | O, Pioneers! Cather |
| Three Sisters Chekov | The Cherry Orchard Chekhov |
| The Ox-Box Incident Clark | The Awakening Chopin |
| An Outcast on the Islands Conrad | Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Connell |
| The Great Santini Conroy | Lord Jim Conrad |
| The Water is Wide Conroy | The Lords of Discipline Conroy |
| The Deerslayer Cooper | The Prince of Tides Conroy |
| The Pathfinder Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans Cooper |
| Moll Flanders Defoe | Roxana Defoe |
| The Pickwick Papers Dickens | David Copperfield Dickens |
| The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevski | Ragtime Doctorow |
| Middlemarch Eliot | An American Tragedy Dreiser |
| Invisible Man Ellison | The Mill on the Floss Eliot |
| The Trojan Women Euripides | Medea Euripedes |
| Intruder in the Dust Faulkner | Absolom! Absolom! Faulkner |
| Tom Jones Fielding | Light in August Faulkner |
| This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald | The Beautiful and the Damned Fitzgerald |
| Eye of the Needle Follett | Madame Bovary Flaubert |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman Fowles | A Passage to India Forster |
| She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith | The Collector Fowles |
| Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy | The Heart of the Matter Greene |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy | Jude the Obscure Hardy |
| Catch-22 Heller | The Return of the Native Hardy |
| Dune Herbert |
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway |
| Ninety-Three Hugo |
Talking God Hillerman |
| Hedda Gabler Ibsen | An Enemy of the People Ibsen |
| Washington Square James | The American James |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners Joyce | The Wings of the Dove James |
| The Trial Kafka | Zorba the Greek Kazantzakis |
| Leaving Home Keillor | On the Road Kerouac |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey | Sons and Lovers Lawrence |
| Arrowsmith Lewis | Babbitt Lewis |
| The Assistant Malamud | The Natural Malamud |
| The Magic Mountain Mann | One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez |
| Of Human Bondage Maugham | Moby Dick Melville |
| Wise Blood O'Connor | A Long Day's Journey into Night O'Neill |
| Anna Christie O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electric O'Neill |
| The Emperor Jones O'Neill | The Hairy Ape O'Neill |
| Tituba of Salem Village Petry | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Poe |
| My Soul Is Rested Raines | Whiskey Man Raines |
| Housekeeping Robinson | Henry IV, Part I Shakespeare |
| Henry IV, Part II Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare |
| The Tempest Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale Shakespeare |
| Henry V Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare |
| Arms and the Man Shaw | Man and Superman Shaw |
| Saint Joan Shaw | The Jungle Sinclair |
| Fair and Tender Ladies Smith | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn |
| The Winter of Our Discontent Steinbeck | Cannery Row Steinbeck |
| Sweet Thursday Steinbeck | Sophie's Choice Styron |
| Citizen Hearst Swanberg | Gulliver's Travels Swift |
| Vanity Fair Thackeray | Anna Karenina Tolstoy |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy | Fathers and Sons Turgenev |
| The Accidental Tourist Tyler | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler |
| The Centaur Updike | Rabbit, Run Updike |
| A Month of Sundays Updike | Cat's Cradle Vonnegut |
| The Blue Knight Wambough | The Onion Fields Wambough |
| All the King's Men Warren | Band of Angels Warren |
| The Cave Warren | The Ponder Heart Welty |
| Miss Lonelyhearts West | Ethan Frome Wharton |
| The House of Mirth Wharton | The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde | Our Town Wilder |
| The Night of the Iguana Williams | Orpheus Descending Williams |
| Summer and Smoke Williams | Mrs. Dalloway Woolf |
| To the Lighthouse Woolf | The Winds of War Wouk |
| War and Remembrance Wouk | Black Boy Wright |
| Native Son Wright | |
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 by Seamus Haney |
| 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 |