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Sample
Book List
Grades 9-12
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The
following book lists are drawn from reading lists at
the AERO pilot schools. They are provided to illustrate
the level of reading students should achieve to meet
the AERO English Language Arts reading standards and
benchmarks.
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| Title |
Author |
| 1984 |
Orwell, George |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The |
Twain, Mark |
| American Tragedy, An |
Dreiser, Theodore |
| And the Earth Did Not Devour Him |
Rivera, Tomas |
| Anthem |
Rand, Ayn |
| Antigone |
Sophocles |
| Apology |
Plato |
| As I Lay Dying |
Faulkner, William |
| As You Like It |
Shakespeare, William |
| Awakening, The |
Chopin, Kate |
| Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
| Beowulf |
Raffel, Burton (recommended translator) |
| Best Short Stories |
Miller, Sue |
| Bible (as literature) |
King James Version |
| Birches |
Frost, Robert |
| Black Boy |
Wright, Richard |
| Bless
the Beasts & Children |
Swarthout, Glendon |
| Bluest Eye in Texas/Wife in Name Only,
The |
Johnston, Joan and Zane, Carolyn |
| Brave New World |
Huxley, Aldous |
| Bread Givers |
Yezierska, Anzia |
| Call It Sleep |
Roth, Henry |
| Cannery Row |
Steinbeck, John |
| Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
| Catch 22 |
Heller, Joseph L. |
| Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger, J.D. |
| Cat's Cradle |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Chicago |
Sandburg, Carl |
| Color Purple, The |
Walker, Alice |
| Complete Works of Flannery O'Connor |
O'Connor, Flannery |
| Concubine, The |
Amadi, Elechi |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A |
Twain, Mark |
| Courtship of Miles Standish, The |
Longfellow, Henry |
| Crucible, The |
Miller, Arthur |
| Cry, the Beloved Country |
Paton, Alan |
| Cyrano De Bergerac |
Rostand, Edmond |
| Demian |
Hesse, Hermann |
| Death in the Family |
Agee, James |
| Death in Venice |
Mann, Thomas |
| Death of a Salesman |
Miller, Arthur |
| Death of Ivan Ilyich, The |
Tolstoy, Leo |
| Dirge Without Music |
Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
| Dr. Faustus |
Marlowe, Christopher |
| Dubliners, The |
Joyce, James |
| Edge of Awareness |
Hoopes, Ned |
| Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,
The |
Zindel, Paul |
| Emma |
Austen, Jane |
| Emperor Jones |
O'Neill, Eugene |
| Ender's Game |
Card, Orson Scott |
| Equus |
Shaeffer, Peter |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Bradbury, Ray |
| Fall, The |
Camus, Albert |
| Farewell to Arms, A |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Fences |
Wilson, August |
| Fixer, The |
Malamud, Bernard |
| Four Great Plays |
Ibsen, Henrik Johan |
| Four Plays by Ionesco |
Ionesco, Eugene |
| Frankenstein |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Galileo |
Brecht, Bertolt |
| Gilgamesh |
Hines, Derek (recommended translator) |
| God of Small Things, The |
Roy, Arundhati |
| Grand Inquisitor, The |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich |
| Grapes of Wrath, The |
Steinbeck, John |
| Great Expectations |
Dickens, Charles |
| Great Gatsby, The |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Grendel |
Gardner, John Champlin |
| Gulliver's Travels |
Gulliver, Lemuel |
| Hairy Ape, The |
O'Neill, Eugene |
| Hamlet |
Shakespeare, William |
| Handmaid's Tale, The |
Atwood, Margaret |
| Haunted Oak, The |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence |
| Heart of Darkness |
Conrad, Joseph |
| Heavy Sand |
Rybakov, Anatoli Naumovich |
| Hedda Gabler |
Ibsen, Henrik Johan |
| Hiroshima |
Hersey, John |
| Hobbit, The |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
| House of Seven Gables, The |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| House of the Spirits, The |
Allende, Isabel |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
| Ibsen's Doll House |
Ibsen, Henrik Johan |
| Inferno, The |
Alighieri, Dante |
| Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
| Ivanhoe |
Scott, Sir Walter |
| Jane Eyre |
Bronte, Charlotte |
| Johnny Got His Gun |
Trumbo, Dalton |
| Joy Luck Club, The |
Tan, Amy |
| Julius Caesar |
Shakespeare, William |
| Jungle Books |
Kipling, Rudyard |
| King Lear |
Shakespeare, William |
| King Rat |
Meiville, China |
| Kitchen God's Wife, The |
Tan, Amy |
| Le Morte d'Arthur |
Malory, Thomas |
| Leader of the People, The |
Steinbeck, John |
| Les Miserables |
Hugo, Victor |
| Lights of Singapore |
Braddell, Roland |
| Little Ironies |
Hardy, Thomas |
| Lonesome Dove |
McMurtry, Larry |
| Look Back in Anger |
Osborne, John |
| Lord of the Flies |
Golding, William |
| Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The |
Eliot, T. S. |
| Lysistrata |
Aristophanes |
| Macbeth |
Shakespeare, William |
| Madame Bovary |
Flaubert, Gustave |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
Crane, Stephen |
| Man and the Myth Maker |
Jewkes, W.T. |
| Man for All Seasons, A |
Bolt, Robert |
| Master Harold and the Boys |
Fugard, Athol |
| Maus |
Spiegelman, Art |
| Mayor of Casterbridge, The |
Hardy, Thomas |
| Medea |
Euripides |
| Merchant of Venice |
Shakespeare, William |
| Metamorphosis |
Kafka, Franz |
| Moby Dick |
Melville, Herman |
| Mosquito Coast |
Theroux, Paul |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
Shakespeare, William |
| Mythology |
Bullfinch, Thomas |
| Mythology |
Hamilton, Edith |
| Native Son |
Wright, Richard |
| Night |
Weisel, Elie |
| Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The |
Lawrence, Jerome |
| Nine Stories |
Salinger. J.D. |
| No Exit |
Sartre, Jean Paul |
| No One Writes to the Colonel |
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
| Nobody Loses All the Time |
Cummings, E.E. |
| Norton Anthology of Poetry |
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| Norton Anthology of Short Fiction |
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| Obasan |
Kogawa, Joy |
| Odyssey, The |
Homer |
| Oedipus Rex |
Sophocles |
| Old Man and the Sea, The |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Oliver Twist |
Dickens, Charles |
| On Nature |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Once and Future King, The |
White, T.H. |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch |
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Kesey, Ken |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
| Ordinary People |
Guest, Judith |
| Othello |
Shakespeare, William |
| Our Town |
Wilder, Thornton |
| Passage to India |
Forster, Edward Morgan |
| Plague, The |
Camus, Albert |
| Poisonwood Bible, The |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Portrait of a Lady |
James, Henry |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A |
Joyce, James |
| Pygmalion |
Shaw, G. Bernard |
| Radiance of the King, The |
Laye, Camara |
| Raisin in the Sun, A |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
| Red Badge of Courage, The |
Crane, Stephen |
| Red Wheelbarrow, The |
Williams, William Carlos |
| Republic, The |
Plato |
| Reservation Blues |
Alexie, Sherman |
| Richard Cory |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington |
| Riverside Anthology |
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| Riverside Reader |
Trimmer, Joseph |
| Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe, Daniel |
| Romeo and Juliet |
Shakespeare, William |
| Room of One's Own, A |
Woolf, Virginia |
| Rose for Emily, A |
Faulkner, William |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
Stoppard, Tom |
| Rules of the Game |
Tan, Amy |
| Rumor of War |
Caputo, Phillip |
| Scarlet Letter, The |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| School vs. Education |
Baker, Russell |
| Selected Poetry |
Hughes, Langston |
| Separate Peace, A |
Knowles, John |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets |
Shakespeare, William |
| Siddhartha |
Hesse, Hermann |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
Edwards, Jonathan |
| Sister Carrie |
Dreiser, Theodore |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author |
Pirandello, Luigi |
| Skin of Our Teeth, The |
Wilder, Thornton |
| Slaughterhouse Five |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Song of Myself |
Whitman, Walt |
| Speaker for the Dead |
Card, Orson Scott |
| Spoon River Anthology |
Masters, Edgar Lee |
| Stranger, The |
Camus, Albert |
| Streetcar Named Desire, A |
Williams, Tennessee |
| Success Is Counted Sweetest |
Dickinson, Emily |
| Sula |
Morrison, Toni |
| Sun Also Rises, The |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Tales |
Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Tar Baby |
Morrison, Toni |
| Tartuffe |
Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin |
| Tempest Tost |
Rose, Peter Isaac |
| Tempest, The |
Shakespeare, William |
| Theban Plays |
Sophocles |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
| Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
| Things They Carried, The |
O'Brien, Tim |
| Thousand Acres, A |
Smiley, Jane |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
| Travels with Charley |
Steinbeck, John |
| Treasure Island |
Stevenson, Robert Lewis |
| Turn of the Screw |
James, Henry |
| Walden |
Thoreau, Henry David |
| Wanderer, The |
Alain-Fournier |
| Wide Sargasso Sea, The |
Rhys, Jean |
| Winter Dreams |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Woman Warrior |
Kingston, Maxine Hong |
| Your Place is Empty |
Tyler, Anne |
| Zoo Story, The |
Albee, Edward |
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Book
List by Author, 9-12
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| Title |
Author |
| Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
| Death in the Family |
Agee, James |
| Wanderer, The |
Alain-Fournier |
| Zoo Story, The |
Albee, Edward |
| Reservation Blues |
Alexie, Sherman |
| Inferno, The |
Alighieri, Dante |
| House of the Spirits, The |
Allende, Isabel |
| Concubine, The |
Amadi, Elechi |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
| Lysistrata |
Aristophanes |
| Handmaid's Tale, The |
Atwood, Margaret |
| Emma |
Austen, Jane |
| School vs. Education |
Baker, Russell |
| Man for All Seasons, A |
Bolt, Robert |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Bradbury, Ray |
| Lights of Singapore |
Braddell, Roland |
| Galileo |
Brecht, Bertolt |
| Jane Eyre |
Bronte, Charlotte |
| Mythology |
Bullfinch, Thomas |
| Fall, The |
Camus, Albert |
| Plague, The |
Camus, Albert |
| Stranger, The |
Camus, Albert |
| Rumor of War |
Caputo, Phillip |
| Ender's Game |
Card, Orson Scott |
| Speaker for the Dead |
Card, Orson Scott |
| Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
| Awakening, The |
Chopin, Kate |
| Heart of Darkness |
Conrad, Joseph |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
Crane, Stephen |
| Red Badge of Courage, The |
Crane, Stephen |
| Nobody Loses All the Time |
Cummings, E.E. |
| Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe, Daniel |
| Great Expectations |
Dickens, Charles |
| Oliver Twist |
Dickens, Charles |
| Success Is Counted Sweetest |
Dickinson, Emily |
| Grand Inquisitor, The |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich |
| American Tragedy, An |
Dreiser, Theodore |
| Sister Carrie |
Dreiser, Theodore |
| Haunted Oak, The |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
Edwards, Jonathan |
| Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The |
Eliot, T. S. |
| Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
| On Nature |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Medea |
Euripides |
| As I Lay Dying |
Faulkner, William |
| Rose for Emily, A |
Faulkner, William |
| Great Gatsby, The |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Winter Dreams |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Madame Bovary |
Flaubert, Gustave |
| Passage to India |
Forster, Edward Morgan |
| Birches |
Frost, Robert |
| Master Harold and the Boys |
Fugard, Athol |
| Grendel |
Gardner, John Champlin |
| Lord of the Flies |
Golding, William |
| Ordinary People |
Guest, Judith |
| Gulliver's Travels |
Gulliver, Lemuel |
| Mythology |
Hamilton, Edith |
| Raisin in the Sun, A |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
| Little Ironies |
Hardy, Thomas |
| Mayor of Casterbridge, The |
Hardy, Thomas |
| House of Seven Gables, The |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| Scarlet Letter, The |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| Catch 22 |
Heller, Joseph L. |
| Farewell to Arms, A |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Old Man and the Sea, The |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Sun Also Rises, The |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Hiroshima |
Hersey, John |
| Demian |
Hesse, Hermann |
| Siddhartha |
Hesse, Hermann |
| Gilgamesh |
Hines, Derek (recommended translator) |
| Odyssey, The |
Homer |
| Edge of Awareness |
Hoopes, Ned |
| Selected Poetry |
Hughes, Langston |
| Les Miserables |
Hugo, Victor |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
| Brave New World |
Huxley, Aldous |
| Four Great Plays |
Ibsen, Henrik Johan |
| Hedda Gabler |
Ibsen, Henrik Johan |
| Ibsen's Doll House |
Ibsen, Henrik Johan |
| Four Plays by Ionesco |
Ionesco, Eugene |
| Portrait of a Lady |
James, Henry |
| Turn of the Screw |
James, Henry |
| Man and the Myth Maker |
Jewkes, W.T. |
| Bluest Eye in Texas/Wife in Name Only, The |
Johnston, Joan and Zane, Carolyn |
| Dubliners, The |
Joyce, James |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A |
Joyce, James |
| Metamorphosis |
Kafka, Franz |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Kesey, Ken |
| Bible (as literature) |
King James Version |
| Poisonwood Bible, The |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Woman Warrior |
Kingston, Maxine Hong |
| Jungle Books |
Kipling, Rudyard |
| Separate Peace, A |
Knowles, John |
| Obasan |
Kogawa, Joy |
| Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The |
Lawrence, Jerome |
| Radiance of the King, The |
Laye, Camara |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
| Courtship of Miles Standish, The |
Longfellow, Henry |
| Fixer, The |
Malamud, Bernard |
| Le Morte d'Arthur |
Malory, Thomas |
| Death in Venice |
Mann, Thomas |
| Dr. Faustus |
Marlowe, Christopher |
| No One Writes to the Colonel |
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
| Spoon River Anthology |
Masters, Edgar Lee |
| Lonesome Dove |
McMurtry, Larry |
| King Rat |
Meiville, China |
| Moby Dick |
Melville, Herman |
| Dirge Without Music |
Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
| Crucible, The |
Miller, Arthur |
| Death of a Salesman |
Miller, Arthur |
| Best Short Stories |
Miller, Sue |
| Tartuffe |
Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin |
| Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
| Sula |
Morrison, Toni |
| Tar Baby |
Morrison, Toni |
| Things They Carried, The |
O'Brien, Tim |
| Complete Works of Flannery O'Connor |
O'Connor, Flannery |
| Emperor Jones |
O'Neill, Eugene |
| Hairy Ape, The |
O'Neill, Eugene |
| 1984 |
Orwell, George |
| Look Back in Anger |
Osborne, John |
| Cry, the Beloved Country |
Paton, Alan |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author |
Pirandello, Luigi |
| Apology |
Plato |
| Republic, The |
Plato |
| Tales |
Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Beowulf |
Raffel, Burton (recommended translator) |
| Anthem |
Rand, Ayn |
| Wide Sargasso Sea, The |
Rhys, Jean |
| And the Earth Did Not Devour Him |
Rivera, Tomas |
| Richard Cory |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington |
| Tempest Tost |
Rose, Peter Isaac |
| Cyrano De Bergerac |
Rostand, Edmond |
| Call It Sleep |
Roth, Henry |
| God of Small Things, The |
Roy, Arundhati |
| Heavy Sand |
Rybakov, Anatoli Naumovich |
| Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger, J.D. |
| Nine Stories |
Salinger, J.D. |
| Chicago |
Sandburg, Carl |
| No Exit |
Sartre, Jean Paul |
| Ivanhoe |
Scott, Sir Walter |
| Equus |
Shaeffer, Peter |
| As You Like It |
Shakespeare, William |
| Hamlet |
Shakespeare, William |
| Julius Caesar |
Shakespeare, William |
| King Lear |
Shakespeare, William |
| Macbeth |
Shakespeare, William |
| Merchant of Venice |
Shakespeare, William |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
Shakespeare, William |
| Othello |
Shakespeare, William |
| Romeo and Juliet |
Shakespeare, William |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets |
Shakespeare, William |
| Tempest, The |
Shakespeare, William |
| Pygmalion |
Shaw, G. Bernard |
| Frankenstein |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Thousand Acres, A |
Smiley, Jane |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch |
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |
| Antigone |
Sophocles |
| Oedipus Rex |
Sophocles |
| Theban Plays |
Sophocles |
| Maus |
Spiegelman, Art |
| Cannery Row |
Steinbeck, John |
| Grapes of Wrath, The |
Steinbeck, John |
| Leader of the People, The |
Steinbeck, John |
| Travels with Charley |
Steinbeck, John |
| Treasure Island |
Stevenson, Robert Lewis |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
Stoppard, Tom |
| Bless
the Beasts & Children |
Swarthout, Glendon |
| Joy Luck Club, The |
Tan, Amy |
| Kitchen God's Wife, The |
Tan, Amy |
| Rules of the Game |
Tan, Amy |
| Mosquito Coast |
Theroux, Paul |
| Walden |
Thoreau, Henry David |
| Hobbit, The |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
| Death of Ivan Ilyich, The |
Tolstoy, Leo |
| Riverside Reader |
Trimmer, Joseph |
| Johnny Got His Gun |
Trumbo, Dalton |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The |
Twain, Mark |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A |
Twain, Mark |
| Your Place is Empty |
Tyler, Anne |
| Cat's Cradle |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Slaughterhouse Five |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Color Purple, The |
Walker, Alice |
| Night |
Weisel, Elie |
| Once and Future King, The |
White, T.H. |
| Song of Myself |
Whitman, Walt |
| Our Town |
Wilder, Thornton |
| Skin of Our Teeth, The |
Wilder, Thornton |
| Streetcar Named Desire, A |
Williams, Tennessee |
| Red Wheelbarrow, The |
Williams, William Carlos |
| Fences |
Wilson, August |
| Room of One's Own, A |
Woolf, Virginia |
| Black Boy |
Wright, Richard |
| Native Son |
Wright, Richard |
| Bread Givers |
Yezierska, Anzia |
| Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,
The |
Zindel, Paul |
| Norton Anthology of Poetry |
|
| Norton Anthology of Short Fiction |
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| Riverside Anthology |
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