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Grade | Strand | Title | Author | ISBN | Best for students to have by |
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9 | ADV/GT | The Odyssey | Homer translated by Robert Fagles | 9780140268867 | September 5 |
9 | ADV/GT | March: Book One | John Lewis | 9781603093002 | October 17 |
9 | ADV/GT | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine | 9780743477116 | January 2 |
9 | GL | Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 9781442472433 | March 6 |
9 | GL | Divergent | Veronica Roth | 9780062387240 | March 6 |
10 | ADV/GT | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 9781451694727 | October 2 |
10 | ADV/GT | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 9780140177398 | February 2 |
10 | GL | Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | 9780812984965 | October 1 |
10 | GL | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 9780140177398 | February 1 |
11 | GL | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 9780440180296 | January 2 |
11 | GL | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 9780307387899 | October 2 |
11 | GL | The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | 9780618706419 | March 6 |
11 | APLAC | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9780743273565 | March 6 |
11 | APLAC | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 9781594483851 | January 2 |
11 | DC | Wise Blood | Flannery O'Connor | 9780374530631 | January 2 |
11 | DC | The Stranger | Albert Camus, translation by Matthew Ward | 9780679720201 | January 2 |
12 | GL | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 9780553212471 | March 6 |
12 | GL | Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolfo Anaya | 9780446600255 | March 6 |
12 | APLIT | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 9780553212471 | October 31 |
12 | APLIT | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 9780743477123 | January 17 |
12 | APLIT | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 9781400033416 | March 18 |
12 | DC | Dubliners | James Joyce | 9780140186475 | January 2 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post) .
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico.
This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.
A definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
The Great Gatsby, F.
Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles
A Penguin Classic
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle).
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.
In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable.
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has eve
Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.
“O'Brien has written a vital, important book—a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.