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| Grade | Strand | Title | Author | ISBN | Notes |
| 9 | PAP/GT | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 9780380778553 | |
| 10 | PAP/GT | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 9781451694727 | |
| 10 | PAP/GT | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 97801401777398 | |
| 10 | GL | Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | 9780812984965 | |
| 11 | GL | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 978-0-7432-7356-5 | |
| 11 | APLAC | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 978-0-7432-7356-5 | |
| 12 | GL | N/A (individual copies of titles provided by AHHS) | N/A | N/A | |
| 12 | APLIT | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 9781400033416 | |
| 12 | APLIT | Hamlet. (Folger's Shakespeare) | William Shakespeare | 978-0-7434-7712-3 | |
| 11 | DC | The Stranger | Camus, Albert, translated by Matthew Ward | 978-0679720201 | This book is for rising 11th graders taking English III DC |
| 11 | DC | Ethan Frome | Wharton, Edith | 978-0486266909 | This book is for rising 11th graders taking English III DC |
| 11/12 | DC | ONLY 11 DC - seniors not eligible | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 12 | BW | Dubliners | Joyce, James | 978-1729795682 | Dover Thrift Edition. This book is only for rising seniors who took DC as juniors with during the 2019-2020 school year. |
| 12 | BW | Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare, William | 978-0743482752 | Folger Edition. This book is only for rising seniors who took DC as juniors with during the 2019-2020 school year. |
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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.
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.
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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.
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
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.
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach.
Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle.
Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 -- victims of Edwardian squeamishness.
Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness.
From "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" comes a coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time that follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads" (Denver Post).