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Master List 11/05/07
A A Child Called It (Child Development) Dave Pelzer Acorn People, The Ron Jones Adam Bede (12) George Eliot Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (11) Mark Twain Age of Innocence, The (Jr. Honors) Edith Wharton Alive (10) Piers Paul Read All the King’s Men (12) Robert Warren All the Little Live Things (11) Wallace Stegner All My Sons (11) Arthur Miller All Quiet on the Western Front (10) Erich M. Remarque American, The (12) Henry James American Dream, The (11) Edward Albee American Tragedy, An (11) Theodore Dreiser And One For All (11 Basic) Theresa Nelson Animal Farm (10) George Orwell Arrowsmith (10) Sinclair Lewis As I Lay Dying (12) William Faulkner As You Like It (10-12) William Shakespeare JORDAN SCHOOL DISTRICT High School Literature Selection Committee Master Book List November 5, 2007 Grade levels that appear in parenthesis after each title are recommendations based on the content of the book or indicate the grade in which those books have traditionally been taught. Teachers wishing to teach a book contrary to recommendation should consult their department colleagues and/or school administration. The following list of titles has been reviewed by the District High School Literature Selection Committee at the request of local schools. Teachers selecting titles to be studied by an entire class, to be assigned for independent reading, or to be read aloud or heard on tape, must make their selections only from this approved list. For independent reading, students may select their own material from school media centers, public libraries, bookstores or other sources under the direction of their parents. Self-selected materials are not reviewed by the district committee. Elementary and middle school teachers may not use any selection on this list for class study or to be read aloud without first obtaining permission in writing. Books appearing on the high school list were approved by a vote of the committee. Decisions for selecting literature from this list to support the core curriculum is the responsibility of local schools under the direction of the principal. Any student or parent concern regarding literature assigned or taught by the school should be addressed directly to the principal. According to Board policy, no student is required to read a book that he or she finds objectionable. Aspern Papers, The (11-12) Henry James Assistant, The (11) Bernard Malamud Awakening, The (11H-AP) Kate Chopin B Babbitt (11) Sinclair Lewis Barrio Boy (10-12) Ernesto Galarza Bean Trees, The (11-12) Barbara Kingsolver Because of Romek (10-12) David Faber Becket (12) Jean Anouilh Bell For Adano (10) John Hersey Bendigo Shafter Louis L’Amour Beowulf (12) Charles W. Kennedy Beyond Freedom and Dignity (11) B. F. Skinner Billy Budd (10-12, H, AP) Herman Melville Black Boy (10) Richard Wright Black Like Me (10) John Griffin Bless Me, Ultima (10-12) Rudolfo A. Anaya Bonecrack Dick Francis Boy Who Could Make Himself Dissappear,The (10) Kin Platt Brave New World (12) Aldous Huxley Brian Piccolo: A Short Season (10) Jeannie Morris Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (10) Thornton Wilder Bridge Over the River Kwai (10-12) Pierre Boulle Brothers Karamozov (12) Fedor Dostoyevsky Bulfinch’s Mythology Thomas Bulfinch Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The (10 Basic) Robert Cormier Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (10-12) Dee Brown C Caine Mutiny, The (12) Herman Wouk Candida George Bernard Shaw Candide Voltaire Chalk Garden, The (11-12) Enid Bagnold Canticle for Leibowitz, A (12) Walter M. Miller, Jr. Catcher in the Rye, The (AP and 12 Only) J. D. Salinger Cherry Orchard (12 AP) Anton Chekhov Cheyenne Autumn Mari Sandoz Chicano (11) Richard Vasquez Childhood’s End (11-12) Arthur C. Clarke Chosen, The (11) Chaim Potok Christy (11) Catherine Marshall Classic Slave Narratives (11 & 12) Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cold Sassy Tree (10 H) Olive Ann Burns Comedy of Errors, The (10-12) William Shakespeare Congo Michael Crichton Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (12) Mark Twain Color of Water, The (12 & Creative Writing Only) James McBride Could This Be Night Tomorrows (10) Isaac Asimov Count of Monte Cristo, The (10) Alexandre Dumas Cowboys, The (10) William D. Jennings Crime and Punishment (12, 12 AP) Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crucible, The (11) Arthur Miller Cry, the Beloved Country (10) Alan Paton Cure, The (10 Basic) Sonia Levitin Cyrano de Bergerac (12, 12H, AP) Edmond Rostand D Dances With Wolves (11-12) Michael Blake Dandelion Wine (10-12) Ray Bradbury Dave’s Song (10) Robert McKay David Copperfield Charles Dickens Dawn (10) Elie Wiesel Day They Came to Arrest the Book, The (11) Nat Hentoff Dead Poets Society (12 Special Ed) N. H. Kleinbaum Death Comes for the Archbishop (11) Willa Cather Death in the Family, A (11-12) James Agee Death of a Salesman (11-12) Arthur Miller Death Ticket, The (12 B-Motivational Only) Jay Bennett Demian (11-12) Hermann Hesse Desert Solitaire (10-12) Edward Abbey Devil’s Disciple (11-12) George Bernard Shaw Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler Dr. Faustus (12 AP &H) Christopher Marlowe Doll’s House, A (12, 12 AP) Henrik Ibsen Down a Dark Hall (10) Lois Duncan Dracula (10) Bram Stoker Dream Watcher, The (10) Barbara Wersba Duchess of Malfi, The (12, 12 AP) John Webster Dune (11-12) Frank Herbert E Education of Little Tree, The (11) Forrest Carter Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Paul Zindel Ellen Foster (11) Kaye Gibbons Emperor Jones (12) Eugene O’Neill Ender’s Game (10) Orson Scott Card Erewhon (11-12) Samuel Butler Ethan Frome (11-12) Edith Wharton Everyman (12) Ed. by A. C. Cawley Exodus (11-12) Leon Uris Eye of the World, The (10-12) Robert Jordan F Face at the Edge of the World (11 Basic) Eve Bunting Face of a Hero (10) Pierre Boulle Fantastic Imagination Boyer and Zahorski Fantastic Voyage (10) Isaac Asimov Farewell to Arms, A (11) Ernest Hemingway Farewell to Manzanar (11-12) James & Jeanne Houston Fences (Play) (11-12 only) August Wilson Fielder’s Choice (10) Rick Norman Fine and Private Place, A (10) Peter S. Beagle Fire On The Mountain (10) Edward Abbey Fixer, The (10) Bernard Malamud Flatland (10-12) Edwin A. Abbott Flint Louis L’Amour Flowers for Algernon (11) Daniel Keyes For Whom the Bell Tolls (11-12) Ernest Hemingway Frankenstein (12) Mary Shelley Franny and Zooey (11-12) J. D. Salinger Future Shock (11-12) Alvin Toffler G Giants in the Earth (11) O. E. Rolvaag Gift of Magic, A (10) Lois Duncan Gilgamesh, The Epic of (10) (AP World History Andrew George Translation World Civ) 1999 Penguin Edition Glass Menagerie, The (11) Tennessee Williams Gone With The Wind (10-12) Margaret Mitchell Good Earth, The (10-11) Pearl Buck Grapes of Wrath, The (11-12) John Steinbeck Grass Harp, The (11 H) Truman Capote Great Expectations (12) Charles Dickens Great Gatsby, The (11) F. Scott Fitzgerald Growing Up Russell Baker Gulliver’s Travels (12, 12 AP) Jonathan Swift H Hamlet (12, 12 AP) William Shakespeare Hard Times (12, 12 AP) Charles Dickens Haunted Mesa, The (11) Louis L’Amour Having Our Say (10-12) Elizabeth Delany Heart of Darkness (11 H, 12 AP) Joseph Conrad Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The (11) Carson McCullers Hedda Gabler (12) Henrik Ibsen Henderson the Rain King (11 H, 12) Saul Bellow Hiding Place, The Corrie Ten Boom High Wind in Jamaica (12, 12 AP) Richard Hughes Hiroshima (10) John Hersey His Enemy, His Friend (10) John Tunis Hobbit, The (10-12) J. R. R. Tolkien Home (10) Terry House on Mango Street, The (10) Sandra Cisneros House on the Strand, The (10-11) Daphne Du Maurier Housekeeping (10 H) Marilynne Robinson How Green Was My Valley (11) Richard Llewellyn How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster (10-12) I I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (10-11) Joanne Greenberg I, Robot (10-12) Isaac Asimov Ice Station Zebra (10-12) Alistair MacLean Illiad, The (10 H) Homer In Dubious Battle (10-11) John Steinbeck In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle (11) Madeleine Blais In This Sign (10) Joanne Greenberg Into Thin Air (11) Jon Krakauer Intruder in the Dust (11) William Faulkner Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography (10) Theodora Kroeber J J.B. (12, 12 AP) Archibald MacLeish Jane Eyre (11-12) Charlotte Bronte Jamaica Inn (11) Daphne Du Maurier John Brown’s Body Stephen Vincent Benet Jonathan Livingston Seagull (10-12) Richard Bach Joy in the Morning (10-11) Betty Smith Julius Caesar (10) William Shakespeare Jungle, The (11) Upton Sinclair Jurassic Park (10) Michael Crichton K Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The (10 Basic) Joan Lowery Nixon Killer Angels, The (11) Michael Shaara Killer’s Wake (10) Bernard Cornwell Killing Mr. Griffin Lois Duncan King and I, The (10) Richard Rodgers, Margaret Landon King Lear (12 AP) William Shakespeare Kon-Tiki (10) Thor Heyerdahl L Last Frontier Howard Fast Last of the Breed (10) Louis L’Amour Last Unicorn, The (12) Peter S. Beagle Laughing Boy (11-12) Oliver LaFarge Les Miserables (12) Victor Hugo Lesson Before Dying, A (10-12) Ernest J. Gaines Lifeguard, The (10 Basic) Richie Tankersley Cusick Lisa, Bright and Dark (11) John Neufeld Little World of Don Camillo (10) Giovanni Guareschi Look Homeward Angel (11) Thomas Wolfe Looking Backward (11-12) Edward Bellamy Lord Grizzly (11-12) Fredrick F. Manfred Lord Jim (12 AP) Joseph Conrad Lord of the Flies (10-12) William Golding Lost Horizon (10-11) James Hilton Loved One (12) Evelyn Waugh M Macbeth (12) William Shakespeare Madame Bovary (12 AP) Gustave Flaubert Major Barbara (12, 12 AP) George Bernard Shaw Man for All Seasons, A (12) Robert Bolt Man and Superman (11-12) George Bernard Shaw Martian Chronicles, The (11-12) Ray Bradbury Master and Man (11) Leo Tolstoy Master Builder, The (11-12) Henrik Ibsen Mayor of Casterbridge, The (12, 12 AP) Thomas Hardy Measure for Measure (12) William Shakespeare Medea Euripides Member of the Wedding (10) Carson McCullers Men at Arms (11-12) Evelyn Waugh Merchant of Venice, The (11) William Shakespeare Metamorphosis, The (12) Franz Kafka Midsummer Night’s Dream, A William Shakespeare Milo Train Louis L’Amour Misanthrope, The (10-12) Moliere Mississippi Trial, 1955 (10-12) Chris Crowe Moby Dick (10-11) Herman Melville Monkey Bridge(12, AP) Lan Cao Monster Walter Dean Myers Mountain Man (12) Vardis Fisher Mouse That Roared, The (11-12) Leonard Wibberly Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (10) Ann Head Mrs. Warren’s Profession (11-12) George Bernard Shaw Much Ado About Nothing (10-12) William Shakespeare Murder in the Cathedral (12) Thomas S. Eliot My Antonia (11) Willa Cather My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok My Several Worlds (11) Pearl S. Buck My Sweet Charlie (10) David Westheimer Mythology (10) Edith Hamilton N Nambe (10-12) Orlando Romero Native Son (11) H Richard Wright Nectar in a Sieve (10-11) Kamala Markandaya Needles in the Timestack (10-12) R. Silverberg Never to Forget Milton Meltzer Night (10-12) Elie Wiesel Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The (11) Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 1984 (11-12) George Orwell No Promises in the Wind (10-12) Irene Hunt Nobody Don't Love Nobody Stacey Bess (11-12 Elem Internship) Not Without My Daughter (12) Betty Mahmoody Noon Wine (11-12, 10 H) Katherine Anne Porter O O Pioneers! (11-12) Willa Cather October Sky (Rocket Boys) (10) Homer Hickam, Jr. Obasan (11H & AP) Joy Kogawa Odyssey, The (10-12) Homer Oedipus Trilogy (12, 12 AP) Sophocles Of Human Bondage (10-11) W. Somerset Maugham Of Mice and Men (10-11) John Steinbeck Of Time and the River (11) Thomas Wolfe Old Man and the Sea, The (10-11) Ernest Hemingway Once and Future King, The (11-12) T. H. White One Child (12) Torey L. Hayden One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (10-11) (Putnam) Alexander Solzhenitsyn Operation: Homefront (10-11) Caroline B. Cooney Ordeal by Hunger (11-12) George Stewart Ordinary People (12th Grade Only) Judith Guest Othello (12) William Shakespeare Our Mother’s House (10-11) Thornton Wilder Ox-Bow Incident (11) Walter Van Tilburg Clark P Parallel Journeys (10-12) Eleanor Ayer Pardon Me, You’re Stepping On My Eyeball! Paul Zindel Pearl, The (10) John Steinbeck People of Darkness (10-12) Tony Hillerman Pericles (12) William Shakespeare Personalities & Problems (AP World History, Ken Wolf World Civ) Pickwick Papers, The (10-11) Charles Dickens Picture of Dorian Gray, The (10-11) Oscar Wilde Playboy of the Western World, The (12) John M. Synge Plague, The (12) Albert Camus Portrait of an Artist (12) Grahame Greene Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (12) James Joyce Power and the Glory, The (Honors) Graham Greene Pride and Prejudice (12) Jane Austen Princess Bride (11) William Goldman Promise, The (11-12) Chaim Potok Pudd'nhead Wilson (11) Mark Twain Puppet Masters, The (10-12) Robert A. Heinlein Pygmalion (12) George Bernard Shaw R Raisin in the Sun, A (11) Lorraine Hansberry Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier Red Badge of Courage, The (11) Stephen Crane Red Pony, The (10) John Steinbeck Red Roses for Me (11-12) Sean O’Casey Red Sky at Morning (11-12) Richard Bradford Reivers, The (12) William Faulkner Rendezvous With Rama Arthur Clarke Return of the Native, The (12, 12 AP) Thomas Hardy Ringworld (10-12) Larry Niven Rise of Silas Lapham (11) William Dean Howells Rivals, The (11-12) Richard B. Sheridan River Runs Through It, A (12 AP, Jr. Honors) Norman Maclean Robber’s Roost (10) Zane Grey Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead (12 AP) Tom Stoppard Royal Hunt of the Sun (11-12) Peter Shaffer S Saint Joan (12) George Bernard Shaw Scarlet Letter, The (11) Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet Pimpernel, The (12 Basic) Baroness Orczy School for Scandal, The (11-12) Richard Sheridan Searchers, The (10) Alan LeMay Secret Life of Bees, The (10-12) Sue Monk Kidd Secret Sharer, The (11-12) Joseph Conrad Secret Woman, The (11-12) Victoria Holt Seedfolks (10) Paul Fleishman Separate Peace, A (11) John Knowles Seven Days in May (10-12) Charles Bailey & Fletcher Knebel Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The (11-12) Nicholas Meyer She Stoops to Conquer (11-12) Oliver Goldsmith Shoeless Joe (10 H - 11) W. P. Kinsella Seize the Day (11-12) Saul Bellow Siddhartha (11-12) Hermann Hesse Silas Marner (10) George Eliot Single Pebble (10) John Hersey Sister Carrie (11-12) Theodore Dreiser Sketch Book, The (11) Washington Irving Slam (10-12) Walter Dean Myers Sound and the Fury, The (11-12) William Faulkner Sound of Summer Voices, The (10) Helen Tucker Speak (10-12) Laurie Halse Anderson Spoon River Anthology (11) Edgar Lee Masters Staggerford (12 only) Jon Hassler Steppenwolf (12) Hermann Hesse Stories From the Twilight Zone (10) Rod Serling Stranger, The (12) Albert Camus Stranger in a Strange Land (10) Robert A. Heinlein Stranger is Watching, A (10) Motivational Mary Higgins Clark Stranger With My Face (10) Lois Duncan Summer of Fear (10) Lois Duncan Sun Also Rises, The (11) Ernest Hemingway Swallowing Stones (10 Basic) Joyce McDonald Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune (10) Robin F. Brancato T Tale of Two Cities, A (10, 10H) Charles Dickens Taming of the Shrew, The (12) William Shakespeare Tartuffe (10-12) Moliere Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs Tempest, The William Shakespeare Tess of the D’Urbervilles (11-12) Thomas Hardy Their Eyes Were Watching God (12 AP, Jr. Honors) Zora Neale Hurston Thief of Time, A (11) Tony Hillerman Things Fall Apart (10H-12) Chinua Achebe This Hallowed Ground (11) Bruce Catton Thread That Runs So True, The (10) Jesse Stuart Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (10) Betty Smith Three Sisters (11) Anton Chekhov Thunder on Sycamore Street (10) Reginald Rose To Kill a Mockingbird (10-12) Harper Lee Tortilla Flat (11) John Steinbeck To Sir, With Love (10) E. R. Braithwaite Touching the Void Joe Simpson Travels With Charley (11) John Steinbeck Tuesdays with Morrie (10-12) Mitch Albom Tunes for Bears to Dance To (Basic) Robert Cormier Turn of the Screw, The (12) Henry James Twelve Angry Men (11) Reginald Rose Twelfth Night (10-12) William Shakespeare 2001: A Space Odyssey (10-11) Arthur Clarke U U.S.A. John Dos Passos Up the Down Staircase Bel Kaufman V Volpone (12 AP) Ben Jonson Victory (11-12) Joseph Conrad Vicar of Wakefield, The (12) Oliver Goldsmith W Walk Across America, A Peter Jenkins Walking Across Egypt (10) Clyde Edgerton Walking Drum, The (12) Louis L’Amour Warriors Don’t Cry (l0-12) Melba Beals Washington Square (11 H-12) Henry James Way to Rainy Mountain (10) N. Scott Momaday We Have Always Lived in the Castle (10) Shirley Jackson Web and the Rock, The (11-12) Thomas Wolfe When The Legends Die (10) Hal Borland When Michael Calls (10) John Farris Where Eagles Dare (10-11) Alistair MacLean Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, MD (11-12 Work-based Learning) Wide Sargasso Sea (12AP ISBN 0-393-30880-4 only) Jean Rhys Wild Duck, The (12, 12AP) Henrik Ibsen Winds of War, The Herman Wouk Winesburg, Ohio (11) Sherwood Anderson Winter of Our Discontent, The John Steinbeck Woman of the People, A (10) Benjamin Capps Would-Be Gentleman, The (10-12) Moliere Wuthering Heights (11-12) Emily Bronte Y You Can’t Go Home Again (10-11) Thomas Wolfe Z Zoo Story, The (11H) Edward Albee