1. Little Women or Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
2. The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet 3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 5. Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; 6. In Search of History by Theodore White 7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 8. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 10. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 11. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 12. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 13. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 14. Hiroshima by John Hersey 15. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe 16. The Iliad by Homer 17. The Call of the Wild by Jack London 18. Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift 19. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 20. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Grade 10:
1. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
2. My Antonia or O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 3. Great Expectations or Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 5. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 6. A Farewell to Arms or collected short stories by Ernest Hemingway 7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 8. Animal Farm by George Orwell 9. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 10. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 11. Midsummer Nights Dream or Othello by William Shakespeare 12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 13. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 14. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 15. Our Town by Thornton Wilder 16. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington 17. All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren 18. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 19. Antigone by Sophocles 20. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Grade 11:
1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Macbeth or King Henry V by William Shakespeare 3. The Cherry Orchard or Three Sisters by Anton Chekov 4. Native Son by Richard Wright 5. The Bonesetters Daughter or The Kitchen Gods Wife by Amy Tan 6. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 7. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 8. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin 11. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 14. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 16. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 18. Going After Cacciato by Tim OBrien 19. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 20. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Grade 12:
1. Jude the Obscure or The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
2. Richard II, The Tempest, or King Lear by William Shakespeare 3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 4. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood 5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 6. Cannery Row or East of Eden by John Steinbeck 7. The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 8. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9. The Iceman Cometh or Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene ONeill 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 11. A Dolls House or An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 12. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 14. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 15. Paradise Lost by John Milton 16. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 17. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee 18. The Stranger by Albert Camus 19. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 20. Emma by Jane Austin