AHS Reading List

Following is the Suggested Reading List for students' four years in the Aquinas High School English Department.  Recommended grade level is noted after the title.  The degree of difficulty is indicated in the last column, with (1) indicating easier reading and (4) indicating more challenging reading.

NOVELS

Achebe Things Fall Apart 9-12 3
Adamson Born Free 9 1
Adams, R. Watership Down 9-12 2
Agee A Death in the Family 12 3
Alcott Little Women 9-12 2
Angelou I Know why the Caged Bird Sings 10-12 2
Armstrong Sounder 9 1
Arnow The Dollmaker 9-12 2
Asimov Foundation Trilogy 9-12 2
I, Robot 9-12 2
Fantastic Voyage 9-12 1
Austen Emma 11-12 4
Pride and Prejudice 11-12 4
Bagnold National Velvet 9 1
Baldwin A Far Country 12 3
Go Tell it on the Mountain 12 3
Ballard Empire of the Sun 9-12 2
Barrett Lillies of the Field 9 1
Berger Little Big Man 10-12 2
Borland When Legends Die 9-12 1
Boule Planet of the Apes 9-12 1
Bradbury Farenheit 451 9-12 2
Martian Chronicles 9-12 2
Something Wicked This Way Comes 9-12 2
Bradley Mists of Avalon 10-12 3
Brink A Dry White Season 12 3
Bronte, C. Jane Eyre 9-12 3
Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights 9-12 3
Brown Manchild in a Promised Land 12 3
Buck The Good Earth 9-12 2
Burgess A Clockwork Orange 11-12 3
Camus The Stranger 12 4
The Plague 12 4
Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop 10-12 2
My Antonia 10-12 2
O Pioneers 10-12 2
Chopin The Awakening 10-12 3
Clark The Ox-Bow Incident 9-12 3
Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 10-12 3
Cooper The Deerslayer 10-12 2
The Last of the Mohicans 10-12 3
Crane The Red Badge of Courage 10-12 2
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 10-12 2
Craven I Heard the Owl Call my Name 9 1
Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 9-12 3
David Copperfield 9-12 3
Great Expectations 9-12 3
Oliver Twist 9-12 3
Doctorow Ragtime 12 2
Dostoevsky Brothers Karamazov 12 4
Crime and Punishment 12 4
Dumas The Three Musketeers 11-12 3
Edgerton Walking Across Egypt 10-12 2
Eliot Adam Bede 12 4
Mill on the Floss 12 4
Silas Marner 10-12 3
Ellison Invisible Man 10-12 3
Faulkner Absalom! Absalom! 12 4
As I Lay Dying 12 4
Intruder in the Dust 10-12 3
Ferber Show Boat 9-12 2
Finney Time and Again 10-12 3
Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 10-12 3
Forbes Mama's Bank Account 9 1
Forster A Passage to India 10-12 2
Graves I, Claudius 12 2
Greene The Heart of the Matter 11-12 3
The Power and the Glory 11-12 3
Gaines  Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 9 1
A Gathering of Old Men 9 2
Golding Lord of the Flies 9-12 2
Goldman Princess Bride 9 1
Green Summer of My German Soldier 9 1
Guest Ordinary People 9-12 2
Guthrie The Big Sky 12 3
Hammett The Maltese Falcon 10-12 2
Hardy Far from the Maddening Croud 11-12 4
Mayor of Castorbridge 11-12 4
Return of the Native 11-12 4
Tess of the D'urbervilles 11-12 4
Hawthorne The House of Seven Gables 10-12 3
Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 10-12 3
Heller Catch-22 12 3
Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 9-12 2
The Sun Also Rises 10-12 3
A Farewell to Arms  10-12 3
Hersey A Bell for Adano 9 1
The Wall 9-10 2
Hilton Lost Horizon 9 1
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 9 1
Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 10-12 3
James Daisy Miller 10-12 3
Washington Square 10-12 3
Kafka The Castle 12 4
Metamorphosis 12 4
The Trial 12 4
Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 10-12 3
Keyes Flowers for Algernon 9-12 1
Kogawa Obasan 12 2
Knowles A Separate Peace 9-10 1
Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 9 1
Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet 12 2
Lewis, Sinclair Arrowsmith 9-12 2
Babbitt 10-12 2
Main Street 10-12 2
Llewellyn How Green was my Valley 9-12 2
London White Fang 9-10 1
Longstreet Georgia Scenes 10-12 2
McCullers Member of the Wedding 9-12 2
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 10-12 3
Malamud The Natural 10-12 2
The Assistant 10-12 3
The Fixer 10-12 3
Mann The Magic Mountain 12 4
Marquez 100 Years of Solitude 12 4
Marshall Christy 9 1
Maugham Of Human Bondage 11-12 4
Melville Moby Dick 10-12 3
Billy Budd 10-12 3
Omoo 9-12 2
Typee 9-12 3
Morrison Beloved 12 3
The Bluest Eye 12 3
Song of Solomon 12 3
Tar Baby 12 3
Naylor Women of Brewster Street 9-10 1
Nichols The Milagro Beanfield War 12 2
O'Conner The Violent Bear it Away 10-12 3
Wise Blood 10-12 3
Orwell Animal Farm 9 1
Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel 9-11 1
Parks The Learning Tree 9 1
Plath The Bell Jar 12 3
Paton Cry, the Beloved Country 111-12 3
Porter Ship of Fools 10-12 3
Potok The Chosen 10-12 3
My Name is Asher Lev 12 2
Portas True Grit 9 1
Rand Anthem 10-12 2
Rawlings The Yearling 9-12 1
Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 9-12 2
Renault Mask of Apollo 12 2
Bull from the Sea 12 2
The King Must Die 12 2
The Praise Singer 12 2
Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 11-12 3
Richter The Light in the Forest 9 1
Salinger Catcher in the Rye 10-12 2
Shoyan The Human Comedy 9-12 1
Sinclair The Jungle 10-12 2
Shaara Killer Angels 10-12 2
Shaefer Shane 9 1
Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 10-12 1
Grapes of Wrath 12 3
In Dubious Battle 12 3
Swarthout Bless the Beasts and the Children 9 1
Tan The Joy Luck Club 10-12 2
Tolkein The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) 9-12 3
The Hobbit 9-12 2
Twain Pudd'n Head Wilson 10-12 2
Tom Sawyer 9-12 1
Life on the Mississippi (non-fiction) 10-12 2
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 10-12 2
The Prince and the Pauper 9-12 2
Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 12 3
Slaughterhouse 5 12 3
Walker The Color Purple 12 2
Warren All the King's Men 10-12 4
Waugh The Loved One 11-12 3
West Miss Lonely Hearts 12 3
The Day of the Locust 12 3
Wharton Ethan Frome 10-12 3
White The Once and Future King 9-12 2
Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey 9-12 1
Ides of March 9-12 1
Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 12 4
Wouk The Cain Mutiny Court-Martial 12 3
Wright Black Boy 10-12 3
Native Son 10-12 3