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

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