Ninth/Tenth Grade Supplemental Reading List
The following list of books is offered as a guide to one of life's continuing necessities and pleasures. Students should attempt to read a variety of works to maintain and broaden their reading ability and experience. The following are offered as suggested works.
§ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy§ Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
§ Isaac Asimov, I Robot
§ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
§ Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
§ Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
§ Michelle Cliff, Abeng
§ Robert Creamer, Babe
§ Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
§ Paul Davies, Are We Alone?
§ Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
§ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
§ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
§ Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
§ Richard Feynmann, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
§ Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
§ Peter Golenbock, Bums
§ Edith Hamilton, Mythology
§ Mark Harris, Bang the Drum Slowly
§ Sam Harrison, Walls of Blue Coquino
§ Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories
§ John Hersey, A Bell for Adano
§ John Hersey, Hiroshima
§ Paul Hoffman, Archimedes Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics
§ Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees / § Jamaica Kinkaid, A Small Place
§ John Knowles, A Separate Peace
§ Lawrence M. Krauss, The Physics of Star Trek
§ Walter Lord, A Night to Remember
§ Felix Markham, Napoleon
§ Nicholas Meyer, The Seven Percent Solution
§ Walter Miller, A Canticle for Liebowitz
§ Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
§ Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
§ George Orwell, Collected Essays
§ Reynolds Price, A Long and Happy Life
§ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
§ Allan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
§ Brent Staples, Growing Up in Black and White
§ Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
§ Bram Stoker, Dracula
§ James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
§ James Thurber, Fables for Our Time
§ Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland
§ T. H. White, The Once and Future King
§ Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life
§ Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
§ Richard Wright, Black Boy