These titles are ones adopted by the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System for use inside its Grades 9-12 English classrooms for 2005-2007.
GRADE 9
Required Selections:
The Odyssey by Homer
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Optional:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
Deathwatch by Robb White
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Dust Tracks by Zora Neale Hurston
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry and Hortense at Hormone High by Paul Zindel
A Heart Divided by J. Gottesfeld; C. Bennett
Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare
Miracle Worker by Annie Sullivan
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Oedipus by Sophocles
Pigman by Paul Zindel
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Run for Your Life by Marilyn Levy
Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones
A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark
The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Troy by Adele Geras
Short Stories:
"Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird"
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
"Harrison Bergeron"
"Marigolds"
"The Most Dangerous Game"
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
"Poison"
"The Scarlet Ibis"
"Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes
GRADE 10
Required Selections:
Antigone by Sophocles
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Select One of the Following Required Plays:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Optional:
After the First Death by Robert Cormier
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolph Anaya
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
1984 by George Orwell
No Longer at Ease (sequel to Things Fall Apart) by Chinua Achebe
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne F. Staples
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Watership Down by Richard Adams
GRADE 11
Required Selections for Advanced:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Required for All Juniors:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Next 3 Required Items - Choose 1 for Average and 2 for Advanced:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Optional:
All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
Inherit the Wind by J. Lawrence & R.E. Lee
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Night Rider by Robert Penn Warren
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by J. Lawrence & R. E. Lee
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong-Kingston
GRADE 12
Required Selections:
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by Milton
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience by Blake
Optional:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Optional for Advanced and AP:
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Grendel by John Gardner
Medea
Othello by William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Optional for AP:
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Page Updated and Maintained by Scott Davis, LMS - 20 April 2006
