Florida Public School
Recommended Reading List

9th Grade

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon

Gibbons, Kay. Ellen Foster

Asimov, Isaac. Fantastic Voyage

Boulie, Pierre. Bridge Over the River Kwai

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth

Clark, Walter V. The Ox-Bow Incident

Clarke, Arthur. Childhood's End

Conroy, Pat. The Water is Wide

Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain

Doyle, A. Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles

Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud

Herbert, Frank. Dune

Hersey, John. Hiroshima

Hilton, James. Good-bye, Mr. Chips

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country

Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy

Shute, Nevil. On the Beach

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stuart, Jesse. The Thread That Runs So True

Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings (1-Fellowship of the Ring; 2-The Two Towers; 3-Return of the King)  

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days

Wells, H. G. The Time Machine

Wells, H. G.  War of the Worlds

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

10th Grade:

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men

Welch, James. Fools Crow

Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the Western Front

Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye

Orwell, George. Animal Farm

Agee, James. A Death in the Family

Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Berger, Thomas. Little Big Man

Cather, Willa. My Antonio

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop

Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Greenberg, Joanne. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Mosses from an Old Manse

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt

Lewis, Sinclair  Main Street

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind

Norris, Frank. The Octopus

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar

Poe, Edgar Allan. Short Stories

Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden

Thurber, James. Thurber Country

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi

Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men

Wouk, Herman. Caine Mutiny

11th Grade:

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein

Waugh, Evelyn. The Loved One

Markham, Beryl. West with the Night

Orwell, George. 1984

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest

Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh

Chute, Marchette. Shakespeare of London

Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone

Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim

Conrad, Joseph. Victory

Eliot, George. Adam Bede

Eliot, George. Silas Marner

Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones

Forster, E. M. A Passage to India

Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory

Greene, Graham. The Third Man

Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

Kipling, Rudyard. The Light That Failed

Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers

Maugham, Somerset. Of Human Bondage

Maugham, Somerset. The Razor's Edge

Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe

Sterne, Laurence J. Tristram Shandy

Thackeray, Willam. Vanity Fair

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway

12th Grade:

Camus, Albert. The Stranger

Dickey, James. Deliverance

The Old Testament. Genesis and Exodus

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms

Dickey, James. Deliverance

Heller, Joseph. Catch 22

William, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire

The New Testament. The Gospel according to Luke

Bellow, Saul. Herzog

Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood

Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever

Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy

Farrell, James. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day)

Faulkner, William. Light in August

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night

Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables

Irving, John. The World According to Garp

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road

Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street

Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love

Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural

Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer

Maugham, Somerset. Of Human Bondage

Maugham, Somerset. The Razor's Edge

O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find (short stories)

Oates, Joyce Carol. A Garden of Earthly Delights

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago

Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer

Roth, Philip. Good-bye, Columbus

Roth, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint

Salinger, J. D. Franny and Zooey

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John. East of Eden

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. Cancer Ward

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Styron, William. Sophie's Choice

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina

Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons

Updike, John. Pigeon Feathers

Updike, John. Rabbit Run

Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple

Waugh, Evelyn. The Loved One

Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel

Wolfe, Thomas. You Can't Go Home Again

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse

Wright, Richard. Native Son

Roukes, Nicholas. Art Synecties (Stimulating Creativity in Art)