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Reading List: Grades 9-12

Source: State: Louisiana Department of Education
Topics: Reading, Preteen and Teen Reading, Top High School/Teen Books

Below is list of reading books recommended for teenager in the ninth through twelfth grade.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Twain, Mark

The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald, F. Scott

If Beale Street Could Talk-Baldwin, James

Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck, John

The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway, Ernest

Pride and Prejudice-Austen, Jane

The Red Badge of Courage-Crane, Stephen

The Lord of the Rings-Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Good Earth-Buck, Pearl

Inherit the Wind-Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee

All the King's Men-Warren, Robert Penn

Les Miserables-Hugo, Victor

The Sound and the Fury-Faulkner, William

The Cruel Sea-Monsarrat, Nicholas

Things Fall Apart-Achebe, Chinua

The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer, Geoffrey

Lord Jim-Conrad, Joseph

The Chocolate War-Cormier, Robert

Silas Marner-Eliot, George

The Power and the Glory-Greene, Graham

The Trial-Katka, Franz

Profiles in Courage-Kennedy, John F.

All Quiet on the Western Front-Remarque, Erich Maria

Babbitt-Lewis, Sinclair

The Turn of the Screw-James, Henry

Gulliver's Travels-Swift, Jonathan

Vanity Fair-Thackeray, William Makepeace

Our Town-Wilder, Thornton

The Once and Future King-White, T.H.

Night-Wiesel, Elie

Look Homeward, Angel-Wolfe, Thomas

The Caine Mutiny-Wouk, Herman

Native Son-Wright, Richard

Against All Hope-Valladares, Armando

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