COLLEGE PREP
CORE LITERATURE BOOK LIST
SAMPLE OF APPROPRIATE WORKS: Select at least four books from the list plus two books of student’s choice.
GRADE 9
The Odyssey
The Illiad
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
The Alchemist
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Animal Farm
Our Town
Diary of Anne Frank
GRADE 10
Julius Caesar
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lord of the Flies
Black Boy
This Boy’s Life
The Tempest
Animal Farm
The Good Earth
Anthem
Huckleberry Finn
A Separate Peace
The Diary of Anne Frank
Black Elk Speaks
David Copperfield
Pride and Prejudice
Grade 11
AMERICAN
LITERATURE RECOMMENDED
The Jungle
Black Boy
This Boy’s
Life
The Crucible
Anthem
Huckleberry
Finn
A Separate
Peace
The Great
Gatsby
The Grapes of
Wrath
Of Mice and
Men
Catcher in the
A Raisin in
the Sun
Night
Native Son
My Antonia
The Red Badge
of Courage
The Education
of Little Tree
The Color
Purple
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
The Joy Luck
Club
The Picture
Bride
Black Elk
Speaks
Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin
Billy Budd
Fire Next Time
Life Doesn’t
Frighten Me
Profiles in
Courage
Roots
Many of the authors of the above have other books you can choose from as well. There are also many other quality American authors to look for.
BRITISH AND
GLOBAL LITERATURE RECOMMENDED
Out of
The Illiad
The Divine
Comedy
A Farewell to
Arms
A Tale of Two
Cities
Ceremony
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
Catcher in the
Macbeth
The Tempest
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Candide
A Tale of Two
Cities
Great
Expectations
Crivme and
Punishment
Siddhartha
Antigone
The
War and Peace
Beowulf
Utopia
Hamlet
The Merchant
oof
Nectar in a
Sieve
Pygmalion
Gulliver’s
Travels
1984
Brave New
World
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
The Picture of
Dorian Gray
Anna Karenina
