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Recommended Literature List (9th-12th Grade)
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Grossmont Literature List (grades 9-12)


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Title Author Publisher Subject Area
People's History of the United States: 1492-Present A Zinn Howard 
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Zindel Paul 
Briar Rose Yolen, Jane
Girl in a Cage Yolen, Jane
Dragon's Blood Yolen Jane 
Whild Meat and the Bully Bugers Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
Soldier X Wulffson Don 
Monkey: A Journey to the West Wu Cheng En 
Black Boy Wright Richard  Harper & Row Literature 11A & 11C
Native Son Wright Richard  Harper & Row Literature 11 & 12
Selected Poems Wordsworth William 
Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf Woolf Virginia 
Hush Woodson, Jacqueline
If You Come Softly Woodson Jacqueline 
Miracle's Boys Woodson Jacqueline 
True Believer Wolff Virginia Euwer 
Right Stuff The Wolfe Tom 
Look Homeward Angel Wolfe Thomas 
Hard Love Wittlinger, Ellen
Long Night of Leo and Bree, The Wittlinger, Ellen
What's in a Name? Wittlinger, Ellen
Riders The Winton Tim 
Growing Wings Winter, Laurel
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned Winick, Judd
Fences Wilson August 
Piano Lesson The Wilson August 
Two Trains Running Wilson August 
Doomsday Book Willis, Connie
Everytime a Rainbow Dies Williams-Garcia, Rita
Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues Williams, Lori Aurelia
Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems Williams, Julie
Glass Menagerie The Williams Tennessee  Ingram Literature 10H
Streetcar Named Desire A Williams Tennessee 
Best Seat in the House Wiley Ralph 
Bridge of San Luis Rey The Wilder Thornton 
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Wilder Thornton  Harper & Row Literature 11C
Jinx Wild, Margaret
Accident The Wiesel Elie 
Dawn Wiesel Elie 
Night Wiesel Elie  Permabound English 3/4C
Come Together: John Lennon in His Time Wiener Jon 
Brothers and Keepers Wideman John Edgar 
Philadelphia Fire Wideman John Edgar 
Leaves of Grass Whitman Walt  Ingram Literature Ungraded
Homeless Bird Whelan Gloria 
Age of Innocence The Wharton Edith 
Gulf Westall Robert 
Black Mirror Werlin, Nancy
Double Helix: A Novel Werlin, Nancy
Empire of the Ants Werber Bernard 
Little Altars Everywhere Wells Rebecca 
Island of Dr. Moreau The Wells H. G. 
War of the Worlds The Wells H. G. 
From One Experience to Another Weiss M. Jerry (editor) 
Stone-Cutter Watts, Leander
Pain Tree and Other Teenage Angst Ridden Poetry The Watson Esther Pearl (editor) 
Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories By and About Black Women Washington Mary Helen (editor) 
Boat to Nowhere A Wartski Maureen Crane 
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers Ward Andrew 
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess Walters Joseph 
Restless: A Ghost's Story Wallace, Rich
Jubilee Walker Margaret 
Color Purple The Walker Alice  Literature Multi-Cultural 12
Daughter's Keeper Waldman, Ayelet
Girl in Hyacinth Blue Vreeland Susan 
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut Kurt  Ingram Literature Elective
Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut Kurt 
Sorrows of Young Werther The von Goethe Johann Wolfgang 
Candide Voltaire Francois  Penguin Enlgish AP
Aeneid The Virgil 
Under the Feet of Jesus Viramontes Helena Maria 
Rain of Gold Villasenor Victor  Literature Multi-Cultural
Motherland: A Novel Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Verne Jules 
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Vargas Llosa Mario 
Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories van Gulik Robert 
Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery The van Gulik Robert 
Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stephan K. van Dijk Lutz 
Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares Valladares Armando 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Ung, Luong
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family Uchida Yoshiko 
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler Anne  Berkley Publications Lit 11A-12H : Out of Print
Little Too Much Is Enough A Tyau Kathleen 
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Twain Mark 
Autobiography of Mark Twain Twain Mark 
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Twain Mark  Airmont Literature 11C
Prince and the Pauper The Twain Mark 
Learning to Swim: A Memoir Turner, Ann Warren
Women of the Silk Tsukiyama Gail 
Johnny Got His Gun Trumbo Dalton  Ingram Literature 10 & 11
Inside Out Trueman, Terry
Stuck in Neutral Trueman Terry 
Felicia's Journey Trevor William 
Leopard The Tomasi di Lampedusa Giuseppe 
Anna Karenina Tolstoy Leo 
War and Peace Tolstoy Leo 
Pain Tree and Other Teenage Angst Ridden Poetry The Todd Mark (editor) 
My World and Welcome to It Thurber James 
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays Thoreau Henry David 
Walden Thoreau Henry David 
With Their Eyes: September 11- The View from a High School a Ground Zero Thoms, Annie
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Thompson Kathleen 
Gathering of Flowers: Stories About Being Young in America, A Thomas, Joyce Carol (editor)
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher The Thomas Lewis 
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti A Temple Frances 
Land The Taylor Mildred D.
House That Crack Built The Taylor Clark 
And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps Tateishi, John
Joy Luck Club Tan Amy  Ingram Linterature 12H
Kitchen God's Wife The Tan Amy 
Tale of One Bad Rat The Talbot Bryan 
Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood 1975-1980 The Szymusiak Molyda 
Playboy of the Western World; and Riders to the Sea The Synge J. M. 
Gulliver's Travels Swift Jonathan  Permabound Literature 11 & 12
Bless the Beasts and Children Swarthout Glendon  Pocket Books Literature Ungraded
Road to Camlann: The Death of King Arthur Sutcliff Rosemary 
Golem's Mighty Swing Sturm, James
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Strempek Shea Suzanne 
Chandra's Secrets Stratton, Alan
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe Harriet Beecher 
Dracula Stoker Bram 
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Stevenson Robert Louis 
Cannery Row Steinbeck John  Bantam Books Literature Elective
East of Eden Steinbeck John  Penguin American Literature 11
Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck John  Penguin Literature 11 & 12
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck John  Ingram Literature 10
Pearl The Steinbeck John  Ingram Literature 9C
Angle of Repose Stegner Wallace 
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California Stanley Jerry 
John and Abigail Adams: An American Love Story St. George Judith 
Milkweed: A Novel Spinelli, Jerry
Stargirl Spinelli, Jerry
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Spiegelman Art  Humanities Experimental
Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began Spiegelman Art 
Afterlife, The Soto, Gary
Antigone Sophocles 
Oedipus the King Sophocles 
Land of Bliss, The Song,Cathy
Stop Pretending Sones Sonya 
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isaevich  Demco's Literature 11 & 12
Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy A Solomon Robert C. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Sobel Dava 
Nothing but the Truth: A Play Smith Ronn 
Tree Grows in Brooklyn A Smith Betty 
Thousand Acres A Smiley Jane 
Parasite Pig Sleator, William
Face Relations: Eleven Stories About Seeing Beyond Color Singer, Marilynne
Enemies, a Love Story Singer, Isaac Bashevis 
Certificate The Singer Isaac Bashevis 
Jungle The Sinclair Upton  Ingram Literature Ungraded