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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
Zorba the Greek Kazantzakis Nikos  Simon & Schuster Literature Ungraded
Zlata's Diary Filipovic Zlata  Viking / Penguin Enlgihs Humanities I
Z for Zachariah O'Brien Robert C.  Simon & Schuster English 5-6 R
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys Franco, Betsy (editor)
You Don't Know Me Klass, David
Yellow Raft in Blue Water A Dorris Michael  Ingram Literature Ungraded
Year of the Hangman, The Blackwood, Gary
Year of Our Revolutions: New and Selected Stories and Poems, The Ortiz Cofer, Judith
Year of Impossible Goodbyes Choi, Sook Nayul
Wuthering Heights Bronte Emily  Houghton-Mifflin Literature 12C
Wuhu Diary: On Taking MY Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometowm In China Prager, Emily
Wonderful Fool Endo Shusaku 
Women of the Silk Tsukiyama Gail 
Woman Who Walked into Doors The Doyle Roddy 
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts The Kingston Maxine Hong  Permabound English 12
Woman Hollering Creek Cisneros Sandra 
Wolf on the Fold Clarke, Judith
Without Names: A Collection of Poems by Bay Area Pilipino American Writers Ancheta Shirley (editor) 
With Their Eyes: September 11- The View from a High School a Ground Zero Thoms, Annie
Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials Aronson, Marc
Witch Child Rees, Celia
Winter Marsden, John
Wild Ocean: America's Parks Under the Sea Earle Sylvia A. 
Why We Can't Wait King Jr. Martin Luther 
Who's Irish? Jen Gish 
Who Killed My Daughter? Duncan, Lois
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives Flake, Sharon
Whirligig Fleischman Paul 
Whild Meat and the Bully Bugers Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein Silverstein Shel 
Where the Heart Is Letts Billie  Literature
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker Meyer Carolyn 
When the Wind Blows Briggs Raymond 
When the Elelphants Dance: A Novel Holthe, Tess
When My Name Was Keoko Park, Linda Sue
When I Was Puerto Rican Santiago Esmeralda  English 9 & 10
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace Hayslip Le Ly 
What's in a Name? Wittlinger, Ellen
What the Scarcrow Said: A Novel Ikeda, Stewart David
What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. Bennett Jr. Lerone 
What Have You Lost? Nye Naomi Shihab (editor) 
What Happened to Lani Garver Plum-Ucci, Carol
Whale Talk Crutcher, Chris
West Side Story Bernstein Leonard  Ingram Literature Ungraded
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story Ansary, Mir Tamim
Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut Kurt 
Wee Free Men, The Pratchett, Terry
We All Fall Down Cormier Robert 
Way to Rainy Mountain The Momaday N. Scott 
Waterworks The Doctorow E. L. 
Watcher The Howe James 
Warriors Don't Cry Bealls Melba Patillo  Pocket Books English
War of the Worlds The Wells H. G. 
War and Peace Tolstoy Leo 
Walkin' the Dog Mosely Walter 
Walden Thoreau Henry David 
Waiting for the Mahatma Narayan R. K. 
Waiting for the Barbarians Coetzee J. M. 
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Beckett Samuel  Ingram Literature 11 & 12
W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race Hamilton Virginia 
Voices: Poetry and Art from Around the World Brenner, Barbara
Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farm Workers Tell Their Stories Atkin S. Beth 
Vision Quest Davis Terry 
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary Siegal Aranka 
Under the Feet of Jesus Viramontes Helena Maria 
Under the Domim Tree Almagor Gila 
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West Ambrose Stephen E. 
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe Harriet Beecher 
Unattainable Earth Milosz Czeslaw 
Tzili. The Story of a Life Appelfeld Aharon 
Two Trains Running Wilson August 
Twenty Years at Hull-House Addams Jane 
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Verne Jules 
Twelfth Night Shakespeare William 
Turn of the Screw The James Henry 
Tunneling: A Novel Bosworth, Beth
Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Woman, and Life's Greatest Lesson Albom, Mitch
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship Patchett, Ann
True Notebooks Salzman, Mark
True Believer Wolff Virginia Euwer 
Troy Geras, Adele
Trickster's Choice Pierce, Tamora
Trial The Kafka Franz  Inrgam Literature Elective
Tree Grows in Brooklyn A Smith Betty 
Travels with My Aunt Greene Graham 
Town Like Alice A Shute Nevil 
Touching Spirit Bear Mikaelson, Ben
Tortilla Curtain The Boyle T. Coraghessan 
Topdog Underdog Parks Suzan-Lori 
Toning the Sweep Johnson, Angela
Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future Cart Michael (compiler) 
Tomorrow When the War Began Marsden John 
Tombs of Atuan The Le Guin Ursula K. 
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee Harper  Ingram Literature Ungraded
To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family Criddle Joan D. 
To Build a Fire and Other Stories London Jack 
To Be a Slave Lester Julius 
Tituba of Salem Village Petry Ann 
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale Black, Holly
Tin Drum The Grass Gunter 
Time and Again Finney Jack 
Ties That Bind, Ties that Break: A Novel Namioja, Lensey
Thursday's Child Hartnett, Sonya
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Irag Al-Windawi, Thura
Threepenny Opera The Brecht Bertolt 
Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms Strange Interlude Mourning Becomes Electra O'Neill Eugene 
Three Musketeers The Dumas Alexandre 
Thousand Cranes Kawabata Yasunar 
Thousand Acres A Smiley Jane 
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World Nye Naomi Shihab (editor) 
This Migrant Earth Rivera Tomas 
This I Remember Roosevelt Eleanor 
Thirty-nine Steps The Buchan John
Thirsty Anderson, M.T.
Thinner King Stephen 
Things They Carried The O'Brien Tim 
Things Not Seen Clements, Andrew Puffin 9th English Lit
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writings by Teenage Girls Franco, Betsy (editor)
Things Fall Apart Achebe Chinua  Humanities
Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston Zora Neale  Permabound English 11AP
That Was Then, This Is Now Hinton, S. E. Ingram Literature 9
That Summer Dessen, Sarah
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Hardy Thomas  Literature 12
Temple of the Golden Pavilion The Mishima Yukio 
Tempest The Shakespeare William 
Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art The Penn W. S. (editor) 
Tell Me That You Love Me Junie Moon Kellogg Marjorie B. 
Tell Me a Riddle Olsen Tillie 
Tearing the Silence: Being German in America Hegi Ursula 
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti A Temple Frances 
Tangerine Bloor Edward 
Taming of the Shrew The Shakespeare William 
Talk Before Sleep Berg Elizabeth 
Tales from the Secret Annex Frank Anne 
Tales from Shakespeare Lamb Charles 
Tales from Shakespeare Lamb Mary 
Tale of Two Cities A Dickens Charles  Ingram Literature Ungraded
Tale of the Unknown Island The Saramago Jose 
Tale of One Bad Rat The Talbot Bryan 
Takeoff: The Pilot's Lore Del Giudice Daniele 
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom Alvarez Walter 
Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and Without My Dad Campbell Bebe Moore 
Sweet Hereafter The Banks Russell 
Sweat: Stories and a Novella Bledsoe Lucy Jane 
Sun Also Rises The Hemingway Ernest 
Stuck in Neutral Trueman Terry 
Streetcar Named Desire A Williams Tennessee 
Street The Petry Ann 
Stravaganza: City of Masks Hoffman, Mary
Stranger The Camus Albert  Ingram Literature Elective