Non-11th Grade Reading List

Here’s the official reading list. If you would like to suggest a book be added to the list, please post your suggestion in the comment thread, below.

Official Reading List

Books	Genre	Pages	Description
Abbey, Edward – The Monkeywrench Gang	Comedy/Drama	480 pgs.	An eco-gang vandalizes development of open spaces in Southern Utah.
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice	Classic	320 pgs.	An woman tries not to fall in love with an unlikable rich man.
Auster, Paul – Moon Palace	Magical Realism	320 pgs.	A young man finds out about his family.
Auster, Paul – Mr. Vertigo	Magical Realism	304 pgs.	A boy is taught to levitate as a sideshow act.
Bach, Richard – Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Existentialist Drama	112 pgs.	A fable of a seagull that seeks a higher purpose than conformity.
Bester, Alfred – The Stars My Destination	Science Fiction	272 pgs.	The Count of Monte Cristo in space.
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451	Science Fiction	208 pgs.	In the future “firemen” burn all books.
Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles	Science Fiction	192 pgs.	Short stories about life on Mars.
Capote, Truman  – Breakfast At Tiffany’s	Drama	100 pgs.	A writer makes friends with a society girl.
Capote, Truman  – Other Voices, Other Rooms	Drama/Coming of Age	240 pgs.	A boy goes to live with crazy relatives.
Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game	Science Fiction	384 pgs.	A boy is sent to army camp on a space station.
Chbosky, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Drama	224 pgs.	A boy makes friends in high school.
Chevalier, Tracy – Girl with a Pearl Earring	Drama	240 pgs.	A girl is hired as a maid for a Dutch painter in the 17th century.
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening	Drama	192 pgs.	A woman leaves her family to search for fulfillment.
Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist	Fantasy	208 pgs.	A boy travels from Spain to Africa to search for treasure.
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities	Drama/Classic	544 pgs.	A family struggles through the French Revolution.
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations	Drama/Classic	544 pgs.	An orphan is given an inheritance.
Egan, Greg – Permutation City	Hard Science Fiction	352 pgs.	A theoretical world is created on a computer network.
Eggers, Dave – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Memoir/Drama/Non-Fiction	496 pgs.	A young man tries to raise his little brother in San Francisco.
Eugenides, Jeffery – Middlesex: A Novel	Drama	544 pgs.	A narrator tells the story of his Greek family.
Eugenides, Jeffery – The Virgin Suicides	Drama	224 pgs.	The story of six sisters in suburban Michigan in the ’60’s.
Frazier, Charles – Cold Mountain	Drama/Historical	464 pgs.	A man abandons the Civil War to return to a girl back home.
Gibran, Kahlil – The Prophet	Drama	107 pgs.	A man tells what he’s learned in life.
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies	Drama/Classic	192 pgs.	Children crash land on an island and create a society.
Guterson, David – Snow Falling on Cedars	Drama	460 pgs.	A reporter witnesses racism in a murder trial on an island in Puget Sound during the late ‘40s.
Goldman, William – The Princess Bride	Fantasy	416 pgs.	A man rescues his true love from an unwanted marriage.
Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mystery	226 pgs.	An autistic boy solves the mystery of a dog’s murder.
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms	Drama	336 pgs.	A soldier tries to escape the horrors of WWI with a nurse.
Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls	Drama	480 pgs.	An American aids guerillas and falls in love in the Spanish Civil War.
Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and the Sea	Drama	128 pgs.	An old man catches a big fish.
Hemingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises	Drama	256 pgs.	A man fails to connect with a woman during the bull fights in Pamplona.
Hoffman, Alice – Seventh Heaven	Magical Realism/Drama	276 pgs.	A series of neighbor’s stories are revealed in 1960’s Long Island.
Hesse, Herman – Siddhartha	Drama	224 pgs.	A man changes lives several lifestyles seeking enlightenment.
Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables	Drama/Classic	1488 pgs.	A convict raises an orphan against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World	Drama/Classic	288 pgs.	A man fails to integrate into a conformist dystopian society.
Hughart, Barry – Eight Skilled Gentlemen	Fantasy/Mystery	268 pgs.	An ancient Chinese sage investigates a murder.
Irving, John – The Cider House Rules	Drama	576 pgs.	An orphan becomes an orchardman rather than perform abortions at his orphanage.
Kerouac, Jack – On the Road	Drama/Memoir	304 pgs.	A man relates his travels with wild friends across America in the 1950’s.
Kerouac, Jack – The Dharma Bums	Drama	224 pgs.	A man compares his wild city life and his slower life out in nature.
King, Stephen – Hearts in Atlantis	Drama/Fantasy	688 pgs.	Stories intertwine around events in the character’s lives in the 60’s.
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible	Drama	576 pgs.	A girl goes to The Congo with her Baptist missionary family in the ’60’s.
Knowles, John – A Separate Peace	Drama/Young Adult/Classic	208 pgs.	A man revisits his youth at an exclusive eastern prep school.
Konigsburg, E.L. – From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Drama/Newberry/Kid’s	176 pgs.	Two children run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Krakauer, John – Into Thin Air	Memoir/Drama/Non-Fiction	368 pgs.	The real life story of the greatest tragedy on Mt. Everest.
L’Amour, Louis – The Walking Drum	Adventure/Historical	480 pgs.	An 11th century man seeks his father from France to the Persian Empire.
Larson, Erik – The Devil in the White City	Non-Fiction/Historical	447 pgs.	The history of the 1893 world fair and a serial killer active at the time.
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mocking Bird	Drama/Classic	288 pgs.	A girl’s father defends a black man accused of rape in the Depression era South.
Leiber, Fritz – The Green Millennium	Science Fiction	153 pgs.	A loser is only happy in the presence of a green cat.
L’Engle, Madeline – A Wrinkle in Time	Science Fiction	224 pgs.	A girl searches for her father by bending space and time.
Lewis, C.S. – Till We Have Faces	Fantasy	313 pgs.	A young woman struggles when her sister is kidnapped by a god.
Martin, Steve – Shopgirl	Drama	144 pgs.	A young woman is wooed by an older man.
Martin, Steve – The Pleasure of My Company	Comedy/Drama	176 pgs.	An emotionally disturbed man befriends a woman next door.
McCarthy, Cormac – No Country for Old Men	Drama	320 pgs.	A man runs from a killer sent to retrieve a bag of money he stole.
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir	Memoir/Drama/Non-Fiction	368 pgs.	A man relates his childhood growing up poor in Ireland.
McCullers, Carson – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	Drama	368 pgs.	Several characters long for emotional connections in ’30’s Georgia.
Morrow, James – Towing Jehovah	Fantasy	384 pgs.	A disgraced ships captain tows God’s giant corpse to the Arctic for burial.
Paterson, Katherine – Jacob Have I Loved	Drama/Young Adult	256 pgs.	A girl grows up feeling unloved on an island in the Chesapeake Bay.
Pierce, Meredith Anne – The Darkangel	Fantasy/Young Adult	256 pgs.	A girl is kidnapped to be a vampire’s maid but falls in love with him.
Plummer, Louise – The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeir	Drama/Young Adult	136 pgs.	A Dutch girl must adjust to her new life in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Potok, Chaim  – My Name is Asher Lev	Drama	384 pgs.	An orthodox Jewish boy must choose between religion and painting.
Proulx, E. Annie – The Shipping News	Drama	352 pgs.	A man moves his daughters to Newfoundland and rediscovers his heritage.
Raskin, Ellen – The Westing Game	Drama/Newberry/Kid’s	192 pgs.	Heirs of a rich man gather in their apartment building to solve his murder.
Salinger, JD  – Catcher in the Rye	Drama	288 pgs.	A boy runs away from school as his life unravels in New York City.
Stegner, Wallace – Angle of Repose	Drama/Historical	592 pgs.	A paraplegic narrates his grandparents lives in the West.
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath	Drama	464 pgs.	An depression era family struggles to stay together as they migrate west.
Steinbeck, John – The Pearl	Drama	96 pgs.	A Mexican pearl diver tries to sell a huge black pearl to save his sick son.
Steinbeck, John – The Winter of Our Discontent	Drama	288 pgs.	A man abandons his high ideals to try to win wealth and respect.
Steinbeck, John – East of Eden	Drama	601 pgs.	Cain and Abel’s story is retold over two generations of an American family.
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings	Fantasy	1216 pgs.	A hobbit tries to destroy a ring to save the world from evil.
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Drama/Classic	320 pgs.	An orphan runs away with a slave and travels down the Mississippi River.
White, T.H. – The Once and Future King	Fantasy	639 pgs.	King Arthur is trained by Merlin how to rule.
Wolfe, Thomas – Look Homeward, Angel	Drama/Coming of Age	544 pgs.	A boy grows up in rural North Carolina.
Yoshikawa, Eiji – Musashi	Adventure/Historical	970 pgs.	A wild man becomes the greatest samurai in Japanese history.