All Freshman:
Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Choice:
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Hauggard
The Bleachers by John Grisham
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
All Sophomores:
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
College Prep:
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
An Educated Death by Kate Flora
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Honors Required:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
All Juniors:
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
College Prep:
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Color of Water by James McBride
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Honors Required:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
All Seniors:
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
College Prep:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sajie
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Escape from Slavery by Francis Bok
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
(or books from Honors or Advanced Placement)
Honors:
The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Advanced Placement:
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster
Spring Snow by Yuskio Mishima
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Additional Recommended (Not Required) Texts:
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the King’s Men (film) by Steven Zaillian
The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease