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How many a man can date a new era in his life from the reading of a book  --Thoreau

 

10th Grade Reading List

Man vs. Man
Man vs. Society/Technology
Author Title IHS Holdings
Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  
Angelou Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Back to Life  
Armstrong It's Not About the Bike  
Black Elk Black Elk Speaks  
Hahn-Beer The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust  
Hersey Hiroshima  
Kafka The Metamorphosis  
Katz Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho  
Lawrence Piano  
L'Engle Camilla  
Maguire Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister  
Malamud The Natural  
Mathaban Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa  
McCullers Member of the Wedding  
Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac: Heroic Comedy in Five Acts  
Shakespeare The Tempest  
Shute A Town Like Alice  
Silltoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner  
Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  
Sophocles Oedipus the King  
Sparks A Walk to Remember  
Spiegelman Maus: A Survivor's Tale  
Tan The Kitchen God's Wife  
Tate Little X Growing Up in the Nation of Islam  
Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich  
Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4  
Tyler The Accidental Tourist  
Wiesel Night  
     
Author Title IHS Holdings
Achebe Things Fall Apart
Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies  
Austen Emma  
Austen Sense and Sensibility  
Azuela The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution  
Bellamy Looking Backward: 2000-1887  
Hale The Owl's Song  
Hesse Steppenwolf  
Hillerman Dance Hall of the Dead  
Hillerman Skinwalkers  
Hugo Les Miserables  
Hunter-Gault In My Place  
Huxley Brave New World  
Ibsen A Doll's House  
Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible  
KIass Danger Zone  
Kogawa Obasan  
Malamud The Assistant  
Markandaya Nector in a Sieve  
McCammon Boy's Life  
McCrumb The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter  
Pyle The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood  
Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front  
Renault The King Must Die  
Riveria And the Earth Did Not Devour Him  
Sanders Clover  
Shakespeare Julius Ceasar  
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice  
Shute A Town Like Alice  
Sophocles Antigone  
Thornton Ditch Digger's Daughters: A Black Family Success Story  
Turtledove The Guns of the South  
Williams Then Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune  
Woulk The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of War II  

 

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