Grades 9-12

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Short stories

55 titles · One sitting, one story.

2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut Grades 10-12short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Grades 10-12short story Araby James Joyce Grades 10-12short story Bartleby Herman Melville Grades 11-12short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 9-12short story The Bet Anton Chekhov Grades 9-12short story Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12short story The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft Grades 10-12short story The Colour Out of Space H. P. Lovecraft Grades 9-12short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 9-12short story The Dead James Joyce Grade 12short story Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin Grades 10-12short story The Dunwich Horror H. P. Lovecraft Grades 10-12short story The Eatonville Anthology Zora Neale Hurston Grades 9-12short story Eveline James Joyce Grades 10-12short story The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Grades 10-12short story The Furnished Room O. Henry Grades 10-12short story Gambler's World Keith Laumer Grades 9-12short story The Goophered Grapevine Charles W. Chesnutt Grades 10-12short story The Hanging Stranger Philip K. Dick Grades 10-12short story Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12short story The Inimitable Jeeves (selected stories) P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12short story Jeeves Takes Charge P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12short story The Killers Ernest Hemingway Grades 9-12short story Little Brother Cory Doctorow Grades 9-12short story Lord Peter Views the Body (selected stories) Dorothy L. Sayers Grades 9-12short story The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Grades 10-12short story Mr. Spaceship Philip K. Dick Grades 9-12short story The Mysterious Mr. Quin (selected stories) Agatha Christie Grades 9-12short story Omnilingual H. Beam Piper Grades 9-12short story The Open Boat Stephen Crane Grades 10-12short story Passing Nella Larsen Grades 11-12short story Paul's Case Willa Cather Grades 11-12short story Pickman's Model H. P. Lovecraft Grades 10-12short story Pillar of Fire Ray Bradbury Grades 9-12short story The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe Grades 9-12short story The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe Grades 9-12short story Pygmalion's Spectacles Stanley G. Weinbaum Grades 9-12short story Red Nails (Conan) Robert E. Howard Grades 10-12short story The Rich Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 11-12short story Second Variety Philip K. Dick Grades 10-12short story Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Grades 11-12short story The Skull Philip K. Dick Grades 9-12short story The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Grades 11-12short story The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin Grades 10-12short story The Street That Wasn't There Clifford D. Simak Grades 9-12short story The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12short story The Tunnel Under the World Frederik Pohl Grades 9-12short story The Variable Man Philip K. Dick Grades 9-12short story Very Good, Jeeves (selected stories) P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12short story Watchbird Robert Sheckley Grades 9-12short story Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers Grades 9-12short story Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 9-12short story The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Grades 11-12short story Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Grades 10-12short story

Poems

15 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.

"Out, Out—" Robert Frost Grades 10-12poem America Claude McKay Grades 10-12poem Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson Grades 9-12poem Birches Robert Frost Grades 9-12poem Chicago Carl Sandburg Grades 9-12poem The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost Grades 10-12poem Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Grades 9-12poem First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay Grades 9-12poem Heritage Countee Cullen Grades 11-12poem If We Must Die Claude McKay Grades 10-12poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot Grades 11-12poem Mending Wall Robert Frost Grades 9-12poem The Prophet (selected chapters) Kahlil Gibran Grades 9-12poem Song of Myself (sections 1 to 6) Walt Whitman Grades 10-12poem The Weary Blues Langston Hughes Grades 9-12poem

Myths, fables and folk tales

2 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.

The Iliad Homer (Butler prose) Grades 10-12epic The Odyssey Homer (Butler prose) Grades 9-12epic

Chapter books and novels

33 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12novel A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Grades 9-11novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Grades 11-12novel The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Grades 11-12chapter set All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque (A. W. Wheen) Grades 10-12novel The Awakening Kate Chopin Grade 12novel Babbitt Sinclair Lewis Grades 11-12chapter set Cane Jean Toomer Grades 11-12novel Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers Grades 9-12chapter set Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather Grades 11-12chapter set Deathworld Harry Harrison Grades 9-12chapter set Dracula Bram Stoker Grades 10-12novel Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Grades 11-12novel Frankenstein Mary Shelley Grades 9-12novel Great Expectations Charles Dickens Grades 9-11novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 11-12novel Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman Grades 10-12chapter set Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Grades 10-12novel Moby-Dick Herman Melville Grades 11-12novel Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Grade 12novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Grades 11-12novel The Planet Savers Marion Zimmer Bradley Grades 9-12chapter set Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Grades 10-12novel The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Grades 9-11novel Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey Grades 9-12chapter set Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12chapter set The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Grades 11-12novel The Sea-Wolf Jack London Grades 9-12chapter set Show Boat Edna Ferber Grades 11-12chapter set Space Viking H. Beam Piper Grades 9-12chapter set The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Grades 9-12novel Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers Grades 9-12chapter set This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 11-12chapter set

Plays

6 titles · Parts for the whole class.

Antigone Sophocles Grades 9-12play Hamlet William Shakespeare Grades 11-12play Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Grades 9-12play Macbeth William Shakespeare Grades 9-12play Oedipus the King Sophocles Grades 10-12play The Tempest William Shakespeare Grades 9-12play

True stories

2 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston Grades 9-12essay Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs Grades 10-12memoir