Reading Lists

High School

Books approved for classroom instruction in Northside ISD High Schools
Updated June 2011

The High School Reading List is being updated and will be reposted once those updates are complete.

Author	Title	Note
Achebe	Things Fall Apart
Aeschylus	The Oresteia
Anaya	Bless Me, Ultima	English I H and up with parental permission
Anderson	Winesburg, Ohio
Anonymous	Beowulf
Aristophanes	Lysistrata and Other Plays
Austen	Emma
Austen	Pride and Prejudice	AS English IV
Austen	Sense and Sensibility
Baldacci	Wish You Well
Beckett	Waiting for Godot
Bellow	Seize the Day
Benitez	A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Bolt	A Man for All Seasons
Bradbury	Dandelion Win	English I lit. circles (may have been read in 8th grade
Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451	AS English III
Bradbury	The Illustrated Man
Bradbury	The Martian Chronicles
Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily	Wuthering Heights
Borland	When the Legends Die
Buck	The Good Earth
Burns	Cold, Sassy Tree
Camus	The Stranger
Capps	Woman of the People
Cather	My Antonia
Cervantes	Don Quixote	English IV
Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov	The Bear	AS English II
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening
Cisneros	House on Mango Street
Clarke	Childhood's End
Clarke	2001 Space Odyssey
Clemens Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	AS English III
Conrad	Heart of Darkness	AS English IV
Conrad	Lord Jim
Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans
Crane	Red Badge of Courage
Dante	The Inferno
Defoe	Robinson Crusco
Dickens	Bleak House
Dickens	David Copperfield
Dickens	Great Expectations
Dickens	Hard Times	AS IV
Dickens	Oliver Twist
Dickens	The Pickwick Papers
Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov
Doestovesky	Crime and Punishment	English IV
Doestovesky	Death of Ivan Illych
Dreiser	Sister Carrie
Douglass	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas	The Man in the Iron Mask	English I/II
Du Maurier	Rebecca	AS English IV
Eliot, G.	Silas Mariner
Eliot, T.S.	The Wasteland and Other Poems
Ellison	Invisible Man	English III/IV
Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	AS English III
Flaubert	Madame Bovary
Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	AS III
Flaubert	Madame Bovary
Forbes	Johnny Tremaine
Foster	How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Frank	Alas, Babylon	AS II
Franklin	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Gaines	A Lesson Before Dying	IV with parental permission
Gibson	The Miracle Worker	English I
Golding	Lord of the Flies	AS English II
Grisham	The Client	English III/IV
Grisham	The Firm	English III/IV
Gunther	Death, Be Not Proud
Hamilton, E.	Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Hansberry	A Raisin in the Sun	AS English III
Hardy	Return of the Native	AS English IV
Hardy	Jude the Obscure
Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Hawthorne	The House of Seven Gables
Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	AS English III
Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms	AS English III
Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	AS English III
Homer	The Iliad
Homer	The Odyssey	I
Houston	Farewell to Manzanar
Hugo	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo	Les Miserables	English IV
Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley	Brave New World	AS IV
Ibsen	A Doll's House
Ibsen	An Enemy of the People
Ibsen	Four Great Plays
James	Daisy Miller	English III/IV
James	Turn of the Screw
Jenkins	Walk Across America
Joyce	Dubliners	English IV
Joyce	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce	Portrait of a Lady
Kafka	The Metamorphosis
Keyes	Flowers for Algernon
Kidd	The Secret Life of Bees
King	Why We Can't Wait
Kingsolver	Bean Trees
Kingsolver	Poisonwood Bible	English IV
Kingston	The Woman Warrior	English III/IV
Kipling	Kim
Knowles	A Separate Peace	AS English II
Krakauer	Into the Wild	English III/IV regular and AP
Laurents	West Side Story	play
Lawrence	Inherit the Wind	English III
Lawrence	The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail	English III
Lee	To Kill A Mockingbird	AS Requirement English I
Lewis, S.	Babbit	English IIIAP
Lewis, S.	Main Street	English III
London	The Sea Wolf
Machiavelli	The Prince	English IIIAP/IV
Malamud	The Fixer
Malamud	The Natural
Malory	LeMorte D'Artuhr: King Arhtur and the Legend of the Round Table
Martel	Life of Pi	Small Group, English IV
Masters	Spoon River Anthology
McCullers	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McDonald	Swallowing Stones
Melville	Billy Bud and Other Tales	English IIIAP
Melville	Moby Dick
Miller	The Crucible	AS Requirement English III
Miller	Death of a Salesman	AS English III
Miller	My Three Sons	English III
Milton	Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained	English IV
Myers	Monster	Small group, English I
Oppel	Airborn
Orwell	1984
Orwell	Animal Farm
Paton	Cry, The Beloved Country
Peck	A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pearl	The Good Earth
Pearl	The Poe Shadow
Perry	Hold Autumn in Your Hand
Poe	Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Poe	The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Potok	The Chosen
Potok	My Name is Asher Lev
Preston	The Hot Zone	English IV; English I if part of an interdisciplinary unit with parental permission
Rand	Anthem	AS English II
Rand	The Fountainhead	English IV
Reginald	Twelve Angry Men	AS English II
Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front
Rivera	. . .And the Earth Did Not Devour Him	English I
Roche	Euripides: Ten Plays
Rose	Twelve Angry Men	AS English II
Rostand	Cyrano de Bergerac
Sandars	The Epic of Gilgamesh
Santos	Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Sartre	The Flies
Scott	Rob Roy
Shakespeare	As You Like It	English II
Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	AS English II
Shakespeare	King Lear
Shakespeare	Macbeth	AS English III
Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare	Hamlet	AS English IV
Shakespeare	Henry V
Shakespeare	King Lear
Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare	Othello
Shakespeare	Richard III
Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	AS Requirement English I
Shakespeare	The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare	The Tempest
Shakespeare	Twelfth Night
Shaw	Pygmalion	English IV
Shelley	Frankenstein	AS English IV
Sinclair	Jungle	AS English III
Shulman	West Side Story	Novel
Solzhenitsyn	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	English IV
Sophocles	Antigone	AS English II
Sophocles	The Complete Plays of Sophocles
Sophocles	Medea
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex	English IV
Steinbeck	Cannery Row	English III
Steinbeck	Grapes of Wrath	AS English III
Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	AS English II
Steinbeck	The Pearl
Stewart	The Crystal Cave
Stoker	Dracula	English IV
Stoppard	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Swift	Gulliver's Travels
Tan	Joy Luck Club
Thoreau	Walden or Life in the Woods
Tolkien	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo
Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Small Group, English IV
Tolstoy	Death of Ivan Illych
Trevor	Deathwatch
Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain	Connecticut Yankee
Twain	Life on the Mississippi
Twain	The Prince and the Pauper
Tzu	The Art of War
Uchida	Picture Bride	English I
Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse Five
Warren	All the King's Men
Wells	Tiime Machine and War of the Worlds	English I
Weisman	Gaviatos
Werlin	Locked Inside
Wharton	Ethan Frome	AS English III
Wharton	The House of Mirth
White	The Once and Future King
Wiesel	Night
Wilde	The Importance of Being Ernest	English IV
Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	AS English IV
Wilder	Our Town	AS English II
Williams	The Glass Menagerie	AS English III
Williams	A Streetcar Named Desire	English IIIAP
Wilson	The Piano Lesson
Wolff	To the Lighthouse
Wroblewski	The Story of Edgar Sawtell
Zindel	Pigman
Zusak	The Book Thief