Literature Classics

Mr. Koenig’s 9^th Grade

Specific Titles/Author – Recognized Classics

Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther

Dune – Frank Herbert

The Good Earth – Pearl Buck

A Night to Remember – Walter Lord

The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Little Women; Little Men – Louisa May Alcott

Dandelion Wine; Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Lilies of the Field – William Barrett

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

The Outsiders - Hinton, S. E.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

The Jungle Book; Kim; Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle

The Chronicles of Narnia (any book in the series) – C. S. Lewis

The Call of the Wild; White Fang; Sea Wolf – Jack London

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Red Pony; The Pearl – John Steinbeck

Kidnapped; Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stephenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor

The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings trilogy – J. R. R. Tolkien

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Prince and the Pauper; The Adventures of   Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

20,000 Leagues under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

Night – Elie Wiesel

The Virginian – Owen Wister

The Pigman – Paul Zindel

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark

I Heard the Owl Call My Name – Margaret Craven

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest J. Gaines

Shane – Jack Schaefer

The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

Hound of the Baskervilles; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Gulliver’s Travels – Johnathan Swift

Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt

My Name Is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss

Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Story of King Arthur – Howard Pyle

The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

Peter Pan – James Matthew Barrie

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery

Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum

The Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupery

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus – Joel Chandler Harris

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

I Am the Cheese; The Bumblebee Flies Anyway; The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier

Whale Song; The Sledding Hill – Chris Crutcher

Bean Trees – Kingsolver

Gone with the Wind -  Margaret Mitchell

Maltese Falcon; The Thin Man – Dashiel Hammett

So Big – Edna Ferber

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

Specific Titles/Authors – Classics in the Making?

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

The Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene

The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley

Somewhere in the Darkness; Monster; Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers

The Year without Michael – Susan Beth Pfeffer

Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voight

The Last Mission – Harry Mazer

Fever 1793; Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Bucking the Sarge – Christopher Paul Curtis

Nothing to Lose – Alex Flinn

Geeks:  How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho – Jon Katz

The Cure – Sonia Levitin

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl – Joyce Carol Oates

The Body of Christopher Creed – Carol Plum-Ucci

A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck

Wrestling Sturbridge – Rick Wallace

Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry