9th Grade Reading List

I recommend the following titles to maintain fluency and reading level and to encourage independent reading. These are a sampling of the titles that often appear on high-school reading lists for 9th grade. Literature programs vary by high school. The books on this list are important introductions to literature--regardless of your age and/or skill level.

9th Grade Reading List

• All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
• Black Like Me - Griffin
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Brown
• Good Earth, The - Pearl Buck
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
• Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
• Iliad - Homer
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• The Little Prince - Saint Exupery
• Lord of the Flies - Golding
• Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
• Odyssey - Homer
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• A Separate Peace - Knowles
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Yearling, The - Rawlings