9th GRADE PRE-AP READING LIST

Author / Title
Achebe, Chinua / Things Fall Apart
Albom, Mitch / The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Albom, Mitch / Tuesdays With Morrie
Auel, Jean M. / The Clan of the Cave Bear
Bolt, Robert / A Man for All Seasons
Bradbury, Ray / The Illustrated Man
Camus, Albert / The Stranger
Capote, Truman / In Cold Blood
Card, Orson Scott / Ender’s Game
Cisneros, Sandra / House on Mango Street
Clark, Arthur C. / Childhood’s End
Conrad, Joseph / The Secret Sharer
Cormier, Robert / After the First Death
Cormier, Robert / Beyond the Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert / The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert / I Am the Cheese
Craven, Margaret / I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Crowe, Chris / Mississippi Trial
Dickens, Charles / Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles / Hard Times
Draper, Sharon / Copper Sun
Duncan, Lois / I Know What You Did Last Summer
Eliot, T.S. / Murder in the Cathedral
Ellison, Ralph / Invisible Man
Farmer, Nancy / House of the Scorpion
Goldsmith, Oliver / She Stoops to Conquer
Greenberg, Joanne / I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Haley, Alex / Roots
Hemingway, Ernest / The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Hemingway, Ernest / The Sun Also Rises
Herriot, James / All Creatures Great and Small
Horowitz, Anthony / Raven’s Gate
Houston, Jeanna Wakatsuki & James D. / Farewell to Manzanar
Keller, Helen / The Story of My Life
Kidd, Sue Monk / Secret Life of Bees
Larson, Erik / The Devil in the White City
Lawrence, Jerome / The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Lerner, Alan Jay / My Fair Lady
Lewis, C.S. (Chronicles of Narnia) / The Magician’s Nephew
Lewis, C.S. / The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Lewis, C.S. / The Horse and His Boy
Lewis, C.S. / Prince Caspian
Lewis, C.S. / Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis, C.S. / The Silver Chair
Lewis, C.S. / The Last Battle
Lord, Walter / Day of Infamy
Lowry, Lois / The Giver
McCarthy, Cormac / All the Pretty Horses
Meyer, Stephenie / Breaking Dawn
Myers, Walter Dean / Fallen Angels
Myers, Walter Dean / Scorpions
Orczy, Emmuska / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Patterson, James / Maximum Ride: Angel Experiment
Patterson, James / Maximum Ride: Saving the World
Patterson, James / Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever
Pelzer, Dave / A Child Called It
Pelzer, Dave / The Lost Boy
Pelzer, Dave / A Man Named Dave
Read, Piers Paul / Alive: the Story of the Andes Survivors
Rostand, Edmond / Cyrano de Bergerac
Rowling, J.K. / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Rowling, J.K. / Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Saroyan, William / The Human Comedy
Shaw, George Bernard / Arms and the Man
Shaw, George Bernard / Pygmalion
Steinbeck, John / The Moon is Down
Tan, Amy / Joy Luck Club
Taylor, Mildred D. / Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Taylor, Mildred D. / Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Twain, Mark / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark / The Prince and the Pauper
Twain, Mark / Pudd’nhead Wilson
Uchida, Yoshiko / Picture Bride
Voigt, Cynthia / Dicey’s Song
Voigt, Cynthia / Homecoming
Wells, H.G. / The Invisible Man
White, Robb / Deathwatch
Wright, Richard / Black Boy
Wright, Richard / Native Son
Zindel, Paul / The Pigman’s Legacy
Zusak, Markus / The Book Thief