추천도서 중고등학교 - Recommended Reading List (Jr. & High School)

Recommended Reading List
English Literature
Book Lists by Grade

Sixth Grade Book List

Title Author
A Midsummer’s Night Dream William Shakespeare
A Wrinkle in Time Madeline D’Engle
Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix
Because of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo
Bud, not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Hatchet Gary Paulson
Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan
Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Cay Theodore Taylor
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt

Seventh Grade Book List

Title Author
Julius Ceasar William Shakespeare
Lyddie Katherine Patterson
Night Elie Wiesel
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Midred Taylor
Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolen
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Odyssey Geraldine McCaughrean
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place E.L. Konigsburg
Timothy of the Cay Theodore Taylor
White Fang Jack London

Eighth Grade Book List

Title Author
Dicey’s Song Cynthia Voigt
Dragonwings Laurence Yep
In Summer Light Zibby O’Neal
Martin Luther King Jr. Jacqueline L. Harris
Number the Stars Lois Lowry
Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska
Silent Storm Anne Sullivan Macy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Clay Marble Minfong Ho
The Contender Robert Lipsyte
The December Rose Leon Garfield
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
The Owl’s Song Janet C. Hale
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane

Ninth Grade Reading List

Title Author
1984 George Orwell
A Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
A Marriage Proposal Anton Chekhov
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Aeneas Virgil
All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Cyrano do Bergerac Edmond Rostand

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship me Home Tim O’Brien
If Not Now, When? Primo Levi
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
The Chosen Chaim Potok
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
The Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
When Rain Clouds Gather Bessie Head

Tenth Grade Book List

Title Author
Pride and Prejudice (o) Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (o) Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights (o) Emily Bronte
Death Comes to the Archbishop Willa Cather
Don Quixote (o) Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales (r) Chaucer
The Awakening (i) Kate Chopin
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (n) Stephen Crane
Great Expectations (r) Charles Dickens
Hard Times (r) Charles Dickens
Silas Marner (r) George Eliot
Medea (c) Euripedes
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter Nathanial Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises (r) Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes are Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
The American (i) Henry James
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
Beloved Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Patan
Merchant of Venice (o) William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew (o) William Shakespeare
Antigone (c) Sophocles
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Our Town Thorton Wilder


Eleventh and Twelfth Grade Reading List

Title Author
The Cherry Orchard (r) Anton Chekov
Heart of Darkness (i) Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer (i) Joseph Conrad
The Lagoon (i) Joseph Conrad
A Tale of Two Cities (r) Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment (r) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An American Tragedy (r) Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (r) Theodore Dreiser
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying (n) William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (n) William Faulkner
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
Faust (o) Goethe
Jude the Obscure (n) Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Ubervilles (n) Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables (o) Hugo
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (e) James Joyce
Dubliners (e) James Joyce
The Metamorphosis (e) Franz Kafka
The Trial (e) Franz Kafka
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
The Crucible Arthur Miller
Paradise Lost (c) John Milton
Tartuffe (c) Moliere
Desire Under the Elms (e) Eugene O’Neill
The Hairy Ape (e) Eugene O’Neill
The Iceman Cometh (e) Eugene O’Neill
On the Nature of Tragedy (c) Plato
The Apology (c) Plato
The Allegory of the Cave (c) Plato
An Essay on Man (c) Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism (c) Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Neck (c) Alexander Pope
Hamlet (o) William Shakespeare
King Lear (o) William Shakespeare
Macbeth (o) William Shakespeare
Othello (o) William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (o) William Shakespeare
The Jungle (n) Upton Sinclair
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina (r) Leo Tolstoy
Candide (c) Voltaire
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
A Streetcar Named Desire (n) Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (n) Tennessee Williams
To the Light House Virginia Woolf
Native Son Richard Wright

* Books are carefully selected to balance different literary movements and listed accordingly: classicism (c), realism (r), romanticism (o), impressionism (i), expressionism (e), and naturalism (n). Knowing each literary movement will further enhance readers’ appreciation and comprehension of masterpieces.