Eleventh Grade - Reading List for Literature Classes

Citizens for Academic Responsibility

Richland School District, Richland, Washington

(Those books in blue have mini-review accompaniments
reflecting community reviewers’ comments from July 1998 and some other sources.
Plus some include questions for family discussion.)

These books are required(any book may be replaced by request through teacher)

Select at least one of these

  • Macbeth - Shakespeare
  • Other - Shakespeare

Select at least one from this group

  • Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
  • Frederick Douglas: A Narrative of a Life - Frederick Douglas*Newly adopted on September 8
  • A Separate Peace - John Knowles
  • The Chosen - Chaim Potok
  • My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
  • Killer Angels - Michael Shaara*Newly adopted on September 8
  • Walden - Henry David Thoreau

Other selections available for classroom assignment

  • (DA)I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson
  • (DA)I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
  • (DA)Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns*Newly adopted on September 8
  • My Anotnia - Willa Cather*Newly adopted on September 8
  • O'Pioneers - Willa Cather*Newly adopted on September 8
  • (DA)The Awakening - Kate Chopin *Newly adopted on September 8
  • (DA)Ironman - Chris Crutcher*Newly adopted on September 8
  • An American Childhood - Annie Dillard*not yet applied for adoption
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard *not yet applied for adoption
  • Ordinary People - Judith Guest
    (DA)The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston *Newly adopted on September 8
  • Summer Brave - William Inge
  • (DA)A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving*Newly adopted on September 8
  • (DA)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey *Newly adopted on September 8
  • (DA)Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver*Newly adopted on September 8
  • (DA)The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver*Newly adopted on September 8
  • 1776 - Lawrence and Lee
  • The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - Lawrence and Lee
  • All my Sons - Arthur Miller
  • Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  • Billy Budd - Herman Melville
  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  • Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  • (DA)The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien*Newly adopted - September 8
  • (DA)Anthm - Ayn Rand
  • (DA)Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger*Newly adopted on September 8
  • The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields*not yet applied for adoption
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs - Neal Simon
  • The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • (DA)Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant- Anne Tyler *not yet applied for adoption
  • Saint Elsewhere - Anne Tyler *not yet applied for adoption
  • Jubilee - Margaret Walker*Newly adopted on September 8
  • All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
  • (DA)Montana, 1948 - Larry Watson*Newly adopted on September 8
  • Ethan Frome - EdithWarton
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
  • Our Town - Thornton Wilder
  • Glass Menagerie - Tennesse Williams
  • (DA)Fences - August Wilson *Newly adopted on September 8
    Black Boy - Richard Wright
  • Native Son - Richard Wright

DA = Discretion Advised


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This page updated January 1999