Semester 2 Independent Reading List & Assignment

9th Grade Independent Reading List
Please choose a book you have not yet read. Please see me if you would like to propose a book not on this list.

Regular: Choose one book to read by Wednesday, May 18th. A completed Independent Reading Form must also be turned in on that day.

You may find this list and the form in our Google Drive Folder. The form should be completed digitally. 

·         Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
·         The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
·         Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
·         I’m Nobody! Who are You?  Or Final Harvest Poems (collected poems of Emily Dickinson)
·         The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
·         Middlemarch by George Eliot
·         The Collected Poems by Robert Frost
·         The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
·         The Metamorphoses by Franz Kafka
·         The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis
·         1984 by George Orwell
·         Animal Farm by George Orwell
·         Metamorphoses by Ovid (Shakespeare’s likely source for his mythology)
·         The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
·         Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
·         Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
·         Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
·         Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
·         Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
·         The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
·         Dracula by Bram Stoker
·         Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
·         The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
·         The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
·         The Lord of the Rings (one part) or The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
·         The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
·         Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
·         Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
·         The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells
·         War of the Worlds by HG Wells
·         The Gospel of John (I recommend NRSV, NAS, or NKJV)
·         The Book of Job (I recommend NRSV, NAS, or NKJV)

Non-Fiction
·         The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
·         The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
·         Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
·         Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning
·         Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
·         The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
·         Knowing God by J.I. Packer
·         The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
·         Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias

If you are up for a challenge, you may choose one from an 11th-12 grade reading list:
·         Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
·         I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
·         Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
·         Jane Eyre by Emily Bronte
·         Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
·         Godric by Frederick Buechner
·         Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
·         Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
·         Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
·         A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
·         Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
·         A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
·         The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
·         The Illiad by Homer
·         Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
·         Collected Fairy Tales by George MacDonald
·         The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
·         The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
·         Hamlet by Shakespeare
·         Othello by Shakespeare
·         The Tempest by Shakespeare
·         Silence by Endo Shusaku
·         The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
·         Walden by Henry David Thoreau
·         The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein
·         Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
·         The Aenid by Virgil

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