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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