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“ We don't merely search for
answers.
We seek better ways to ask
the questions
.”

BOAZ ROTH
English Department

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Actual lists vary a bit from year to year.

English 7

Apuleis, The Golden Ass
The Arabian Nights
Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Hamilton, Mythology
Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Lyric poetry, selections from Shakespeare
and Frost
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Hamilton, Mythology
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twain, Tom Sawyer

English 8

Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
Borland, When the Legends Die
Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Hersey, Hiroshima
Knowles, A Separate Peace
Lawrence and Lee, Inherit the Wind
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Markayanda, Nectar in the Sieve
Poe, selected stories and poems
Potok, The Chosen
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew and
Julius Caesar
Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court

English 9

Beowulf
Gardner, Grendel
Homer, The Odyssey
Huxley, Brave New World
James, Daisy Miller
Kafka, The Metamorphoses
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Shakespeare, Othello and The Tempest
Shelley, Frankenstein
Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Antigone
Wilde, The Importance of Dorian Gray
Wright, Black Boy

English 10

Camus, The Stranger
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Dante, The Inferno
Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Genesis and Matthew
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Morrison, Beloved
O’Connor, Wise Blood
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice and
Twelfth Night
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

English 11
(AP English Literature and Composition)

Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Deuteronomy
Dostoyevksy, The Brothers Karamazov
Eliot, Invisible Man
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Rosenbaum, The Secret Parts of Fortune
Shakespeare, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1
Warren, All the King’s Men

English 12
(AP English Language and Composition)

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Chesterton, What’s Wrong With the World
Ecclesiastes, Job, Jonah, Song of Songs,
Luke, Romans
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
James, The Portrait of a Lady
Machiavelli, The Prince
Manzoni, The Betrothed
Shakespeare, Macbeth and King Lear
Thoreau, Walden
Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

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